American Home Products Corporation1. CASE SUMMARYAHP Chief Executive"I just don ’t like to owe money"‚ said William F. Laporte‚ AHP chief executive‚ when asked about his company ’s almost debt-free balance sheet and growing cash reserves. Mr. Laporte had taken over as chief executive of American Home Products in 1964. Throughout 17 subsequent years of his tenure Mr. Laporte has not changed his opinion of debt financing and AHP ’s abstinence from debt continued‚ while the growth in its cash balance
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and the group as a whole. This should provide a sound basis for arguing your case for the move into America and Asia but the conservative nature of the Group Executive and your own Divisional Chief Executive make a careful and well prepared and argued case for such a strategic move an imperative. Consideration of alternative market entry strategies EPP has achieved significant growth to date through a combination of product and market development. Importantly‚ this has not led to diversification away
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Product Orientation to Solution Orientation: A Journey Most industrial goods manufacturers and other organizations operating in B2B markets currently face testing times owing to bad economic conditions. While the economic downturn threatens the growth of a lot of these B2B businesses‚ other factors have also emerged that have contributed to this situation of the “perfect storm”. Increased price competition from the traditional low-labour countries‚ increased product quality levels from these same
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History of American Home Products American Home Products Corporation (AHP) was founded in 1926 and has a history of continuous acquisitions of smaller companies that made proprietary medicines. In 1931‚ AHP purchased John Wyeth & Brother‚ Inc. from Harvard University. Another important acquisition was that of Canada’s Ayerst Laboratories in 1943. Ayerst was a large pharmaceutical company that had introduced Premarin‚ the world’s first conjugated estrogen product‚ and now the most widely prescribed
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Currently the company employees over 30‚000 people and its global operations have reached 86 countries. Nestlé’s main competitors are other packed food manufacturers such as Unilever‚ Kraft Foods‚ Cadbury Schweppes‚ Hershey Foods and GROUPE DANONE.(1) Products Nestle manufactures a range of consumers goods. • Baby foods e.g. Cerelac‚ Nestum • Bottled water e.g. Nestle Pure life • Cereals e.g. Chocapic • Chocolate & confectionery e.g. Aero • Coffee e.g. Nescafe
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INTRODUCTION Home Depot enjoyed high growth of revenues and profits in the period 1978-2003. From 7 mio USD of revenues in 1979 to 64‚8 bn in 2003. Revenue growth was generated mainly due to external growth coming from mergers and acquisitions. Home Depot has four product categories: Building and Remodeling‚ Home Décor and Organizing‚ Outdoor Living and Tool and Hardware. Company went through some structural changes when in 2000 first non funder Bob Nerdelli became the CEO of the company. Nerdelli
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Administration Xavier University‚ Cagayan de Oro City Case Analysis 2 PACKAGED PRODUCTS Submitted by Corazon Caseres Lagamayo MBA-2 Submitted on July 03‚ 2010 I. FACTS OF THE CASE • Packaged Products specializes in the production of cereals and ready-to-bake products • Given the continued growth‚ Mr. Robert Yamani‚ marketing director‚ proposed to continue to be a new-product oriented by introducing one new product or an improved product every year. • A sizeable portion of
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Decision at Applied Office Product Company ’s Background In 1992‚ Allied Office Products was a corporation with annual sales of $900 million. It deals with manufacturing of following forms : * Business Forms * Specialty paper product such as writing paper‚ envelopes‚ note cards‚ and greeting cards In 1988‚ as form manufacturing business matures‚ Allied Office Product had expanded into business form inventory management system and put a step ahead to attain a competitive advantage by embarking
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Chapter 1 – case for critical analysis Question 1: How might top management have done a better job changing Electra Products into a learning organisation? What might they do now to get the empowerment process back on track? Answer: * Harry might talk with the employees. He has very much experience because he worked for 20 years in this company. He knows a lot of behaviours in the company‚ the good and the bad ones. Harry is able to understand the situation and the problems from the
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Consolidated Products A Case Analysis The purpose of this case is to provide you with an opportunity to use the behavior concepts presented in Chapter 3. One basis for comparing the two successive plant managers is in terms of task-oriented and relations-oriented leadership. 1. Describe and compare the managerial behavior of Ben and Phil. Describe each manager’s use of specific task and relations behaviors. How much does each manager use participative or inspirational leadership?
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