Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Global Fast-Food Industry: KFC : world’s largest chicken restaurant chain and third largest fast-food chain in 2004 One of the first fast-food chains to go international‚ one of the world’s most recognizable brands. KFC’s early international strategy: grow its company and franchise restaurant base throughout the world refocused in 2004 on several high growth markets (China‚ Canada‚ UK‚ Australia‚ South Africa‚ and more) company-owned restaurants (greater control
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FIN 5204 MANAGING CORPORATE CAPITAL INVESTMENT AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE FALL 2007 DEBT POLICY AT UST INC. 1. WHAT ARE THE PRIMARY BUSINESS RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH UST INC.? WHAT ARE THE ATTRIBUTES OF UST INC.? EVALUATE FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE BONDHOLDER. Over the years‚ UST has been a dominant producer in the tobacco industry‚ specifically the moist tobacco industry. Even though the past strategy with UST has entailed raising the prices of its products on a regular basis‚ the company still shows
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Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Leading a Great Enterprise Through Dramatic Change Louis V. Gerstner‚ Jr. This book is dedicated to the thousands of IBMers who never gave up on their company‚ their colleagues‚ and themselves. They are the real heroes of the reinvention of IBM. Contents Foreword Introduction PART I-GRABBING HOLD 1 The Courtship 2 The Announcement 3 Drinking from a Fire Hose 4 Out to the Field 5 Operation Bear Hug 6 Stop the Bleeding (and Hold the Vision)
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OBJECTIVE OF THE REPORT To observe the nature and setup of the organization so as to determine the performance level of the sales managers and how they carry out their marketing functions by laying emphasis on communications. HYPOTHESIS How does communication help the sales managers to plan and implement the sales strategies? METHODOLOGY The method applied for this research based on Causal-Comparison as it investigates a cause and effect relationship between two or more variables‚
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Meaning Of Amalgamation When two or more companies carrying on similar business go into liquidation and a new company is formed to take over their business‚ it is called amalgamation. In other words‚ amalgamation refers to the formation of a new company by taking over the business of two or more existing companies doing similar type of business. In amalgamation‚ two or more companies are liquidated and a new company is formed to take over the business of liquidating companies. The companies which
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND Smith School of Business BUFN 750 Question Sheet: Congoleum Corporation Prof. Dalida Kadyrzhanova Spring 2013 In this case‚ you have to evaluate the LBO proposal and decide whether the $38 per share o¤er price is appropriate. You will combine the valuation principles and methods discussed in the course to evaluate a complex transaction from the perspectives of the various participants. Your write-up should address and defend the assumptions that underlie the inputs
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mission Date : 6-month internship starting in as soon as possible. Responsibilities: Participation to pitch to client (new LBO transaction‚ refinancing‚ extension‚ restructuring)Presentation of company (products‚ markets‚ risks‚ SWOT‚ cash-flow generation);Presentation of proposed financing structures;- Liaising with M&A department. Participation in the analysis and follow up of LBO portfolio: - Work on internal credit paper and presentation to analyse: sector risks‚ companies’ performance‚ leverage
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bond rating forced them to conduct drastic financing strategy to recover itself. The company had two alternatives to rid of Hertz: selling to a private bidding group via LBO transaction and listing on public stock exchange market. Their priority was to acquire the immediate cash through this transaction of Hertz. Our analysis of the LBO offer proposed by Bidding Group yields an expected return of 21.2%‚ and expected return by the public market to equal 24%. FORD’S MOTIVATION In 2005‚ Ford is valuing
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thriving enterprise by 1965‚ when annual sales amounted to about $8 million. The company needed backing to expand‚ however‚ so it sold out to Buffalo-based conglomerate Houdaille Industries Inc. Houdaille was in turn purchased in a 1979 leveraged buyout (LBO) led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. By 1982‚ when debt‚ competition‚ and a sickly machine-tool market had battered Burgmaster badly‚ Houdaille went to Washington with a petition to withhold the investment tax credit for certain Japanese-made machine
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............ 10 The Discounted Cash Flow Model ..................................... 11 The Leveraged Buyout Model ............................................ 12 The SML Approach ............................................................ 13 LBO Price ........................................................................... 14 Capital Structure Proposed ................................................. 15 Payback Period for Silver Lake .......................................... 17 Shareholders’
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