Two firms, such as a small local, family-owned Italian restaurant and Olive Garden, share few markets and have little similarity in resources, but are nonetheless direct and mutually acknowledged competitors. true or false

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Regina Drake

2 July, 12:15

Two firms, such as a small local, family-owned Italian restaurant and Olive Garden, share few markets and have little similarity in resources, but are nonetheless direct and mutually acknowledged competitors. true or false

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Two firms, such as a small local, family-owned Italian restaurant and Olive Garden, share few markets and have little similarity in resources, but are nonetheless direct and mutually acknowledged competitors - False

Explanation:

A state of rivalry that exists between any company that sells identical or similar products and services refers to the competitors. There are two types of competitors such as direct and indirect competitors. Direct competitors are the firms that sells same kind of goods and services. They also focus on the same market segment and also customers.

Indirect competitors refers to those companies that sells similar goods and services but, they will not be having similar end goals. The given statement is false since the firms given are sharing only few of the markets and also have less similarity in the resources. Hence they cannot be competitors either directly or indirectly.