WORLDWIDE PAPER COMPANY Blue Ridge Mill currently purchases shortwood from a nearby competing mill for pulp production. Bob Prescott‚ the controller for Blue Ridge Mill‚ is considering the addition of a new on-site longwood woodyard. The new woodyard would have two main benefits including the ability to eliminate the need to buy shortwood from an outside source and the opportunity to sell shortwood on the open market as a new market for Worldwide Paper Company. The new woodyard would
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Drexel University Worldwide Paper Company Group 2 Case Analysis Brian Burke‚ John Lafferty FIN 790 Winter 2015 Seminar in Finance Dr. Samuel H. Szewczyk Lebow School of Business February 9‚ 2015 Executive Summary: Blue Ridge Mill is a wood mill owned by Worldwide Paper Company and supplies wood pulp for the company for use in paper production. Blue Ridge Mill bought its wood supply from Shenandoah Mill’s excess production of shortwood that was processed from its longwood supplies. In 2006‚
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Worldwide Paper Case Study Incorporated in 2001‚ Worldwide Paper Company (WPC) is a corporation which is always focus on providing finest paper products to its clients and stakeholders. Headquartered in UAE‚ WPC’s most sales are distributed from the regions of Middle East‚ Asia‚ Africa and Levant. As a global company nowadays‚ the area of operation of WPC includes paper trading-commodity and conventional grads‚ indenting and custom order-commodity and conventional grades‚ merchanting and stock
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savings and revenue increases)? The investment proposed by Bob Prescott‚ an on-site longwood woodyard‚ would reduce operating costs by processing tree-length logs‚ as well as increase revenues by selling shortwood. Cost Savings: In 2006‚ Worldwide Paper’s Blue Ridge Mill had to purchase shortwood from competitor‚ Shenandoah Mill. The new woodyard would begin operations in 2008‚ thus saving Blue Ridge Mill $2mm in year one and $3.5mm the years after. The savings would come from the
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Dimitri Sakellarides Case 18 Draft Bob Prescott‚ the comptroller for the Blue Ridge Mill‚ was weighing the pros and cons of adding a new-on site longwood woodyard. Two primary benefits for this new addition include eliminating the need to purchase shortwood from an outside supplier and creating an opportunity to sell shortwood on the open market. Also‚ the new woodward would reduce operating costs and increase revenues. Blue Ridge Mill currently purchases shortwood from the Shenandoah Mill‚ which
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BBC Worldwide: Global Strategy Case Company Overview The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed in 1922 by a group of radio manufacturers in order to popularize the new medium and create content for customers to listen to on their new devises. The organization grew as it developed a radio transmitter network and started looking at other media types. However‚ due to an issue of license fee collection‚ the BBC experienced heavy financial losses which caused the original radio manufacturers
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EPPM3644 KEWANGAN KORPORAT DAN PENSTRUKTURAN SET: 3 REPORT OF CASE STUDY: CASE 19 WORLDWIDE PAPER COMPANY PROFESSOR: DR. LIZA MARWATI BINTI MOHD YUSOFF GROUP MEMBERS: LOH CHAI LING A140178 GOH HOOI SAN A139708 KERK (KEH) YIH JEN A139574 SEMESTER 2‚ 2013/2014 INTRODUCTION In December 2006‚ Bob Prescott‚ the controller for the Blue Ridge Mill‚ was considering the addition of a new on-site longwood woodyard. Two primary benefits for this new addition include eliminating
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In the case of Worldwide Paper Company we performed calculations to decide whether they should accept a new project or not. We calculated their net income and their cash flows for this project (See Table 1.6 and 1.5). We computed WPC’s weighted average cost of capital as 9.87%. We then used the cash flows to calculate the company’s NPV. We first calculated the NPV by using the 15% discount rate; by using that number we calculated a negative NPV of $2‚162‚760. We determined that the discount rate
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The DYMO Routing Protocol in VANET Scenarios Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler Computer Networks and Communication Systems Dept. of Computer Sciences‚ University of Erlangen-Nuremberg‚ Germany {christoph.sommer‚dressler}@informatik.uni-erlangen.de Abstract—Coupling Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) with wired networks such as the Internet via access points creates a difficult mix of highly mobile nodes and a static infrastructure. In order to evaluate the performance of typical ad hoc
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allows a company to determine the investment that will best increase shareholder value. With limited funds to invest in projects‚ Wyndham Worldwide must determine where best to invest. Considering the constraints of the project‚ an after-tax cash flow analysis is employed
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