Managerial Economics Presentation

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5 Most Admired Companies

Criteria of Selection

• List of 50 in Fortune Magazine • Select 5 based on their performance and growth

Apple Incorporation

Apple Incorporation

• On top, third time in a row • Acclaimed for innovative technology • Renowned for consumer electronics such as ipod, iphone and imac

Popular Products • iphone

ipod

imac

SHARES AT NASDAQ

TOYOTA

What does Toyota Do? Toyota Motor designs, manufactures, and finances motor vehicles and related products and services Total sales are about $173 billion, with automotive operations providing more than 90% of that Based in Japan, Toyota trades on the New York Stock Exchange

By the End of 2007… • Toyota passed GM to become the highest volume motor vehicle manufacturer and the world’s largest manufacturing firm by sales • Toyota with its lean production system deposed the GM which concentrated on mass production system. • Exactly why did Toyota win?

Common Wisdom GM had: • Excessive wage costs for its unionized workers. • Pension crisis with salaried and unionized retirees. • Uncompetitive factories with low-quality products. Toyota had: • Lower compensation costs due to young work force. • A weak currency in Japan. • A lucky break from high oil prices in recent years. As a result: • Toyota won.

INTRODUCTION • It was founded in 1839 as Valley Falls Company by Oliver Chace. • Its headquarters are in Omaha and Nebraska . • Warren Buffet is the key person of the company who began to buy shares of Berkshire Hathaway in 1962 • Afterwards he bought enough shares and changed management of the company. • Revenue for the year 2007 is $118.245 billion. • Net Income for the year 2007 is $13.213 billion.

Core Business Of Berkshire Hathaway • It oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies. • Insurance: Property Insurance Casualty Insurance • Reinsurance

Non Insurance Business • Apparel (Manufactures and distribute variety of clothes and footwear) • Building products • Flight services • Furniture • Candy production • Encyclopedias • Jewelry sales • Newspaper publishing

Some Facts about Warren Buffet • Chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. • Now ranked the richest man in the world by Forbes Magazine. • Net worth is $62.0 billion. • World's greatest Stock Market Investor. • Often called “Oracle of Omaha”

The Corporation • American Multinational Company with over 79000 employees in 102 countries. • Current CEO and cofounder: Bill Gates • One of the largest corporations in the world with Market Capital over 400 billion dollars.

Financial Giant • Bill Gates, the co-founder, is currently the third richest person in the world with wealth estimated at 58 billion dollars. • Microsoft made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. • Global Annual Sales: $ 51.12 billion • Net Income: $ 14.06 billion

Microsoft Products • Windows Software • Zune mp3 player • Gaming Devices (mice and keyboard)

BMW • BMW is one of the world's leading performance and luxury manufacturers of cars and motorcycles • Also the parent company of the MINI and Rolls-Royce car brands. • Headquarters are in Munich, Germany.

Operation Stats • Became the leading luxury vehicle manufacturer in 2007 • Employees: 107,079 €56 billion (2007) • Revenue: • Production: 1,206,884 vehicles

The Vehicles

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