Business Case Study: Donaldson Enterprises Inc.

If Southland holdings, LLC (Johnson Brothers Corporation) said facilities (encroachments) are damaged in any way due to Jefferson County performing said work on the existing sanitary sewers, the responsibility for repairs and/or replacement of said facilities, (encroachments) including the cost of such will be borne solely by Southland Holdings, LLC (Johnson Brothers Corporation). Furthermore, Southland Holdings, LLC (Johnson Brothers Corporation) fully and forever releases and discharges Jefferson County performing said work on the existing sanitary sewers.

Because of Laurier Company buying Western Company, 20 of the previous workers of Western Company were let go. They were promised a severance package that would be equivalent to former Laurie Company employees that were terminated the previous year. Unfortunately, a former Western Company employee named Bill Smith complained his severance package was less than that of the severance package Laurier Company promised. Due to this, a statistician was hired to analyze the situation and see if Smith was correct. The statistician used a sample of 50 former employees from Laurier Company to see how much they were provided in their severance package.

Coles Unlimited LLC is a landscape contracting company that is located in Firestone, Colorado. The service areas they cover include Frederick, Firestone, Dacono, Erie, Mead, and the neighboring communities. Coles Unlimited LLC was founded in the year 2003. Coles Unlimited LLC specializes in landscaping, irrigation, and lawn care services. This landscape contracting company carries out exquisite landscape design. Coles Unlimited LLC is also an expert in snow removal services. Their lawn care services include lawn aeration and fertilizer. Coles Unlimited LLC performs complete landscaping services. This landscape contracting company works on the sod, rock, mulch, and walkways. Coles Unlimited LLC repairs and replaces the broken sprinkler piping,

World Medical Solutions located in Kingman, AZ., manufactures medical equipment that is used worldwide to save lives. Our company is a global leader in technology based medical equipment and cargo tracking is the upmost importance from beginning to end. World Medical Solutions uses technological solutions to ensure our products are tracked throughout the transit process, ensuring that the medical equipment arrives on time. This company ships medical devices overseas, by placing a lateral transmitting tags on the outside of the shipping container and Active RFID Smart labels on the individual items inside the container this allows for proper tracking. Our RFID tags are universally readable, we provide readers to our ships and ports ensuring tags can be read also allowing contact memory buttons to be scanned for intrusion

Hennepin County offer health insurance benefits to its employee. Health insurance is offered to benefit earning employees and eligible dependents. It provides medical care and pharmacy benefits for illness. Costs for care and treatment depend on your plan and if health insurance incentive activities were completed. The Minnesota Statutes, § 256B.69, subd. 9d, the Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) will contract with an audit firm to conduct an independent third-party financial audit of the MCO’s information identified in Minnesota Statutes, §256B.69, subd. 9c, (b). The audit firm will have the same investigative power as the OLA as outlined in Minnesota Statutes §256B.69, subd. 9d (c), and will perform the audit every two years beginning

In 1967, Sol Shenk founded Consolidate International, Inc. – a company that has grown into a profitable closeout retail chain called Big Lots. Consolidated Stores Corporation opened its first store, named Odd Lots in 1982, in Columbus, Ohio. Within just a few years later the company made its first initial public offering on the American Stock exchange, which is also when the name Big Lots was first introduced. The following year, the company’s shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CNS. As the years progress, Big Lots continued to grow rapidly and in 1993 the company had celebrated its first billion-dollar year thanks to its customers, associates, managers, and superior distributions system. (www.biglots.com)

Companies strive to choose not only the best marketing channels, but also the best profitable channel. A profitable channel can promote and successfully sell out of a product that might not otherwise turn a profit for their producers (New Charter University 2015). “The calculations from the cost accountant for the retail segment accounts were 60 percent of sales, and for the foodservice segment accounts were 40 percent. The cost accountant believes that both channels are profitable. The accountant also believes that the company achieves an overall average gross margin of 60 percent on its sales (Bowersox, D. J., Closs, D. J., Cooper, M. B.,

Stateline Electrical, Inc. is an electrical contracting company that is located in Methuen, Massachusetts. Stateline Electrical, Inc. was founded in the year 1986. Stateline Electrical, Inc. is catering both the residential and commercial communities alike. Their services include electrical design / build fast track office, hospitals and medical offices, educational institutions, car rental agencies, electric vehicle charging stations, and large / high end residential projects. Stateline Electrical, Inc. performs electrical construction, service maintenance, building automation, CATV wiring, tel/data wiring, and more. Stateline Electrical, Inc. also works on remodeling and renovation, backup generator installs, fire / security systems, HVAC

The retail industry in Canada is engaged in selling goods and related services that are consumable through stores to the general public (Sector, 2012). The retail sector has continued to play an increasingly vital role in the Canadian marketplace given its contribution to the Canadian economy. The industry has grown continually, despite the recession between 2006 and 2009 that made the industry experience a fall in the demand of products, in 2011, the sector generated $457.4 billion in retail sales and represented approximately 12 percent of the Canadian workforce (Affairs, 2013).

The O.M Scott & Sons Company has had continued success in the grass seed and lawn care industry. The company started in 1868 as a local company in central Ohio, focused on selling grass seed only. The company saw great opportunity in the lawn care industry, so it decided tot take action. O.M Scott & Sons grew into a national company that distributed its products by mail, and eventually sold to retail stores nationwide in 1959. The company was able to grow expanding the company’s field sales force. This increase in sales force led to a continued increase in sales and profits, which allowed the company to invest in R&D more heavily. This increase in R&D led to better products, which further increased sales and profits. The objective was to service the various retailers across the U.S with adequate inventories, especially in the high seasonal peaks. This was difficult for most of the smaller sized dealers the company was selling to, so Scott had to fund the dealer inventory buildup by itself.

The market of Jones Blair can be divided to two groups: Dallas-Fort Worth area and Non Dallas-Fort Worth

Kimberly-Clark Corporation was established in 1872 in Neenah, Wisconsin. They started as a small paper mill, but by 1880 they had grown into the largest paper producer in the Midwest. Today Kimberly-Clark produces a variety of products divided into three operating segments divided according to product groupings. Segment one is personal care products and solutions such as, disposable diapers, swimpants, and feminine and incontinence care products. Segment two is consumer tissue, providing bathroom tissue, paper towels, napkins, and related products. Segment three is K-C professional products; these products are sold exclusively directly to supermarkets, drugstores, department stores and various other retail outlets.

The level of which Baker knows his team varies from ‘word on mouth’ and reputation, from prior conflicts and to prior effective working relationships. Given that the group members don’t know each others well, and/or are competing, Baker will have a tougher task to bring the team together

AvalonBay Communities, Inc. is an equity Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) a trusted name in multifamily housing that focuses on the development, redevelopment, acquisition, ownership and operation of multifamily communities. It is one of the largest developers of multifamily rental apartment communities in the high barrier-to-entry markets of the United States. Among the products and services, it offers include property development and redevelopment, property investment, and asset management. AvalonBay owns or holds an interest in approximately 285 operating apartment communities containing over 86,696 apartment homes in 10 states and the District of Columbia. AvalonBay operates through three business segments; established communities, other stabilized communities, and development/redevelopment communities.

The case introduces two companies with generally different cultures. Symerlane was a large U.S. financial-services company that was running a merger and acquisition strategy. It continued growing by acquiring small companies with bad administration and take over its businesses. Integration after an acquisition usually meant to Symerlane, firing the old management and closing any old back-office, shifting the work to its own facilities. This normally caused the cut of several jobs.