Volkswagen and Porsche - Corporate Finance Case study: Mergers & Acquisitions of listed companies by Joachim Häcker What is the macro view of this case study? Small fish tries to eat big fish (financial figures are end of 2005 and rounded): VW: Market cap: €16 bn Book value: €24 bn Cash and cash equivalent: €8 bn (+€4 bn marketable securities) Porsche: Market cap: €11 bn Book value: €3.4 bn Cash and cash equivalent: €3.6 bn VW Porsche case study – by Joachim Häcker Seite 1
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Porsche Porsche-Marketing The automotive market The automotive market comprehends the design‚ the development‚ the manufacturing and the distribution of the vehicles. This market includes all kind of vehicles with motor‚ but only the ones of combustion engines. This is one of the markets that make the world economy grow‚ in fact the automotive market is the world’s most important economic sector by revenue. This market as sated above does only include the four main principles of the car market
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DRIVING PORSCHE? PRESENTED BY : GROUP 7 SECTION ‘C’ There are some customers who love the idea that an engineer working on their project in the afternoon was the same guy working on a 911 motor in the morning. Managing Director‚ Porsche Engineering Group We were working with Volkswagen on the next generation of the Cayenne (which shared its structure with the VW Touareg and Audi Q7) and I wanted a clear connection to safeguard Porsche’s interests. We could not do this alone. Porsche CEO Wendelin
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1) Do you believe that Porsche’s management is appropriately concerned with stockholder wealth? Does Porsche’s ownership structure work to the benefit or detriment of public shareholders? Although Porsche is publicly traded‚ the company is controlled by only two stockholders‚ the Porsche and Piéch families. As the quotation by Holger Härter makes clear‚ the two families hold exclusive shareholder influence over management. An interesting point for class discussion is whether the families actually
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Course Principles of Marketing Test Week 2 Quiz 1 Started 1/18/14 2:32 PM Submitted 1/18/14 3:19 PM Status Completed Attempt Score 21 out of 30 points Time Elapsed 47 minutes out of 1 hour. Instructions This quiz consist of 10 multiple choice questions and covers the material in Chapter 1. Be sure you are in Chapter 1 when you take the quiz. Question 1 3 out of 3 points Correct Customer relationship management (CRM) begins its focus on customers with Answer Selected Answer:
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Porsche 1. How does Porsche differ – operating structure‚ financial results‚ etc. – from other major European-based auto manufacturers? To begin with Porsche is a privately owned company controlled by the Porsche and Piéch family. They hold all the 8.75 million voting shares while mainly large institutional investors hold the other 8.75 million non-voting shares. Despite the fact that stock exchange and analysts’ requests more frequent and more detailed financial reporting Porsche is not
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to Volkswagen. Volkswagen now owns them but this solidifies their existence because VW is such a big company that it will never let Porsche go belly up even through toughest of times. They also have been around for a very long time and have a very recognizable name across the world. Porsche also has a very strong influence and presence in the motor racing world. In fact‚ almost all cars that Porsche built are basically purpose-built racing machines. They have been victorious in almost all races they
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Marketing Principles on HBR Case Study: Passion of the Christ Author: Manana C. Lavric Masters‚ II Griffiths School of Management Oradea‚ 2014 How can you transform Cinderella into the Ball Queen? How can you transform the outcome of the release of a Christian movie shot in two dead languages‚ with no-name actors‚ rejected by ruling Hollywood production studios from disaster and turn it into a blockbuster far above The Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter‚ into the highest grossing R-rated movie of
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In 1954 Ray Kroc approached the McDonalds brothers with the thought of starting a new company. In 1965 McDonalds went public‚ some twenty years later in 1985 it was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. McDonalds has gone through quite a bit of changes through the years exposing of several CEO’s‚ but found its man in 2004 in Jim Skinner. He has made a recovery in the business as he joined when the company took its first quarterly loss. Revenue rose to neraly11% during 2006 and the net profits
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jeans also aim to not just fit the body of customers‚ but also their lifestyle. Meanwhile‚ the company tries to keep its prices low‚ while still providing perfect quality. Q2: How would you define the company’s target market? What is the current positioning strategy? Briefly explain Mavi’s 4Ps. A target market is a group of customers for which an organization designs‚ implements and maintains a marketing mix intended to meet the needs of the group resulting in mutually satisfying exchanges. Mavi jeans
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