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Task Environment or General Environment
1. Low-interest rates provide both individuals and companies with more money to spend.
2. Many people are postponing retirement beyond the traditional age of 65, leading to an increasing aging workforce.
3. Apple competes for many of the same customers as Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
4. the European Union changed laws affecting international commerce and lowered barriers to the free flow of goods.
5. Dell segments its customers into four distinct groups.
6. Walmart is such a large distributor that it can control customers' access to a particular organization's goods.
7. Videoconferencing is a technology that enables managers to supervise and coordinate geographically dispersed teams.
8. PepsiCo took advantage of the growing emphasis on fitness to gain market share from Coca-Cola.
9. Amazon.com enjoys a high level of brand loyalty that can act as a barrier to the entry of new competitors.
10. Intel supplies component parts to companies such as Dell.