Case Study: General Motors Bankruptcy Case In The United States?

It was known that nearly half million of vehicles were effected from this problem in USA, and 11 million in Europe and Asia [4-]. The problem was not a technical issue, it was claimed that VW board of management hide this problem. For that reason, company had lost about 25 billion € of their shares in a short time. The main question is that why VW made this big mistake that it would drag itself into the business. One of the article about the subject claims that, brand manager Wolfgang Bernhard and engineer Rudolf Krebs were working on the new diesel engine to be used in the US [4-].

Porsche’s day as an independent luxury car company seemed to be over. Yet, five years later Porsche recovered and became one of the most successful automobile company’s in the world with an annual profit of 1.939 billion €. This dramatic change is owed to the implementation of lean management and the Toyota production system. This paper will illustrate the causes for the crisis and how lean management was introduced to Porsche.1992 marked the year of the crash. Main Body Production processes were slow, redundant and inefficient, products lacked quality, organizational structures were complex and employees capabilities have not been used effectively.

As a result, there are no expected synergies. Company still prolong, but it is underperformance. In market, Fiat Chrysler is known as making worse and more expensive car than firm’s competitors, Especially for Fiat, they are losing their markets in Europe. In 2nd quarter of 2013, they profited 224 million euros in Latin America whereas in Europe, there was no profit but only a loss of 98 million euros (Economist, 2013). Therefore, the M&A has lost its purposes 3.5.

Just like present day America, 1790’s France was conflicted to change. Though they had a few rough years, France profited about 40 billion ( in today 's currency) over the course of 7-8 years for only small “Mom-and-Pop” places. Even with the states seeing success, “the first session of the 89th congress saw metric studies at an all time high” and still only thought of converting instead of taking action (Nber.edu Metric System Pending). Many may say that the U.S. is not like other countries and is not in the same time period in order for the plan to work. Along with that argument, people incline that children of that era did not have as many educational problems as today with the rise of certain learning disabilities, to which supporters of changing state that some may have a few problems but that the new system would be applied at a young age to be grown up with and known well.

Key attributes of GM didn’t come until Mary Barra initiated changes after the ignition switch recall crisis. She acknowledged the unfavorable characteristics of the GM culture and vowed for a resolution and began to take action. GM has many strengths and weakness. One of their strengths are they are a multinational automotive company with a strong brand portfolio and rare product recalls. Because of their high credibility, the ignition switch recall crisis wasn’t as detrimental as it would have been to a company with little credibility.

Its competitors are in better condition with Urban Outfitters at 3.5, American Eagle Outfitters at 2.3, and GPS Clothing at 3.2 and Express Clothing at 14.2. The industry average is at 2.5 and American Apparel is significantly lower than that number. Industry experts always say that if a company’s Price/Equity Ratio is lower than the industry average, there is something horribly wrong with the company in issues of management, operations or the company is on verge of getting a buyout. In the case of American Apparel, they have had stock prices falling resulting in a loss of over 86 million USD. They are also having questionable changes in top management with several executives coming from companies where they might have been responsible for the company’s debacle.

However, the Toyota massive recalls show a very different situation and involves more serious consequences. We have seen that almost 9 million of Toyota vehicles around the world had to be recalled within a few months, and the potentially defective quality involved were mainly focused on unintended acceleration problems, which were closely related to the most important thing for drivers – safety driving. It’s thus hard to believe that there was nothing wrong with Toyota’s “quality” cars. The massive recalls were indeed a disaster for Toyota: not only means that they had to pay for the extensively financial losses due to repairing costs, market and stock share dropping down, production suspending, civil penalty, and other relevant expenses for dealing with the troublesome issues; but also it has heavily hit to Toyota’s intangible assets – its brand image and reputation of quality, which have been ethically shaped over time

They are the negatives of an organization. Whilst the P&G Company has much strength, it also has weaknesses. One of these is that half the brands were generating the bulk of growth while rests were lagging behind. A further weakness has been that the retail world increasingly populated by private-label goods, P&G’s premium products were having difficulty competing. In addition revenue growth was slowing down, particularly in developed markets, due to maturity of the company’s established behind.

The Global Competion. For instance, ten years ago, GM's market share for 2013 stood at 17.9 percent, followed by Ford at 15.9 percent and Chrysler at 11.3 percent, for a total of about 45 percent for the three Detroit companies. Despite the recoveries of GM and Chrysler after their 2009 bankruptcies, and despite all the efforts made at Ford to improve its operations, the Detroit automakers gained only half of a point of market share in 2013, facing a stiff battle from foreign based companies, many of which build cars in the United States. Foreign competitors as well as Tesla Motors

It will cost the automobile-maker in terms of legal fines, investors and customer backlash, class action suits, possible criminal investigation, and loss of futures sales. Forbes estimated that the total cost the company will have to bear would be up to 30.25 billion Euros, which includes in fines and settlements from the government and from the private sectors, recall expenses and also future loss of sales. However, Volkswagen currently only has 21.5 billion Euros in cash which is still insufficient for a worst case scenario. The market capitalization of world 's third biggest car maker plunged 15 per cent in two days in the wake of the scandal and is exacerbating problems in the benchmark DAX index which s battling with a bear market (Sydney Morning Herald, 2015). The scandal will also affect other fellow automakers who makes cars which runs on diesel,

Allstate With more than $1.7 billion in composed premiums and 15.5% of the business sector, Allstate comes in as the second greatest auto back up plan in New York. While the organization is still a goliath in the business sector, it has lost ground. Allstate 's yearly composed premiums fell about $162 million somewhere around 2011 and 2013, a period amid which its piece of the pie declined by 2.6%. Consolidated with Geico 's additions in this period, the piece of the overall industry hole between the main two organizations has enlarged from 8.1% in 2011 to 13.5% in 2013. State

Charitable giving increased from seventy-seven billion to one hundred twenty billion in a mere nine years, after only increasing forty billion in twenty-five years. While they were spending more on non necessities for themselves, they were also more charitable (McKenzie, n.d.). Does the increase in the amount of giving discredit the nickname of “The Decade of Greed” awarded to the 1980s? It depends on how you view the statistics. Americans were certainly interested in acquiring more wealth and assets, but what decades weren’t also motivated by the color of

It can reduce competitors business by more than 40 percent. Stores nearby Wal-Mart are at high risk of going out of business. According to Loyola University, Wal-Mart promised to bring more jobs to a poor community in Chicago, but within two years of opening 82 local stores around the area were closed (Barrison). Wal-Mart’s stores demolish more retail jobs than they create. Jobs leave town when Wal-Mart’s stores moves in.

Rather than helping the farmers which it was designed to do, it turned out to be the one of the nation 's highest protective tariff(TEXT PAGE 740) This served as a low blow to all international countries America was involved with. Not only did the tariff economically isolate America from the world, but it also created a financial chaos among America 's trading partners. It literally sent America and other nations into a deeper depression(DOCUMENT D). In addition to this, during the nineteen twenties, stock prices were rapidly increasing and because of this, “buying on margin” became very popular. This “buy now, pay later” form of credit worked well with a rising market, but not with a declining one(DOCUMENT B).

Sears’ profit margin has been bouncing from high to low for the past ten years. An interesting point though is their profit margin was barely affected during the recession in 2008. If anything the recession was a better time for Sears. They were focused on “recession-friendly” advertising and with their layaway programs were able to still be selling higher priced products. They took advantage of the recession by challenging their external partners to deliver more for less.