Assignment:
Wire and Cable Industry - Encore Wire Corporation (online research).
1) Are there any changes recently or expected in near future in terms of total number of firms in the industry, location distribution of the firms, abnormal industrial dynamics (such as merge and acquisition, new entrants, and declining incumbents), etc? List as A, B, C, below if you found any.
2) Are there any new products, production process, technology innovation (improvements) present recently or expected in near future? If you found any, list below as A, B, C
3) Are there any change of the scope of the market such as pace of globalization; product/business diversification of current large companies? If you found any, list below as A, B, C
4) Put any other industry trends you identified here and list as A, B, C,
5) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables (highly recommended) here.