CASE FAIRCHILD WATER TECHNOLOGIES‚ INC. 1. The difference between a developing and a developed country are typically based on economics. A developing country usually has a low level of affluent citizens‚ and higher levels of unemployment. Developing countries also have lower education rates‚ and often times undeveloped‚ rural type villages. Developed countries usually have technological advantages‚ better roads‚ stable governments‚ higher education rates‚ and good health care. 2. By performing
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Fairchild Water Technologies‚ Inc. I. INTRODUCTION Fairchild Water Technologies was founded in 1980 by Eugene Fairchild. The company’s first product was a desalinator used by mobile home parks in Florida to remove salt from well water supplied to residents. As the desalinator became a huge success‚ the company expanded into the coastal region’s adjacent to the company’s headquarters in Tampa‚ Florida‚ and then to desert areas in the southwestern United States. By 2002‚ they had expanded
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1. Problem/Issue Definition Fairchild Water Technology was a company established in 1980 by Eugene Fairchild that focused on water filtration and purification systems. Fairchild was very successful in the industry and wanted to expand internationally and to be known as the producer of the best water purification systems in worldwide. As the international market liaison for Fairchild‚ Rahul Chatterjee was given the challenge of moving Fairchild from just “dabbling in developing countries to thriving
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Student: 00599-3878 By the year 2000‚ Fairchild Water Technologies‚ Inc. (Fairchild) was a mature company experienced in the realm of water technologies and offering a diverse product line consisting of desalinators‚ particle filters‚ ozonators‚ ion exchange resins and water purifiers. Even though their prices were higher than those of many competitors‚ industry experts generally regarded the product line as superior in terms of performance and quality. Fairchild had experienced some early success
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Aspen Technology Inc. 1. What are Aspen Technology´s main Exchange rate exposures? Aspen Technologic Inc‚ is firm specialized in the development of simulation software for customers in process manufacturing industries‚ particularly the chemical industry. Big part of the AspenTech earnings comes for the licenses of their existing products. The 52% of Aspen Tech’s software license revenues came from customers outside de United States. With most‚ but not all‚ of its expenses incurred in the
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Component Technologies‚ Inc 1) Prepare the manufacturing staff’s calculations for the three alternatives (please refer to the attachments): a) In the first set of calculations‚ the staff used a discount rate of 20%‚ a five-year time horizon‚ and ignored taxes and terminal value. What is the relative attractiveness of these three alternatives? During the period of 5 years (from 1994 to 1998)‚ if the discount rate is 20%‚ Waltham plant is the only one that has a positive amount in NPV. The
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Decision Problem Should Fairchild enter the Indian market and if so what form of market entry to adopt? Strategic Options 1. Licensing: The aAdvantages include an accelerated path to market entry as well as lower initial investment expenses. pros oof this option are it is quick and easy to enter the market‚ and has a lower cost of entry. The dDisadvantages are many including involve a lowestlower expected ROI‚ minimum future equity opportunities as well as limited control over marketing‚ pricing
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Sygate2. Headquarters overhead cost allocation at Korea auto insurance Tasks: a) What would be the net income of the Taejon branch as of 2007 and 2008 if the headquarters’ overhead costs were allocated by the current method? Calculate the amounts of revenue‚ and direct and indirect costs of the Taejon branch for these two years. b) The current overhead cost driver‚ branch revenues‚ is criticized because it lacks any logical relationship to the overhead costs allocated by headquarters. Choose
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at the beginning of 2009 was1.342 trillion barrels of which about 10 % is deep water – a little more than 100 billion barrels. Deep water drilling is the process of oil and gas exploration and production in depths of more than 500 feet. The deep water drilling system consists of the semisubmersible drill ship‚ riser and subsea hardware including the blowout preventer (BOP) stack and underwater work systems. Deep water horizon contains perishable evidence and potentially stores pollutants‚ and as
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Figure 3(a) shows ripples in the form of contours on the surface of the water‚ which represents the splash formation. Figure 3(b)‚ Illustrates the results from the FEM analysis and the experiments conducted by Kindervater‚ wherein the experimental graphs were passed through 600 Hz SAE [7] filter‚ and FEM was passed through a 1000 Hz filter. Acceleration values for the FEM analysis and the experimental data was 91G and 69G respectively. Figure 3(c) shows the later phase in which a half ‚non-rigid
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