Problem: Wiseman Ltd, divides its customers into Gold Customers and Silver customers.
The Company has one full-time customers representative per 1000 Gold customers and one full-time customer representative
per 10,000 silver customers.Customer representatives receive salaries plus bonuses of 10 % of customer gross margin.
Wiseman spends 90% of its promotion costs on Gold customers to encourage their loyalty.
Customer costs Total Gold Silver
Nos of Customers 100,000 30,000 70,000
Average customer rep salary $35,000 $35,000
Promotion costs $4,000,000
Average gross margin per customer $220 $70
a) What is the excess of gross margin over customer costs for each category of customer?
b) Write a short opinion after you evaluate customer profitability