Mr. Gerstner served for four years as chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco‚ Inc. This was preceded by an eleven-year career at the American Express Company‚ where he was president of the parent company and chairman and CEO of its largest subsidiary. Prior to that‚ Mr. Gerstner was a director of the management consulting firm of McKinsey & Co.‚ Inc. He received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 1990‚ IBM had its most profitable year
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in the New York Stock Exchange that there were 3‚000 chains worldwide. In 1971 Kentucky Fried Chicken merged with Connecticut-based Heublein Inc.‚ a specialty food and alcoholic beverage Corporation. In 1982 R.J Reynolds Industries‚ Inc. (or RJR Nabisco‚ Inc. in the present) merged with Heublein Inc. So‚ Kentucky Fried Chicken was shared of R.J Reynolds Industries‚ Inc. In 1986 Kentucky Fried Chicken was a big change that Soft-Drink giant PepsiCo‚ Inc.‚
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KFC-History at a Glance 9/9/1890 Harland Sanders is born just outside Henryville‚ Indiana. 1900-1924 Harland Sanders holds a variety of jobs including: farm hand‚ streetcar conductor‚ army private in Cuba‚ blacksmith’s helper‚ railyard fireman‚ insurance salesman‚ tire salesman and service station operator for Standard Oil. 1930 In the midst of the depression‚ Harland Sanders opens his first restaurant in the small front room of a gas station in Corbin‚ Kentucky. Sanders serves as station
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Del Monte Philippines is engaged in the production‚ marketing and distribution of premium-branded food and beverage products. It enjoys leading market shares for pineapple juice‚ juice drinks‚ processed pineapple and mixed fruits‚ tomato sauce‚ spaghetti sauce and tomato ketchup. It also markets products under its second-tier brand‚ Today’s. Del Monte Pacific also holds the exclusive rights to produce and distribute food and beverage products under the Del Monte brand in the Indian sub-continent
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of the firm’s shareholders. Conflict between owners and managers typically arise from choice of effort‚ perquisite taking ‚ differential risk exposure‚ differential horizons and overinvestment. The text uses the Baan brothers and R. Johnson of RJR Nabisco as examples to illustrate owner-manager conflicts that ultimately led to the failure in serving the best interests of their respective firms’ shareholders and exercising the ethical responsibilities. 2) Discuss the value-maximizing principle
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOR NON-FINANCE MANAGERS Questions Exercise 1: This exercise is intended to make sure that we are all familiar with terms used debt financing. (10 points) (10) Fill the blanks by choosing the appropriate term from the following list: lease‚ funded‚ floating-rate‚ Eurobond‚ convertible‚ subordinated‚ call‚ sinking fund‚ prime rate‚ private placement‚ global bond‚ public issue‚ senior‚ unfunded‚ Eurodollar rate‚ warrant‚ debentures‚ term loan. a. Debt maturing in
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Page 1 of 16 University of Wisconsin School of Business Financial Policy: 755 Fall 2004 Professor: E-mail: Office Hours: Dr. Toni Whited twhited@bus.wisc.edu MW 2:30-3:30 p.m. and by appointment Office: Phone: Fax: 5289 Grainger (608)262-6508 (608)265-4195 Objective: This course is designed to provide you with a general understanding of a variety of financial restructuring and reorganization techniques. Each topic that we discuss describes a transaction that restructures or reorganizes
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SWOT Analysis • • • • Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats Mission An organization’s fundamental purpose SWOT Analysis To formulate strategies that support the mission Internal Analysis Strengths (distinctive competencies) External Analysis Opportunities Weaknesses Threats Good Strategies Those that support the mission and • exploit opportunities and strengths • neutralize threats • avoid weaknesses Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Figure 8.1 8–1 Porter’s Generic Strategies Strategy
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KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN AND THE GLOBAL FAST-FOOD INDUSTRY Background of the Study During the 1960s and 1970s‚ Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation (KFC) pursued an aggressive strategy of restaurant expansion‚ quickly establishing itself as one of the first fast-food restaurant chains in the US. KFC was also one of the first U.S. -food restaurant chains to expand overseas. By 1990‚ restaurants located outside of the U.S. were generating over 50 percent of KFC’s total profits. By the end of
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