Corporate Finance Case Study: Volkswagen Volkswagen (VW) Volkswagen (VW) is a German automobile manufacturer which was originally founded in 1937. Now VW Group is one of world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe‚ with its recent headquarter in Wolfsburg. VW is one of the ten brands under VW Group. (Volkswagen Homepage‚ 2011) 2011 VW’s revenue is 159‚337 million EUR; net income is 15‚409 million EUR‚ with a profit margin of 9.6707%. (Bloomberg
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MAGISTER MANAGEMENT UNIV. MERCU BUANA STUDY CASE MARKETING MANAGEMENT Samsung Electronics Company : Question for Study Case discussion: 1. What are the ingredients of SEC’s corporate turnaround strategy? What are the implications for marketing mix policies? 2. How strong is the Samsung brand? Can Samsung pass Sony and become a top ten global brand? 3. As Chief Marketing Officer‚ what are Kim’s role and responsibilities? 4. What does Samsung (and Kim) have to do to become one of the top ten brands
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base for the study and given an overview of the areas where the research could be done. It has also provided me with the relevant facts. Objective of the study: Study of loyalty programs of Shoppers Stop and Pantaloons. • Are these programs really effective in enhancing the customer experience. • How much profitable does the loyalty programs prove to be‚ for a customer centric apparel retailer. Most customers hold several loyalty cards of competing retailers. Past studies looking into the
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were the cities forced to consider downsizing? The cities were forced to consider downsizing because of several years of facing economic challenges in the county‚ along with shrinking population base‚ and having to cut down on budgets down to penny for the past month. 2 What are the positives of downsizing? Some of the positives of downsizing were when salaries and employee costs were held down. 3 What are the negatives? Some of the negatives of downsizing included decreases in productivity
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satisfied than only will one be concerned with higher order needs of influence and personal development. Since‚ without meeting lower order needs‚ we are no longer concerned about the maintenance of our higher order needs. Similarly‚ in the case of GM: Downsizing the Hummer‚ it is very obvious that esteem and self actualization are the only needs that will motivate a purchase of a Hummer H2. Esteem needs can be categorized as external or internal motivators. Internally motivating esteem needs are
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5.2 Proposal to Expand Into Corporate Advertising Videos VYP has been approached by Zubinos Coffee Shops Ltd to produce a corporate advertisement. This has highlighted the need and opportunity for VYP to venture into advertising which may improve costing and profit margins. Social media advertising is a huge and growing business. Social advertising revenue is forecasted to increase by 194% to reach $15 billion by 2018. Facebook‚ Twitter and Google+ are the most popular social networks with search
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of the Italian State to buy this stake before the group is put on the market so as to present a streamlined structure? Or would it be preferable to leave things as they are? Why? TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Executive summary In the above case study Roberto Group incepted 30 years ago by IRI one of the largest holding companies
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Solution to Case 23 Evaluating Project Risk It’s Better to Be Safe Than Sorry! Questions: 1. What seems to be wrong with the way the NPV of each project has been calculated? Indicate without any calculations‚ how Pete and John should go about recalculating the projects’ NPVs. The NPV of each project has been calculated by discounting the cash flows at the 8% before-tax cost of debt. This is incorrect. Since the company has debt‚ preferred stock and common
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by one or more persons solely in exchange for stock in such corporation and immediately after the exchange such person or persons are in control (as defined in section 368(c)) of the corporation. 2. IRC Section 368(c) Definitions relating to corporate reorganizations: The term control means the ownership of stock possessing at least 80% of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock entitled to vote and at least 80% of the total number of shares of all other classes of stock of the
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Journal of Management http://jom.sagepub.com/ Causes and Effects of Employee Downsizing: A Review and Synthesis Deepak K. Datta‚ James P. Guthrie‚ Dynah Basuil and Alankrita Pandey Journal of Management 2010 36: 281 DOI: 10.1177/0149206309346735 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/36/1/281 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association Additional services and information for Journal of Management
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