The U.S. steel industry is comprised of three distinct groupings of companies – integrated steelmakers‚ minimills‚ and specialty steelmakers. The main difference between them is the stark divide in capacity as well as what they actually manufacture. Integrated firms can produce 107 million tons of steel through reduction of iron ore‚ and minimills have a capacity of 21 million tons‚ and these businesses utilize a scrap melting process. Specialty mills have a capacity of 5 million tons‚ and for
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“CHALLENGES FACING LOW COST AIRLINES IN INDIA” BY RANJIT SHERGILL MODULE CODE - AE3260 BSc(Honours) AIR TRANSPORT OPERATIONS PART 3 I declare that all work presented in this dissertation is my own work‚ and where applicable I have credited the work of others by stating the source of certain information in quotes. This project has been overseen by Mr S.K.Ramchandran who is the Regional Director for the Indian Airports Authority in Southern India‚ who has endorsed the views and the conclusions
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LCCs (Low Cost Carriers) first emerged in 1950‚ by the Pacific South Airlines started offering nothing but low prices on air travel. Followed by the great success of Southwest Airlines from 1967 onwards‚ as well as facilitated by the liberalisation in air transport market‚ it has been in centre stage of the global civil aviation industry ever since. In spite of facing many challenges such as high oil prices‚ softening demand‚ surplus capacity‚ new participants as well as subsidiaries from FCCs (Full
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Case 2: Nucor Corporation: Competing Against Low-cost Steel Imports The Company‚ Nucor Corporation‚ started its operation in nuclear instrument and electronics business in early 1950s to early 1960s. Facing bankruptcy‚ the board of directors opted for a new leadership and appointed Kenneth Iverson as president and CEO. He concluded that to be able to avert bankruptcy is to exit the nuclear instrument and electronics business and rebuild the company around its subsidiary‚ Vulcraft‚ which is engaged
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Nucor Corporation (A) We are a cyclical business... Basically when you are at the peak of the cycle—times are good‚ interest rates are low‚ people are building—our margins increase. When we go to the trough‚ of course‚ the margins are squeezed. But over the last 25 years Nucor has never had a losing quarter. Not only a losing quarter‚ we have never had a losing month or a losing 1 week. —John D. Correnti‚ President and CEO‚ Nucor In 1998‚ Nucor was a Fortune 500 company with 6‚900 employees
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Introduction Budget airlines‚ as you would guess from the name‚ offer inexpensive tickets -- sometimes as low as $50 for a one-way ticket. They manage this by cutting their own operating costs. How do they cut costs? There are many ways an airline can trim operating expenses‚ but budget airlines are most well-known for cutting back on passenger luxuries‚ or making passengers pay for luxuries à la carte. What’s behind the success (and sometimes failure) of budget airlines? Do they cut corners on
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The term import is derived from the conceptual meaning as the goods and services into the port of a country. The buyer of such goods and services is referred to an "importer" who is based in the country of import where the overseas based seller is referred to as an "exporter". [1] Thus an import is any good (e.g. a commodity) or service brought in from one country to another country in a legitimate fashion‚ typically for use in trade. It is a good that is brought in from another country for sale
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Import Process against LC IMPORT SECTION: Import section of any bank deals with L/C opening and post import financing i.e. LIM & LTR. Now the procedure from opening L/C to disbursement against L/C is given below. APPLICATION FOR OPENING L/C: At first‚ an importer will request banker to open L/C along with the following documents. 1. An application 2. Indent or Performa Invoice 3. Import Registration Certificate (IRC) 4. Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) 5. Insurance cover note with
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Case Background The Industry Nucor Corporation has been moving in a very challenging industry which has faced various problems in recent years. The steel industry experienced slowed demand for steel which resulted from substitution of alternative materials. Furthermore‚ it also had to cope up with increased foreign competition and strained labor relations. But despite all these obstacles‚ Nucor Corp. still managed to have a five-year sales growth average of 23%‚ which is 11 percentage points
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A SWOT Analysis of the Kyocera Corporation In April of 1959‚ Kazuo Inamori started a small ceramics company in Kyoto‚ Japan. With only three million yen in capital‚ and a work force of only twenty-eight employees‚ Kyoto Ceramics (later shortened to Kyocera) began to produce quality ceramic products. Since then it has grown into a corporation that produces various business equipment‚ electronic devices‚ and ceramic products. The corporation now has over fourteen thousand employees‚ and over one
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