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Cooper Case COOPER CASE STUDY SUMMARY Nicholson Early in 1972 Nicholson dad to fend off a take over attempt by H.K. Porter Company Inc., which controlled 30.5% of
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COOPER CASE STUDY SUMMARY
Nicholson
Early in 1972 Nicholson dad to fend off a take over attempt by H.K. Porter Company Inc., which controlled 30.5% of the company's stock. Porter made a cash tender offer to stockholders. However, Porter did not get enough stock to take over Nicholson. In trying to fight the takeover Nicholson made several merger overtures to other companies like VLN Corp. A few years back, it had rejected an offer from Cooper Industries.
Cooper Industries & Nicholson
Cooper was interested in Nicholson because of its competitive strength in the hand tools industry. Nicholson had a 50% share for files and wraps with a very strong brand name and high quality line. It also had a 9% share of the 200 million handsaws and saw blades market with excellent brand & quality. It had a very effective and large distribution system across US, Canada and overseas. Cooper industries believed that Nicholson can achieve 6% annual sales growth and also bring down the cost of goods sold from 69% to 65% and selling and administrative expenses from 22% to 19%, thereby increasing its profitability. Cooper would be able to use Nicholson’s distribution system to cross sell Cooper’s hand tool lines in the industrial and consumer markets.
Cooper anticipated that the Nicholson acquisition would lessen its earnings volatility and currently Nicholson is in the merger market to fend off the raid by H K Porter Company.
Valuation of Nicholson File (without merger)
Please see Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 3 for details and assumptions
Assuming that Nicholson will continue to have sales growth equal to 2 % with cost of goods sold at 69% of the net sales, its market price will stay in the ($19 to $27 range in 1972) and ($22 to $31 in 1976) because of the operating in-efficiencies and lower profit margins (3% to 4 %) as also the un-certain ownership situation. Its share price is therefore lower then its book-value.
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