The corporate merger that I will be discussing is Pfizer and Wyeth. This was the largest merger since AT&T acquired Bell South in 2006 in the amount of 86 billion dollars. Pfizer is the world’s largest drug company and has been in existence since the mid 1800’s and at the time of acquisition Wyeth was the ninth largest. The Pfizer merger finalization happened in October 2009 and the final cost was 68 billion. Before Pfizer bought Wyeth their stock was trading at $17.45 as of January 23
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Class time 8:00 ACCT 6217 Pfizer Proxy Statement Homework 1. Three major roles/responsibilities of the board of directors The board of directors is the ultimate decision making body of the company. The board of directors has a strong‚ independent oversight function‚ enhanced by the committees that are comprised entirely of board members (such as audit‚ compensation‚ corporate governance‚ regulatory and compliance‚ and science and technology). Each committee is responsible for additional roles
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Boston matrix (BCG matrix) At the end of the 1960s‚ Bruce Henderson‚ founder of the Boston Consulting Group‚ BCG‚ developed his portfolio matrix. The effect on the business world was dramatic. Henderson first came up with the concept of an experience curve‚ which differs widely from the learning curve‚ a concept formulated many years before and which states that staff productivity increases according to the number of times a particular work task is carried out. The experience curve does not have
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Strengths: Well respected and globally accepted brand in the strategy consulting domainBCG‚ over the years has cultivated and built up a reputation for itself and a corporate brand which has become almost synonymous to strategy consulting. In the process‚ BCG has pioneered some path breaking ideas and concepts in the strategy consulting domain that provided innovative frameworks and solutions to address the needs and problems of business community. The company’s focus on conceptual‚
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Boston Consulting Group Matrix The BCG Matrix is based on the product life cycle theory that can be used to determine what priorities should be given in the product portfolio of a business unit. It has two dimensions: the market share and the market growth. To ensure long-term value creation‚ a company should have a portfolio products that contains both high-growth products in need of cash inputs and low-growth products that generate lot of cash. The basic idea behind it is that the bigger the
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BCG Matrix of Hindustan Unilever regarding its Products with proper reasons for the same BCG Matrix of Hindustan Unilever [pic] BCG analysis is mainly used for Multi Category / Multi Product companies. All categories and products together are said to be Business portfolio. Thus‚ the various entities of your business portfolio may move forward by a different pace and with a different strategy. The BCG analysis actually helps you in deciding which entities in your business portfolio are actually
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famous is the Boston Matrix. U ntil the 1960s‚ models were the impenetrable domain of economists. The man who can be largely credited with bringing business models into the mainstream was Bruce Henderson (1915-92)‚ an Australian engineer who worked as a strategic planner for General Electric. From GE‚ Henderson joined the management consultancy A rt hur D. Li tt le. In 1963‚ he announced that he was leaving to set up his own consultancy‚ the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). An engineering
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BCG MATRIX‚ GE FOR A PRODUCT PORTFOLIO ERUKULLA SURESH -138919 SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT‚ NIT WARANGAL SUBJECT: MARKETING ENVIRONMENT AND ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT-2 SUBMITTED TO DR.RITANJALI MAJHI‚ ASSISTANT PROFESSOR‚ SOM ON 9TH OCTOBER 2013 ABSTRACT BCG matrix is a framework created by Boston Consulting Group to evaluate the strategic position of the business brand portfolio and its potential. It classifies business portfolio into four categories based on industry attractiveness (growth
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BCG Matrix of KFC The need for strategy‚ in order to expand its existing product in very promising markets for KFC is very essential. KFC‚ along with McDonalds‚ and other major fast food chains have dominated the American continent as well as else where. Since the1950’s when the founder of KFC had a dream‚ of building an empire in the fast foodmarket‚ the company has undergone lots of changes. The company has changedownership; it has taken over from Pepsi and passed over to Tricon‚ which owns
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1 Marketing Study Of The Coca-Cola Company Group 1 Charis McWhorter William Chasteen Christina Davis Brian Gladney Jasmine Verden 2 Introduction The Coca-Cola Company operated as an “independent‚ local business” until it merged with John T. Lupton and BCI Holding Corporation. Collectively‚ they became known as the Coca Cola Enterprise Incorporation (Inc.). They began to offer stock‚ and stales instantly increased. Additionally‚ it merged with the Johnston Coca-Cola Bottling
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