Business (AS & A Level) · Oct / Nov 2023 · Paper 21 · Question 2
9609
As printed in the paper
The question as text
Direct News (DN) Shila and Lucy own and manage DN, an online publishing business. DN produces a daily online local newspaper called QNews. Readers pay a subscription to access QNews. DN’s mission statement is: ‘to be a daily community newspaper for local people, about local people’. DN recently tested a monthly online magazine aimed at the 18–30 age group called QLine. DN’s plan is to stop publishing QNews and produce only QLine. Secondary market research suggests QLine will be popular with national businesses wanting to promote their products. Shila is aware that revenue from online newspapers is decreasing. However, she has found national market research data about online monthly magazines (see Table 2.1). Table 2.1 National revenue for online monthly magazines Revenue source 2020 ($m) 2021 ($m) 2022 ($m) Subscription 25 60 90 Advertising revenue 25 30 60 Shila thinks that before the business decides to produce QLine, more market research data will be needed. Shila and Lucy will have to decide on new objectives for DN. To ensure a quality product that meets customer expectations, Lucy thinks it is important to have careful management of the supply chain, from content creation to customer delivery. 5 10 15
Read automatically from the paper; the printed page above is exact.
Show the answer and mark scheme
2(a)(i)[1]
2(a)(ii)[3]
2(b)(i)[3]
2(b)(ii)[3]
2(c)[8]
2(d)[12]
Make a free account to save your answers and see your weak topics and ask the AI why a wrong answer is wrong.