...WM Wrigley Jr. Company Group #2 Statement of the Problem: The William Wrigley Jr. Company was the world’s largest manufacture and distributor of chewing gum. They are an industry standard for international candy manufacturing and are competitive key players in the global market. William Wrigley Jr. originally founded the William Wrigley Jr. Company in Delaware as a partnership in 1891; it then became a corporation in 1903 based out of Illinois. The Wrigley’s company has been family ran up until recently when William D. Perez became president, CEO, and director. As of today, William Wrigley Jr. Co. corporate headquarters is located in Chicago, Illinois. Wrigley’s original two brands were Juicy Fruit and Wrigley’s Spearmint. These two brands are now a subsidy of the Mars Incorporated. Wrigley has since expanded, and it now owns a bunch of other brands, including Doublemint, Big Red, Winterfresh, Extra, Freedent, Hubba Bubba, Orbit, and Excel. Along with chewing gum, Wrigley’s offers mints, breath strips, and candies. Altoids, Crème Savers, Life Savers, and Velamints are some brands under Wrigley’s that offer these products. The company has done a good job of diversifying the amount of products that they manufacture. The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company is a publically traded company in the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, WWY As of 2006, Wrigley’s distributes to over 180 countries and has 15,800 employees worldwide (company website). The company manufactures...
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...Wm. Wrigley Company Case Analysis Adrienne Johnson, Ramona Rhodes, Makpal Shotbassova Webster University FINC 5880: Corporate Finance FALL I TERM September 10, 2014 Author Note Certificate of Authorship: This paper was prepared by me for this specific course and is not a result of plagiarism or self-plagiarism. I have cited all sources from which I used data, ideas, or words either quoted or paraphrased. Introduction Blanka Dobryn is a managing partner of Aurora Borealis LLC. This hedge funds goal is to acquire a large stake in the Wrigley Jr Corporation. Once this happens then Aurora borealis LLC will encourage WM Wrigley Jr to reorganize the capital structure. The Wrigley Company at this point does not have any debt. Dobryn, is thinking that they can make this company more valuable if they raise their debt and use that money to either pay dividends or repurchase their stocks. (Brunner, 2010) Our job today is to find out the best way to go about restructuring the company using different financial strategies that will put the company at minimal risk. Effects of using debt to recapitalized In researching options, there are a few things that should be considered. Assuming that everything will be positive, there are great benefits to restructuring. The EPS would increase because there would be less shares outstanding after the buyback. The market would look favorable upon that, thus increasing the share price. If Wrigley is able to borrow at a lower rate...
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...Opportunities and Challenges Faced by Wrigley | 7 | | | Innovation Strategy for Next 5-10 Years | 8 | | | New Product Development – Wrigley’s Bubble Doublemint | 10 | | | The Role of Product Innovation for Wrigley’s in the Asian Market Product innovation has been the key driver for Wrigley’s success, and China has been no exception. Given the large population (four times that of the US1) and the comparatively low consumption numbers (10-15 servings per person annually versus 90-100), growth in China showed the greatest potential for further success. Wrigley gave their Chinese consumers a reason to chew by recognising cultural facets (traditional Chinese flavours and medicines) and trends in health benefits (obesity and oral health), and then innovatively developed product lines in ways which would appeal to a wide variety of segments. Going forward from 2008, the decision to join forces with Mars, further reiterated the importance Wrigley’s placed on product innovation and the potential that Mars global president Paul Michaels must have recognised. He stated that both Mars and Wrigley’s share a commitment to innovation and would continue on the path of growth by jointly developing these values even further. Wrigley’s commitment to innovation was further exemplified by their decision to invest in a Global Innovation Centre which could aid the company in continued significant advancements. In addition, The Wrigley Science...
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...ACF The William Wrigley Jr. Company Group2 Ahsan Rashid Qazi 17110206 Sardar Noman Salim 17110210 M.Hasnain Shabbir 17110210 Jahanzaib Shoukat 17110286 Primary problems: This case is about The Wm.Wrigley Jr. Company, which has to incorporate debt into its capital structure and then decide between two alternatives of whether to Repurchase Share or to pay Dividend. In the wake of introduction of new products and foreign expansion, firm has to raise capital as suggested in the case of $3 billion debt, which will influence the Wm. Wrigley Jr. ‘s outstanding shares, shall it repurchase them or pay dividend to its shareholders. It also has to see the impact of this debt on the share price, the voting control of the Wrigley company, impact on EPS. Analysis: Impact on Share Price Before taking the debt the share price of the company was $56.37 with 232.44 million shares outstanding and a market value of 13.103 billion. After taking the debt of 3 billion, the market value increase by the amount of tax shield provided by debt i.e. $1.2 billion and the share price increases to $61.53. Impact on WACC The pre-capitalization WACC is 10.90% using beta= 0.75, Rf=5.65%, Risk Premium=7% The post capitalization WACC is 10.908% using Levered Beta = 0.87, Re= 11.74%, Rd=13% Impact on Voting Control Share repurchases results in less number of shares outstanding which increases the voting power of the Wrigley Family from 47% to 51%. Impact on EPS Before Recapitalization |...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Case Studies in Finance ------------------------------------------------- Case 34: The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Question 1: In the abstract, what is Blanka Dobrynin hoping to accomplish through her active-investor strategy? => Blanka Dobrynin is a managing partner of the Aurora Borealis Company. The company utilizes a strategy called “Active Investor” in which the firm identifies companies that could benefit from restructuring and then invests heavily in the company’s stock. Dobrynin plays the role of the financial entrepreneur, exploiting inefficiencies in investment valuation and corporate finance. She seeks to profit by restructuring firms with “lazy financing” or too much cash and unused debt capacity relative to the (low) risks faced by the firms. Aurora Borealis must convince management and directors that restructuring will benefit the company and its stock holders. Wrigley has virtually no debt. By pressuring directors and managers to adopt more efficient policies, she hopes to reap an investment gain. If Wrigley were to change the capital structure of the company by increasing its debt/equity ratio, significant financial value would be created from the debt tax shelter. This strategy created $156 million to be invested for shareholder gain. The value of this extra...
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...THE WM. WRIGLEY JR. COMPANY Team 14 Constantine Brocoum Courtney Delia Stephanie Doherty David Dubois Radu Oprea November 19th, 2009 Contents Objectives 1 Management Summary 2 Item 1 2 Sub 1.1 2 Sub 1.2 2 Conclusion 2 Item 2 2 Sub 2.1 2 Conclusion 2 Item 3 2 Sub 3.1 2 Sub 3.2 2 Conclusion 2 Item 4 2 Item 5 2 Appendices 2 i. Objectives This report seeks to answer the following five questions about William Wrigley Jr.: 1. In the abstract, what is Blanka Dobrynin hoping to accomplish through her active-investor strategy? 2. What will be the effects of issuing $3 billion of new debt and using the proceeds either to pay a dividend or to repurchase shares on: a. Wrigley’s outstanding shares? b. Wrigley’s book value of equity? c. The price per share of Wrigley stock? d. Earnings per share? e. Debt interest coverage ratios and financial flexibility? f. Voting control by the Wrigley family? 3. What is Wrigley’s current (pre-re-capitalization) weighted-average cost of capital (WACC)? 4. What would you expect to happen to Wrigley’s WACC if it issued $3 billion in debt and used the proceeds to pay a dividend or to repurchase shares? 5. Should Blanka Dobrynin try to convince Wrigley’s directors to undertake the recapitalization? Management Summary Active Investor Strategy Blanka Dobrynin is a managing partner of the Aurora Borealis Company. The company utilizes a strategy called...
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...The William Wrigley Jr. Company: Captial Structure, Valuation, and the Cost of Capital Thomas A. Dotter University of the Incarnate Word Introduction In the case study, “The William Wrigley Jr. Company: Captial Structure, Valuation, and the Cost of Capital” the author, Robert Bruner, examines how Blanka Dobrynin, managing partner at Aurora Borealis, explores the opportunity to persuade Wrigley’s board to complete a leveraged recapitalization through a dividend or major share repurchase. Through her active investor strategy, Blanca is trying to increase the value of investment in Wrigley. Blanca’s objective would be to create ultimately new value in Wm. Wrigley Jr. corporation and thus increase the value of Aurora Borealis’ initial investment in the firm. As a result of using the three billion to complete a significant share repurchase or by increasing the dividend to stockholders; Finance theory can be used to demonstrate how Blanca’s strategy will enhance the value of the firm and ultimately increase Aurora Borealis’ initial investment. Case Study Questions Based on the theory and research papers read during the semester, the following is an analysis of the effects of issuing $3 billion of new debt and using the proceeds either to pay a dividend or to repurchase shares on: 1. Wrigley’s outstanding shares? a. A firm can leverage debt to maximize profitability which will allow the firm to compete in a competitive market (DeAngelo & Masulis, 1979)...
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...Case 34:The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Group member: Ruiqi Ding Xiang Zhang Mengliang Chen Introduction: The decision by William Wrigley Jr. Company to do a $3 billion leveraged recapitalization through a dividend or share repurchase could create significant new value for the company. The purpose of this report is to analyze the impact this will have on the firm’s value, comment on the appropriateness of Wrigley’s debt level in the event of the proposed bond issue and make recommendations as to whether or not the firm should in fact follow through with the issue. The items of interest that will be analyzed include: the impact on share price, cost of capital, earnings per share, agency cost of debt, voting control, signaling & clientele effect and debt coverage & financial flexibility. Analysis Impact on stock price and WACC The leverage does not affect firm value and as such Wrigley should not prefer any particular capital structure. As payments made towards debt are tax deductable the issuing of debt will increase firm value by providing a tax shield. As the role of management is to maximize firm value, the amount of debt in Wrigley should be maximized. Management should also consider a safe level of debt though to prevent risks of liquidity and operating restrictions. To recapitalize with $3 billion of debt the firm will benefit from a tax shield of $1.2 billion. This will result in the market share price increasing to $61.53/share. Using Hamada’s equation...
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...THE WM. WRIGLEY JR. COMPANY Team 14 November 19th, 2009 Contents Objectives 1 Management Summary 2 Item 1 2 Sub 1.1 2 Sub 1.2 2 Conclusion 2 Item 2 2 Sub 2.1 2 Conclusion 2 Item 3 2 Sub 3.1 2 Sub 3.2 2 Conclusion 2 Item 4 2 Item 5 2 Appendices 2 i. Objectives This report seeks to answer the following five questions about William Wrigley Jr.: 1. In the abstract, what is Blanka Dobrynin hoping to accomplish through her active-investor strategy? 2. What will be the effects of issuing $3 billion of new debt and using the proceeds either to pay a dividend or to repurchase shares on: a. Wrigley’s outstanding shares? b. Wrigley’s book value of equity? c. The price per share of Wrigley stock? d. Earnings per share? e. Debt interest coverage ratios and financial flexibility? f. Voting control by the Wrigley family? 3. What is Wrigley’s current (pre-re-capitalization) weighted-average cost of capital (WACC)? 4. What would you expect to happen to Wrigley’s WACC if it issued $3 billion in debt and used the proceeds to pay a dividend or to repurchase shares? 5. Should Blanka Dobrynin try to convince Wrigley’s directors to undertake the recapitalization? Management Summary Active Investor Strategy Blanka Dobrynin is a managing partner of the Aurora Borealis Company. The company utilizes a strategy called “Active Investor”. In this strategy, the firm looks for companies that could...
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...summer of 2002 captured headlines and imaginations. After all, Hershey was an American icon, and when the company’s largest shareholder, the Hershey Trust Company (HSY), asked HFC management to explore a sale, the story drew national and international attention. The company’s unusual governance structure put the Hershey Trust’s board in the difficult position of making both an economic and a governance decision. On the one hand, the board faced a challenging economic decision that centered on determining whether the solicited bids provided a fair premium for HFC shareholders. On the other hand, the governance decision required the board to balance its fiduciary responsibility against the original mandate of Milton Hershey to support the Hershey School in perpetuity. The fiduciary responsibility is relatively simple compared with satisfying a broad array of constituents, including the Hershey community, HFC employees, and Pennsylvania’s attorney general. In addition to this teaching note, we provide a variety of teaching supplements to support a discussion of the complex issues presented by the case: • Video footage of the Hershey community and key players in the case • Excel spreadsheets for key case exhibits • Excel spreadsheets for key teaching-note exhibits • Projection-ready copies of case exhibits • Projection-ready copies of teaching-note exhibits All these materials reside on a single CD with a menu format. The videos are...
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...Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Product Innovation Case Study: WM WRIGLEY-- INNOVATION IN CHINA’S CONFECTIONERY MARKET Name and Student ID: Chi-Hao Tu S3296463 Liang Yen-Hsiang S3306170 Sophal PEN S3394842 The role of product innovation for Wrigley in China Wrigley, the world’s largest confectionary company, operates in around 40 countries, and also distributes in more than 180 countries. In Asia market, it produces wide range of confectionery products such as chewing gum, hard and chewing candy, and lollipops. If we look at market segmentation in China, there are around 28%, 24.4%, and 61.1% of high- class, middle- class, and low- class respectively. Wrigley’s penetrates Chinese local market by segmenting its market carefully. As the picture shown below, Wrigley runs 39% of whole gum market share in 2006. Due to rising Chinese middle class in recent years, Wrigley planned to launch a new set of confectionary products, both gum and non-gum products, to meet emerging new market. Having seen this development, Product innovation plays a critical role to maintain its leading market position in the industry. Resources: Chicago business.com, (http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20080331/NEWS07/200028762/wrigleys-newest-taste-wolfberry) To sustain consumer’s choice of its products, Wrigley continues to innovate new products not only to maintain its already-segmented market but also to attract new emerging Chinese market...
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...Dongyang Zhu BMGT440 Hershey Case Study Hershey Food Corporation was initially founded by Milton Snavely Hershey, with the born of Hershey Chocolate Company. Soon after Milton Hershey learned that the secret of mass production for his chocolate lay manufacture of huge quantities of one item, standardized in design, and with a continuity of streamlined output that held down cost. Hershey had generated sales of $5 million by 1911, more than eight time the company’s first-year revenues. By 1921, Hershey’s sales had soared to $20 million. In 1937, the quartermaster of the United States Army asked the Hershey Chocolate Corporation to develop a military-ration bar that could meet the needs of soldier in the field. By the end of World War II, Hershey was producing 24 million units of Field Ration D a week. More than three billion units of Field Ration D bars were made between 1940 and 1945, and were distributed to soldiers around the world. While other confectioners were forced to limit or even cease production during the war, the Hershey Chocolate Corporation was winning millions of loyal consumers, as well as a place in American history. While enjoyed making money, Hershey always “wanted it used for the purpose of enduring good.” Hershey’s dedication to his employees and the residents of the town was steadfast. During the Great Depression, despite a 50 percent drop in sales, Hershey refused to lay off any local employees. Instead, between 1929 and 1939, he launched a series...
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...usinesscasestudies.co.uk/cadbury-schweppes/ethical-business-practices/ethics-at-work.html#axzz2k38WIHdL | Cadbury is one of the world’s best chocolate brands they aspire to become the world best chocolate brands. Cadbury’s purpose The purpose of Cadburys is to sell chocolate and to survive by making sure they are known as the best confectionary company out there by constantly improving their chocolate and making new products they also survive by making sure their brands reaches all around the world and everyone knows about them and to satisfy’s customer’s needs by making surveys so they know what people like. Cadbury Schweppes is committed to providing a range of high quality treats, refreshments and confectionery based oral care products which are marketed truthfully, labeled clearly and meets the highest safety standards. The sectors. Cadburys operate in all the sectors because they extract coco beans from a different country Ghana then they make the coco beans into the product they need then they manufacture it. Cadbury’s aims and objectives Cadburys main aims and objectives would be to be the world’s most confectionary company they also aspire to make the world’s best chocolate and beat their competitors, they also want to maintain their reputation so they would want to be ethical and make sure people they get the word out about being a fair trade, the important aims is to survive. Cadbury Schweppes aims to lead the way with its ethical approach in business. Its core underlying...
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...Chapter TWO THE ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENT CHAPTER CONTENTS Overview of the Chapter 2 Learning Objectives 2 Key Terms 2 Lecture Outline 3 Learning Objectives Revisited 9 Lecture Enhancers 10 Notes for Topics for Discussion and Action 12 Notes for Building Management Skills 16 Notes for Management For You 17 Notes for Small Group Breakout Exercise 17 Notes For Managing Ethically 19 Notes For Web Exercises 19 Notes for You’re the Management Consultant 19 Notes for Management Case 20 Notes for Management Case in the News from the pages of Business Week 21 Overview of the Chapter This chapter examines the organizational environment in detail. It identifies the principal forces—both task and general—that create pressure and influence management and thus affect the way organizations operate. It concludes with a study of several methods that managers can use to help organizations adjust and respond to forces in the organizational environment. Learning Objectives 1. Explain why being able to perceive, interpret, and respond appropriately to the organizational environment is crucial for managers’ success. 1. Identify the main forces in an organization’s general and task environments, and describe the challenges that each force presents to managers. 1. Discuss the main ways in which managers can manage the organizational environment. Key Terms barriers to entry brand loyalty command economy competitors customers demographic forces ...
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...Overview of Chapter This chapter examines the global environment and identifies the various forces emanating from it which managers must perceive, interpret, and respond to. These forces are divided into two categories, the global task/specific and the general. The chapter also discusses the forces behind the process of globalization and the challenges that today’s open trade environment present to managers. The chapter then closes with a discussion of national culture, its impact upon organizations, and a model to be used to compare various national cultures. Learning Objectives 1. Explain why the ability to perceive, interpret, and respond appropriately to the organizational environment is crucial for managerial success. (LO1) 2. Identify the main forces in both the global task and general environments and describe the challenges that each force presents to managers. (LO2) 3. Explain why the global environment is becoming more open and competitive and identify the forces behind the process of globalization that increase the opportunities, challenges and threats, and complexities that managers face. (LO3) 4. Discuss why national cultures differ and why it is important that managers be sensitive to the effects of falling trade barriers and regional trade associations on the political and social systems of nations around the world. (LO 4) MANAGEMENT SNAPSHOT: NESTLE’S FOOD EMPIRE Nestle, a global organization, is headquartered in Vevey...
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