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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page No 1. Introduction 3 2. Indian Cement Industry Analysis 4 3. Aditya Birla Group 9 4. Ultra Tech Cement 14 5. Conclusion 19 6. Bibliography 20 Figures 1. Cement Demand Drivers 5 2. Hindalco Net Sales 11 3. Birla Nuvo Consolidated Revenues 12 4. Birla Nuvo Revenue Mix 12 5. Ultra Tech Net Earnings 16 6. Ultra Tech Net Worth 16 7. Movement of Share Prices of Ultra Tech 17 Tables 1. Cement Dispatch Growth 5 2. Ultra Tech Sales Volume 14 3. Ultra Tech Sales Realisation 15 4. Financial Highlights of Ultra Tech 17 5.
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This, more than anything, underlines the tremendous scope for growth in the Indian cement industry in the long term.
Given the high potential for growth, quite a few foreign transnational have been eyeing the Indian markets and are planning to acquire domestic companies. Already, while companies like Lafarge, Heidelberg and Italicementi have made a couple of acquisitions, Holcim has acquired stake in domestic companies Ambuja Cements and ACC and has increased its stake gradually to gain full control. After acquiring stake in big companies, transnationals eyed median capacity producers. Italcementi acquired 100% stake in Zuari Cement and 95% stake in Shree Vishnu. Cimpor, the Portugese cement manufacturer, acquired Grasims stake (53.63%) in Shree Dig Vijay. The global players put together account of quarter share of the domestic market
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DEMAND DRIVERS:
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Cement dispatch growth at 5-year high in April:
Table 1
|Strong Growth |
|Cement dispatches in April |
|Year
Despite this India is still a complicated place for foreign investors. A weak parliamentary government has very little purview over the provincial and local ministers who were elected entirely separate from federal elections. The fragmented nature of the country’s political system has and will continue to prevent major
This is one reason why Lucky’s few employees opted for joining the competitors along with other factors involved as well. Operating in the same industry this could become an issue for losing more employees to competitors.
The advantages to an acquisition are immense. First, it offers a high level of control – the acquisition is subject to the leadership of Southern Company. In addition, the assets of the acquisition allow for a quick, large-scale market entry; Southern Company will benefit from inherited PP&E. Furthermore, an acquisition avoids entry barriers into a foreign market and gives access to acquired firm’s skills. Not to be overlooked, but the acquired firm’s expertise can have a large influence on the success of the acquisition; this will be discussed further in strategy. Overall, the new subsidiary will act as its own division under Southern Company – it will have its own functional divisions.
The decision to expand into the Indian market by investing in production facilities must be supported by the desired market entry strategy, in conjunction with market requirements, expected demand profile and the regional manufacturing footprint (ref Figure 3).
Industry’s potential for profitability is high, markets are large and expanding, their sales are already high etc.
In 1969 the Union Carbide plan was built in Bohpal India. The plant was operated by Union Carbide India Ltd (Leonard, 2010). 50.9% of the plant was owned by Union Carbide (of which Union Carbide India Ltd was a subsidiary), 22% of the plan was owned by the Indian Government and the remaining 27.1% ownership was spread over approximately 23500 Indian Citizens (Trotter, Day, & Love, 1989).
Market entry strategy involves the essential requirement for a company to get into international level. The need of involving other companies whereby two companies join together is referred to as joint venture entry. They get into a similar market and make the same production with the aim of sharing risk and at the same time they share the profit according to their terms of agreement (Kretzberg, 2007). Therefore, Lincoln Electric Company has a chance to join with other company to venture in the Indian market.
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However, during the coming few years the company tremendously grew and is presently the dominant
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These large investors have the ability to bring a lot of capital into these markets and therefore it would be wise for them to invest there in order to attempt to reap the benefits of the possible returns. I believe individual investors should be attracted to frontier markets if they have plenty of capital and they are confident in taking the risk. However, most individual investors won’t have the funds such as the large investors that can bring a lot of capital into these markets where companies are limited in capitalization. If the funds aren’t there, then it would take a lot of risk because frontier markets are as risky as they could be profitable. One suggestion would be to invest a small amount and hope to make a large return off it but not expect it. An individual investor should not tie up a lot of his money into a large risk. Lastly, companies trying to obtain partial or full acquisitions should be careful. Obtaining partial ownership is a great idea because it allows you to bring skilled workers in from better developed countries such as the US. The risk however is that some of these countries don’t take foreign ownership too well. The risk with that would be heightened if there was a full acquisition. However, I feel that partial acquisition is a great idea due to the fact that one side can bring new talent into the company while the owners who live in the country where they have started it can help bring understanding of
Bharat Forge was technology advancement to improve production quality and business expansion and thus they opted for international acquisitions. Bharat Forge witnessed huge success through export driven domestic growth by changing the work force from muscle power to brain power. The main aim was to acquire technological expertise and another main success strategy was speed to market, high quality, volume, low cost and customer centric or customers focus. Global strategy mainly focused on expanding the company’s product range and develop closer client partnership and to ensure more efficient client logistics. Overseas acquisitions were carried out to get new clients also resulting in manufacturing at different places at the world
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