Essays on Carmakers

VOLKSWAGEN CASE STUDY

Executive summary: Volkswagen is the leading manufacturer of car products. This company holds Volkswagen group and produced a variety of models. Recently, Volkswagen has been involved in the emission scandals of their equipped vehicles. The company vehicles are equipped with software that was cheating on emission tests. Hence, Volkswagen is the top selling brand of Volkswagen group. Since 1975 the company has been treated as world largest automaker in the world. Volkswagen has the most cars of the automobile manufacturer which has multiple revisions of model names. In this, the crisis management of the Volkswagen emission scandal has been ...

Introduction

The hydrographic printing technology was developed in 1988. The investigator Motoyasu Nakanishi of company Kabushiki Kaisha Cubic Engineering registered the first patent for the hydrographic printing technology on 26 July 1992. The principle is almost the same of the current hydrographic printing technologies where a transcription film is inserted in a painting apparatus with water. The machine transfers the painting film to the surface. There are many applications in the hydrographic painting in the automotive industry, interior design and industrial applications. The needs of customization and personalization are the force that gives the energy to this industry and the ...

Introduction

In this paper, the author analyzes the case on the troubled alliance between Volkswagen and Suzuki, two of the biggest and most popular auto-makers in the respective regions that they cater. Suzuki is famous for their small, petite, and fuel efficient cars in Asia. Volkswagen, on the other hand, is famous for their powerful, elegant, and fuel efficient cars in Europe and the Americas. Because of the theory that was posed earlier suggesting that in the current industry environment, most automobile manufacturers are on a constant lookout for more ways to expand—the fastest way possible. From the start, ...

Introduction

The hydrographic printing is a technology with more than twenty years where a printed layer is transferred to a surface using an immersion process. In 1992 was registered the first patent for the technology and currently there are important companies in United States of America and Germany that have important experience in this field. There is a project to install a hydrographic service in Kuwait to offer the service inside the country taking the advantage to be the only company in the country to offer the service. The characteristics of Kuwait give competitive advantages to develop the business in ...

Q: Determine the annual effective financing percentage cost of the yen-denominated notes issued in each of the three scenarios in the Blades case for the future value of the yen.

Scenario 1: No change in value of yen Scenario 2: 2% appreciation in the value of yen relative to Baht Scenario 3: 3% appreciation in the value of yen relative to Baht Q: Determine the probability that the financing cost of issuing yen-denominated notes is higher than the cost of issuing baht-denominated notes As we may note from the above spreadsheet table, under all the three scenarios, the annual ...