CASE COPPER KETTLE CATERING Copper Kettle Catering (CKC) is a full-service catering company that provides services ranging from box lunches for picnics or luncheon meetings to large wedding‚ dinner‚ or office parties. Established as a lunch delivery service for offices in 1972 by Wayne and Janet Williams‚ CKC has grown to be one of the largest catering businesses in Raleigh‚ North Carolina. The Williamses divide customer demand into two categories: deliver only and deliver and serve. The deliver-only
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happened and lessons learnt. The case study that will be investigated is the Alpha Piper Platform disaster. In today’s competitive world‚ companies need safe and dependable workplaces for the wellbeing of employees‚ people in the community and the environment. A risk assessment must be carried out to keep everyone in the workplace safe and healthy. Risk assessment is used to document‚ identify and reduce hazards in the workplace. BACKGROUND - PIPER APHA PLATFORM The piper alpha platform disaster took
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What are the concerns and what are the bargaining positions of each group of Nicholson stockholders? What must Cooper offer each group in order to acquire its shares? Introduction : Nicholson File Company was faced with poor sales and low profit performances conservative accounting policies and a very low percent of outstanding stick which was held by the Nicholson family. the management was also functioning badly .The family had no interest in joining forces with people from outside and the
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Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE: PII) declared today its new deals and profit objectives for the Company through 2018. In particular‚ the Company detailed that it has set up goals for add up to Company deals to develop to $2.2 billion before the finish of the 2018 schedule year with net wage from proceeding with tasks expanding to $150 million. Weakened income for each offer from continuing with activities developing to $4.25 per share amid a similar period. The Company showed that it means to accomplish
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&RPage |1 Entrepreneurial Finance 2013 - Case Assignment Questions R&R R&R case brings up major themes that we will see over and over again in this course. This case also differs significantly from most of the other case you will read in this course as it provides a full story of an entrepreneurial venture. In most other cases in this course‚ the entrepreneur is faced with a decision/dilemma at the time of case. In these cases I will ask you to put yourself in the entrepreneur’s shoes and come
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COOPER Cooper Industries’ Corporate Strategy (A) Brayan J. Coin 5/3/2010 Prepare: Cooper Industries’ Corporate Strategy 1. What is Cooper’s corporate strategy? How is Cooper Industries adding corporate value to its portfolio of businesses? Would you recommend any changes in corporate strategy? Cooper’s corporate strategy is diversification through acquisitions and mergers. This diversification is in both related and non-related businesses to lessen its dependence on the capital
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22-03-2012 Morena Xodo (matr. 639471) COOPER INDUSTRIES’ CORPORATE STRATEGIES Cooper industries’ is a broad company that strongly uses M&A strategy of diversification. But diversification for Cooper doesn’t mean just ‘adding‚ adding and more adding’. Division managers seek for ‘complementary acquisition’ defined as logical extensions of Cooper’s existing products or markets; furthermore they keep examining what they have‚ not being afraid to get rid of companies that have served their useful
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for the industry going forward? 1.Though the average level of profitability in the pharmaceutical industry has been declining over time (In 2002‚ the average ROIC in the industry was 21.6%; by 2006‚ it had fallen to 14.5%)‚ historically‚ the pharmaceutical industry has been a profitable one. Because- Name of industry | Average ROIC(Between 2002 and 2006) | Pharmaceuticals | 16.45%(large) | computer hardware | 12.76% | Electronics | 3.88% | 2. The prospect for the industry for going
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Chaotic media and communications market conditions and downward industry pressure on commission margins forced Grey Worldwide Hong Kong and China (Grey WW-HK/China) to conceive a CRM philosophy called Grey Relationship Management (GRM) in 2001‚ to reposition itself through defined e-marketing and CRM strategies for the Asian market‚ particularly China.1 Facing threats from a changing and fiercely competitive communication industry‚ Grey WW-HK/China did not want to compete on cost. Instead‚ it
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Tiffany Harrison MKTG 3000 Spring 2015 Dr. Michael Furick Cooper’s Ice Arena Solution Claude Cooper’s target segment for his public ice skating sessions seems to be adult couples‚ kids (14 and younger) and teens (14 and up) I think those target segments can increase revenue for him he may just be going about the wrong way. There’s also potential to make certain sessions more exclusive than other public sessions but Claude seems hesitant to do so. His strategies or ideas are great in theory however
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