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tkMC Case: Portfoliooptimierung einer Holding-Gesellschaft
Ihr Kunde ist eine Holding-Gesellschaft, die drei größere Unternehmen im Portfolio hält. Das erfolgreiche Portfolio hat sich in den letzten zwei Jahren sehr dynamisch entwickelt und die Unternehmen stehen vor unterschiedlichen Herausforderungen. Das Management nimmt diese Situation zum Anlass und möchte eine Portfoliooptimierung durchführen. Als Berater werden Sie beauftragt zunächst eine Portfolioanalyse durchzuführen und im Anschluss Handlungsempfehlungen für die Portfolioentscheidungen vorzubereiten.
Bain Case: Altes Weingut
Du erbst von deinem Großvater ein Weingut, die Old Winery, welche sich seit fünf Generationen in Familienbesitz befindet und bis ins 16. Jahrhundert datiert werden kann.Auf den elf Hektar der Old Winery werden konventionell, d.h. nicht biologisch betrieben und zertifiziert, je zur Hälfte weiße und rote Trauben angebaut, wobei der Rebbestand bezüglich Alter und Pflege in gutem Zustand ist. Insgesamt werden nur ¼ der Ernte selbst zu Wein gekeltert; der Rest wird weiterverkauft.Dein Großvater, der selbst am Image des Weinguts nichts verändern wollte, überließ die Bewirtschaftung und Verwaltung einem jungen dynamischen Winzer. Aufgrund des wenig bekannten Images des Weinguts ist die aktuelle Nachfrage nach dem eigenproduzierten Wein nicht besonders hoch.Da du dich mit Weinanbau wenig auskennst, willst du das Weingut nicht operativ leiten, aber findest die Idee spannend, ein Weingut zu besitzen.
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Novion Therapeutics
Your client is Novion Therapeutics, a leading American biotech company focused on gene and cell therapies. With a market capitalization of around $120 billion, Novion is recognized for its innovations in rare disease treatments and its mission to advance human health through breakthrough biotechnologies in immunology, oncology, and genetic medicine.Recently, the company has faced growing investor pressure. Despite strong products, its firm-value growth has stagnated, and investors are expecting a visible strategic move within the next quarter. The CFO has identified several high-growth, capital-intensive R&D and acquisition projects, but Novion lacks sufficient cash reserves to fund them. What should the CFO do next?
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Chemical Merger Synergies
Two global chemical companies announced their intent to merge. Senior management of the two companies called your firm the day after the merger was announced. The client needs a more in-depth understanding of the benefits from the merger for its board and would like your firm to help out. In short, 2 questions to solve: (1) what are some of the financial benefits from the merger? (2) how much are these benefits worth?
Business Strategy: Home Delivery Solution for Retailer Chain
Kadara, a privately-held US retailer active in the Midwest with annual sales of approximately USD 3 bn, is trying to figure out a solution to last-mile home delivery. The company currently operates out of 100 brick-and-mortar stores selling primarily groceries and home essentials (e.g. paper towels, diapers, blenders). They also sell all non-perishable products offered in their stores through their website. Currently, all sales from their website are delivered via 3rd parties (e.g. FedEx, USPS), picking up products from regional distribution centers, and their minimum delivery time is next day. Kadara does not have out-of-store delivery options but they know that services such as Instacart and Postmates are being used by customers to arrange home delivery of groceries. Kadara's management believes that they are, at best, leaving money on the table due to their limited home delivery options and, at worst, at risk of being de-selected by customers as they move towards delivery options. Kadara’s future CEO, the granddaughter of the founder, has jumped on the chance to move the company into the future. To that end, she has developed a recommendation to Kadara's board to buy Dallas Drone Technologies (DDT). DDT designs, manufactures and operates small-to-midsize flying drones. Their initial models focused on aerial photography but they added goods movement capabilities about two years ago. The future CEO believes that drone delivery is key and that Kadara should buy DDT for USD 100 m to become a leader in the space. Kadara's current CEO would like your help specifically in evaluating the option to buy DDT and generally in how to think about home delivery and the future of their business.
MBB first round - Soy Technologies
Our client, Soy Technologies specializes in soy production and processing.The client harvests their soybean crops and processes the soybeans to extract the protein and create soybean meals that are later used for animal feed.Since the demand for soy protein has been steadily increasing in recent years, our client has been looking at more profitable alternatives to create different soybean products, but our client is unsure about the next steps since they would have to entirely change the current processing operations.The alternatives that our client is currently considering are:Producing soy milk which requires 45% of the extracted protein.Producing soy concentrate which requires 70% of the extracted protein.Producing soy isolate which requires 90% of the extracted protein.Our team has been asked to assist them in deciding which option would be best.
BCG Final Round: Stadium Naming Rights
Our client is NeuBank, a neobank in the US. A soccer stadium in Ohio is offering exclusive naming rights, and NeuBank is considering bidding for them. The client wants to understand the following:If this is a good idea?How much they should bid?How to make the deal a win-win?NOTE that this case is very long and is meant for learning casing skills. If you intend to use it for mock practice then focus on very specific segments to complete it in time.Also check out the video solution at the bottom of this page for a step-by-step work-along and detailed explanantion
BCG Platinion/McK Digital/Monitor - Experienced Hire Tech Practice - Roma Solutions
Let’s say we’re working with a large Tech company (i.e. FB, Apple, Microsoft etc.). They are interested in getting into the low-code iBPMS space. This is a space where pseudo-code is used to deploy large-scale process-based IT applications rapidly (in months, not years).In particular, they’re looking at a company called Roma, which is one of the leaders in the space.What are your thoughts here?You can clarify the following (if asked)iBPMS - Intelligent business process management suites. Think SAP for example. They are IT systems that take users through business processes.The business model of these Tech firms is primarily to find ways to integrate diverse offerings/capabilities to build better products and ecosystems. Therefore, technical synergies are important here.The market is fairly competitive with about a dozen players.Roma is a market leader in this space, vying for 1st against 2 competitors. The top 3 dominate the market.
Russell University - Fresh Attacker on the Online Education Market (McKinsey 1st round)
Russell University, located in the United Kingdom, is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world. They have been educating students for more than two centuries and provide a variety of undergraduate and graduate STEM-focused courses. In an effort to increase revenues and expand their reach, the university has recently begun offering three online postgraduate qualifications. Despite the quality of teaching and effort spent in developing these courses, the response from students in terms of sign-up rates has been modest. Russel University executives believe they are acting too slowly since other prestigious universities, particularly in the US, have successfully leveraged their brand to offer short and affordable online courses to a variety of people. Russell University has hired us to determine whether they should acquire Eduline, a well-established platform that offers STEM-related short courses to its subscribers. The university intends to use Eduline to offer courses on a subscription basis and will then issue online certificates to individuals who successfully complete its courses.
Merger of two beer manufacturers
Our clients are two beer manufacturers from a well-developed country who just decided to merge. We can call them Company A and Company B. The decision about the merger has already been taken and our clients are certain it will soon be approved by regulators.What is expected from you is to help them with two objectives: Firstly, they would like you to help them decrease the costs of their post-merger operations. Secondly, they would like you to help them develop a new marketing strategy.How would you like to go about helping our clients?
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Car rental market entry strategy
The client is CarRentalCo, a global car rental company present on the European and North American markets. In Europe, it is present in most EU countries but has not yet entered the Baltic countries. CarRentalCo has asked us to determine whether or not they should enter the Baltic (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania being here considered as one market) and, if so, what should their entry strategy be.
SuperMovil - Telco startup market expansion
Your client is the CEO of a Europe-based mobile Telco operator, SuperMovil. Their business model is very unique: they are a “virtual Telco”. They differ from traditional mobile operators (e.g. Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefónica/O2, etc.) in that they do not own optic fiber, antennas and satellites, but instead partner with the cited traditional Telcos and rent capacity in order to offer their services. Hence, they differ from the classical Telco, since they don't make big CAPEX investments. Your client has expressed interest in expanding her company’s operations to a new country. Which are all the factors you would take into consideration to orchestrate this geographical expansion? *Note: The M&A department has shortlisted 10 countries as top candidates, but this info will be provided and worked on later on in the case.
Staubige Wälzer
Dein Klient ist der Vorstand des großen deutschen Lehrmaterialverlags Bego. Er stellt Dir zunächst Daten bereit, zu denen er ein paar Fragen hat.
SuperBurger
Our client is SuperBurger, a fast food chain that operates in the same class as McDonalds, Wendy's, Burger King and so on. They're the fourth largest fast food chain worldwide in terms of number of stores in operations. SuperBurger owns some of its stores, but 85% of its stores are owned by franchisees. As part of its growth strategy, the company has analyzed some potential acquisition targets including Tasty Donuts which is a growing doughnut producer active in the US and internationally. The client asked us to help him decide whether he should acquire the company or not.
REA Reinsurance
Your client, REA, is a reinsurance company.REA recently acquired another reinsurance company (approximatively same size): the choice of this company was notably based on its product portfolio as well as its market presence which appeared complement with REA.However, the acquisition is not well received by the market. The acquisition price is considered too high and the transaction has not been well graded. REA management asks you to evaluate the transaction.
Paper Print
A printing company is planning to take over another printing company with similar technology and printing machines. The candidate is supposed to evaluate the acquisition by answering a line of questions that are presented in the “suggested approach” section.
Chip equity
Unser Klient ist Chip’n‘Chip, eine Holding für Unternehmen aus dem Elektronikbereich. Sie möchten in OnBoard, ein Platinen Hersteller, investieren und fragen, ob es eine gute Investition ist. Wie würdest Du ihnen helfen?
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General Holding
Der Klient ist eine französische Holding, welche einen jährlichen Umsatz von €1 Milliarde hat. Sie halten fast alle Arten von Unternehmen, die meisten in der „Low tech Herstellung“, darunter unter anderem auch „Öl & Gas“ und „Automobil“ Firmenteile.Es gibt keinen bestimmten Bereich auf den sie ihre Investments fokussieren; sie kaufen eher die besten Unternehmen im Markt, welche nicht komplett unverwandt mit ihrem bestehenden Business sind.Sie denken nun darüber nach einen Autoteilehändler, OTOpart, zu akquirieren und möchten unsere Meinung haben, ob es eine gute Idee ist.
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