The headquarters is in Morton Grove, IL, USA. JC provides the most complete selection of · Engineered mechanical seals, · Mechanical packings, · Sealing support systems, and · Power transmission couplings The history of JC goes back to 1917 when Crane Packing Company was founded in Chicago, IL. They established several facilities in the USA, Canada and England. Before World War II, the company sold its England–based operations to a company named TI Group PCL. In 1951, the company moved from Chicago to its current site in Morton Grove, IL.
The van’s success encouraged Suzuki to develop lightweight cars and trucks. In 1961, it introduced its first production car, the “Suzulight,” the first Japanese car with a 2-stroke engine. In 1964 Suzuki began exporting motorcycles to the United States, where it established a wholly owned subsidiary, U.S. Suzuki Motor Company, Ltd., to serve as the exclusive importer and distributor of Suzuki motorcycles. Suzuki quickly established itself as a major brand in the U.S. motorcycle industry. By 1965, Suzuki’s product line included motorcycles, automobiles, motorized wheelchairs, outboard motors, general-purpose engines, generators, water pumps, and prefabricated houses.
MSc in Corporate Finance: Advanced Corporate Finance Denys La Tour Xinyi Pei Paul Michel Jean-Cyril Vaissié Alice Lamberton Professor: Florencio Lopez de Silanes Molina 2/7/2012 Denys La Tour Xinyi Pei Paul Michel Jean-Cyril Vaissié Alice Lamberton AGENDA: Case overview | Japanese corporate governance vs U.S. corporate governance | Foreign investors motivations and shareholders rights in the law | Shareholders rights and dividends policy | Self-dealing and organization in Keiretsu and shareholders control of the accounts | Take over of Koito, implication (about its activities with Toyota) and large shareholders in corporate governance | What really happened | 1 2/7/2012 CASE OVERVIEW: CASE OVERVIEW: Pickens bought 20.2% of the Koito shares (undisclosed seller and amount) The board refused an increase of dividends, but accpeted it after Koito rejected the demand of Pickens to review the accounts. Pickens and Koito launched publicity campaigns against each other. Sep 20 Mar 9 Jun 27 Mar 30 1989 1990 Jan 15 Mr Watanabe, tried to oblige Toyota to buyback his Koito shares. Toyota did not oblige. Hence, Mr Watanabe opened discussion with Mr. Pickens from the U.S.
Andrew Nichols Case Study: A teleconference meeting at Astellas. Image yourself as an American employee at the Norman manufacturing plant: How does structure and culture of an organization influence conflict style and climate? Astellas is global pharmaceutical company that was established in 2005 by the merger of two Japanese pharmaceutical companies (Yamanouchi and Fujisawa). It has 25,000 employees worldwide which consists of eight manufacturing sites: one in the United States (Norman, Oklahoma), one in Ireland and six in Japan. Each manufacturing site makes products for their own region of the world but also may make some products that are disturbed worldwide.
TESLA MOTORS INC. Competitive Position Analysis & Future Growth Strategy CSTR_Group F11 MOONIS AHMED, MANISH AGARWAL, NIKHIL RATANPAL, HARSH SUREKA TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 2 Executive Summary ......................................................................................................................... 2 Automotive Industry and Tesla Motors .......................................................................................... 3 2.1 2.2 2.3 3 History – The Early Years......................................................................................................... 3 Tesla Motors ........................................................................................................................... 3 Current Market Scenario......................................................................................................... 4 Industry analysis: Electric cars ........................................................................................................ 5 3.1 3.2 Electric Car Industry Structure before Tesla opened up its patents ....................................... 5 Electric Car Industry Structure after Tesla opened up its patents .......................................... 6 4 5 Financial Analysis and Investor’s view ............................................................................................ 7 Tesla’s Competitive Advantage ....................................................................................................... 8 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Innovative Lithium ion batteries ............................................................................................. 8 Large Network of Supercharger stations ................................................................................ 9 Unique direct-to-customer selling model
Introduction Fabbrica Italiana Automobil Torino (Fiat S.p.A) (BIT: F) is an Italian carmaker based in Turin founded in 1899 by a group of investors lead by Giovanni Agnelli. Throughout the years, Fiat has acquired multiple other companies such as Lancia in 1968, 50 percent Ferrari, currently owning 85 percent, taking over control from the Italian government of Alfa Romeo in 1986, purchased Maserati in 1993 and of 2012 purchased the majority of Chrysler LLC shares, 61.8 percent. Fiat also produces agricultural and commercial equipment led by CNH Global, and commercial vehicles led by the IVECO brand. We will focus on the car production Chrysler – Fiat for this report. Fiat was a troubled company with a steady loss in sales for a great period of time, problems with the union workers, oil crisis, bad reliability, a bailout and a bad acquisition from GM left the company in a bad shape.
Gulf States Toyota INC Name: Institution: Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 4.0 The decision to go international 4 4.1 Gulf States Toyota, Inc.: company background and demographics 4 4.2 Plans for International Expansion 4 5.1 Political, economic, legal and technological environments…………………………...………5 6.0 GST International Code of Conduct……………………………………………………..……6 6.1 Rationale for the decision to go international 6 6.2 Rationale for going international 6 7.0 Global Objectives 7 7.1 Environment Assessment 7 7.2 Entry strategy 7 9.0 Culture profile 9 9.1 Sweden’s Cultural Profile 9 9.2 Profile of Workers……………………………..……………………………………………9 10.0 Assessment of the reception the company is expected to receive……………………….....10 10.1 The Cultural Variables and Cultural Value Differences 10 11.0 Communication Barriers Managers Might Face 11 12.0 Organizational Structure and Chart 11 12.1 The Organizational Structure 11 13.0 The Organizational Chart 13 13.1 Rationale for Organizational Structure Development………………………………13 14.0 Control Issues in the Organizational Structure 14 15.0 Human Resource Management: Golf States Toyota INC 15 15.1 GST Staffing 15 16.0 Training and Development 16 16.1 Compensation Plan…………………………………………………………………16 References 18 Executive Summary Toyota is Japan’s leading motor vehicle manufacturer and is currently number two in the world. To get to that position, Toyota has had to aggressively expand into the international markets that present it with growth opportunities; this has seen the firm establish a global reach with sales and assembling operations in all continents. The plan for International expansion of GST to other international regions would help the company expand its manufacturing and distribution centers. This will help the company handle more types of automobiles, motor vehicle accessories, and
Taken from Charles B. Fleddermann, Engineering Ethics, 2 ed., Prentice Hall, 2004, pp. 72-73 In the late 1960’s, Ford Motor Company set out to produce a subcompact automobile that would compete with the Japanese subcompacts that were becoming increasingly popular in the United States. The president of Ford, Lee Iacocca, set an ambitious two-year agenda for the design and initial production of the Pinto. This schedule meant that the car would come to market in 25 months rather than go through the average 43 month design cycle at Ford. Iacocca wanted the care to be introduced in the 1971 model year with a suggested retail price of no more than $2,000 and with a weight of less than 2,000 pounds.
SWOT Analysis of Ford Motor Company Management 303 – DeVry University I. Background information: Ford Motor Company is an American automotive whose leader based is in Dearborn, Michigan. The company was founded by Henry Ford and corporate since June 16, 1903. Ford manufactures and distributes its automobiles all over the globe. The company owns 73 plants and employs about 164,000 employees.
Organizational behavior Introduction of the organization’s background and nature of its business. Apple Inc., previously Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational company headquartered in California that designs, advances, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and individual computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod music player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its software contains the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork originality and production suites. The company was founded on April 1, 1976, and incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977.