Many categories of middlemen can act in a distribution channel. We consider that the efficiency of a distribution channel is strongly connected with the number, kind and even identity of the middlemen that form it. The pattern analysis of the middlemen who acts in the distribution channel...

The survival and the development of the company in the market economy depends, in a significant way, both on the capacity of reaction to the change and on the nature of the relations with the environment, in general, and with the competitors, in particular. One instrument to deepen the analysis...