Case 22: Victoria Chemicals The Merseyside Project Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Problem Statement 3 Key Decision Criteria 4-5 Data Analysis 5-6 Alternatives Analysis 6-7 Recommendations 8 Action and Implementation Plan 8-9 Exhibits 10 References 11 Executive Summary Victoria Chemicals is a major competitor in the worldwide chemicals industry. They are a leading producer of polypropylene‚ which is a polymer used in products such as: medical products and carpet fibers.
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NYIT School of management Report CASE STUDY 22: VICTORIA CHEMICALS PLC(A) CAPITAL BUDGETING DECISIONS SUBMITTEDTO: DR.RAJA NAG PREPARED BY: SEVTAP BATIR HONEY MEHTA JUN HUANG NYIT School of management Report CASE 22 Victoria Chemical In 2007‚ Victoria Chemicals experienced a significant drop in its improve its performance as its earnings had fallen 38% from 250 pence per share to 180
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Case 20: Diamond Chemicals plc (A) --PT07 Group 10 INTRODUCTION: Diamond Chemicals is a large worldwide chemicals producer with two factories in Liverpool England and Rotterdam Holland. Both of their plants were built in 1967 with annual output of 250‚000 metric tons polypropylene. Compare with low-cost producer‚ the production cost per ton is 1.09 which is a little bit high than competitors (see Exhibition 1). With the decline EPS from £60 in 1999 to £30 in 2000 and worldwide economic slowdown
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1) Describe two main differences between classical and empirical probabilities. a. Classical probabilities are based on assumptions; Empirical probabilities are based on observations. b. Classical probabilities do not require an action to take place; Empirical probabilities have to have been “performed”. 2) Gather 16 to 30 coins. Shake and empty bag of coins 10 times and tally up how many head and tails are showing. Number of coins: 20 * Consider the first toss‚ what is the
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A SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROJECT REPORT On “Customer satisfaction regarding TATA MOTORS” (VAPI) Submitted in The partial fulfillment of the Degree requirement towards the Masters in Business Administration INTRODUCTION About Customer Satisfaction Introduction of Automobile Industry Industry performance in 2008-09 History of Mahindra & Mahindra Automotive Millstone‚ awards and accolades About Mahindra Bolero About Mahindra dealer CUSTOMER SATISFACTION Customer Satisfaction
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L’Oreal Marketing Strategies in Promoting Beauty Care Products in Malaysia The world’s No. 1 beauty company‚ L’Oreal‚ sees opportunities in Malaysia’s multi-ethnicity and thus taking the advantage of this unique feature‚ despite the small population of 28 million. L’Oreal executive vice-president for Asia Pacific‚ Jochen Zaumseil said that Malaysia is an important market for L’Oreal‚ as the multi-ethnicity background in Malaysia offers them opportunity to test its products and hence developing
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Syllabus 323063 Empirical Methods in Finance‚ September – December 2013 Teachers (* course coordinator) prof. dr. F.C.J.M. de Jong Room K941 email: f.dejong@uvt.nl dr. J.C. Rodriguez* Room K909 email: j.c.rodriguez@uvt.nl dr. O. Spalt Room K940 email: o.g.spalt@uvt.nl Teaching Assistants Tamasz Barko (t.barko@tilburguniversity.edu) Andreas Rapp (a.c.rapp@tilburguniversity.edu) Zorka Simon (z.simon@tilburguniversity.edu) Lectures: (2 lectures a week) According to the study guide
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Industry profile:- The Indian Auto Mobile is witness to curious occurrence:- The Automobile industry in India is the seventh largest in the world with an annual production of over 2.6 million units in 2009. In 2009‚ India emerged as Asia’s fourth largest exporter of automobiles‚ behind Japan‚ South korea and Thiland. By 2050‚ the country is expected to top the world in car volumes with approximately 611 million vehicles on the nation’s roads. Following economic
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VICTORIA CHEMICALS PLC Ricky Tjayadi 01120120028 Young Jung Kim 01120120201 Irene 01120120214 VICTORIA CHEMICALS PLC The Background Victoria Chemicals‚ a major company in the chemical industry‚ was the number one producer of polypropylene‚ a polymer used in various everyday items. Victoria Chemicals at the end of 2007 was in a financial slump and was under pressure to improve their financial performance. Due to this financial slump‚ Lucy Morris‚ the Plant
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modernisation project should obtain funding from the corporate headquarters of Victoria Chemicals. The project has an initial outlay of GBP12 million to renovate and rationalise the polypropylene production line at Merseyside plant. This is done in order to make up for deferred maintenance and exploit opportunities to achieve increased efficiency. This report will look at the following four main areas of concern in order to calculate the feasibility of this Merseyside Project: * The cost
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