Case Presentation Curled Metal Inc. (CMI) faced a pricing and channel marketing decision for metal pile cushions utilized during pile driving. CMI’s approach to metal pads has significant efficiency advantages over currently used pads available in the market. However‚ CMI has to take into account several barriers to entry into this market. The primary barrier is that most companies viewed role of pads as a necessary accessory or tangent item instead of viewing them as a potentially value adding or
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Case Summary of the Loewen Group Inc Summary: The Loewen Group inc.‚ headquartered in Burnaby‚ British Columbia‚ is the second largest funeral service company in North America. Loewen operated and owned over 1100 funeral houses cross every corner of the world and more than 400 cemeteries in U.S. and Canada. By acquisitions in last twenty years‚ Loewen has been grown explosively. Just before the time the company went to bankruptcy‚ the company’s consolidated revenue had grown 30 percent per year
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This case begins with the relationship between California and Hawaiian Sugar Company (C&H)‚ the purchaser‚ and Sun Ship‚ Inc.‚ the contractor for the design and delivery of a vessel to ship raw sugar for C&H from Hawaii to California. Sun Ship went into contract with C&H on November 14‚ 1979 and agreed upon the delivery of the vessel on June 30‚ 1981‚ one and three quarter years‚ for the agreed upon amount of $20‚405‚000 . According to Cheeseman (2013) a liquidated damages clause‚ defined as “damages
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Prism Canada Inc. Case Study Problem Statement: Will outsourcing the company’s inefficient sheet metal operation be a proper strategic move to save the company money and satisfy current and potential customers with respects to quality and delivery lead time? Size up: Item | So What? | Machine break-downs | Since break-downs occur at the initial step‚ the rest of the process gets delayed causing longer customer lead time and extra shifts are required which increases labour expense. |
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The overview of the case Arrow Electronics is a broad-line distributor of electronic parts‚ including semiconductors and passive components. It was founded in 1935 and grown to the number two position by 1980. When Stephen Kaufman‚ who became president in 1982 and CEO in 1986‚ Arrow once more began to climb‚ reaching the number one position among electronics distributors by 1992. Arrow/Schweber‚ one of Arrow’s five operating groups and the largest one‚ which sells semiconductors to different customer
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A Case Study on Pressco‚ Inc. (1985) Submitted by: Cherry Ann Abangtao Maricor Quilnat Hyacinth Mae Yarcia Jan Joseph Tayzon 4BSA Financial Management II History Jane Rogers‚ a marketing representative of Pressco Inc.‚ was attempting to sell mechanical drying equipments to Paperco but was unsuccessful in her efforts. However‚ in November 1985 new tax legislation had been rumored that gained the interest of Paperco to buy new equipments. This gave Jane Rogers the
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Case 3.5 Goodner Bothers Inc. 1. Internal controls should have included these controls; -Adequate security for the inventory -Better periodic verification of inventory -Segregated duties when it comes to inventory -Proper supervision for sales transactions and the procedures that they employ to record them -Proper authorization by management for inventory transactions 2. Internal control weaknesses - Lack of segregation of duties involving sales and recording -Security controls over
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Case 1: Acclaim Entertainment Capital Budgeting: Multiple Projects with Unequal Lives Acclaim Entertainment‚ Inc. is a mass marketer of interactive entertainment software whose games can be played on such well known video game systems as Nintendo and Sega. Some of their more successful games include Mortal Kombat I and II‚ NBA Jam I and II‚ Maximum Carnage‚ Virtual Bart (Simpson)‚ and NFL Quarterback. Acclaim has also obtained licenses from True Lies‚ Batman Forever‚ and Spiderman. The interactive
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Toll Brothers‚ Inc. MEMORANDUM A request has been made in regards to the strategic management effort of Toll Brothers‚ Inc. current and future financial position by senior management. The report has several components starting with a Memorandum Introduction followed by an EFE Matrix‚ IFE Matrix‚ SWOT Matrix‚ Porter’s Five Competitive Forces‚ and the conclusion. Toll Brothers is a construction company that was founded in 1967 originally designed and built luxury homes in the suburbs of Philadelphia
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and Apple Computer‚ Inc. Case Analysis Dubinsky’s primary mistake was relying on her position and reputation rather than mounting an effective‚ persuasive‚ and fact-based argument. As noted by Jay Conger in The Necessary Art of Persuasion‚ today’s employees are not content to accept a decree from above and seek to understand the reasons behind a decision. She should have taken Jobs’ JIT proposal seriously from the beginning and‚ as soon as she heard of it‚ worked to make her case affirmatively using
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