Global Markets and Business Expansion (Edexcel A-Level Business): Flashcards

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Conditions that prompt trade
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Push factors

Adverse conditions forcing business to seek overseas opportunities

Pull factors

Attractive opportunities enticing businesses into new markets

Saturated market

Market where most potential customers already own the product

Economies of scale

Increasing production scale reduces cost per unit of output

Off-shoring

Moving operations to lower-cost locations in other countries

Outsourcing

Transferring business function to specialist external provider

Labour productivity

Amount of goods/services produced by one hour of labour

Risk spreading benefit

Protects business from over-dependence on single market

UK global exporter rank (2013)

Fourth largest exporter globally

Product life cycle extension

Selling in markets at different development stages

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