Acquisition Valuation Exercise: Nestle Candy
Divestiture
Situation: Nestle has decided to sell its
Chocolate Division (Butterfinger, Baby Ruth and Nestle Crunch) to
Ferrero, the Italia maker of Nutella. You are the Director of
Corporate Development and have been asked to help set the price for
the business.
The division has provided you with a projection of their Base
Case EBITDA forecast:
2019:
$30M
2021: $38M 2023:
$41M
2020:
$35M
2022: $40M
You estimate that the synergies to Ferrero,...
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during the covid-19 crisis. Does this show social responsibility?
Do you believe they may have an alter-motive to these acts?
Jon agrees to sell 5,000 units of vitamins to Dany. Dany
operates a retail grocery store and
intends to sell the vitamins in her store. Jon doesn’t have any
experience in medicine or
chemistry and he just started making the vitamins using a formula
he learned from a friend who
is a chemist up North. This is Jon’s first sale; he is trying to
get into the business of selling
vitamins so he can quit his full time job as...
Jon Wayne is in the dessert making business. He produces two
special “dessert boxes”: (1) Cherry Pop and (2) Chocolate Lover.
His operating expenses total $2,000 per week. Jon is supported by
three staff members, who are each responsible for different parts
of the dessert box production process.
• Bobo is responsible for ingredient mixing;
• Samuel is in charge of decorating the desserts; and
• Nancy is the hardest worker of the three. She packages the
desserts with great...
A sparkling-water distributor wants to make up 200 gal of
sparkling water to sell for $5.00 per gallon. She wishes to mix
three grades of water selling for
$99.00, $22.00, and $4.50 per gallon, respectively. She
must use twice as much of the $4.50 water as the $2.00, water. How
many gallons of each should she use?
Water, Inc., expects to sell 3.7 million bottles of drinking
water each year in perpetuity. This year each bottle will sell for
$1.46 in real terms and will cost $.82 in real terms. Sales income
and costs occur at year-end. Revenues will rise at a real rate of
1.8 percent annually, while real costs will rise at a real rate of
.8 percent annually. The real discount rate is 5 percent. The
corporate tax rate is 23 percent.
What is...