Camille's Calendar Company, after learning that the main sellers of the company's calendar products were limited to small gift shops, posed this question: Are there promising new markets for our products? This question focuses on which aspect of marketing research?
a. Planning
b. Problem solving
c. Control
d. Product placement
e. Distributorship selection

A. Planning

Explanation:

A marketing research has do with collection, analyzing  and implementation of data that are related to marketing conditions of the business.

The marketing research process includes

problem definition

defining research plans

collection of information

analyzing information

presenting findings and

making decisions.

The question "Are there promising new market for our product?"  asked by Camille's Calendar company is related to the planning stage because the planning stage involves gathering information that is related to the achievement of the marketing objectives. The questions asked at this level will help the company develop a plan that will help in solving the problem it is faced with which is the limited scope of market that it has.

The planning stage will help the company formulate strategies that will be helpful towards expanding the market for its product.