Arpin Stores Inc

Arpin Stores Inc. is a wholesale food manufacturing company. The company markets packaged food products across the United States. The company appoints an external agency to perform a SWOT analysis of the company.
-Which of the following observations, if made by the external agency, will indicate that the company is facing a threat?

A) The company incurs high transportation costs as its manufacturing facility is at a remote place.
B) One of Arpin Stores' major competitors has recently gone bankrupt.
C) Many of the company's employees lack interpersonal skills.
D) A recent regulation has increased the tax rates for packaged food products.
E) Arpin Stores has a weaker marketing department compared to its competitors.