28%. HPL’s focus on manufacturing efficiency‚ expense management and customer service turned it into success. And it also builds a healthy relationship with major retailers. However‚ HPL’s conservative expansion strategy leads to a relative high capacity utilization rate (90%)‚ constraining its ability to expand relationship with other potential retailers. Based on its historical financial statements‚ HPL did really well in recent years. From 2003 to 2007‚ its net assets increased by $64 million
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650 staff‚ with large expatriate technical team‚ mostly from India. The installed production capacity of the plant is 150‚000 tons CGI sheets and 300‚000 tons CR coils per year. Actual production for the base year 2002 was 130‚943 tons. Due to steep increase in steel prices and competition in the market‚ demand for their products is low and the company is operating at 50% lower than the installed capacity. As a result‚ their total production was only 85‚000 tons in 2004. The company’s production is
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DEC 302 – Geotechnical Engineering DIPLOMA IN CIVIL ENGINEERING GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING (DEC 302) ASSIGNMENT NO. 1 NAME ID NO LECTURER: NOORBAYA BINTI MOHD SALLEH DATE OF SUBMISSION: SEPT 2012 Page 1 of 4 DEC 302 – Geotechnical Engineering QUESTION 1 [TOTAL = 50 MARKS] a) Indicate THREE (3) differences of short term stability and long term stability for slope failure analysis. [CLO1-PLO2:C1] (6 marks) b) Discuss briefly THREE (3) methods of changing geometry
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infrastructure sector. The performance of the industry‚ under different policy regimes‚ truly establishes that decontrol of the industry and liberalization of the economy has led to remarkable improvement in the indicators such as installed capacity‚ capacity utilization‚ per capita consumption and exports. OBJECTIVES This study is about the Cement Industry sector. We are going to study the competition level among the top 10 leading cement industries in India. We will choose a leading industry
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economics. It states that market performance depends on various elements of market structure‚ such as entry conditions‚ market concentration‚ and number and size of firms‚ as well as different forms of firm conduct and strategic behavior‚ such as capacity utilization‚ advertising and collusion. This study elucidates the basic ideas of SCP theory and reviews important studies pertaining to both developed and developing economies that are based on the SCP paradigm‚ while exploring the relevance of the
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systematic maintenance‚ inefficiency • Plant capacity improved from 3.4 to 5 MT • Kiln efficiency rose from 75% to 90% • New hirings‚ continuous training was done to incorporate ‘CEMEX way’ of doing business • Headcount shrank from 3‚774 to 1‚161 • Dust emissions fell more than 75% The cement market in Egypt was highly commoditized and suffered from price wars Cement Market – Present scenario Consumption Vs Capacity (MMT) 40 40 30 30 20 20 10
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from cement division. But this was the case in both years 2002-03 and 2003-04 which means those profits were achieved only by improvising on internal factors of the company like improvements in performance of Cement division by achieving the higher capacity utilization of available resources and cost effective management. On the other hand Birla’s Calcium-Carbide business was facing the Global Competition which is an external factor and it is out of the control of the corporation. As company know
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Life cannot exist without energy Energy flows in one direction thru the ecosystem eg. Green plants (autotrophs) harness light energy from the sun. An another consumers eat the autotrophs and other consumers. This flow of energy is a consequence on the laws of thermodynamics‚ were in sense that energy can neither be stored or created‚ but is transferred from one type to another. At which sun is converted to heat. The transfer of energy in an ecosystem‚ can be showed in a number of ways eg as a
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Increase Return on Capital Employed ROCE (12%) Increase top-line revenue by 50% Innovation and Customer relationships Reduce Unit Costs % Productivity Improvement Gross Margin Lowest-cost Excellent Production Increase Asset Utilization Sales/Assets % Capacity Utilization (90%) Better utilize the Capital assets Upgrade asset base Grow Revenue/Increase Market Share % Revenue Growth
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limiting? Answer Selected Answer: exponential growth Correct Answer: exponential growth Question 10 2.5 out of 2.5 points A J-shaped growth curve is converted to an S-shaped one Answer Selected Answer: when the carrying capacity is reached.
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