Jive, a Company Manufacturing Cosmetics with 100 Percent Natural Ingredients

Jive, a company manufacturing cosmetics with 100 percent natural ingredients, decides to launch a special range of products for the New Year.Marketers first conduct external evaluations of the new products, addressing issues such as customer perception, who would use them, and how they would be used.This range of products will be available only for a limited period in a defined geographic area.Marketers of the products aim to determine whether consumers will actually buy the products.Once the products are readily accepted in the market, Jive aims to bring the products to market with full-scale production, sales, and marketing support. Marketers of Jive will initially make the product range available only for a limited period in a defined geographical area.This approach is called _____.

A) product development
B) commercialization
C) idea generation
D) test marketing