Running head: Cemex’s Foreign Direct Investment Cemex Foreign Direct Investment Jeff Panian Davenport University Abstract Cemex is one of the fastest growing cement manufacturers in the world. Starting out more than a decade ago Cemex‚ “has transformed itself from a primarily Mexican operation into the third-largest cement company in the world” (Hill‚ 2008). The success of Cemex has been attributed to its skills in customer service‚ marketing‚ information technology
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What benefits have CEMEX and the other global competitors in cement derived from globalization? More broadly‚ how can cross-border activities add value in an industry as apparently localized as cement? - Reduction of tariffs associated with exporting - Due to internationalization these companies have been able to spread their risk. Therefore‚ if one market is not performing they can rely on the other (diversification) - Talent across markets - Ability to identify new emerging markets and having
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Koljatic Written assignment: CEMEX CEMEX business model will be defined with WHO-WHAT-HOW. WHO: CEMEX concentrates on customers in developing countries and emerging markets. WHAT: They sell cement directly in the country or through imports. HOW: CEMEX follows a well structured and planned geographical diversification in emerging markets with control‚ low hierarchy and the experience of lesson learnt from other penetrations of a market. With their business model CEMEX pursues a low cost strategy
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Parry or Power Buyer Power Buying power is known as the bargaining power of customers. There are two types of buyer power. The first is associated with the customer’s price sensitivity. If each brand of a product is similar to all the others‚ then the buyer will base the purchase decision mainly on price. This will increase the competitive rivalry‚ resulting in lower prices‚ and lower profitability. The other type of buyer power relates to negotiating power. Larger buyers tend to have more leverage
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Another force is power of suppliers. Power of the suppliers is important as it will affect the industry. In airline industry‚ the power of suppliers is quite high since there are only two major suppliers which are Airbus and Boeing hence there are not many choices to airline industry. Nevertheless‚ the global economic crisis has limited the new entrant and also reducing the upgrade of planes in the immediate future. However‚ both suppliers provide almost same standard aircraft and hence the switching
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Strategies EXTERNAL ANALYSIS PESTEL ANALYSIS Political factors: -restriction and regulation of imports‚ exports and trade tariffs decide whether a company can compete globally: eg. GATT agreement in 1989‚ Mexico-open marketplace‚ enabled Cemex to expand globally. - governments may decide to nationalize or privatize the cement production; eg. Venezuela nationalized cement production. - political stability of a country will highly affect the performance of the industry Economic factors
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Cemex Key points summary | |Cemex was originally founded in 1906 as Cementos Hidalgo and became Cemex (Cementos Mexicanos) after a merger | |Case Summary |with Cementos Portland Monterrey in 1931. Throughout the 1960’s‚ 70’s‚ and 80’s‚ Cemex expanded throughout | | |Mexico to gain a 65% share of the domestic market by the end of the 1980’s. Under the leadership of CEO Lorenzo | |
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1. What benefits have CEMEX and the other global competitors in cement derived from globalization? Globalization has given many benefits to CEMEX and its competitors. First of all‚ it reduced the tariffs of product exportation by acquiring local plants and facilities instead. By doing so‚ these cement companies could control the localized quarries‚ which give them the proximity to the raw material needed for cement production. No need to ship the goods across the border‚ therefore no tariffs on
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Introduction: CEMEX which is one of the largest cement producers in the world was founded in 1906 by Lorenzo Zambrano Gutierrez near Monterrey in Northern Mexico. It was initially named as Cementos Hidalgo. CEMEX remained a domestic company till 1960. During this period it acquired company called Cementos Portland Monterrey and merged with Cementos Mexicanos. In 1982 when the economic crisis hit Mexico‚ the government was forced to liberalize its economy which allowed CEMEX to attract foreign investment
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CEMEX What benefits have CEMEX and the other global competitors in cement derived from globalization? More broadly‚ how can cross-border activities add value in an industry as apparently localized as cement? There have been several benefits for CEMEX and its global competitors derived from globalization: (strategic group‚ part of the big six competitiors) International trade offered opportunities to arbitrage price differentials. Import from low cost countries and sell to 3rd parties to
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