The Lamborghini Aventador LP 700–4 is a two-door‚ two-seater sports car publicly unveiled by Lamborghini at the Geneva Motor Show on 28 February 2011‚ five months after its initial unveiling in Sant’Agata Bolognese. Internally codenamed LB834‚ the Aventador was designed to replace the ten-year-old Murciélago as the new flagship model in the Lamborghini lineup starting in 2011. Soon after the Aventador unveiling‚ Lamborghini announced that it had already sold over 12 months of the production vehicles
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the board about Porsche buying Volkswagen shares. What is the significance of this event? During a Volkswagen supervisory meeting on April 19‚2006‚ some of the board members asked for the reason on the dramatically changes on the price of Volkswagen shares. Unfortunately‚ there was no answer on this matter. Piech was the one who know about Porsche buying Volkswagen shares and purposely not informed to the board members of Volkswagen. The price of shares increased was due to Porsche keep buying the
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Porsche has always been known as a very high end car company. Since as early as the 1950’s‚ the Porsche brand was identified by consumers as one of high quality. The price range made purchasing a Porsche only affordable to the financially successful. Compared to the mindset of the average buyer of a vehicle‚ the buyer of a Porsche does not look for the same features. To the Porsche buyer‚ it is all about the class of the vehicle and how they look while driving it. Porsche has always appealed to people
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was not caused by financial indicators of the car producing concern. It was caused by speculative stock-exchange events triggered by declaration of Porsche owners made public on Saturday. Porsche declared intention to raise their share in Volkswagen not to 50% as it was previously planned but to 75%. The investors were mostly shocked by news that Porsche‚ whose block of shares of Volkswagen was 42‚6%‚ had already bought options on 31‚5% of VW ordinary shares. This "bomb" has blown up the Frankfurt
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Executive Summary The case is about Porsche using cash-settled options to obtain control of Volkswagen silently and TCI and 3G using TRS to get control over ownership of CSX to initiate a meeting of changing the board members of CSX. In this report‚ I will detailed analysis how they processed their strategy using equity derivatives and what was the result. I will further discuss whether it is good thing to have CEO involved in equity derivative trading and whether the disclosure requirement should
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Case study 3 Porsche‚ Volkswagen‚ and CSX 1. Summary This case examines two examples of how equity derivatives have been used to gain leverage and corporate control for activist purposes. In 2008‚ Porsche’s CFO carried out the “short squeeze” to acquire control over Volkswagen through option contracts‚ which lead to huge losses for short-selling hedge funds. And meanwhile in 2007‚ TCI and 3G‚ 2 UK-based hedge funds‚ violated SEC disclosure requirements by hiding their intentions to takeover CSX
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Porsche Market Research Report RMIT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Lecturer: Mr. Moulik Zaveri Vu Ngoc Thuy Le Thi Quynh Anh Nguyen Ngoc Chau Vu Doan Thanh Tam Trinh Bao Hoang Thu Le Ngoc Huyen s3324477 s3299716 s3258149 s3325154 s3274937 s3324476 MARKET RESEARCH REPORT CAYENNE PORSCHE Group 3 - Semester C 2012 RMIT University | Market Research | Sem C 2012 1 Porsche Market Research Report Table of Contents I. Executive Summary .................................
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design from Dr. Ferdinand Porsche’s new design studio. The project did not get far‚ but a Porsche-designed NSU that reached that prototype stage in 1933 accurately foreshadowed the Volkswagen. The idea of a people’s car appealed to Porsche‚ and it fascinated Adolf Hitler. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933‚ one of his pet notions was the concept of motoring for the masses‚ and a meeting with Porsche was to be a meeting of minds. Once again Porsche was commissioned to design
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must be known for the Porsche Carrera. If the car is relatively inelastic‚ the company can count on high exchange rate pass-through. Meaning‚ that the Porsche may keep the profit margin by increasing the price of the car as the U.S. dollar weakens in relationship to the Euro. If the car has elastic demand‚ meaning that price elasticity is less than 1‚ the car maker will have to reduce margin in order to keep price constant in order to achieve sales. We suspect that Porsche cars are relatively
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Opportunities Ferrari : • Growth in the global market for high-performance super-cars due to growing economies & developing nations. • Expansion of the brand through entering into new & important automotive markets like India wherein competitors like Porsche have already set up base. • Enlargement of customer base (increase appeal of their products to a more variety of buyers) through adding comfort‚ roominess‚ luggage space‚ engines that are more user friendly‚ and so on‚ while at the same time maintaining
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