of its cement sector five hundred years after the Spaniards conquered Mexico?” Lorenzo Zambrano CEO of CEMEX, 1992 CEMEX aquired the two largest Spanish cement producers Hiring “High Potential People“ In reality young and inexperienced people willing to work insane hours to achieve financial goals Cost reduction by 30% 1997 The most admired company in Spain, Actualidad Economica Case study in transforming low tech enterprise into a model of info age efficiency Streamlining Management
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CASE STUDY 1 http://www.scribd.com/full/38399959?access_key=key-222j5zlz3s8dd9x2b6pu CASE STUDY 2 http://www.antiessays.com/free-essays/99985.html CASE STUDY 3 1) DESCRIBE THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE PRIMARY SECONDARY AND TERTIARY SECTORS. GIVE EXAMPLES OF HOW CEMEX CARRIES OUT WORK INVOLVING EACH OF THESE THREE SECTORS There are three main sectors of industry. CEMEX’s business covers all three sectors of industry: * Primary – involves extraction, processing and use of raw materials
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CEMEX – Sustainable performance in the construction industry -- a case study Introduction Cement was invented in England in 1824 and is a key ingredient in concrete. Every year the average family uses one tonne of cement without even knowing it. No house, school, bridge or road would be built without it. Concrete is the second most consumed substance in the world after water. It is made from aggregate, cement and water and can be mixed on building sites or supplied ready-mixed from a
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Introduction While Cemex has a strong preference for acquisitions over starting fresh, this poses several key root problems for both Cemex and the host nations. Cemex had to face some challenging questions; What are the primary factors in why Cemex has chosen Direct Foreign Investments versus some alternatives; What is the impact of their choice in FDI on the host-country, as well as home-country. What are the primary factors in why Cemex has chosen Foreign Direct Investments versus some
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The Market at the Bottom of the Pyramid CEMEX: Innovation in Housing for the Poor CEMEX is a multinational cement manufacturing company operating out of Mexico. It is the largest cement manufacturer in Mexico, the second largest in the United States, and the third largest in the world. The company has operations on four continents and recorded global revenues of $6.54 billion in 2002 with a gross margin of 44.1 percent. THE INNOVATION. . . CEMEX leads the paradigm shift of companies profitably
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international acquisitions? Did CEMEX show any of the six biases identified in Ghemawat and Ghadar’s article? Did CEMEX pursue any of the alternative strategies proposed by Ghemawat and Ghadar? CEMEX needed to acquire international acquisitions, because they were threatened by multinational cement producers when the Mexican government started to liberalize the economy. These international acquisitions had a few objectives that they were obligated to meet. At first, if CEMEX was not able to integrate
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In which industry does P&G compete? Apply Porter’s Five Forces Model to the industry. Is this an attractive industry? P&G is one of the leading companies that are operating in the household consumer product industry. P&G’s threat of substitution is extremely high as there are many companies producing household consumer products, both national and international such as Clorox, Kimberly-Clark and Colgate-Palmolive CL. Also, P&G is also competing with retailers private label brands
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Case 1 CEMEX: GLOBAL GROWTH THROUGH SUPERIOR INFORMATION CAPBILITIES 1. CEMEX is a cement company. What are the sources of competitive advantage in the cement industry? What is CEMEX's position in the global cement industry? First, the cement business is cyclical. The uncertainty of the number of demand and sales restricts a cement company to gain profits stably. Thus, the expansion of the scale of the company is very critical to enhance the competitiveness, especially the international
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producer „Cemex“ worldwide Name Industry Products CEMEX Building materials Cement Ready-‐ mix concrete Construc8on aggregate 1906 San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico Lorenzo Zambrano 54,635 In 50 countries Founded Headquarters CEO Employees Opera8ons Revenue Mean facts of the historical development from Cemex
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