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Hot Wheels

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Competitive response , Growth strategy , Market analysis , Operations strategy , Profitability analysis
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Problem definition: Our client is Korean Car Parts (KCP), a multi-national original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of car parts based in Korea. They've recently seen a decline in profits and have brought us in to understand how to address this falling profitability.

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Do we have data on profit margin?

Hot Wheels
Most recent answer on May 18, 2020
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Hello! Agree with you, that is a piece of information that you indeed need and it´s missing. If this happens in a real intrview, it´s a good catch, and you should ask for it. Interviewer will facilitate. Hope it ... (read entire answer)
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Calculation of Change in Profitability

Hot Wheels profitability analysis
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Hi Benedikt, You are correct! My apologies, the case will be updated shortly :) In summary: 1) Seatbelt change in profitability is indeed -$45M 2) Total projected change in profitability is -$43M Apologies f ... (read entire answer)
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