...Who Founded Dow Chemical Dow Chemical Company, and American Chemical and Plastics manufacturer is one of the globe’s prominent suppliers of chemicals, plastics, synthetic fibers, and agricultural products. Dow Chemical was originated by Chemist, Herbert H. Dow, of Midland in 1897. Dow was to support Midland Chemical Company in 1890 and the Dow Process Company of 1895(Dow Chemical Company, (2012)). What is a SWOT analysis? What does a SWOT analysis deliver in regards to organizations; it is a tool that categorizes the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of an organization? Once the SWOT is completed, it can determine what the firm can do in completing its objectives and what other accomplishments it can achieve to receive satisfying results (Investopedia, 2012). In running a business a SWOT analysis is a useful tool that assists an organization in operating efficiently it determines what financially and productively what an organization needs to do to succeed. Dow Chemical Company SWOT analysis Strengths The Strengths of Dow Chemical in regards to is worldwide processes, in 2007, Dow had $53.5 billion in sales. 150 manufacturing sites in 35 countries. This organization sells its merchandise in over 160 countries (Datamonitor, 2011). The company has many manufacturing operations one which is located in the Lake Jackson and Freeport, Texas area. With more contractors that are coming into the area to work for Dow Chemical not only has it brought in revenues...
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...of this structure against other types of organizational structure. The FTSE UK index series is designed to represent the performance of UK companies, providing investors with a comprehensive set of indices that measure the performance of all capital and industry segments of the UK equity market. HSBC is on the 3rd rank of FTSE 100. History of HSBC HSBC Bank plc and its subsidiaries form a UK-based group providing a comprehensive range of banking and related financial services. HSBC Bank plc (formerly Midland Bank plc) was formed in England in 1836 and subsequently registered as a limited company in 1880. In 1923, the company adopted the name of Midland Bank Limited which it held until 1982 when the name was changed to Midland Bank plc. During the year ended 31 December 1992, Midland Bank plc became a wholly owned subsidiary undertaking of HSBC Holdings PLC (“HSBC Holdings”), whose Headquartered is in London. HSBC Bank plc adopted its current name, changing from Midland Bank plc, in the year ended 31 December 1999. The HSBC Group is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with over 9,500 offices in 79 countries and territories in Europe, Hong Kong, the rest of Asia-Pacific, including the Middle East and Africa, North America and South America. Its total assets at 31 December 2009 were £579 billion. The Bank is the HSBC Group’s principal operating subsidiary undertaking in Europe. As at 31 December 2003, the Bank’s principal subsidiary...
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...industry. The company started repositioning its onshore strategies in 2009 and completed in 2013, shifting its operations from the offshore waters in the Gulf of Mexico to the onshore, Permian Basin region in West Texas. After fully divesting from the Medusa field in the Gulf of Mexico, Callon has turned into a pure-play concentrating 100% of its business at Midland Basin, a sub-basin located within Permian Basin. Why Permian Basin? The Permian Basin has supported production since the 1940s. It has long been the most important oil and gas producing area in the United States. The producers operating in the Basin benefits from rich oil and gas reserve loaded in the world’s thickest deposits of rocks, well-established infrastructure from historical operations and relatively stable regulatory environment that has been established over the time. The business strategy of Callon is to establish resource base and acreage position in the core of Permian Basin. Callon expends its asset base through self-development and acquisition of acreage. As of March 2016, Callon holds roughly 17,675 net surface acres in the Southern and Central Midland Basin that are prospective for multiple oil-bearing intervals. Specifically, the company’s production growth potential comes from five currently producing zones, including the Lower Spraberry, Middle Spraberry, Wolfcamp A, the Upper Wolfcamp B and the Lower Wolfcamp B. Callon develops resources exclusively through horizontal drilling technology, both from...
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...中国上海市浦东区，张江高科技园区，张衡路1077号，邮编： 201203 Company Background 公司背景 Established in 1943 specifically to explore and develop the potential of silicones, Dow Corning is a global leader in silicon-based technology and innovation. We are passionate about silicon technology’s versatility, its possibilities and its unique potential to help solve some of the most important challenges facing our world. Brief Introduction 公司简介 Stage of Development Through our Dow Corning® and XIAMETER® brands, we provide performance-enhancing products and solutions to meet the needs of customers in virtually every major industry and to improve the daily lives of nearly a billion of the world’s people. More than half of our annual sales are outside the United States. Dow Corning Corporation is equally owned by The Dow Chemical Company and Corning, Incorporated. Dow Corning also is the majority shareholder in Hemlock Semiconductor Group, which is comprised of several joint venture companies. Hemlock Semiconductor is a leading provider of polycrystalline silicon and other silicon-based products used in the manufacturing of semiconductor devices and solar cells and modules. Mature – Multinational Company Address：Room 709, Starr Building, 670 Guoshun Road, Shanghai, 200433, China Tel：+86-21-25011298 Fax：+86-21-55664810 Email：huangxuan@fudan.edu.cn Website：www.fdsm.fudan.edu.cn 发展阶段 成熟 — 跨国公司 Number of Employees 员工数量 Annual...
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...popularity of rambling, hiking and camping, a much wider cross-section of the public started to experience the great outdoor activities. Cannock Chase Cannock Chase District is located between Stafford and Birmingham and contains the district centres of Cannock, Hednesford and Rugeley, It is open all year. Cannock Chase Forest is separated by several roads. There are many activities which we can do in Cannock Chase, first of all the Birches Valley Forest Centre is an excellent starting point for an exhilarating day out on Cannock Chase. Cannock chase has the best bike trails in the Midlands, and the best woodland walks to have an adventurous experience and Go Ape. Visitor Centres in Cannock Chase http://www.visitcannockchase.co.uk/Do.htm Birches Valley Forest Centre Birches Valley Forest Centre is an exciting starting point in Cannock Chase. It consists of the best bike trails in the Midlands and a woodland adventure play and Go Ape. The activities includes he Route to Health Sculpture Trail, tourists will be allowed to follow the Dog and the Monkey bike trails, the adventure play area, Go Ape tree top adventure course and Forest Segway Experience. Birches Valley Forest Centre is also home to Birches Valley Café and...
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...Marie Michele Balana 41 Great Auther Street B66 1DH Smethwick 07445445608 michelebalana@yahoo.fr personal profile I am a very motivated person, who is creative, flexible and confident in her competences. I have got the ability to work effectively, independently or as part of a team. I'm also considered to be an extremely reliable worker who an employer can trust and depend on, to give all my power every time. I am dedicated to whatever task is given to me and will do my best to achieve the aims and objectives set. I consider myself to be a sociable person and will help a fellow group member/ colleague. skills profile 1-Fluent in Three languages: French, English , Cameroon dialect. I have excellent speaking and writing skills in French good computer skills. English/French interpreter for two year. 2-I am a good excellent leader I was a class rep for 3 years in each class I when and I was able to motive all my classmates and I was the leader of the college team sport. 3- can be trusted to carry out a task to my fullest ability, because I am a well organised person, and I am able to take any initiative related to my work. I am punctual and have a good record of that from school to college. I also have been praised for my hard work and my determination. ...
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...Penn Square Bank and the Down Corning Bankruptcy Today’s businesses struggle to survive in a volatile marketplace and frequently internal and external ethical pressures are placed upon employees and management in an effort to ensure the success of the company. Companies like Penn Square Bank faced ethical pressures regarding documentation, credit extension, and revenue recognition, which eventually led to the closing of Penn Square Bank. The Dow Corning bankruptcy raised many ethical questions. Speculations have been made about whether Dow Corning filed bankruptcy because of the financial hardship placed upon it by consumer lawsuits or whether Dow Corning used bankruptcy laws to shield itself from obligations to its consumers. This report will examine, 1) the ethical challenges and pressures each of these companies faced, 2) a review of Dow and Corning’s actions during the bankruptcy filing, and 3) a discussion of how Penn Square Banks ethical pressures might have been alleviated or offset. Penn Square Bank Penn Square Bank is an illustration of improper asset valuation. In an effort to grow Penn Square bank into a merchant bank and have it become a major financial backer to Oklahoma’s oil men, Bill Jennings hired Bill Patterson to lead his new energy lending division (Caskey, 1985). The energy lending division was tasked to find borrowers for oil customers. As loans were passed to other financial institutions; Penn Square collected fees for originating...
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...Unethical Corporate Governance (HSBC Money Laundering Case: “Too Big to Fail” does not mean “Too Big to Jail”) About HSBC HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. In 1865, the first branches of the bank were first opened in Hong Kong and Shanghai. HSBC is named after its founding member, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. In 1991, it was founded in London by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation to act as a new group holding company. The company refers to both the United Kingdom and Hong Kong as its "home markets". HSBC has around 7,200 offices in 85 countries and territories across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America, and around 89 million customers. As of 31 December 2013, it had total assets of $2.671 trillion, of which roughly half were in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and a quarter in each of Asia-Pacific and the Americas. As of 2012, it was the world's largest bank in terms of assets and sixth-largest public company, according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine (Witty Traders, 2014). HSBC consists of four business groups: * Commercial Banking; * Global Banking and Markets (investment banking); * Retail Banking and Wealth Management; * Global Private Banking. HSBC has a dual primary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and London...
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...Who Is Archer Daniels Midland? Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is one of the world's leading processors and distributors of agricultural products for food and animal feed, with additional operations in transportation and storage of such products. Archer Daniels Midland was founded in 1902 and incorporated in 1923. Since then, ADM has made a major impact in American productions. In 1902, the founders George A. Archer and John W. Daniels began a linseed crushing business in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1923 the company bought Midland Linseed Products and the Archer Daniels Midland was formed. Archer Daniels Midland is headquartered in Decatur, Illinois, and operates processing and manufacturing facilities across the United States and worldwide. ADM currently operates in more than 140 countries including the Middle East, Europe and Asia.1 With 30,000 employees, the people of Archer Daniels Midland strive to turn crops into renewable resources. The company specializes in converting corn, oilseeds, wheat and cocoa into products for food, animal feed, industrial, and energy uses. ADM also offers a variety of investment opportunities as well as career opportunities within the corporation and manufacturing. According to Archer Daniels Midland’s company website, their vision is “To be the most admired global agribusiness. Creating value. Growing responsibly. Serving vital needs.” With more than 265 processing plants, 400 crop procurement facilities, and the world’s premier...
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...Stephanie Gonzalez Professor Dr. Harvey Weiss 5/17/12 “From an ethical point of view, big business is always bad business” Discuss the pros and cons of this statement. That a corporation is large poses, in and of itself, very little threat provided that is required to operate in a depoliticized environment. If, however, the marketplace is politicized through strings of regulations, controls, subsidies, taxes, etc., then the corporation has every incentive to use its size and wealth to buy political influence in order to skew the results in their favor. Considering that their competitors will be doing this as well any corporation would be stupid not to act in this manner. But Big Business becomes a threat only to the degree that it can impose its will on people. And that can only be done through the use of Big Government. The real threat that corporations pose to liberty and well-being comes about precisely when well-meaning individuals increase the powers of government to turn competitive markets into politicized markets. The ability of a corporation to impose its will on individuals is rather limited absent a large state apparatus capable of enforcing that will. Wal-Mart doesn’t have police agents able to prevent competition. But politicians can rig markets to prevent competition. Archer Daniels Midland can’t force you to buy their ethanol. But they can buy off politicians who pass laws forcing you to buy the ethanol, and, for good measure, pass laws handing some of you tax monies...
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...(likeours) that disapproves of slavery? I think the answer varies in culture to culture. But in my opinion, there is no way to acceptchild slavery. Children are kidnapped, sold and forced into harvesting. Farmers are beatingthem. From may point of view, children should not be used for labor. They should have aright to choose their lifestyle. They should have education and then contribute the country’seconomy and welfare. Regardless of the society one may live in, I think child labor isabsolutely wrong. 3. Who shares in the moral responsibility for the slavery occurring in the chocolateindustry: African farmers? African governments? American chocolate companies likeHershey, Mars, Nestle and Kraft foods? Distributors like Archer Daniels Midland Co.,Barry Callebaut, and Cargill Inc? Consumers like you and I who know about thesituation but continue to purchase tainted chocolate? I believe, African Farmers, African governments, American chocolate companies,distributors, consumers and people who know the situation, shares in the moral responsibilityfor the slavery occurring in the chocolate industry. African farmers use child slavery labor.African government do not control over the rules. Middlemen buys cocoa beans from farmerswho use slavery labor. American chocolate companies know farmers use slavery labor andthey continue to work them. If we know the company names and continue to buy chocolatefrom them, we are also morally responsible for the child slavery labor. As a result, all...
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...Applied Research Project Course: IS 535 Submitted: 04/14/2011 Introduction HSBC is one of world’s largest banks with electronic commerce, which consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. With HSBC, the amount of trade conducted electronically has grown significantly with widespread Internet usage. ("HSBC" 2009) The use of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at some point in the transaction's lifecycle, although it can encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail as well. ("HSBC," 2009) A large percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically for virtual items such as access to premium content on a website, but most electronic commerce involves the transportation of physical items in some way. Online retailers are sometimes known as e-tailers and online retail is sometimes known as e-tail. Almost all big retailers have electronic commerce presence on the World Wide Web. Electronic commerce that is conducted between businesses...
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...CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Corporate Finance Compensation of corporate executives in the United States continues to be a hot-button issue. It is widely viewed that CEO pay has grown to exorbitant levels (at least in some cases). In response, in April 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “Say on Pay” bill. The bill requires corporations to allow a nonbinding shareholder vote on executive pay. (Note that because the bill applies to corporations, it does not give voters a “say on pay” for U.S. Representatives.) Specifically, the measure allows shareholders to approve or disapprove a company’s executive compensation plan. Because the vote is nonbinding, it does not permit shareholders to veto a compensation package and does not place limits on executive pay. Some companies had actually already begun initiatives to allow shareholders a say on pay before Congress got involved. On May 5, 2008, Aflac, the insurance company with the well-known “spokesduck,” held the first shareholder vote on executive pay in the United States. Understanding how a corporation sets executive pay, and the role of shareholders in that process, takes us into issues involving the corporate form of organization, corporate goals, and corporate control, all of which we cover in this chapter. 1.1 What Is Corporate Finance? Suppose you decide to start a firm to make tennis balls. To do this you hire managers to buy raw materials, and you assemble a workforce that will produce and...
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... 1.0 HSBC Mission Statement: “We aim to satisfy our customers with high quality service that reflects our global image as the premier international bank” Objectives of HSBC: HSBC’s objectives are to provide innovative products supported by quality delivery of systems and excellence customer services, to train and motivate staffs and to exercise social responsibility. By combining regional strengths with group network HSBC’s aim is to be the one of the leading banks in its principle markets. HSBC’s goal is to achieve sustained earnings growth and to continue to enhance shareholders value. 1.1 An Overview of HSBC Group The HSBC Group is named after its founding member, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, which was established in 1865 in Hong Kong and Shanghai to finance the growing trade between China and Europe. Thomas Sutherland, a Hong Kong Superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company helped to establish this bank in March 1865. Throughout the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, the bank established a network of agencies and branches based mainly in China and South East Asia but also with representation in the Indian sub-continent, Japan, Europe and North America. The post-war political and economic changes in the world forced the bank to analyze its strategy for continued growth in the 1950s. The bank diversified both its business and its geographical spread through acquisitions and...
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...EasyJet Airline Company Limited: Strengths: * EasyJet is a leading provider of low budget, no frills air travel servicing many of the leading city destinations in the UK and across Europe, including Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Prague. * They offer a high quality service at competitive prices and offer a number of features including ticketless travel, internet booking and assisted travel services. * They have a highly distinctive livery on their fleet of aircraft making them easily recognisable and distinguishing them from their competitors. * They have a user friendly website which fully discloses the price breakdown of the passengers planned travel. Offering a full breakdown of the price plan prevents any hidden charges when the customer confirms there booking. * EasyJet offers an online promotion alert which is e-mailed to existing customers and contact on the company’s database. * Recognised as a leading brand name in the UK travel industry. * As a market leader in an industry widely seen as a leading contributor to the green house effect and global warming, EasyJet actively embrace there environmental responsibilities and continue to keep these factors as a keep priority when developing their future strategies. * EasyJet operate a fast and efficient service with an average turnaround time of 30 minutes or below. This enables them to maintain a reliable and hassle free service to their passengers. Weaknesses: * Domestic air travel...
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