CASE #4: 3M Canada: Industrial Business Division PROBLEM RECOGNITION * The target is to increase growth rate from 3-5% to 12-15% in 18 months * OEM market is mature with limited prospects of expansion * Ultimately shifting overall focus from OEM market to MRO market * High unfamiliarity and low exposure to the MRO market * IBD’s share of distributor sales was 2% of distributors’ revenue * Transitioning focus from Special and Niche accounts to Large National accounts
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leader 2008-Pfizer was the world’s number 1 pharmaceutical company Strong brand name and reputation -Broad pipeline of new drugs and significant amount of cash Financial leverage of Pfizer to expand their business‚ gain more market share -Merger and acquisition Advantages of Merger and acquisition Access to global market Gain economies of scale and access to new technologies. Economies of scale (buying in bulk‚ technology‚ specialization-cost adv) Acquisition of Warner Lambert gave Pfizer
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Perez wants to start a new business‚ but he is debating whether to start a S corporation or a C corporation due to potential environmental factors associated with his business. He wants to maintain a limited liability and wants to avoid double taxation by paying himself a salary equal to his companies before tax earnings. He also would like to issue preferred stock to his son in the future to keep his interests in the business. He was advised by his friend to choose a C Corporation to maintain maximum
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“Despite much criticism‚ TNCs are actually a force for good in the globalised world.” Using examples; to what extent do you agree with this view? (40 marks) A Transnational Corporation (TNC) is a company which operates in more than one country. We refer to the country in which the company was started as the ‘home country’‚ and any other country that it is operating in as a ‘host country’. Globalisation can be described as the movement of people‚ money‚ resources‚ ideas‚ or culture across international
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strategy of producing low cost and high quality products. It had embarked on a program of acquisitions to meets its aggressive goals of growing sales 15% annually. It had acquired only financially successful companies. But in 1979‚ it acquired Skil Corporation‚ a financially mediocre performing company for $58 million. Skil was a leading manufacturer of portable power tools serving the professional and consumer markets‚ the circular saw being the strongest and best seller amongst those tools‚ which it
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successful a restaurant can be by putting extremely strict emphasis on the superior customer service for over ten years. These two core values‚ high-quality product and service‚ eventually became the foundation and guidance of Lei’s new venture – Xiaomi Corporation‚ a smartphone company. In Lei’s prior career‚ he served as the CEO of Kingsoft‚ a Chinese antivirus software firm‚ and now remains chairman of the board. Lei is also the founder of Joyo‚ an online retailer he created in 2000. He sold
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CASE STUDY: PolyMedica Corporation (A) Northwood University DeVos Graduate School of Management September 17‚ 2012 PROBLEM STATEMENT PolyMedica’s method of capitalizing direct-response advertising expenditures rather than expensing the cost is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and has caused concern for investors who are questioning the legitimacy of this practice. ANALYSIS
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along with an insight into McDonalds India’s continual growth. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………….4-5 2.0 SWOT analysis 2.1 Strengths…………………………………………………………………………6 2.2 Weaknesses……………………………………………………………………....6 2.3 Opportunities…………………………………………………………………….7 2.4 Threats…………………………………………………………………………...7 2.5 SWOT findings…………………………………………………………….…..7-8 3.0 Cultural fit………………………………………………………………………………..9 4.0 Cultural issues……………………………………………………………………..….9-10
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modified internal rate of return‚ accounting rate of return‚ and payback period. 6.2 Explain the role of ‘certainty’ in project evaluation decisions. 6.3 Assume that Anvil Inc. has estimated the following annual data for the introduction of a new product‚ Ranch Hand: EOY 0 EOY 1 EOY 2 EOY 3 EOY 4 EOY 5 Cash Flows -14‚250 3‚700 2‚980 6‚540 7‚810 6‚320 Accounting Income 2‚870
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company has got many Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats. In order to the question I will undertake a SWOT analysis of this company. I have mentioned above that Nestle as a global market leader has got many strengths. First of all they had a genius CEO‚ Peter Brabeck-Letmathe. Until he was CEO of the company his priority was to renovate existing product and innovate new products. He was trying to change everything as fast as expectations of consumer have been changing. Nestle with Brabeck
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