ECO404 Managerial Economics GDB Fall January 2013 Due Date 7- Jan- 2013


Total Marks 30
Starting Date
Friday, January 04, 2013
Closing Date
Monday, January 07, 2013
Status
Open
The Case:

Nestlé S.A. is a company of Swiss origin headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland. Nestlé's products mainly include baby food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee, dairy products, ice cream, pet foods and snacks. Werner Bauer, Chief technology officer of Nestle, has presented company’s vision that they are committed to delight their consumers with healthy food and beverages of the highest quality and they can’t achieve this goal without education and skill enhancement of the workers of Nestle.
That’s why they have invested on R&D for development and improvement of analytical standards through an analytical methods network. Each day, it strives to make its products tastier and healthier that help consumer’s care for themselves and their families. This would not be possible without its unmatched R&D capability, nutrition science and passion for quality in everything it do. For example, Nestlé Professional has taken a lead in reducing the salt and fat content of its sauces. Nestle has engaged more than 100 professional chefs to incorporate the Nestlé philosophy on Nutrition, Health & Wellness into their products and recipes.
Suppose, due to vast experience, efficiency and investment in R&D, Nestlé’s sales volume had reached from $19 billion in 2010 to $94 billion in 2011 with profit of 6% in 2010 and 7.5% in 2011. Furthermore, the company has reduced its average cost by 3.5% from 4.1% during 2010-11. This huge jump of its sales is a reward of learning by doing which has enhanced the efficiency of professionals, decreased the cost and eventually promoted the sales of quality products.


Requirement:


A. If Nestle has a target to achieve 11.6% profit for the year 2014, how they can get insight from Managerial Economics in order to fulfill its target?
B. Keeping in view above scenario, discuss with logical reasoning which concept of Managerial Economics tend to increase the quality production of Nestle by promoting such a bumper increase in sales and profit.

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