GSBA521B Term III‚ Fall 2012 Professor Ku Case—Blaine Kitchenware‚ Inc.: Capital Structure Assignment: Your team’s task is to recommend to the Board of Blaine Kitchenware (BKI) whether the firm should undertake the leveraged recap. In doing so‚ please address the four questions below. Teams 1-6: your task is to recommend for a leveraged recap with quantitative and qualitative support Teams 7-13: your task is to recommend against a leveraged recap with quantitative and qualitative support
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world. EBay. In • Classification :- General • Main Focus :- General • Offline :- No Product Category o Clothing & Apparels o Shoes & Accessories o Fashion & Lifestyle o Jewellery & Accessories o Home & Kitchenware o Health & Personal Care o Food & Groceries o Baby Product & Kids o Sports & Outdoors o Innerwear & Lingerie o Mobiles & Electronics o Camera & Accessories o Home Appliances o Books o Movies & Music o Games & Consoles o Computers &Peripherals
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IKEA Case Analysis IKEA has a distinct market segment in the home furnishing arena. It has created a niche market with innovative designs‚ quality‚ and low price structure. IKEA has employed the cost leadership and product differentiation strategies through low price structure and innovative designs‚ respectively. Additionally‚ the uniqueness of the disposable furniture concept allowed IKEA to capitalize on the first mover advantage (Harrison & Enz‚ 2005). Behavioral Customer Segmentation
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Executive Summary: In summary‚ recommendation by the banker to buy back 14 million outstanding shares of Blaine Kitchenware with $ 50 million debt and $209 million cash in hand would result in following financial metric changes: * Increase the value of the firm through the benefit of tax shield from current $960million to $1.063billion. * The offer results in 3% increase in EPS from $0.91 to $0.93 based on 2006 financial numbers. * An increase of 7.3% on ROE from 11% to 18.3% based
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respectively. In recent years‚ it experienced rapid growth‚ and exports containers and kitchenware to over 100 countries all over the world. Its aim is to be a global No. 1 comprehensive kitchenware maker by 2020. The company exerts its best efforts to expand its main products from plastic airtight containers to comprehensive kitchenware. To be a global company producing various and functional kitchenware‚ Lock&Lock maintains its competitive edge in the field by manufacturing containers using
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FIN475 Spring 2011 Group Assignment 3 “Blaine Kitchenware‚ Inc.: Capital Structure” Due: Thursday‚ March 24‚ 2011 Instructions: • This is a group assignment. • Prepare a memo from your group to address the items found below. Please limit your memo to no more than three pages of text. You may use as many pages of exhibits as you deem necessary. However‚ you will only want to provide exhibits that you discuss in your memo. • Presentation counts. Make sure to proof you memo for spelling
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TTK PRESTIGE LTD. Introduction to company:- a) History of company TTK Prestige Ltd.‚ a TTK Group company was incorporated in Oct 1955 at Madras‚ as TT Pvt Ltd. It became a deemed public company in Jun.’88. Its name was changed to the present one in Jun.’94. It established facilities at Bangalore to manufacture a wide range of domestic and industrial appliances and commenced the manufacture of pressure cookers in 1959 with technical support from Prestige Group‚ UK. In 1992‚ the company
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JAJS Company was a single proprietorship company established by the two brothers‚ Jonathan and James Sy. The JAJS Company ventured in the importation of general merchandise originating from Hong Kong‚ Taiwan and China. They import items such as kitchenware‚ hair accessories‚ artificial flowers and ready to wear apparel. Back then; importation was rather a difficult since one would have to go under foreign currency sources and tight custom processes. The company found strength in providing such services
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competitive. The risk of new entrants is not extremely high because of the huge capital needed to start the business. Demand of household furniture is high. IKEA furnitures don’t have a such significant competitor but other areas like textile and kitchenware have. Alongside Kodin Ykkönen becomes one competitor as a full department store but it doesn’t compete in price. Buyers‚ bargaining power: Ikea ensure that their customers in all aspects will be satisfied for quality service they provide. Ikea
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Blaine Kitchenware Questions: 1) Do you believe that Blaine’s current capital structure and payout policies are appropriate? Why or why not? 2) Should Dubinski recommend a large share repurchase to Blaine’s board? What are the primary advantages and disadvantages of such a move? 3) Consider the following share repurchase proposal: Blaine will use $209 million of cash from its balance sheet and $50 million in new debt bearing an interest rate of 6.75% to repurchase 14 million shares
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