(Rouses) is a calendar year-end company. On February 1, 2014, Rouses announced that it was acquiring 80 percent of the outstanding common stock of Best Beans Ever Corp. (Best Beans Ever) in a business combination. On the acquisition date, Rouses paid $40 million in cash and issued two million shares of Rouses common stock to the selling shareholders of Best Beans Ever.…
State ex rel. Morrison v. Beck Energy Corp., 2013-Ohio-356 (2013) Facts: In 2011, appellee, Beck Energy Corporation, obtained a permit from a division of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for the purpose of drilling an oil and gas well on property within the corporate limits of appellant, the city of Munroe Falls. The city sought to enforce five local ordinances limiting drilling within its borders after an energy company had already obtained the necessary state permits. The ordinances, however, conflicted with state law.…
A growing threat of coal-related agency caused the members of the Sierra Club to petition on behalf of thier ‘enjoyment of the region's environment’, bringing a suit against Kleppe. Consequently, the district court concluded that plaintiffs had failed to sufficiently show that the defendants had “(1) proposals for legislation or (2) major Federal actions pending and granted summary judgment in favor of defendants. Plaintiffs appealed”.. Issue: The defendants were aiming to get an injunctive(to stop opterations) and declaratory relief to require federal agencies because of the obvious need to to develop and issue an EIS before approving any mining applications. Holding: Judgement: The court of appeals reversed and held that a regional plan…
Valuation Methodology In order to value Graincorp’s stock, this report used two-stage discounted cash flow (DCF) model. This model is chosen considering that Graincorp is in the mature stage, with the characteristics of paying high dividends and has a high leverage. Moreover, management stated that they are building another silos by this year, so it is assumed that Graincorp will have an increasing growth for several periods and will drop to the stable growth afterwards. Hence, the first stage of this model would be the increasing phase for 5 years and then followed by the stable growth phase.…
Back in 2014 the city of surrey filed an application in regards to having a storm sewer and storm water diversion system on land that was not owned by the city of surrey. The piece of land had been licensed to the southern railway of British Columbia and is owned by BC Hydro. The CTA approved of the project suggested by the city of surrey. This essay will discuss how the future implications of the decision made by the Canadian transportation agency will affect BC Hydro, the Southern Railway of British Columbia, and the city of surrey.…
Briggs and Stratton is an American industrial company that primarily is involved in engineering, developing, and manufacturing internal combustion gas engines for small power machines. The company was started in 1908 and they are the world’s leading producer in small engines and specialize in products such as: generators, pressure washers, snow blowers, air compressors, and lawnmower engines. The Briggs and Stratton plant in Auburn has been in service since August of 1995. The company has been a top 5 employer in the area since it has opened and has been actively involved in community activities such as Habitat for Humanity, United Way, and Rebuilding Together; they have also been a long-running sponsor of the Fourth of July fireworks for the City of Auburn. The company also has had a long relationship with Auburn University and works collectively on a plethora of engineering projects since they have been present in the area.…
Since the beginning of the coal mining industries in the 1800s, thousands of mines have been created, extracting the precious mineral, and then dumped, empty and hollow. Once industries finished with a certain area, it would be dropped and they would move on, drilling in another location. The act of reclaiming these mines did not come to light until 1977 when the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act was passed by Congress after they saw the disruption in the environment. This act put a strain on the profits of many coal mining industries, such as Peabody Energy and Alpha Natural Resources. Now, Peabody Energy and Alpha Natural Resources wrongly reclaim their retired mines as a way to protect their profits, doing the bare minimum of reclamation.…
Air Pollution Policy and Controversy Rachel Carson boldly warned the American people in 1962 that if the United States continued its agricultural and industrial practices, songbirds would cease to exist. Losing an important part of the ecological food chain would have repercussions, possibly worse than we could imagine. While literature like Silent Spring helped bring attention to environmental concerns in the mid to late 1900s, several fatal disasters struck a stronger chord. Smog in Pennsylvania and the fire-lit Cuyahoga, for example, illustrated just how dearly the environment needed policy reform.…
The one of the fundamental errors P-9 made was to fail to understand BATNA in the negotiation table. The consultant and the local P-9 did not consider the best of many options for workers. They just wanted to gain their reservation point by the aid of strike. In this case, P-9’s target point was to recover wages of workers to $10.89 per hour. However, the Hormel Company’s reservation point was to cut wages by 23%.…
In 2006 the voters of Washington state passed the Energy Independence Act (EIA) through a ballot initiative in the November mid-term elections. The initiative was championed by the organization Washingtonians for Energy Security (WES). The EIA is a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requiring electric utilities serving at least 25,000 customers to produce 15% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020 (Energy Independence Act of 2006). The EIA also seeks to increase energy conservation efforts by requiring qualifying utilities to invest in energy saving measures such as efficiency of use, production, or distribution (Energy Independence Act of 2006).…
Fontaine and Gaudin did not really object successfully or forcefully to the hardball tactics employed by Hauptmann and Zinnser. However, they were correct in noting the extreme importance of this contract for Pacific Oil, and some contract with Reliant, even a bad one, is likely better than no contract at all. Even so, Fontaine and Gaudin were not nearly forceful enough, and should have noted that they were making significant concessions already and were unwilling to go further. Hauptmann and Zinnser were using hardball tactics, and their style can thus be described as competitive.…
Students in the online sections should email their cases to their online TA. Name: Jennifer Johnson Zhao Jin OIS – 3440 Applications of Business Statistics Section “00” Instructor: Professor Tariq Mughal Case 10.1 Motive Power Company – part 1 Executive Summary In case 10 .1 Motive Power Company Part 1, manufacturing manager Cregg Hart is approached by another supplier for rivets. Motive Power is very keen on their quality and are interested in evaluating the new rivets by comparing them to their existing supplier’s rivets.…
LEAN + CIRCULAR PRINCIPALS = A NEW TRUE NORTH FOR MANUFACTURER For a photovoltaic sun powered board cluster to work successfully as a unit, each minor sunlight based cell must perform at the same abnormal state. So when SunPower, a vertically coordinated architect and creator of sun oriented cells and boards for homes, business structures, and power plants, propelled an incline administration exertion in 2011, concentrating on quality change and variety lessening appeared well and good. When they turned out to be great at those exercises, the change extended to utilize stream creation, enhanced processing plant design, general hardware viability, critical thinking, A3s, kaizen occasions, and so on.…
During August 2007 in Germany, a rescue package of €3.5 billion was arranged by the German government for the country’s IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG which had also been afflicted by the US sub-prime market crisis. The whole affair, however, was handled much more cautiously with the public being given no serious indication towards the extent of IKB’s plight. The rationale for this type of secrecy, in the event where wide-spread panic has not yet occurred, was set out in a speech by Eddie George, Governor of the Bank of England in 1994 (cited in Financial Stability Review, 1999, p.…
Carlson Company Case Memo The Carlson Company is facing serious problems with sex trafficking in the global tourism. The Carlson Company is a global marketing, travel, and hospitality company. In 2004, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Chief executive officer of the Carlson Company, signed the Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism.…