‘Mature product markets drove Caterpillar’s restructuring during the 1990s’. Critically examine this statement. With 2004 sales revenue in excess of $30 billion and profits of $2.03 billion Caterpillar is the worlds leading manufacturer of construction‚ mining and earth moving equipment. Caterpillar operates in three key areas; machinery‚ engines and more recently financial products. Mature product markets are an aspect of all product lifecycles once the initial rapid growth stage is complete
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Executive Summary Caterpillar is a company in the United States that makes engines tractors bulldozers and a lot of other kind of construction and mining equipment and they have many customers in the United States but also across the world. Caterpillar Is the leader in their industry because of their size and innovation of their machines and engines. The research conducted in this paper was to learn about the financial health‚ history and whether or not it would be a good idea to invest into
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attributes. Ratings of existing suppliers across the same factors‚ identifying best-performing suppliers and how well suppliers performed versus the importance of each factor. In-depth analysis of the major suppliers‚ namely Caterpillar‚ Joy Global‚ Komatsu and Volvo‚ including their overall performance ratings and their ratings for each of the factors relative to its importance. Rankings of the leading suppliers for each equipment type‚ with respondents indicating who they viewed as the top suppliers
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exporters‚ Caterpillar has been under the microscope of the American dollar in terms of the company’s profitability. In the 1980s‚ Caterpillar suffered at the hands of Komatsu‚ a Japanese company who was able to undercut the American company’s prices. Because of the status of the U.S. dollar in the 1980s in comparison to the Japanese yen‚ Komatsu was able to capture the market share in the United States and the U.S.’s clients. The decline of Caterpillar’s competitive position was caused by their home country’s
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CAT experienced its greatest crisis triggered by the worldwide economic recession and caused UAW workers to strike for 205 days. The crisis lead to a very strong dollar and in return CAT’s strong profits turned into heavy losses‚ while its rival Komatsu was enjoying increasing market shares. George Schaefer knew that the situation was not just a consequence of the crisis‚ but also Caterpillar’s inefficient working style when he took charge of the company as the new CEO in 1985. His first years
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brands in Europe‚ an example of globally linked partnership despite the setup of local businesses in Indonesia such as John Deere and Mitsubishi. According to a 2014 review from the Construction Intelligence Centre (CIC)‚ Komatsu Indonesia‚ a joint venture between Japan’s Komatsu and United Tractors‚ is the largest‚ with a 43% market share in 2012. Caterpillar Indonesia‚ a joint venture between Caterpillar of the US and Tiara Marga Trakindo‚ and Hitachi Construction Machinery Indonesia – a subsidiary
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Explore your blind spot Discover how the mind hides its tracks by Tom Stafford Smashwords Edition (version 1.36‚ 24 January 2012) Copyright 2011 Tom Stafford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Thank you for downloading this free eBook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced‚ copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes. You can even modify it‚ as long as the modified version is
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Automation World (2012): "OEE facts‚" Automation World‚ [Online]. [4] OEE Standard (2012): "OEE Industry Standard‚" [Online]. [13] Assakkaf‚ I. (2003): Trucks and Hauling Equipment‚ Maryland. [Online]. Available: [14] Komatsu (2008): Komatsu HD325-7 Off-Highway truck manual‚ Japan: Komatsu‚ 2008. [11] Williamson‚ R. M. (2012): "Don’t Be Misled by O.E.E.‚" Strategic Work Systems‚ Inc.‚ 2004 [12] Burt‚ C.‚ Caccetta‚ L.‚ Hill‚ S. and Welgama‚ P. (2005): "Models for Mining Equipment Selection‚" Rio Tinto
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Caterpillar Case Analysis EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS Global . In 1915‚ the British military invented the armor tank and modeled it after Benjamin Holt’s steam tractor‚ Caterpillar. Also during World War I‚ the United States and its allies used Holt’s track-type tractors to haul artillery and supply wagons. Shortly after it formation‚ during World War II‚ Caterpillar served as the primary supplier of bulldozers to the US Army. Although it was a successful company for many years‚ for three consecutive
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Gardner explores the way in which Komatsu and Tsutsui’s early work describes socio-historical transition happening in Japan of the time with their science fictional imagination. Gardner pays attention to Komatsu’s Nihon appachi zoku (1964) that depicts a post-human society where a half man half beast creatures live and they thrives metal from human and eat metal as their meals. What is interesting is that they use a unique language mixed with Osaka dialect and native American language shown in Hollywood
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