March 11‚ 2014 Ladies and Gentlemen of the Board: In my experience‚ I have seen a steady decline in the use of debt financing. Upon closer inspection‚ I have noticed that your company uses no debt at all. As an experienced hedge fund manager‚ I am concerned that your management is missing valuable opportunities by excluding debt from your capital structure. My partner‚ Susan Chandler‚ and I have done extensive research on how undergoing a capital reconstruction process can benefit you in the
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managing director of Aurora Borealis hedge fund‚ considers the possible gains from increasing the debt capitalization of The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. Blanka suggests Wrigley raise the amount of $3 billion in debt of the capitalization while Wrigley has been conservatively financed and remained no debt at the end of 2001. This report is aiming to analyze whether Wrigley should use $3 billion debt recapitalization to either pay dividends or to repurchase shares. 2.0 Current Capital Structure
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Introduction The William Wrigley Jr. Company is the largest manufacturer and distributor of chewing gum‚ with a well consolidated market position. Due to new products and foreign expansion‚ its previous revenues have grown at an annual rate of 10% and its stock price regularly outperforms the S&P 500 as well the industry index. It is a conservatively financed firm with total assets of $1.76 billion and zero debt as of 2001. The purpose of this case study revolves around how should they use a $3
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Both Louise Tilley (Tilly‚ et al.‚ 1992) and Wrigley (Wrigley‚ 1978) argued that this effect of mass child foundling and abandonment was a form of “social distribution of children in Medieval Europe” where houses with extra children distributed them to those with deficiency in an effort to balance the economics of the time ‚ this is however from an economical modelling and has nothing to do with family decision making. Boswell (Boswell‚ 1988) also asserts that children were redistributed in the
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Introduction Baseball is considered to be America’s favorite pastime and has become popular all over the world. This sport is watched by millions of people every time there is a game played. People will go to the stadiums to watch and a lot of fans will watch the game on television. Since there are so many people watching these games‚ advertising has become more and more apart of every baseball stadium due to the amount of exposure a company can receive by using the many types of ads found in
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Law 494 Part 1 Shlensky v. Wrigley Facts: William Shlensky (plaintiff/appellant)‚ minority stock holder for the Chicago Cubs baseball team sued the team directors who deferred the case to Phillip Wrigley (defendant/appellee) stating mismanagement and negligence because of the refusal of the directors in installing lights at Wrigley Field‚ home field for the Chicago Cubs. Procedural History: Plaintiff original case was lost at trial and plaintiff appealed. Issue: The issue
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Bibliography "1920 Chicago Cubs Roster." Baseball Almanac. www.TheSoulmateCalculator.com. 2/1/2007 . Ryan Neher Mrs. Crawford + Mrs. Battaglia American Society‚ 1 + 2 September 24‚ 2006 Being an American I learned two new interesting things about my family history while doing this project. One thing I learned about my family ’s history is that my grandpa fought in World War II. He was in the Air Force. He was actually in France for a little while during the war. After he served his 4
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The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company: capital structure‚ VALUATION and cost of capital Introduction: Blanka Doborynin a managing partner of AURORA BOREALIS LLC tries to initiate a research for a potential investment in Wrigleys. They are trying to recapitalize the firm. Wrigley’s which is 100% equity financed has a market value of $13‚103‚000‚000 the question begins if it is totally equity financed is it running at its efficient level? Or Is it better to recapitalize the structure and thereby bring
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WEIGHTED AVERAGE OF COST OF CAPITAL (WACC) ‚EPS . Chandler knew that the maximum value of the firm was achieved when the weighted average cost of capital was minimized. Thus she intended to estimate what the cost of equity and the wacc might be if wrigley pursued this capital structure change. The projected cost of debt would depend on her assessement of wrigley’s debt rating after recapitalization and on current capital market rates. WACC before recapitalization Wrigley’s pre recapitalization
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but because if I were in his shoes‚ I would just treasure every moment of every second that I am on that field. I would treasure every step I take in the dirt of such legendary baseball parks like Yankee Stadium‚ Fenway Park‚ Dodger Stadium and Wrigley Field. I would treasure every moment I get to spend in the same vicinity of such future Hall-of-Famers like Barry Bonds‚ Randy Johnson‚ Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens. I would feel like the luckiest person alive every time I am reminded that I am
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