The Dow Chemical Company entered into a Joint Venture with State of Kuwait run Petrochemical Industries Company ("PIC"). “PIC” is a wholly owned subsidiary of State owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation ("KPC"). to launch K-Dow Petrochemicals‚ a planned joint venture. PIC was to have paid pay Dow $7.5 billion US dollars for its stake. The deal was approved by Kuwait’s Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC). The head of the SPC is the Prime Minister of Kuwait The venture was to manufacture and market
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Case Study „Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc.“ MLA1 International Business and Management Introduction Wal-Mart is one of the world’s largest companies and is operating in discount retailing. Its first stores were opened in 1962 in small towns because Wal-Mart’s founder Sam Walton who died in 1992 had the idea that these towns were large enough to support one discount retailer‚ but not two. The main reason for Wal-Mart’s leading position in the market has always been based on its ability to offer products
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giant‚ Wal-Mart. His investigation started after Wal-Mart shut down its internal investigation over the possible bribery of Mexican officials. Wal-Mart used these bribes to accelerate growth in their Mexican zoning areas. These allegations surfaced when a Hispanic lawyer contacted Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville Arkansas. This lawyer had inside information on Wal-Mart’s bribes‚ as he represented them in their acts. He was used as a middle man for Wal-Mart’s payoffs to these officials. Wal-Mart
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------------------------------------------------- Topic: Joint-Venture – China – Wall Panelling Once a foreign investor is put into the mix‚ a wealth of legal‚ administrative or operational violations that a solely-owned Chinese firm may have been able to survive with‚ will most likely not be tolerated by the local authorities (Devonshire-Ellise & Hoffman‚ 2010; Norris‚ 2011). Therefore an array of legal and contractual issues may arise for which a foreign party should be prepared. Some of
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Wal-Mart…marketing‚ advertising‚ purposeful goal‚ summary 06/09/2012 MAN230-Advertising Principles Myrna Celaya Professor Fletcher Stevens-Henager College-Online Wal-Mart‚ the retail icon‚ taking on yet another strategy when sitting somewhat comfortably‚ (a business is never comfortable or should not be so comfortable)‚ especially when the one to “beat.” Advertising strategy is as any strategy and that is with risk. An example of such risk is investing and the risk tolerance for each
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Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. is currently entangled in a legal battle that will decide if the company has engaged willfully in gender-based discrimination. Underlying causes‚ organizational culture and ethical issues will be examined in determining how the largest private employer in the United States could have fallen prey to unfair labor practices. "In 1999‚ women constituted 72% of Wal-Mart’s hourly employees‚ but only 33% of its managerial employees" (Bhatnagar‚ 2004). This fact and many others
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given these challenges? Our proposal covers three possible strategies that Komatsu could leverage to improve operations and business performance‚ in light of the aforementioned challenges. First‚ to better control its international expansion‚ Komatsu can shift its expansion strategy from joint ventures to mergers & acquisitions. This will help achieve management control that is currently struggling‚ but will be an expensive and time-intensive option. Second‚ to protect its core business
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INTEGRATING CASE 1: Transition at Whirlpool Tatramat: From Joint Venture to Acquisition Global Business Management John Heina November 28‚ 2012 I. According to the definition‚ a Greenfield investment is a form of foreign direct investment in which a parent company starts a new venture in a foreign country by constructing new operational facilities from the ground up. With the addition of new facilities‚ most parent companies create new long-term jobs
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Mergers and Joint Ventures Learning Team “D” Rebecca Adams‚ Thomas Elwell‚ Cathy Jones and Christina Najar ECO/365 Principles of Microeconomics September 29‚ 2014 Instructor: Matthew Angner Mergers and Joint Ventures A company does not plan on merging with another company and although some mergers are voluntary other mergers are not. When a company is struggling‚ having financial difficulties and has used up all of its resources sometime it is in the best interest to merge. It is
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Wal-Mart – ASDA in the UK Two international marketing objectives • Increase overall market share in the UK with their company ADSA by 15% by the end of the year • Increase overall sales in the supermarket industry by 1 billion dollars in the next year Communication Strategy In assessing the current communication opportunities for the supermarket giant‚ Wal-Mart‚ you can look at their current audience‚ and their trends. The general audience for the Wal-Mart company can be very general
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