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4. Barriers to Entry
When a business is profitable, it attracts potential entrants that desire to gain market share. In addition, it can negatively affect the existing firms' profitability. The probability that new companies will enter an industry depends on the extent to which barriers to entry have been build. In other words, existing firms in the industry set up multiple constraints to limit the number of potential entrants.
Within the auto industry, the threat of new entrants is low, because of the substantial barriers to entry. One of the biggest constraints is the need to invest large amount of money. Start up capital is needed to hire and train employees, purchase facilities, raw materials. Since car-manufacturing business is quite complex there is a need to invest in latest innovations, research and development. Given the nature of business, new entrants must be able to accomplish economies of scale. These economies arise when firms focuses to simplifying product lines in order to reduce the cost per unit at larger volumes. This could be a critical barrier, which forces the new automobile manufacturer to accept a cost disadvantage. The newcomer must find suitable means of distributions. It can sometimes be difficult because the existing firms may have close, exclusive relationships with distributors. In that case, the new company must build its own distribution channel. Another significant barrier that the perspective entrants bear is brand recognition. To gain customers' trust and recognition requires the extent amount of time. Moreover, newcomers may have to invest a large amount of money into advertising, focus on producing right quality products and offer high customer service. In 1986 globally recognised Korean automaker Hyundai entered US market. During that time, economic situation was advantageous to enter a new business. However, Hyundai wasn’t

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