..., Leahman and Randolph had created a partnership with a supplier in China to ramp up the manufacture of their China-based filtration system and start a zinc alloy venture. They opened a new factory in Dongwan, which was a merger between Shenzhen Filtroil and its supplier Liu Li—whose own factory...

...Samuel E. Bodily; Larry Weatherford The president of a well-established manufacturer of mattresses has asked his assistant to recommend whether to consolidate plants of three different locations. He must decide not only which criteria are most useful in making such a decision, but also how to weigh...

... adequate returns, the TSE board would be unlikely to give its full support to future mergers. Eliot decided he would carefully review the YVC deal before deciding on a negotiating strategy regarding the price/exchange rate issue. In 2000, TSE manufactured products ranging from advanced industrial...

... Muslim leadership diversity employee accommodation factory meatpacking cultural sensitivity workforce relations Manufacturing James Windham was the manager of JBS & Company, a meatpacking factory whose 500 employees included over 100 Muslim workers. The majority of these workers had...

... Manufacturing Mrs. Sharma, the managing director and principal owner of Sengupta Fibres, Ltd., discovered the problem when she arrived at the parking lot of the company's plant at 10:00 a.m. one morning in early January 1990. Trucks filled with rolls of fiber yarns were being unloaded, but they had been...

...Marc L. Lipson A privately held U.S. plumbing parts manufacturer is negotiating the purchase of a Brazilian plumbing manufacturer specializing in water conservation. The case provides sufficient information to value this cross-border acquisition and includes a brief summary of valuation techniques...

... inventory through more efficient transportation and warehousing, reducing credit terms to customers, switching from seasonal to level production, improving profitability, decreasing dividends, and reducing sales growth. Manufacturing Guna was founded in 1972 to produce nylon fiber at its only...

... manufacturing capacity in North America by 9 million units a year and yield overhead and efficiency savings of $50 million annually. The “new hires” program was estimated to save $24 per hour over the existing wage and benefit structure for each new employee, resulting in annual savings of $90 million by 2009...

... or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. Although making steady money in the semiconductor equipment industry was never easy, thesector, tied to the needs of semiconductor manufacturers, was generally profitable. (See Figure 1 for global semiconductor equipment sales as a percentage...

...Francis Spreng Lee High, the newly hired cost accountant at Blackheath Manufacturing Company, computes the variable cost and the fixed cost per unit on a weekly volume of 500 units of the Great Heath. He uses this information to develop some pricing guidelines. His boss, Charlton Blackheath...

...Francis Spreng It's panic time at Blackheath Manufacturing. Profits have been declining, so the owner's son comes to the rescue to run the company. He asks a consultant to determine what's wrong. And the consultant has specific answers: The company's pricing guidelines are all wrong, there needs...

... Manufacturing On August 24, 1993, her first day as chief executive officer (CEO) of Astral Records Ltd., North America (Astral NA), Sarah Conner confronted a host of management problems at the company. One week earlier, Astral NA's president and CEO had been killed in a tragic accident. Soon thereafter...

..., or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the permission of the Darden School Foundation. Rev. 10/05. exchange ratio bargaining and negotiating valuation Manufacturing Bill Yeats agreed. “There are lots of reasons for me...

... , total foreign assets increased from $458 million to $813 million between 1984 and 1986; net foreign assets increased commensurately, from $220 million to $376 million. Sales of products manufactured by foreign subsidiaries rose from $539 million to $861 million. Corporate management believed Asia...

.... manufacturer and retailer of high-end furniture that is in financial distress following a 2007 LBO and subsequent declines in profitability in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–08. The nearly 50-year-old company has recently blown through cash flow covenants on its $100 million senior financing facility...

...Patricia H. Werhane; Andrew C. Wicks; Robert J. Sack; Kristi Severance; Leslie Williams; Jenny Mead This case details the rise of a hard-disk storage manufacturer in the mid-1980s and the company's demise after executives manipulated the financial information. This case is an abridged version...

... the Superior, which was produced from purchased parts, proved too costly to manufacture and assemble. The new partnership would certainly have failed had Briggs not filed for and been granted a patent for a gas-engine igniter, similar to a modern-day spark plug, which could replace the standard magnetoignition...

... in a retrieval system, used in a spreadsheet, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the permission of the Darden School Foundation. Rev. 3/09. hedging risk analysis risk management Manufacturing It was July 1994...

...Susan Chaplinsky This case examines the exchange rate risk of a U.S.-based manufacturer of women's luxury shoes that has recently introduced its product in Japan. Students are asked to evaluate the extent of the firm's exposure to currency risk and whether hedging via forward contract or currency...

... is to sort out the comparative advantages and disadvantages of each alternative—including valuing the possible securities—and recommend a course of action. Manufacturing In March 1997, Pablo Este sat in a comfortable chair in the living room of his home in Buenos Aires, reflecting on the future...