1. Victoria Chemicals evaluate its capital-expenditure proposals in four ways. They are average annual addition to earnings per share‚ payback period‚ net present value‚ and internal rate of return. An earnings per share method is to indicate a company’s profitability. For Victoria Chemical‚ this was calculated with the average annual earnings per share contribution of the engineering-efficiency project over its entire economic life. However‚ for the basis of the calculation‚ the project’s initiator
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Background Victoria Chemicals‚ a major player in the global chemical industry that supplies polypropylene‚ polymer that used to manufacture carpet fibers‚ packaging‚ automobile parts to the customers in Europe and the Middle East. Apart from numerous small producers‚ the company also receives the threats from the other seven major competitors. The company owns two plants in Europe‚ one being Merseyside Works‚ England and Rotterdam Facility‚ Holland. Both plants were built in 1967 and are identical
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onalize the polypropylen production line at the Merseyside plant ne n expenditu to renovate and ratio in order to make up for deferred maintenan and to ex d nce xploit oppor rtunities to a achieve incre eased productio efficiency on y. Victoria Che V emicals wa under pr as ressure from investors to impro m s ove its fina ancial performa ance because of the ac ccumulation of the firm commo shares b a well-kn n m’s on by nown corporate raider‚ Sir David Benj e jamin. Earni
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HBS Case Study Solution Kent Chemical: Organizing for International Growth Table of Contents 1 Initial Problems 3 1.1 Introduction & Problem Identification 3 1.2 Link of KCP’s Strategy to Porter’s Generic Strategies 4 1.3 A Suitable Vision for KCP and KCI 5 1.4 Kent’s Fundamental Organizational Challenge 5 1.5 Task Analysis and Role Assignment 6 1.6 Why These Problems Emerged Now and not Earlier in the 1990s 6 2 Unsuccessful Responses 7 2.1 Changes Morales Made 7 2.1.1 The GBD Concept
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Briefly assess the current status and any issues with regard to: strategic vision‚ mission statement‚ core values‚ objectives‚ and strategy in the Robin Hood case. Offer brief remarks on addressing the situation. Strategic vision-describes management’s aspirations for the future and delineates the company’s strategic course and long-term direction Mission Statement- describes its purpose and its present business (Who we are‚ what we do‚ and why we are here) Core Values- are the beliefs‚ traits
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VICTORIA CHEMICALS PLC THE MERSEYSIDE AND ROTTERDAM PPROJECTS I would choose Merseyside project rather than Rotterdam’s not only for its superior prospect based on the quantitative criteria‚ but also for a more rational strategy consideration. For the four investment criteria‚ here’s the elaboration. NPV. Since the two plants are of identical scale‚ age‚ design and similar project size‚ it makes sense to use NPV to compare the two projects. Not taken into account the erosion at Merseyside‚
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02-05-2013 INSTRUCTOR’S NAME : Hoàng Lê Sơn EXPERIMENT 1: CHEMICAL REACTIONS I. INTRODUCTION – OBJECTIVES In this first experiment‚ we will perform 8 chemical reactions and 1 flame test in order to determine 2 things : a) firstly‚ we can know whether a reaction occurred or not. To complete our mission‚ we need to observe carefully some signs of chemical reaction’s appearance such as the change in color of solution‚ precipitate’s existence‚ the release of gas‚ also check the change
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REPORTER: The reporter (anonymous) called with concerns for the victims‚ Victoria and Curtis. The reporter said DHS placed the victims (Victoria and Curtis) in the mother’s care on a trial basis (90 days)‚ but now they are going to make it permanent. It was stated that Victoria said her mother comes home drunk. They have found her in the bushes and on the door step drunk‚ and they had to help her get into the home (3 different incidents were witnessed). The reporter said the mother’s youngest son’s
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THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS (pp. 94-98) Electrolytes – forms ions when dissolved in water (or certain other solvents) and thus produce solutions that conduct electricity. Strong electrolytes – ionize essentially completely Weak electrolytes – ionize only partially Solution of weak electrolyte will be a poorer conductor than a solution containing an equal concentration of a strong electrolyte Brønsted-Lowry theory Acid is a proton donor Base is a proton acceptor H2O + HNO2 H3O+ +
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* The Victory Bank Case Vlissingen 2010 * Content The Victory Bank Case 1 Content 2 List of Figures 4 Preamble 5 1 Company Description 6 2 Current Situation 10 2.1 CRM Vision 10 2.2 CRM Strategy 11 2.3 Valued Customer Experience 13 2.4 Organizational Collaboration 13 2.5 CRM Processes 15 2.6 CRM Information 17 2.7 CRM Technology 18 2.8 CRM Metrics 19 3 The Main Challenges 21 3.1 Database 21 3.2 Employees 21 3.3 Market position 21 3.4 Extending
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