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Friday, July 25, 2014

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NATURE OF SMALL SCALE ENTERPRISE...PART II




A MARKET SHARE.

Represent the percentage of the total sales that is held by a particular firm e.g.

Assuming total sales = N150 million for the industry and firm x (sales) = N500, 000. Therefore, firm x market share is equal.


            =  N500, 000 x 100

            =  N150, 000,000.
            =  0.03 or 0.33%.

A firm is regarded as small if it markets share is not large enough to influence; The price of goods as well as quantity sold in the market to a Significant effect.