Case Study : Fighting for the next billion shoppers The eternal battle between Procter & Gamble and Unilever Jun 30th 2012 A TRIP to Paris is not usually a miserable way to celebrate your birthday‚ but so it was this year for Bob McDonald. On June 20th‚ as he turned 59‚ the chief executive of Procter & Gamble (P&G) for the past three years gave a faltering and apologetic speech at a conference there hosted by Deutsche Bank‚ in which he predicted lower-than-expected profits in the coming
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Brochure More information from http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/575444/ Premium Company Profile: Unilever plc. Description: Introduction Unilever has simplified its organizational structure with a sharp focus on key brands and categories. The company concentrates on delivering health‚ hygiene and nutritional benefits to consumers all over the world. The focus on brand building and innovation has helped the company to sustain its leadership position in the overall health and hygiene
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Change at UNILEVER Unilever is an Anglo–Dutch multinational consumer goods company. Its products include foods‚ beverages‚ cleaning agents and personal care products. It is the world ’s third-largest consumer goods company measured by 2011 revenues and the world ’s largest maker of ice cream. Unilever is a complex organization. Unilever has two holding companies: Unilever PLC‚ which has its registered office at Port Sunlight in Merseyside‚ United Kingdom and its head office at Unilever House in
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The Agency Problem and Control of the Corporation‚ Mergers and Acquisitions The Agency Problem and Control of the Corporation Corporate managers are the agents of shareholders. This relation creates a problem for shareholders who must find ways to induce managers to pursue shareholders interests. Financial managers do act in the best interest of the shareholders by taking action to increase the stock value. However‚ in large corporations ownership can be spread over a huge number of stockholders
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(1) Brief Chronology 5/23/2010- Sanofi’s CEO Chris Viehbacher approaches Genzyme’s CEO Henri Termeer about an acquisition. Termeer expresses interest but wishes to discuss the possible deal after the company’s shareholder meeting in June. 6/28/2010- Viehbacher calls Termeer to set up a meeting and Termeer promises to respond soon. 7/2/2010- The media becomes alerted about Sanofi wishing to purchase a U.S. biotech company as rumors circulate about Genzyme. 7/29/2010- Sanofi
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Darren Snellgrove Pharmaceutical Mergers: What’s the Rush? Drivers of Recent and Future M&A Activity TABLE OF CONTENTS i) Executive Summary ii) Introduction iii) Industry Structure iv) Reasons for Recent M&A Activity v) Analysis of Two Recent Mega-Mergers – Glaxo Wellcome / SmithKline Beecham
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Tutsi tended to become more categorical o The dichotomy between the advantages of being Tutsi and the disadvantages of being Hutu increased enormously in the following period o this notion of ethnic differences between Hutu and Tutsi was first constructed by the Germans who originally colonized Rwanda. the Belgians further entrenched this distinction o Extremely tall and thin‚ and often displaying sharp‚ angular facial features‚ these cattle herders were obviously of a different racial stock
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had explored the market in synthetic fibre manufacture by take-over. In 1988‚ Alpha Plastics involved in merger with the Colmar Chemical Company‚ which is a slightly larger organisation with 8‚500 employees and located near Stockport. Colmar produces a variety of industrial chemicals besides plastic and specialises in the production of synthetic fibres. Alpha Plastics believed that the merger would allow taking advantage of Colmar’s Research and Development facilities as well as its marketing organisations
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Implementation Plan Merge AirFrance-KLM & JAL Table of Content Part 1 - Introduction 3 1. Introduction 3 2. The situation 4 2.1 Reason for the merger 4 Part 2 – Implementing Change 5 3. Philisophy 5 4. The 7S Model 6 5. Strategy 7 5.1 Four competitive Strategies 7 5.2 Management strategy to implement change 9 6.Change on structure 10 6.1 Strategic perspective 10 Current situation 10 How the new group will look like 10 What needs to happen in order to come to the
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performance and bottom line. Corporate Restructuring and Mergers and Acquisitions are tools in | | |the hands of business managers to achieve the said goals through restructuring business processes‚ | | |capital‚ human resource‚ products quality and variety‚ purchase and sales systems etc and through the | | |mergers‚ de-mergers and corporate acquisitions.
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