within industrial‚ pipeline transportation‚ and refining fields. PP has evolved over the last 60 years into a company that now also works with agricultural chemicals‚ plastics‚ and real estate development concentrating in gas‚ oil‚ petrochemicals‚ and coal. In 1990‚ PP improved their coker and sulfur recovery facility to make their refining process more efficient and in turn has become one of the lowest cost refiners on the West Coast. Due to the refining process PP’s gasolines are among the most cleanest-burning
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Executive Summary For “premium” chocolate maker Scharffen Berger (SB)‚ quality is king. Their distinct process creates a “taste experience” second to none‚ an unparalleled quality that must be maintained despite apparent capacity issues. To satisfy the rising market’s demand for its product‚ it must address three primary issues related to capacity: bottlenecks‚ expansion‚ and economies of scale. The current bottleneck in the Conche (output=1‚344 kg. /day) will be remedied with the installation
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Midland Energy Resources‚ Inc. Executive Summary Midland Energy Resources was fortunate enough to have a skilled financial manager in Mortensen. Her expertise had come to be respected as was evidenced by her promotion and the reliance on her calculations. However‚ her cost of equity numbers were used as a starting point and manipulated rather than used as presented. Examining the calculation of the firms weighted average cost of capital and betas as well as comparing with others in the same
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The Great US Leaders in the History Illinois State University Abstract The industry revolution drastically changed society from a traditional system to be an industrialized and capitalist system. During that time‚ the growth is driven by five insightful men: Cornelius Vanderbilt‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ Andrew Carnegie‚ J.P. Morgan‚ and Henry Ford who will change the world forever. This paper analyzes five great U.S. leaders and why they are the key leaders
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The concept of the Elevator Pitch is borne from the idea that if you met an investor on an elevator and only had 30 seconds to pitch your business‚ what would it sound like? In fact 30 seconds is about as much attention as you are going to get from an investor to begin with‚ so thinking in that time frame makes a lot of sense. The formula for the perfect Elevator Pitch involves three ingredients - the Problem‚ the Solution‚ and the Market Size. The Problem Every great company starts by solving
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Pioneer Petroleum Corporation’s (PPC) has been through a diverse amount of changes throughout the years. They were originally were a merger of several different independent firms operating in the oil refining‚ pipeline transportation‚ and industrial chemicals fields. PPC then integrated vertically into exploration and production of crude oil and marketing refined petroleum products‚ but horizontally into plastics‚ agricultural chemicals‚ and real estate development. They decided to restructure
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In Refining Reading and Writing‚ "Thoughts of Winter" is defined as "Winter is the season that receives most attention from us through our scientific explanation‚ our mythological ideas and our personal determination." (Santiago‚2008‚ pp.82-83). I strongly agree with this statement. In scientific clarification‚ winter comes every year because of northern hemisphere is twisted away from the sun‚ so the world is evenly distributed by the solar radiation. It always has cold‚ dark snow everywhere. Second
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According to a poll conducted by American Pulse Research‚ Americans feel we are too dependent on foreign oil by a ratio of nine to one (Market Wire) The poll conducted in June of 2008 indicated that 90.7% of Americans felt the United states was too dependent on foreign oil and 67.1% felt that the United States should begin drilling for oil in its reserves to limit our dependency on foreign oil. (Market Wire). According to the Energy Information Administration‚ a branch of the United States Department
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Centropico’s political environment‚ land transfers and the Department of Rural Reform (DRR)‚ the findings show that these recommendations will promote land reform in Centropico by reducing cabinet-level debates‚ improving DRR’s administrative capacity‚ refining land transferring and raising funding. These recommendations include: 1) Unify “different voices” towards land reform among government with vigorous argumentation and convincing documentation‚ 2) Lay off idle staffs and recruit new members in DRR
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Manufacturing of Sunflower Oil Refined sunflower oil will be ready to consume after two manufacturing processes. They are raw oil manufacturing and refining processes. These two steps are charted below. Chart-I: Manufacturing of Raw Oil Chart-II: Manufacturing of Refined Oil Raw oil manufacturing consists of 2 stages. These are pressing and extraction stages. In the first stage‚ seed of sunflower becomes sunflower oil. Cleaning‚ breaking‚ separation‚ shimming‚ roasting and pressing processes
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