05-28-2007, 04:25 AM
A key different between a manufacturing and trading concern is value-addition. If no value addition is done, it is a trading concern regardless of what it claims to be.
In your example, there seems to be value addition e.g. packaging and b*****ng. There might be R&D involved as well in the shape of design and/or formulae / blue prints etc.
A good example is Apple's iPod. If Apple's iPod division was a separate entity, it would have been a manufacturing concern regardless of the fact that iPods are mostly made in China and Malaysia by contractors.
.. The reason being the R&D , b*****ng, packaging and marketing effort which has made it a unique product.
....my two cents[8D][8D]
In your example, there seems to be value addition e.g. packaging and b*****ng. There might be R&D involved as well in the shape of design and/or formulae / blue prints etc.
A good example is Apple's iPod. If Apple's iPod division was a separate entity, it would have been a manufacturing concern regardless of the fact that iPods are mostly made in China and Malaysia by contractors.
.. The reason being the R&D , b*****ng, packaging and marketing effort which has made it a unique product.
....my two cents[8D][8D]
