Summary: Arauco(A): Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion. Conclusion There is an obvious need for transformation in this company to protect its debt holders‚ shareholders‚ and employees. Concentrating on products that will have a growing demand such as toilet paper‚ tissue paper‚ and magazine paper would aid in stabilizing the company’s earnings. Having over 50% of revenues derive from pulp sales increases risk of instability. Attempting to first reduce costs and pay outstanding
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of the value chain is referred to as horizontal integration. This form of expansion contrasts with vertical integration by which the firm expands into upstream or downstream activities. Horizontal growth can be achieved by internal expansion or by external expansion through mergers and acquisitions of firms offering similar products and services. A firm may diversify by growing horizontally into unrelated businesses. Some examples of horizontal integration include: * The Standard
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Vertical integration is the process in which several steps in the production and/or distribution of a product or service are controlled by a single company or entity‚ in order to increase that company’s or entity’s power in the marketplace. Simply said‚ every single product that you can think of has a big life cycle. While you might recognize the product with the Brand name printed on it‚ many companies are involved in developing that product. These companies are necessarily not part of the brand
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Firm Reputation and Horizontal Integration∗ Hongbin Cai† Ichiro Obara‡ March 14‚ 2008. Abstract We study effects of horizontal integration on firm reputation. In an environment where customers observe only imperfect signals about firms’ effort/quality choices‚ firms cannot maintain good reputation and earn quality premium forever. Even when firms choose high quality‚ there is always a possibility that a bad signal is observed. Thus‚ firms must give up their quality premium‚ at least temporarily
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marked by lots of integration and mergers. As pulp is a commodity‚ there is a fierce competition on price. The industry requires a high capital requirement for initial setup. It is also required to maintain high production efficiencies to compete on prices. There is moderate entry barrier for new entrants. Government policies and regulations control forest harvesting and can sometimes act as a disincentive for existing competitors. Competitive and Strategic position of Celulosa Arauco (See Exhibit
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“Arauco (A): Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?” Arauco is an important Chilean forestry company formed in 1979. The company has three main product segments which are wood products‚ pulp products and forestry products. In 2004 the CEO was experiencing a decisional problem concerning whether it was better for shareholders to develop a horizontal structure already existing by building a new pulp plant‚ or to focus on a vertical integration and enter into the paper production. The approach
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------------------------------------------------- “Arauco: Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion” Case Arauco is a major Chilean producer of pulp and wood products. In order to increase its capacity‚ the company has launched in 1980‚ an aggressive expansion plan by purchasing lands‚ plantations and installing new technology equipment. Arauco is today considered as one of the world biggest forestry company with 1.2 million hectares of plantation. Its global strategy is aimed at strengthening
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Should Arauco own both forests and pulp production facilities? Does the Alto Paraná project help you answer this question? According to the information of the case‚ clearly Arauco should own it own forests and facilities‚ because the benefits from Vertical Integration are bigger than it costs. The first case is‚ even when‚ the ownership of both kinds of sources can decrease the efficiency of the entire business‚ it can create an increasing in the location efficiency (because you can locate the
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CHAPTER 9: THE STRATEGIC GAINS FROM HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION AND DIVERSIFICATION Work‚ itself‚ is not organised as it used to be. Organisations are not now drawn as pyramids of boxes. [They] now have circles and amoeba-like blobs where boxes used to be. It isn’t even clear where the organisation begins and ends‚ with customers‚ suppliers and allied organisations linked into a varying ‘network organisation? Charles Handy‚ The Empty Raincoat (1994) The acid test of competitive success is the ability
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Define and differniate between vertical integration and horizontal integration? Vertical Integration :- It describes a style of management control. Vertically integrated companies in a supply chain are united through a common owner. Usually each member of the supply chain produces a different product or (market-specific) service‚ and the products combine to satisfy a common need. It is contrasted with horizontal integration.Vertical integration is one method of avoiding the hold-up problem. A
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