Business Economics (2011) 46, 167–170. doi:10.1057/be.2011.10 Keywords: Ford, electric vehicles, global strategy, sustainability he NABE Policy Conference offerings during the last 10 years have been increasingly at the forefront of emerging economic policy topics, with subject matter experts participating in panel sessions or giving keynote addresses on important issues confronting global policymakers. This year’s session on “Electric Vehicles and Clean Energy Standards” was no exception. T As chief economist at Ford Motor Company, I represent a global automotive industry leader, with about 166,000 employees and 70 plants worldwide. Ford manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents.
Johnson Controls Social Responsibility Strategy JJT2 Social Responsibility, Task 1 February 23, 2014 Introduction Johnson Controls is a global manufacturing company with its corporate headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The company is the largest producer of private label lead acid batteries in North America, and is quickly becoming a leader in Asia and South America. Johnson Controls provides batteries for nationally recognized brands such as Duralast, Interstate Batteries, Die Hard, ProStart, and Bosch. In addition, Johnson Controls provides original equipment batteries for Ford, Acura, Honda, Diamler Chrysler, Nissan, and Toyota. With over 170,000 employees around the world, Johnson Controls is a global industrial leader serving customers in over 150 countries and is committed to corporate social responsibility (Johnson Controls, 2014).
The Company has grown continually and in December 1989 moved to a purpose-built 4-acre (16.200m2) site with space for further development and production. In 1998 an extension to the building allowed for several new machines to provide large capacity production of tool boxes and fire boxes. Jonesco plastic products are leading brand names with a high reputation and market share. They are widely fitted as original equipment and first installation. High quality, durability, competitiveness, service, high supply performance and support of a loyal distribution chain have gained this position and in 2005 Jonesco began to explore a new market.
and Torrington Deal The PARTIES • Global manufacturer of highly engineered bearings, alloy, specialty steel and related components supporting diversified markets worldwide • 3 operating segments: Automotive Group, Industrial Group and Steel Group • Asset size $2.7B • Revenues of $2.55B • Global diversified manufacturer of industrial and commercial equipment and components • 4 operating segments: Climate Control Segment, Infrastructure Segment, Security and Safety Segment, Industrial Solutions Segment • Asset size of $10.8B • Revenues of $8.95B CONTEXT Bearings are a key component of all moving parts and is thus a critical supplier of the following industries: • • • • • • • • Automotive Aerospace Construction Off-Highway Railroad Medical Instruments Machine Tools Energy • EXPECTED FLAT TO MODERATE GROWTH OF US MARKET 3-5% • GLOBAL GROWTH EXPECTED AT 6.5% ANNUALLY THROUGH 2005 OPPORTUNITIES Ingersoll Rand divestment of Torrington, which is part of its Engineered Solutions segment under Industrial Solutions Divestment of Torrington will free up capital to allocate to other business lines with higher growth potential OPPORTUNITIES Tapered roller bearings and Precision-steel components STEEL AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIAL Torrington Needle-bearing solutions AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIAL OPPORTUNITIES STRATEGIC FIT • Complementary operations and product offerings (only 5% overlap in product offering and 80% common customer base) – bundling opportunities and margin improvement • Synergies and value creation • Opportunity to capture bigger share of market (from 7 to 11%) and increase global reach to become the 3rd largest producer of bearing worldwide SYNERGIES Core competencies Product Development Production Sourcing Marketing and International Distribution Network Cross-selling opportunities VALUATION Stand alone equity
We receive parts from companies, which we process to their specifications, and send them back out to them ready to be shipped out to many different customers. We currently have many different types of parts on many different types of commercial planes and fighter jets. 1.2 Explain the organisations mission and purpose. King and Fowlers mission is: • To develop strategic partnerships with the worlds leading customers. • To develop leading-edge supply chain integration systems and processes operated be a multi-skilled team of experienced engineering and procurement professionals.
Company background Navistar International is a leading global transportation company which focuses on manufacturing commercial trucks, horsepower diesel engines and providing financing services for its customers, dealers and distributors. The company’s products, parts, and services are sold through a network of nearly 1000 dealer outlets in the United States, Canada, Brazil and Mexico and more than 60 dealers in 90 countries throughout the world. Over the years, Navistar has placed high priority on quality improvement since quality concerns affect customer requirements and costs. Navistar has two assembly plants, Chatham plant which is responsible for producing premium conventional trucks, and Springfield plant which focuses on manufacturing and assembling medium and cab over trucks. Currently, Andy Ramsz is appointed to be the assembly supervisor at Navistar’s Chatham
External and Internal Environmental Analysis STR/581- Strategic Planning and Implementation February 25, 2014 External and Internal Environmental Analysis The Home Depot is one of the largest organizations within the home-improvement retail industry consisting of several different business segments. These segments include home-improvement related products and services as well as equipment rentals. The Home Depot has over 2000 stores operating in the U.S. as well as other countries throughout the world. The Home Depot’s mission statement states "To provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products, and the most competitive prices" (The Home Depot, 2014). Nevertheless, The Home Depot is more concerned with their eight corporate values as these guide the actions of leadership in addition to their employees.
Commodity Manager Job Description BUS303: Human Resource Management Instructor: COMMODITY MANAGER JOB DESCRIPTION Kronos is the global leader in delivering workforce management solutions in the cloud. Tens of thousands of organizations in more than 100 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Kronos customers include enterprises large and small across diverse industries worldwide including retail, hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, services, distribution, and the public sector. Headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Kronos employs more than 3,700 people worldwide and is an equal opportunity employer (Kronos.com) As a leader of Workforce Management Kronos seeks employees who are innovative, open to change, have diverse backgrounds and are seeking long term growth opportunity. There are numerous benefits, work life balance is more than just a phrase and the benefits offered are benchmarked against same size companies and proven to be best in class, in fact Kronos has been names “Best Places to Work” in 2013 and is set to meet that goal again in 2014 as they did in 2012.
He launched over 350 companies in the brand of Virgin, which include transportation, music community services, media. The diversity of the company shows how creative and innovative Richard Branson is. The diversification could be also a reason of the so success of Virgin as the size of its target customers is very large. He did quite a lot of business
S.W.O.T of PRIMARK Strengths • The company has over 161 stores around the country and of those 161 stores 125 are located in the UK. • It has an organised business structure providing its customers with what they want. • Primark offers job opportunities and employs over 27,000 people. • It offers high street quality clothes for cheap prices and quality services to attract its customers. • The company is part of the ETI (Ethical Trading Initiative) which focuses on worker’s rights, their production of goods and bringing businesses together to work on labour rights issues.