Spring 2010 08 Fall Cooper Industries‚ Inc. Prepared by: Finance 450 Overview & Introduction Cooper Industries is looking to acquire Nicholson File Company. It meets the three criteria that Cooper looks for in acquiring a company. “First‚ the industry should be one in which Cooper could become a major factor. The industry must be fairly stable‚ with a broad market for the products and a product line of ‘small ticket’ items. Finally‚ it had to be a leading company in
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Cooper Industries 1. What is Cooper’s corporate strategy? How does it create value? What are Copper’s key resources? 2. Should Cooper Industries acquire Champion Spark Plugs? (How is this acquisition likely to affect shareholder value?) 3. What are the limits to Cooper’s corporate strategy? Cooper’s corporate strategy is to expand the company to lessen its dependence on the cyclical natural gas business and to exhibit stable earnings. The way they achieved this over the years was through the merger
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Cooper Industries’ Corporate Strategy Case Analysis Company Vision The vision of Cooper Industries‚ as stated in the case‚ was to do an ‘outstanding job at the unglamorous part by making necessary products of exceptional quality.’ The goal was to operate in industries that had become somewhat of a necessity for consumers. Examples of such industries include: power transmission‚ hand tools‚ drilling and others. Cooper industries had started in 1833‚ as an iron foundry‚ and had existed most of
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• Coopers strategy: Cooper Industries is a broad company that uses the M&A strategy of diversification by acquiring companies that posses their own strong assets and exhibit stable earnings. As stated by the Corporate Role the company’s acquisitions had guidelines of companies that served a broad customer base‚ had stable earning and proven manufacturing operations using well-known technologies and had brand name product from market leaders. • How does it create value: As stated by Cooper
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Case Synopses Walmart Stores‚ Inc. 09/12/13 Which strategic management concepts are useful in the analysis of this case? 1. SWOT Analysis Walmart’s internal strengths and weaknesses and environmental opportunities and threads are: Strengths Highly motivated and committed employees (Associates) Top management involved on daily operations (street managers) Latitude price setting (allows more profitability in different locations) Technology oriented (Satellite system and logistic
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Group Case Analysis: Cooper Industries‚ Inc. MBAD 6235 Section 11 December 3‚ 2014 Elisabeth Goodson‚ Lynette Hammond‚ Wanting Hou‚ Sam Inman‚ Qian Jin‚ Weisi Sun‚ Shumin Xu‚ and Yuru Zhang I. Summary of the Problem Cooper Industries was founded in 1919 as an equipment and heavy machinery manufacturer. Over time‚ Cooper Industries experienced significant growth through acquisitions. Nicholson File Company had been on Cooper’s shopping list for years as a company to acquire. What made
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tool industry. They were originally called Sears and Roebuck until the early 1970’s‚ but since then the Roebuck part of their name has been dropped. During the early 1970’s was when Sears began to develop more business in a retail setting‚ as they began expanding heavily into suburban shopping malls and doing less business through their mail-order catalog‚ which had been historically what had made them a well known company. The major brand that Sears holds that could have competed with Cooper/Nicholson
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Company Bio Enager Industries Inc. is a young company whose growth was profound up to 1993 when it amassed sales over $222 Million. This company is comprised of three main divisions that are all considered to be independent from one another. The first and oldest division of the company is the Consumer Products Division which designs‚ manufactures‚ and markets a variety of kitchenware. The Industrial Products Division focuses its efforts on creating machinery that is uniquely and specifically designed
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COOPER CASE STUDY SUMMARY Nicholson Early in 1972 Nicholson dad to fend off a take over attempt by H.K. Porter Company Inc.‚ which controlled 30.5% of the company ’s stock. Porter made a cash tender offer to stockholders. However‚ Porter did not get enough stock to take over Nicholson. In trying to fight the takeover Nicholson made several merger overtures to other companies like VLN Corp. A few years back‚ it had rejected an offer from Cooper Industries. Cooper Industries & Nicholson Cooper
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Introduction Cooper Industries was unsuccessful in acquisitions until it established a basic criteria for future acquisitions. That new criteria worked well‚ and when they went to acquire their fourth company since implementing their strategy‚ they faced fierce competition. They have to decide whether or not to pursue this company of interest‚ and then make an offer that will be selected over the others. Background Facts Cooper Industries is a manufacturer of heavy machinery. They began
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