Forests and their Products 1. Managed forests are manmade forests‚ usually of one or two tree types and in which all the trees are the same age. Natural forests‚ which contains different tree species and of different ages. 2. 1. Draining the land and fencing 2. Planting of young trees 3. Tinning 4. Harvesting 5. Second rotation 6. Transportation 3. The trees are planted closely because as they grow their branches form a mat which excludes the light. This prevents the growth of branches
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TREETOP FOREST PRODUCTS Treetop Forest Products Inc. is a sawmill operation in Oregon that is owned by a major forest products company but operates independently of headquarters. It was built 30 years ago and completely updated with new machinery 5 years ago. Treetop receives raw logs from the area for cutting a:q.d planing into building-grade lumber‚ mostly 2by-4 and 2-by-6 pieces of standard lengths. Higher grade logs leave Treetop’s sawmill department in finished form and are sent directly to
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Question 12: Northrend Forest Products uses an incentive-based compensation plan for its upper management personnel. a. Do you see any obvious conceptual problems with the company’s compensation program? b. How would you expect the compensation plan to influence managers’ reaction to Betty’s recommendation? Would these reactions be good or bad from the standpoint of maximizing the price of NFP’s stock? c. What other options could NFP consider to reduce the division impact on compensation
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from the standpoint of the lite product project? The opportunity cost would be “free‚” or costless‚ but the number of units produced would decline with fixed costs remaining the same‚ technically creating a loss. 5. Should the erosion of profits from High Energy—Original sales be charged to the High Energy–Lite project? What if it were believed that if Tasty Foods did not introduce the lite product‚ a competing firm would develop a very similar lite product‚ so that High Energy—Original sales
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Instructions: Treetop Forest Products Ltd is a sawmill operation in Oregon‚ USA‚ that is owned by major forest products company but operates independently of headquarters. It was built thirty years ago and was completely updated with new machinery five years ago. Treetop has one general manager‚ sixteen supervisors and support staff‚ and 180 unionised employees. The mill is divided into six operating departments: boom‚ sawmill‚ planer‚ packaging‚ shipping and maintenance. And packaging department
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people manage and the production people use in creating goods and services. The challenge that faces marketing is to generate those revenues by satisfying customers’ wants at a profit and in a socially responsible manner. However‚ marketing is not limited to business organizations. Whenever we try to persuade somebody to do something: donate to RED CROSS‚ not to litter the highways‚ save energy‚ vote for candidate‚ we are engaging in marketing; thus marketing has a broad societal meaning and it is
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poaching employees Took a while for Mike and Grant to gain confidence of his managers – financial performance of the company remained satisfactory during the transition which helped their cause Managing Growing Companies Neerav Bagaria NorthWest Security Services Evaluate Bob’s process for establishing the NSS advisory board. What could be improved? Historically‚ NSS was centred on its founder‚ Mr Ernest Wilson who liked to control every decision on his own‚ and as such‚ the decision
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Decision sheet for A-One Starch Products Limited (B) Decision Problem: Preparation of a marketing strategy for Gluco-One given the pricing pressures. Options: 1. Explore new markets 2. Small number of High value customers Vs Many Low Value Consumers 3. Incur more costs to maintain the quality Vs Cut back on number of customers Decision and Rationale: 1. New Markets: Beer industry (220 million liters) at present is not using Liquid Glucose as a raw material. It would not be
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and support animal right activist.” There are some organizations that participate in it such as ELF and ALF. ELF stands for the Earth Liberation Front. The most notorious action of ELF comprise of burning a ski resort‚ terminate the office of a forest product company and blow up the university labs. In January‚ The members of ELF blew up a building trailer parked at the university of Minnesota caused $40‚000 (Gassett‚ 2012). Moreover‚ ALF or Animal Liberation Front has been launched in order to prevent
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Synopsis: Northwest Canadian Forest Products Limited is a company that owns and operates five saw mills in British Columbia and Alberta‚ Canada. They produce lumber for construction in a few different countries. The President of the company is dealing with a tough situation with one of her mills in Jackson‚ British Columbia. The mill in Jackson is her least productive mill and she soon has to make a decision that could cost the company a substantial amount of money. She has the choice of either
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