Assess the likely barriers to competition in the industries supplying leisure goods and services.

This essay is going to look at various barriers to competition available to firms specific to the leisure industry. This industry takes a very broad form and so cannot easily be defined. I am going to take it to mean anything to do with leisure from clothing and equipment to stadia and sponsorship. There are many different barriers but the usefulness of each of these to a firm will depend on the individual firms' market …

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