Answer To: DBN509 A1 PART AComment by Zia Qureshi: Correct it ? Dhruv D Patel YIB000012k INTRODUCTION Fonterra...
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DBN509
Assignment 1: Part A
Dhruv D Patel
YIB000012k
Introduction
Fonterra is the company famous for manufacturing dairy products and it is so massive that it is suppling 30% of the dairy products worldwide. There are in total 141 countries, which are importing the dairy products of Fonterra for their daily use. There was in to 19.23 billion of profit last year for the company. The company is owned by 10000 farmers and, they play important role for the success of the company. Moreover, Fonterra is working on enhancing the technology to deal on the operations on daily basis. As stated by Qian and Olsen (2018), the biodiversity is supported and ensured by the farmers of Fonterra and the quality of the dairy products is ensured by their quality managers.
The company was established in October 2001 and in some time, the capital is so increased that the company have increased their shares in the market. According to Delaney and Haworth (2016), due to increasing capital in a smaller period, the company have introduced variety of products in the market. Fonterra has increased its 50% of market by purchasing dairy farmers and national foods.
After that, the company has introduced deserts and yogurts to expand its business. Fonterra has the aggregate of 11 boards of members in which 7 members are selected by the farmers and the other 4 are selected by the other 7 boards of member. The entire growth of marketing and the company depends on the CEO of the company and he controls the boards of directors.
Financials of the company:
According to the survey of Fonterra, it shows that Fonterra has performed well due to which the shares rate of the company increased by 8.8-9.00% in 2015. After that, the company did a large investment on technology and it has mainly increased its production of the dairy products like cheese, deserts, milk, and as stated by Henry and Prince (2018), after the production of the new products the market shares has increased globally. For example, Fonterra has invested a large amount of money on its new products like cheese, milk, ice cream but the investment in 2017 has made some of the problems and by that company has faced loss of $ 195 million and that is a big figure loss compared to its profit.
Fonterra also has lack of expert management so that must be the reason for which the company has faced the loss. By this loss, seniors of the company have hired some of the good management experts in 2018 to ensure to its stakeholders. According to the annual report of Fonterra, it has recorded a Gross Profit of $ 902 million in the financial year 2018-19. The Sales figures went down by 3 % but the value-added businesses of Fonterra like Foodservice, Consumer and Advanced ingredients went up by 42 % in comparison to 2017 in this financial year, and 45 % of the milk was sold through these businesses which significantly impacted on the gross profit margin.
However, the business shows a loss of $ 196 million, which is a fall of approximately 126 % than that of the last year’s profit, which was approximately around & 750 million. This was because the core business of Fonterra was very low and showed negative growth due to various issues like change of leadership was one of the factors.
Mission and Vision of the company:
The company has the mission to increase its market shares and provide a good number to its stakeholder by the vision to provide good and fresh product for the daily use. The company also wants to increase its market worldwide, which may also increase its capital.
Its vision is to make a difference in the north and bring a sense of belongingness and inspiration among the diverse group of people. According to Brown (2016), this vision is fulfilled by the farmer shareholders of the company and the employees are making its mission successful.
Products and services of the company:
The company mainly works on manufacturing dairy products like milk, cheese, butter, yogurt, ice cream, and the company has brands like anchor, tip-top, mainland. Anchor (milk), Anmum, Tip Top (ice cream), Anlene and Mainland (cheese, butter) are the global brands of Fonterra and under these, there are many more products in New Zealand as well as in other countries like Australia and Chile.
Core values of Fonterra:
According to Nilsson and Rydberg (2015), as individual employees of the company are shaped in professional experience and different cultures for community, the company satisfy its values and environment for offering healthy products at very less prices as well as offering core values for the environment. Moreover, the company is talking values for their farmers and it fulfils rules of the government for the core values of the company.
Key Markets – New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka
Sustainability challenges of the company: -
1) The non-performing assets
There are a huge number of assets of Fonterra, which are not performing as they are expected to be. The capital utilisation of the company has severely failed and due to which Fonterra changed its chairperson and has suspended its search for a new CEO internationally.
2) Legacy issues
As per Ingley (2016), the company is facing few inevitable and unavoidable legacy issues but even the management knows that it is not an excuse for under performing in the market and they have to deal with it as soon as possible, whatever the cost maybe.
3) Price Cut
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