Introduction Aurora Textile Company having over 100 years history has been producing cotton and synthetic/cotton blend yarns to textile industry consisting of U.S. and the international market. The majority of the company’s revenue came from the domestic market and revenue sources for Aurora consist of the hosiery market accounting for 0.43‚ the knitted-outwear market accounting for 0.35‚ the wovens market accounting for 0.13‚ and industrial and specialty products accounting for remaining 0.09
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PART I Review & study of the past and present situations of the company Brief Historical Review 1901 John F. Queeny founds the original Monsanto. He used capital from a soft drink company to start Monsanto. 1920 Monsanto expanded into basic industrial chemicals like sulfuric acid. 1940 It became a leading manufacturer of plastics‚ including polystyrene‚ and synthetic fibers. 1970 Monsanto is the leading producer of Agent Orange for US Military operations in Vietnam. 1973 Monsanto began manufacturing
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Introduction Aurora Textiles is a textile company that specializes in hosiery‚ knitted outerwear‚ woven‚ and industrial and specialty products. They develop finished fabric to meet specific needs as the leading yarn manufacturer established in the 1900s. However‚ both Aurora and the whole U.S. textile industry have been struggling financially due to globalization and other external factors. Aurora itself may not have responded quickly enough to the deteriorating business environment and has caused
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Case 20: Aurora Textile Company GROUP QUESTIONS Learning Objectives: 1. The basics of incremental-cash-flow analysis: identifying the cash flows relevant to a capital-investment decision 2. The construction of a side-by-side discounted-cash-flow analysis for a replacement decision 3. How to adapt the NPV decision rule to a troubled industry 4. The recognition that a reduced investment horizon is a significant consequence of financial distress 5. The importance of sensitivity analysis
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Case 20: Aurora Textile Company Summary: In early 2003‚ Michael‚ CFO of Aurora Textile Company‚ is deciding whether or not to install a new machine called Zinser 351 in order to save the declined sales and increase its competitive force. In deciding whether or not to invest Zinser 351‚ it is important to get the NPV and the payback period. To get the NPV and the payback period‚ we firstly need to forecast the future cash flows that the new machine will generate. We found the ten-year NPV to be
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SUBJ: Aurora Textile Company EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Aurora Textiles has historically been one of the premier textile companies in the United States and now has a decision to make. With the opportunity to invest in equipment that could help cure our slumping financials‚ we must carefully explore whether this investment is appropriate for a company with such an uncertain future. With that in mind we believe that the Zinser 351 is the perfect investment to pull us out of this slump. As a company that
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ror"Aurora" Summary The story‚ which relies heavily upon sexual references and drug use‚ opens with the first-person narrator and his friend‚ Cut‚ buying a stash of weed‚ some of which they use as they drive home to sort‚ weigh‚ and bag. Cut is eating cookies‚ but the narrator is waiting for his girlfriend. He notices that the places where she ’d scratched him are healing. When she arrives‚ he notes that she ’s skinny "like a twelve-year-old" and that she has the shakes‚ coming down off some drug
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Beauregard Textile Company: When in 1990 Calloway and Clarence Beal raised the price of the Triaxx-30 was to reflect the same increase in the costs. This is good example of our global economic situation. Costs are rising therefore also the price at which products or services are sold have to keep up. A second purpose was to make money and the rights amount of funds for a long-term plan of expansion. What the firm did mainly wrong was they predicted a decrease in demand for the T-30 fabric
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Executive Summary: Monsanto Company Strategic Management Issues Over the past 20 years‚ Monsanto has grown and shifted focus from high-volume‚ commodity chemical products to becoming one of the world’s leading producers of agricultural products. The firm has also developed a strong foothold in the human life sciences industry. This shift in business strategy has been the result of the culmination of many efforts to transform Monsanto into a global life sciences company. As a result of this transformation
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Executive Summary In a desire to increase the company’s working capital for the company’s future financial investment in a plant modernization and expansion program‚ Beauregard Textile Company increased the price of its Triaxx-30 product to bring its profit margins up to that of their other products. In a sequential-move game theory Calhoun & Pritchard‚ Beauregard’s primary rival‚ did not raise its price even though its costs were assumed to be similar. As a result‚ Beauregard’s unit sales dropped
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