Peerless Starch

Given three months to turn the plant around, Alex turns to Jonah, his old college physics professor who has become a manufacturing consultant, and enlists his help. Jonah has a unique and potentially risky approach to addressing the problems at the plant. First, he takes what can be a complicated

JJ has complained on behalf of the performance measurement system because currently his bonus is based off of production cost being less than 43 percent of sales. JJ believes that the production facility is operating as efficiently as, if not better, than it has before the expansion. Due to this performance measurement JJ’s ownership when from 25 percent to 8 percent and he is losing bonuses and annual dividends.

Tucker Hansson, the owner of Hansson Private Label, is struggling in whether to execute the $50 million investment proposed by his manufacturing team. Under this situation, the subject of this report is to evaluate the potential investment of expanding production capacity at Hansson Private Label (HBL) and make a recommendation to Tucker Hansson. In this report, I will specifically focus on analyses of the project’s free cash flows (FCFs), weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and net present value (NPV). With a sensitivity analysis, it can help us to observe how change in some key project variables

Situation Analysis - The Jackson Plant an older, established unit in the Rose Co. has not operated satisfactorily for several years. The Board of

4. Location of the new plant: 0 points.  Here we would have to strongly consider if we could relocate the plant given that we could hire new workforce under completely new agreements. The biggest disadvantage that we have currently is that the workers are being overpaid, and reducing their salary would affect their

Due to the recent economy situation and ever challenging business environment, for the whole of last year, the company recorded cost hike and sales decline. This has impacted the bottom line (profitability) of the company. The top management sees that urgent action plans need to be put in place for continuous survival of the company.

Try to stop all the employees from leaving the company because when staff retention is poor when we also higher new employees they are taking time to learn about the company and whenever a new staff comes in must get proper training before they start doing the

Yorktown Technologies is a fairly new company that is marketing and introducing GloFish into the market. In 2002 Yorktown raised $500,000 fro investors under the projection that it would have $4,000,000 in profits in 2004. Sadly the company only had $500,000 in revenues and had an outstanding $620,000 in expenses leaving the company $120,000 in the red (Roger A. Kerin, 2010). Alan Blake of Yorktown Technologies is searching for what to tell the board of directors in the next board meeting. Major changes are needed in order for Yorktown to turn around and become profitable.

1)The first solution to the sawmills problem would be to get structure in the company. The president needs to go down to Jackson and take control of this situation. She needs to have managers and supervisors that take the blame for loss of productivity instead of

2. What options are available to you? How does each of these options serve your personal interests, those of investors and those of employees?

According to my analysis, the problems are distrust between the managers and employees and unfairness of rewards between the employees and supervisors. In order to keep productivity and profitability of the plant, it should resolve the issues urgently before the situation deteriorated further. I recommend the option two is better for Bent to deal with these problems for the plant. Firstly, communication is the most important factor that affects the relationship between managers and employees. If the managers could listen advices of the work in time from their employees, it not only will be more easier to handle the existing problem in the company, but also will improve the relationship between managers and employees because the staff feel the company takes, to respect and to trust them, feel oneself is in enterprise's one, and they can have the confidence and the sense of responsibility for the development of their company. Secondly, it is to give the appreciation by managers to employees frequently that will improve the employee morale because they will feel more attached to their company. As the result of this, employees will devote to their work without any complaint. Consequently, because of the improvement of relationship and employee morale, the efficiency and productivity of company will improve with the efforts of all staff and give them corresponding reward. Although the first option is probably to resolve the crisis

Due to this realization, the next thing he did was to talk to the plant’s accountants to determine how the company can make money. The company will have money if the net profit increased along with the return on

The two plans, Sarnia 1 and Sarnia 2 are producing halobutyl and regular butyl, respectively. The newly regular butyl plant, Sarnia 2, is running at less than capacity. The plant should be able to produce 95,000 tonnes, but the actual production is only 65,000. This creates a lot of unabsorbed fixed costs and inefficiency.

Overall, we have decided that the Merseyside project should be accepted based on the achievement of Diamond Chemicals decision criteria. The project produces a positive NPV of €6.07, holds an IRR greater than their cost of capital at 21.4%, has a payback period less than 6 years at 5.71 years, and adds to earnings per share by generating an extra £.0203 per share. This project satisfies all 4 decision criteria requirements, making Morris’s choice easy in deciding to continue funding the project. Lucy Morris and Diamond Chemicals should go forward with the Merseyside project.

In the late 1980’s to the mid 1990’s the plant struggled to meet budgetary goals and was faced with potential closure. These struggles stemmed from the plants inability to increase efficiency and reduce cost. Reducing labor