Case: AMERICAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION 1. Executive Summary Dixon‚ an American specialty chemical producer‚ wants to buy Collinsville plant from American Chemical Corporation‚ another typical chemical company in 1979. Dixon wants to diversify its product line buy acquiring the aforesaid plant‚ which produces sodium-chlorate to supply to paper producers in Southeastern part of the US. This plant initially cost 12 mln. USD and additional 2‚25 mln. USD needed to buy laminate technology to increase efficiency
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RESOURCES AT THE AES CORPORATION: THE CASE OF THE MISSING DEPARTMENT Dennis Bakke‚ the CEO of AES‚ a company that develops‚ builds and operates electric power plants‚ sat in his office late in 1996 and thought about the question that was perennially posed to him: could AES‚ soon to have some 25‚000 people located literally all over the world following a recent purchase of power plants in Kazakhstan‚ continue to operate with virtually no staff functions and‚ specifically‚ without any human resource staff
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Do People Have Premonitions? There are many debates on whether or not we have a sixth sense. That sixth sense is premonitions. The main questions asked are‚ do people have premonitions? Are they able to have premonitions? Does everyone have premonitions? Do only few people have premonitions? Most people will have dreams that will come true within the next day or the next few days. Many people get mild feelings of premonition; a feeling that something is about to happen‚ being good or bad. It can
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Outsourcing Customer Service Executive Summary The choice to outsource company’s relations with their customers is a choice many businesses are making. With the costs of labor more than a quarter of the rate an average customer service representative makes in the United States (U.S.)‚ large companies are making the choice to offshore some‚ or the entire company’s customers service departments to other countries. To many of these companies‚ the benefits are out weighing the issues relating
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The LEGO Group: | An Outsourcing Journey | | | 8/2/2012 | Introduction 2004 began an especially difficult period for The LEGO Group‚ which entered into a financial crisis resulting in a deficit of 1.8 billion DKK ($294.9MM USD). The internal turmoil lasted through 2009 as the leading toy manufacturer‚ famous for the signature LEGO brick‚ nearly went bankrupt. This experience was a first-hand lesson in the negative effects of not having a stable and organized supply chain design.
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Have you ever broken your crayons? Wore them down? Well with the Crayola Melt N Mold Factory you can fix those broken crayons! Did you know that an average American child will wear down 750 crayons and break up too 100? You can simply reuse those broken crayons and create your very own custom crayons. In the add it showed two kids coloring with crayons. A girl runs in the room and shows them the broken crayons. Intense music starts playing as they head to another room. They then took
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McDonald’s Corporation Case Analysis Name left out BUSN 412 Business Policy July 27‚ 2008 CASE ANALYSIS MCDONALD’S CORPORATION COMPANY NAME: McDonald’s Corporation INDUSTRY: Fast Food COMPANY WEB SITE: http://www.McDonald’s.com/corp.html COMPANY BACKGROUND: The first McDonald’s was built in 1940 by the brothers Dick and Mac McDonald. In 1954 Ray Kroc became the first franchisee appointed by Mac and Dick McDonald in San Bernardino‚ California. The following year‚ 1955‚ Kroc opened his
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chief operating officer. To deal with the short-term liquidity problem‚ he decided to cut costs by reducing staff from 6900 to 3800‚ reducing bonus to staff‚ liquidating the excess inventory‚ prolonging payment to creditors and permanent shutting down of an equipment plant at Escanaba. In 1984‚ there was a liquidation of last in first out (LIFO) inventory quantities at lower costs compared to the current costs of their acquisitions. The effect was to increase income by $2.4 million. The company focused
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Case Study – Strategy Report Brown-Forman Corporation (Jack Daniel’s) Strategic Issues Considered: Resource-Based View Product/brand reputation Organizational culture International Expansion Sustainability Risk Course: Strategic Management KEY ISSUES From reviewing the book case study and researching the Brown-Forman Corporation‚ there are several key strategic concepts and issues that characterize the company. The issues addressed
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wrong. This pain had been bothering me for almost three weeks and I couldn’t take it anymore. I was scared! Just two months before this my husband and I was told that I had possibly developed Endometriosis with the possibility of not being able to have children. We were told that my ovaries had collected a lot of scar tissue and the conception was impossible until the scarring was removed. Oh and by the way it was the day before my twenty first birthday. I walked into the kitchen to start my morning
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