UMW Holdings: sustaining a centennial corporation

Autor: Adlin Masood, Rosmah Mat Isa, Khairul Akmaliah Adham, Zizah Che Senik, Noreha Halid, Norrana Khidil
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies. 3:1-13
ISSN: 2045-0621
DOI: 10.1108/eemcs-07-2013-0161
Popis: Subject area Strategic Management and Organization Theory and Design. Study level/applicability Advanced undergraduate and MBA students taking courses in Strategic Management and Organization Theory and Design. Case overview By the end of 2011, five years short of its centennial anniversary, UMW Holdings was one of the biggest corporations in Malaysia, registering revenues of RM13.5 billion (US$4.5 billion), and net profit after tax of RMI billion (US$0.33 billion). By that time, it had 110 subsidiaries, operating in four core businesses of automotive assembly and distribution of Toyota lines of products, automotive components and lubricants original equipment manufacturing (OEM) and replacement equipment manufacturing (REM), heavy equipment, and oil and gas drilling service. In September 2011, the company had targeted its Toyota automotive business to contribute to 50 percent of its revenues, while the other 50 percent would come from its other three businesses, by the year 2015. However, as of the first quarter of 2012, Datuk Syed Hisham Syed Wazir, the Group CEO and his management team realized that, at 72 percent, the automotive business was still the main contributor to the Group's revenues. As the company's Toyota assembly operation was limited exclusively to the Malaysian market, plus in the face of greater competition within the automotive industries, the company needed to set strategies to achieve its 50:50 plan. The case stimulates discussion on strategy formulation of a mature corporation, involved in diversified business portfolio. Expected learning outcomes Understanding the process of industry analysis, as well as the formulation and implementation of business-level and corporate strategies, enables case analysts to extend the concepts to many business situations. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes.
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