Developing Models to Forcast Sales of Natural Christmas Trees

Lawrence D. Garrett; Thomas H. Pendleton

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Developing Models to Forcast Sales of Natural Christmas Trees

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Lawrence D. Garrett, Thomas H. Pendleton

Year:

1977

Type:

Research Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Res. Pap. NE-374. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 5p.

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Abstract

A study of practices for marketing Christmas trees in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Denver, Colorado, revealed that such factors as retail lot competition, tree price, consumer traffic, and consumer income were very important in determining a particular retailer's sales. Analyses of 4 years of market data were used in developing regression models for predicting sales of cut trees from retail lots.

Citation

Garrett, Lawrence D.; Pendleton, Thomas H. 1977. Developing Models to Forcast Sales of Natural Christmas Trees. Res. Pap. NE-374. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 5p.