...MG Rover case PART A: 4. SET OUT THE MAIN STAKEHOLDERS IN THE MG ROVER BUSINESS AT THE TIME OF ITS COLLAPSE. HOW WOULD YOU DETERMINE THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF THEIR STAKE? During the troubled times at MG Rover business, the main stakeholders were: BMW The UK Government Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation (SAIC) Employees of MG Rover, both workers as well as employees part of the supply chain. Phoenix Four and, Nanjing Automobiles. The importance of each of the stakeholders can only be a matter of one’s opinion. The Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) says that the meaning of Stakeholders normally varies and is extremely contextual in nature. (CQI, n.d.). However, CQI (n.d) adds that in business parlay, the term ‘Stakeholder’ can be equated with any third party who has an ‘interest’ in the end result. (CQI, n.d.). The six main stakeholders at MG Rover are listed above, who had a direct interest in the economic outcomes at the business. Perhaps the most important stakeholder was the several employees at MG Rover. The corporate battles and Government interventions first provided them hope of continued employment and stability, then, squashed these very hopes. The employees did not have a direct role in the fortunes of the company. They were not the people implementing the strategies at MG Rover. However, their stake in the company was beyond any comparison. Their livelihood, future and needs for basic requirements fluctuated with the fortunes of the company...
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...I decided to write my project on Ubuntu, which is a distro of Linux. Ubuntu |oǒ'boǒntoō|: Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. It also means 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers. (The Ubuntu Story) I chose Ubuntu because I have used it since 2009 and have loved it ever since then. I will be discussing the current distro which is 14.04, the next one will be 15.04 but 14.04 is the current stable version of Ubuntu or also often referred to as LTS or Long Term Support. The history of Ubuntu is quite short or at least 2004 kind of short. Mark Shuttleworth, from South Africa, started a company called Canonical which was created alongside Ubuntu. The purpose was to help it reach a wider market. They help governments and businesses the world over with migrations, management, and support for their Ubuntu deployments. They would work together with their partners, to ensure that Ubuntu runs reliably on every platform from the pc and the smartphone to the server and, crucially, the cloud. (Canonical) Ubuntu is part of a type of software referred to as open source, a development model promotes a universal access via a free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone. (Open source) The vision of Ubuntu is part social and part economic: free software, available to everybody...
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...JESSLYNE (090503322) STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT NOKIA CASE STUDY JESSLYNE (090503322) STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT NOKIA CASE STUDY SUMMARY Nokia, once a world leader in wireless telecommunications, has lost nearly 39% of its market share to its competitors and in some instances to no name companies. In 80s and 90s Nokia expanded through the acquisition of many other companies with various technologies. Due to this rapid expansion, Nokia lost focus of its ingenuity in wireless communications. However Nokia reorganized by selling most of its businesses which were not performing well and directed its focus once again to its wireless technologies. Acquisition of Sega in 2003 and then merger with Siemens AB in 2006 put Nokia once again in a place where it could compete its rivals. RIM’s blackberry and Apple’s iPhone are the major rivals and have a large market share from business users and consumers. * According to Nokia’s business strategy; the winning strategy is based upon the following factors. Best mobile devices regardless the price and geographical location * Provide extensive internet solutions on mobile devices * Enter into the markets by providing business mobility solutions to the corporate users Analysis: I believe that Nokia’s strategy is a winning strategy for the following reasons: * Business solutions: Innovative Business mobility solutions will attract the corporate users, since Nokia devices are based upon a very stable...
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...QUESTION 1: Write a brief account of how different elements of the temporal and PEST environments interact to influence the situation described in the case. Change in organizations is a form of strategy in the business environment. In a global business environment today, the change in the organization is very important for businesses, as it will determine the competitiveness of the business with other competitors. To survive and develop a long way in the market, organizations need to have a change in their business environment in the best way. Conversely, the enterprises will face to losing business capabilities and their foothold in the market and it can be cause leading to bankruptcy. Nokia Corporation's case is a typical example. In this case, Nokia is facing to big challenges from their new competitors in the markets as well as in technology advance and the changing in their customers’ habits. Because of those changing, the Nokia Corporation is losing their foothold in the mobile market in the world as well as in home country (Finland). Moreover, there are still many factors that affect this group, not only internal elements but also external elements. Those factors required the organization changes. To aware more, we will base on the PEST environments, this tool is used to evaluate the environments value, it relies on Political, social, economic, technology environment. To understand how they influence to the Nokia Corporation, in this essay we will do an analysis on the...
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...EN Case No IV/JV.12 ERICSSON / NOKIA / PSION / MOTOROLA Only the English text is available and authentic. REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE Article 6(1)(a) INAPPLICABILITY Date: 22/12/1998 Also available in the CELEX database Document No 398J012 Office for Official Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Brussels, 22.12.1998 In the published version of this decision, some information has been omitted pursuant to Article 17(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 concerning non-disclosure of business secrets and other confidential information. The omissions are shown thus [… ]. Where possible the information omitted has been replaced by ranges of figures or a general description. PUBLIC VERSION MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(a) PROCEDURE To the notifying parties Dear Sirs, Subject: Case No IV/JV.12 – ERICSSON / NOKIA / PSION / MOTOROLA (SYMBIAN II) Notification of 20 November 1998 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation No. 4064/89 1. On 20 November 1998, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 [ OJ L 395, 30.12.1989 p. 1; corrigendum OJ L 257 of 21.9.1990, p. 13; as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97, OJ L 180, 9. 7. 1997, p. 1, corrigendum in OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17 .] by which Motorola, Inc. (“Motorola”) would acquire joint control in Symbian Limited (“Symbian”). As a result of the operation...
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...Benjamin Spock When and where was s/he born, and if applicable, when did they die? * Born as Benjamin McLane Spock on May 2nd, 1903 in New Haven, Connecticut from wealthy family, oldest of six children. * Died March 15, 1998 at his rented home in La Jolla, California, just 6 weeks after his 95th birthday. What were some of his/her major accomplishments/experiments? * Benjamin Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis. * His books on parenting, including The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care which was first published in 1946, has been published in 39 different languages and sold over 50 million copies influenced generations of parents. * Attended Yale University to study literature and history, also active in athletics and became part of the Olympic rowing crew and won a gold medal at the 1924 games in Paris. * Received his medical degree in 1929 from Columbian University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. * Later trained at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute for six years. * Practiced pediatrics in New York while teaching the subject at the Cornell University Medical College from 1933 to 1947. * In 1962, Benjamin Spock joined The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. * Protested against the Vietnam war with Martin Luther King in 1967. * In 1968, Spock signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. What theories did s/he deduce...
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...Introduction: BEXIMCO Group is the largest private sector industrial conglomerate in Bangladesh engaged in diverse business areas. BEXIMCO comprises of five publicly listed companies and sixteen private companies. The Group turnover in 2008 was BDT 18.5 billion. BEXIMCO employs 35,000 people and has 230,000 shareholders. BEXIMCO’s shares constitute 4.84% of the market capitalization of DSE. History of BEXIMCO: Since independence Bangladesh has come a long way, and the Beximco Group of Companies is honored to have had a role in the development of its parent nation. The Group has worked with a simple philosophy; identify an important need and then do everything possible to successfully satiate that need, in a manner which best facilitates the well being of the nation. As a result Beximco has focused on those industries which give Bangladesh a competitive advantage in the global market place in many cases creating the industries for the first time in the region. Throughout its four and a half decade journey the Group has been one of the leading innovators in the country. Presently Beximco Group comprises twenty one companies of which five are listed with the Dhaka Stock Exchange employing over 35,000 personnel and is the largest private sector industrial conglomerate in the nation. . In the course of its growth, it has created industrial and management capabilities that will serve the country for generations to come. It was the first local conglomerate to embrace an international...
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...COMPANY PROFILE Of Beximco Group Introduction: BEXIMCO Group is the largest private sector industrial conglomerate in Bangladesh engaged in diverse business areas. BEXIMCO comprises of five publicly listed companies and sixteen private companies. The Group turnover in 2008 was BDT 18.5 billion. BEXIMCO employs 35,000 people and has 230,000 shareholders. BEXIMCOs shares constitute 4.84% of the market capitalization of DSE History of BEXIMCO: Since independence Bangladesh has come a long way, and the Beximco Group of Companies is honored to have had a role in the development of its parent nation. The Group has worked with a simple philosophy; identify an important need and then do everything possible to successfully satiate that need, in a manner which best facilitates the well being of the nation. As a result Beximco has focused on those industries which give Bangladesh a competitive advantage in the global market place in many cases creating the industries for the first time in the region. Throughout its four and a half decade journey the Group has been one of the leading innovators in the country. Presently Beximco Group comprises twenty one companies of which five are listed with the Dhaka Stock Exchange employing over 35,000 personnel and is the largest private sector industrial conglomerate in the nation. . In the course of its growth, it has created industrial and management capabilities that will serve...
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...Hunter Boot Ltd. Case Study Report INDEX 1 Introduction 3 1.1 History of Hunter Boot Ltd. 3 1.2 Hunter Boot Ltd. today 4 2 Comparative and competitive advantage 4 2.1 Comparative advantage 4 2.2 Competitive advantage 5 2.3 Hunter Boot Ltd. and competitive advantage 5 3. Market screening 6 3.1 Asian market 7 3.2 Screening criteria for Hunter Boot Ltd.’s selection of new markets in Asia 7 4. Market Entry Mode 7 4.1 Hunter Boot Ltd. and entry mode 8 5. The 4 P’s of Marketing 9 5.1 Hunter Boot Ltd.’s two most important P’s 10 5.1.1 Product 10 5.1.2 Pricing strategy to differentiate Hunter products 11 6. Conclusion 11 References 12 1 Introduction This paper looks into different aspects of Hunter Boot Ltd. and its possible expansion to the Asian market. The paper’s content is based on a case study prepared for a Webinar April 12th 2013. The report goes through Hunter Boot Ltd.’s history, theories of comparative and competitive advantages, market screening criteria, Asian market, entry modes and how Hunter Boot Ltd. could apply these theories in order to enter Asian market. Lastly, the report is finished with a short summary of the subject. In recent years, an increasing number of key industries such as automobile and motorcycle production, agricultural equipment, aerospace, military hardware, telecommunication, electronics and luxury consumer goods have become global in scope. Firms in these industries originate,...
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...Tyco's Management Planning Melissa Dinges MGT/230 December 01, 2014 Steven Friloux Tyco's Management Planning Tyco International Ltd. is a company that has two major business sections security systems and fire protection and it is located in Switzerland, but has its operational headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. Tyco International Ltd. was founded in 1962 and became incorporated in 1962. (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 2014) It has been around for quite a few years and seen the ups and downs of business and has learned from it and bounced back. A major thing that the company has learned is that it has to have a management plan to stay in business and to be successful. This plan has to also encompass the company’s mission statement and ethics. Tyco’s mission statement is “We will increase the value of our company and our global portfolio of diversified brands by exceeding customers' expectations and achieving market leadership and operating excellence in every segment of our company.” (AllFinancialMatters.com, 2005) Management Planning Planning is looking ahead and calculating the future course. It is a preparatory step that determines what the company wants to attain, and also incorporating the company’s goals in the plan. Tyco has a few different goals depending on what factors you are discussing. In the planning process there are three goals that factor into management planning. The governance goal deals with practices and policies. It states that...
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...1. Historical background Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited (BPL) is a part of Beximco Group, the largest private sector industrial conglomerate in Bangladesh. BPL develops, manufactures and markets both finished dosage form branded generic pharmaceutical products and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), with products including solid dose forms, Metered Dose Inhalers, Nasal Sprays, Large Volume Intravenous Fluids, Suppositories, and Creams/Ointments. BPL produces and markets 'branded generics' for most diseases ranging from AIDS to cancer, from infection to asthma, from hypertension to diabetes, for both national and international markets. The company also manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients and intravenous fluids and contract manufacture for major international brands of leading multinational companies. BPL utilizes state of the art manufacturing facilities. BPL also has outstanding reverse engineering capabilities. Incorporated in 1976, BPL started off as a distributor of pharmaceutical products. It imported products from global MNCs such as Bayer AG of Germany and Upjohn Inc. of USA and sold them in the local market. It eventually graduated to a manufacturer and distributor of these products in local market under licensing agreements. During the early 80s, BPL launched its own products in the local market. Beximco started its exports operation in the early 90s with APIs. Today BPL is one of the largest exporters of medicines from Bangladesh. BPL employs more...
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...about the shoe designer. For the company bearing his name, see Jimmy Choo Ltd. This is a Chinese name; the family name is Choo (周). Jimmy Choo | Born | Penang, Malaysia | Occupation | Shoe designer | Dato' Jimmy Choo, OBE, born Choo Yeang Keat, (Chinese: 周仰杰)[1] is a Malaysian fashion designer based in London, United Kingdom. He is best known for founding Jimmy Choo Ltd that became known for its handmade women's shoes. Choo was born in Penang, Malaysia, into a family of shoemakers, who are of Chinese Hakka[2] descent. His family name is Chow but was misspelled on his birth certificate as Choo. He made his first shoe when he was 11 years old. He is perhaps the most notable of students of Cordwainers Technical College in Hackney, England, from which he graduated in 1983. (The college is now part of the London College of Fashion.) Choo has divulged that he worked part time at restaurants and as a cleaner at a shoe factory to help fund his college education. Jimmy Choo's beginnings can be traced back to his workshop in Hackney, North London, which he opened in 1986 by renting an old hospital building. His craftsmanship and designs were soon noticed and he came to the verge of international notability when his creations were featured in a record eight pages in a 1988 issue of Vogue. Patronage from Diana, Princess of Wales, from 1990 further boosted his image. In 1996, he co-founded Jimmy Choo Ltd with British Vogue magazine accessories editor Tamara Mellon. In April 2001...
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...Sajjadur Rahman An extreme liquidity crisis has brought Beximco Ltd, the largest company of Beximco Group, on the verge of collapse. So says Salman F Rahman, vice chairman of the group, in a letter to the central bank governor early this month. “Beximco Ltd is facing an extreme liquidity crisis and is on the verge of closing down,” Salman said in the letter. He blamed the situation on two factors -- politically motivated credit restrictions on the group between 2001 and 2008 and repayment of Tk 800 crore in bank loans in the last three years. The group is beset by huge loans worth Tk 5,245 crore to seven banks and requires urgent restructure of its debt to survive, the letter said. Beximco Ltd owes Tk 4,315 crore to four state-owned banks -- Sonali, Janata, Agrani and Rupali -- and the rest Tk 930 crore to three private banks -- AB, Exim and National. The group also came up with a restructuring plan of all its debt. It wants to reschedule the loans up to 2026 with a moratorium period for 2.5 years. The group wants to pay only 10 percent interest against these loans, much lower than the market rates of 13-14 percent. Beximco Ltd (Bangladesh Export Import Company Limited) operates in multiple industrial areas, including textiles, real estate, hospitality, marine food, commodities trading, ICT, ceramics and aviation. The company's largest division is Beximco Textiles, which was amalgamated with Beximco Ltd in 2011. The company's paid-up capital is Tk 601 crore and the public...
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...Ma Huateng is the founderand CEO of Tencent Holdings, one of the most important telecommunications companies in China(Petruso,2006).In 2007 Time magazine called him one of the world's most influential people(Alon& Zhang, 2013). In 2013, he was the fourth richest person in China, and 223rd richest person in the world with a net worth of US$ 6.8 billion(Forbes,2013).The most famous product of Tencent, QQ, is an instantchatting software, whose number of user is more than 700 million and is still growing rapidly(Alon& Zhang, 2013). After graduated from Shenzhen University, Ma was employed by ShenzhenRunxun Communications Co., Ltd. as a software engineer(Petruso, 2006). There his job gave him an awareness of the possibility of practical software’s research and development.He and four friends founded Tencent in 1998(Petruso, 2006). They felt sodifficult at the beginning as they lacked experienced employees and financial health(Petruso, 2006). What’s more, the free download of QQ attracted many young users, which created problems for them because Tencent could not afford the servers or server space(Petruso, 2006). Ma tried to sell QQ or invited more investors but he failed(Petruso, 2006). Fortunately, before it was too late, American venture capitalists invested 2 million American dollars to keep Tencentafloat(Petruso, 2006). In my opinion, Ma is so successful not only because the reputation or awards he achieved but also his characteristics.First, He is so courageous. It...
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...was listed with Dhaka Stock Exchange in 1985 and with Chittagong Stock Exchange on its debut in 1995. Beximco Pharmaceutical Ltd is the manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical product under chemical divisions of Beximco Group. Beximco Pharmaceuticals is one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in Bangladesh. It also is one of the biggest suppliers of pharmaceutical product of any Bangladeshi based company. BPL is the first Bangladeshi company to supply pharmaceutical product to Riffles Hospital the most prestigious hospital of Singapore In 2005, BPL took over Beximco Infusions Ltd., a listed company of the Beximco Group engaged in manufacturing and marketing of intravenous fluids and got enlisted with the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange through issuance of Global Depository Receipts (GDRs). Shares of the Company are traded in Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges of Bangladesh and its GDRs in AIM of the London Stock Exchange. The paper seeks information on the planning and organizing system that used at BPL. Different methods have been employed to analyze the data both from primary and secondary sources. It gives an idea of how information on purchases and sales, both local and foreign are integrated into the data system for evaluation and reporting purposes. Objectives * Introduce Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd and its planning and organizing system. * Provide a comprehensive idea on its organizational design in play in different part...
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