Revere Webbing Case Study Solution

1.6 The Takeover of Beacon Webbing
Because Bowmer Bond Narrow Fabrics Limited has only recently purchased the assets and goodwill of Beacon Webbing Limited, the company is currently trying to transfer its strategy to Beacon webbing. Nevertheless, the takeover not only has effects on Beacon Webbing but also on Bowmer Bond.
The takeover entails taking over Beacon’s customers and processing its orders. To verify whether Beacon’s products match BBNF’s quality requirements, the company checks Beacon’s customer, product files, and production procedures.
As the takeover causes an increase of enquiries for BBNF, the Sales department also has to set up new customer files which contain the contact details and information about the orders, product

Being a manufactory, BBNF is fixated on achieving results. Even though each department works on its own, everyone is working towards the goal producing and selling a product which conforms to the wishes of the customer (task culture).

BBNF is overall a people-oriented company and takes personal problems into consideration as well as caring about the well-being of each employee. There is an informal working atmosphere in the company. Nevertheless, the production departments are more work-oriented. Employees have to finish their work on time, otherwise there will be production delays and customers will not receive their goods on time.
Furthermore, BBNF is a bureaucratic culture. The whole organisation revolves around achieving the organisational goals. Every job within the company is so designed that employees easily reach their goals by following the design of the job. For instance, employees working in the production only have to operate their machine to produce traditional webbing. Every employee has to follow certain rules and procedures because BBNF places a lot of value on the quality of the products it offers to its