Case: AMERICAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION 1. Executive Summary Dixon‚ an American specialty chemical producer‚ wants to buy Collinsville plant from American Chemical Corporation‚ another typical chemical company in 1979. Dixon wants to diversify its product line buy acquiring the aforesaid plant‚ which produces sodium-chlorate to supply to paper producers in Southeastern part of the US. This plant initially cost 12 mln. USD and additional 2‚25 mln. USD needed to buy laminate technology to increase efficiency
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Orbis Financial Corporation Ltd.‚ a custodian‚ works as an efficient stock market intermediary facilitating smooth execution and settlement of daily trades through sophisticated technology and systems developed in-house. Transparency and effectiveness of its functioning‚ is further enhanced due to its zero conflict business model‚ as a Non Broker‚ non-banker and Non Fund Manager with unidirectional focus on custodial services. The team at Orbis is a group of professionals which endeavors
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Case --- Diagnostic Products Corporation Sha Wu 1) Evaluate the design and the implementation of the performance bonus program at DPC. What changes would you suggest‚ if any? In this case‚ the FSE (field service engineers) is an important part of the whole corporation and also the system. The system is established to influence the performance of the FSEs to a desirable way and keep their customers satisfied. Therefore‚ the company designed a six areas method for the performance bonus program.
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CASE NO. 1: STIRLING HOMEX CORPORATION POINT OF VIEW: The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Stirling Homex Corporation (SHC) as he/she will be the one to be of best knowledge to analyze the financial statements of SHC. He/she will also have the authority to make decisions/recommendations and influence the CEO in making management decisions. CASE CONTEXT: In the late 1960’s the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched the Operation Breakthrough‚ a project that aimed to “revolutionize”
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Nicholas Moreau Team E MKT-270-03100 Professional Selling Professor Anstey General Education Assignment/Team Project Skillsoft®‚Webster Financial Corporation March 17‚ 2015 Webster Financial Corporation Introduction Webster Financial Corporation or better known as Webster Bank has been helping families‚ individuals‚ and businesses achieve their financial goals for more than three generations. Webster Bank has over 3‚000 employees that are working towards the company’s values‚ which is to meet
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Smith Financial Corporation Smith Financial Corporation Case Study On February 10th 1997‚ Frank Miller assumed the position as the director of data management in Smith’s Information Services department. He was hired to fill a vacancy that was available for more than one year as well as help restructure and reorganize Smith’s Information Services department (Hattersley and Mcjannet‚ 54). The primary function of the Data Management Group at Smith Financial was to manage the distribution‚ storage
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Daniele Francescon Stephane Nicolay AMERICAN LIGHTING PRODUCTS Case Study Business Logistics November 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface 3 Analysis of the situation 3 Physical flow of goods 3 Organisational structure 3 Information management: order processing and demand forecasting 4 Performance 4 Costs 5 Identification of major issues and problems 6 Incipit 6 Initial consideration: need to redesign the system 6 Generation of
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BACKGROUND Global Financial Corporation (GF) offers financing services for customers purchasing heavy construction equipment from its parent company Global Equipment Company (GEC). GF’s Bakersfield‚ California office is setup to process the loan applications for the western United States. A recently appointed Vice President of GF‚ Nancy Rodriquez‚ is also in charge of managing the Bakersfield office. She has received a memo from the Director of Marketing at GEC with a complaint stating that the
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“American Chemical Corporation” Case Summary The key problem in this case is should Signal decide to approve the acquisition of the Collinsville plant at the price and on the terms proposed in the case As per an agreement with the government‚ American Chemical Corporation needed to sell the Collinsville plant after the acquisition of Universal Paper Corporation‚ or it be in violation of the anti-trust law. In the case‚ Signal agrees to buy the entire assets of the Collinsville plant at the price
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History of American Home Products American Home Products Corporation (AHP) was founded in 1926 and has a history of continuous acquisitions of smaller companies that made proprietary medicines. In 1931‚ AHP purchased John Wyeth & Brother‚ Inc. from Harvard University. Another important acquisition was that of Canada’s Ayerst Laboratories in 1943. Ayerst was a large pharmaceutical company that had introduced Premarin‚ the world’s first conjugated estrogen product‚ and now the most widely prescribed
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