NUCOR MEMORANDUM To: F. Kenneth Iverson and Management Team of Nucor Corporation CC: AGSM Faculty Teams Subject: Investment Decision Date: 04/22/2009 From: 1713898 The Situation In 1986‚ flat sheet segment contained 52% of US total steel market1. Nucor Corporation‚ which is a steel minimill well-known for its leadership‚ efficient operation and well-structured compensation‚ is showing the interest in the flat sheet segment. At the same time‚ there are many new thin-slab casting technologies to
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Four Main Driving Forces of E-commerce for ASOS in 2015 Introduction Online shopping has become very common‚ with more than 60% of consumers have ordered items online in the past year (Mintel‚ 2013a). Furthermore‚ online sales of clothing will increase by 14.5% to reach £10.7 billion in 2014 and online and mobile sales are expected to grow by 7-12% annually between 2012 and 2017‚ reaching $361.9 billion in 2017 (Mintel‚ 2014a). All these robust growth figures show that consumers
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4. What type of strategy has Nucor followed? Which of the five generic strategies discussed in Chapter 5 is Nucor employing? Is there any reason to believe that Nucor has achieved a sustainable competitive advantage over many of its steel industry rivals? Is so‚ what type of competitive advantage does Nucor enjoy? Since F. Kenneth Iverson took the role of CEO at Nucor‚ he guided the company to work under a focused low-cost leadership strategy‚ with great focus in high quality and employing state-of-the-art
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3.2 6 3. Question 2 What are the reasons for persistent excess capacity in the global steel industry? What would it take for this capacity to be eradicated? 4. Question 2 6 Do you think that the steel industry is vital to the national security Interest of the United State? If so‚ is it important to protect this industry from low cost foreign producers? 5. Question 3 9 Do you think it is correct to assert‚ as advocates
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There are three driving forces of globalization. Improvements in technology‚ improvements in transportation and investments by transnational corporations (TNCs) Firstly‚ Improvements in technology has made communications among people in different locations faster and more convenient. People across the globe can communicate with tools such as telephone‚ electronic mail‚ fax and video conferencing. Satellite technology has enabled messages to be transmitted from one location and received in another
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Force Field Analysis: Driving Forces Field Analysis: Driving Forces KURT LEWIN’S CHANGE THEORY By: Mandeep Chahal & Arvinder Khaira Mandeep Chahal Arvinder Khaira DRIVING FORCE Driving Forces are forces that push in a direction that causes change to occur. They cause a shift in the equilibrium towards change change. i.e. A married couple who has to get ready for a party‚ the husband is on the couch watching the football game. The wife encourages her Th husband to get ready because
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Nucor at a Crossroads Nucor at a Crossroads Case Analysis In 1986‚ three distinct segments defined the U.S. steel industry; integrated steel mills‚ mini-mills‚ and specialty steel makers. The integrated mills have the capacity to produce a maximum of 107 million tons of steel per year‚ mini-mills produced a maximum of 21 million tons of capacity a year‚ and the nation’s specialty steel makers could produce a maximum capacity of 5 million tons of stainless and specialty grades of steel. This leads
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GROWTH OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY WHY THE INDUSTRY? The reason for focusing on this industry is that‚ Steel industry has become a major production and consumption market‚ with tremendous potential for growth after the reduction of the export tariffs from 15% to 5%. There has been a consistent rise in the prices and the demand expectations are growing rapidly for the coming years due to planned investment in infrastructure development‚ increased urbanization and growth in key steel sectors i.e.
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March 13‚ 2014 SUBJECT: Should Nucor Adopt the CSP Process? Cash Flow Analysis Cash flow analysis on Exhibit 1 represents net cash flow calculation using the base assumption. According to this calculation‚ Nucor would have net present value of $(11.99) million which is a negative value. This negative value on NPV indicates potential unprofitable consequences after implementing SMS’s compact strip production (CSP); therefore‚ Nucor should not invest in this new technology.
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NUCOR CASE In this analysis we use the Net present value to consider if Nucor should invest in the new technology called: thin slab minimill. NPV is really useful in order to make this kind of decision because it uses the concept of future cash value to evaluate whether the investment is worth‚ however the NPV is sometimes difficult to calculate because it is not always easy to estimate future cash flow. Considering the assumption I made in the first part of the spread sheet‚ the thin slab project
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