The Quality Wheelbarrow Company Case

The Quality Wheelbarrow Company Case June 19, 2012 TO: Albert Higgens, President FROM: Arbuckle, Wilson and Everett Consulting Corporation SUBJ: Review of QWC Financial and in operation(p) Status_______________________________________ We have completedour evaluation of QWC. A summary is listed below. Detailed compend willing follow within the week; however, our Mr. Everett is in your connection all this week and is available at your request to help any questions. SUMMARY: QWC is a 25-year-old friendship with sales of 96 million dollars serving the quality wheelbarrow market. The company will lose about 4 million dollars this year, and projects about the alike(p) loss next year on slightly increase sales. It is our feeling that this situation is irreversible unless something can be through with(p) to reduce the high compensation cost the company is bearing. We be recommending that the company consider one and only(a) of three actions. All complicate major actions, still this is a desperate situation. The alternatives are: 1. plump the company, physically, to low labor rate area such as the Mexican border, and in addition, begin to purchase parts from Latin America. 2. Cut back on the quality of the product and complot the prices. 3. Sell out to a conglomerate.

We know of a company with interest in QWC, and we could assist in initiating negotiations. REPORT: In the past few years, QWC sales have been flat and will be so for the next few years. The market is expanding, but Japanese barrows came into the market last year and have been actually well received, although they are slightly more expensive than QWC machines. This is one of the reasons we recommend a price increase. Japanese workers do not have the personal mobility that American workers do, so they can distill and do better work. We are making some recommendations to the industrial Relations people concerning additional benefit programs. We have examined the available and operations area of the company in... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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