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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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 ings had fall to 180 p len pence per sh hare at the en of nd 2007 from around
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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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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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Case #2: W-G-P Chemical Company John White‚ vice president of distribution for W-G-P Chemical Company‚ was preparing for the annual strategy review session conducted by the firm’s executive committee. He was charged with the task of evaluating his firm’s logistics costs and customer service capability for his firm’s packaged dry and liquid agricultural chemicals. W-G-P Distribution Systems Figure 1 outlines the existing logistics system for W-G-P Chemical Company. Four types of facilities:
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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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CASE IN STUDY: LAKE VICTORIA Krystle Baxter University of Phoenix August‚ 2012 Lake Victoria is the second largest fresh water lake in East Africa. Lake Victoria was the home to over 400 cichlids; which today more than half of the population are now extinct. A major destruction of Lake Victoria’s ecological balance was due to the Nile Perch. The Nile perch is a large voracious predator. The Nile Perch was brought to Lake Victoria to help out fisherman but instead the ecological balance of the
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其A3 Diamond Chemicals PLC (A) and (B) Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives These two cases present the capital investment decisions under consideration by executives of a large chemicals firm in January 2001. The A case (case 20) presents a go/no-go project evaluation regarding improvements to a polypropylene production plant. The B case (case 21) reviews the same project but from one level higher‚ where the executive faces an either/or investment decision between two mutually exclusive
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Victoria Climbie By Shannon Pidgley What happened to Victoria Climbie and her abusers? • Victoria was born in Abobo‚ she left the country with her great aunt Marie – Therese Kouau a French citizen for an education in France. They travelled and ended up living in London in April 1999. It is unknown when Climbie’s abuse started but it was known that it had got worse when Kouau moved herself and Climbie into Carl Manning’s home who was known to be Kouau’s boyfriend. During the abuse it has been recognised
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