Chapter 7
Mergers & Acquisitions
1
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Takeovers
Merger
Two firms agree to integrate their operations
on a relatively co-equal basis
Chrysler and Daimler (1998)
Chrysler and Fiat (2014)
JP Morgan Chase (2000)
Acquisition
Controlling interest to make acquired firm a subsidiary business within its portfolio
Cisco
Chase (Chemical Bank 1996, Banc One 1998)
(Hostile)Takeover
Target firm did not solicit the acquiring firm’s bid
AOL and Time Warner
2
Acquiring firms
About zero return on the average
Too high premium (bidding war, overconfidence)
Acquired firms(被兼并)
Often earn above-average returns
Why?
Do They Work?
So Why Are Acquisitions Done?
Bigger firms with more resources and capabilities may achieve increased market power
Can sell goods or services above competitive levels
Can drive costs below those of competitors
Horizontal and Vertical Acquisitions
4
市场势力是指卖方(seller)或买方(buyer)不适当地影响商品价格的能力。对于卖方来说,市场势力也就是卖方的垄断倾向。
Horizontal Acquisitions Increase Market Power
Acquisition of a firm in the same industry (bigger, more resources):
Cost-based synergies
Buyer power
Economies of scale
Revenue-based synergies
Supplier Power
Monopoly-like advantages
Airlines (US Airways/American)
Cable (Comcast/AT&T Broadband, Charter Communications wants Time Warner and Brighthouse)
Horizontal Acquisitions
5
Acquisition of a supplier or distributor to the firm
Increases a firm’s market power by controlling additional parts of the value chain
How does this work?
Horizontal Acquisitions
Vertical Acquisitions
Vertical Acquisitions Also Increase Market Power
Oil firms: Drilling, refining, distribution (BP)
Alibaba (China, internet shopping: Acquired firms doing payments and delivery
Apple(stores)
6
Acquisitions To Overcome Entry Barriers
Entry Barriers
Factors associated with making it expensive and difficult for new firms to gain market access
Economies of scale
Cost leadership (buy competitor, larger firm)
Differentiated products
Differentiation (VW bought Bugatti, Bentley, Porsche, Ducati)
Also often the reason behind cross-border acquisitions
Cultural and political differences (need local knowledge and initial foothold in new market)
PepsiCo and Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OAO (2011)
Santander and Polish Bank Zachodni WBK SA (2011)
ChemChina and Pirelli (2015)
7
Acquisitions To Substitute For New Product & Capability Development
Gain access to new products
Increase speed to market (Cisco, ChemChina/Pirelli)
Lower risk
Internal development of new products is often perceived as a high-risk activity
New firm with market-tested products
Gain access to new capabilities
Special technological capability (Cisco, ChemChina/Pirelli)
A broader knowledge base
But may reduce innovation/product development skills over the long run
8
Acquisitions To Change Portfolio of Businesses
Both related and unrelated diversification strategies can be implemented through acquisitions
Related tends to work ...
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1. Chapter 7
Mergers & Acquisitions
1
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Takeovers
Merger
Two firms agree to integrate their operations
on a relatively co-equal basis
Chrysler and Daimler (1998)
Chrysler and Fiat (2014)
JP Morgan Chase (2000)
Acquisition
Controlling interest to make acquired firm a subsidiary business
within its portfolio
Cisco
Chase (Chemical Bank 1996, Banc One 1998)
(Hostile)Takeover
Target firm did not solicit the acquiring firm’s bid
AOL and Time Warner
2. 2
Acquiring firms
About zero return on the average
Too high premium (bidding war, overconfidence)
Acquired firms(被兼并)
Often earn above-average returns
Why?
Do They Work?
So Why Are Acquisitions Done?
Bigger firms with more resources and capabilities may achieve
increased market power
Can sell goods or services above competitive levels
Can drive costs below those of competitors
Horizontal and Vertical Acquisitions
4
市场势力是指卖方(seller)或买方(buyer)不适当地影响商品价格的能力。对于
卖方来说,市场势力也就是卖方的垄断倾向。
Horizontal Acquisitions Increase Market Power
Acquisition of a firm in the same industry (bigger, more
3. resources):
Cost-based synergies
Buyer power
Economies of scale
Revenue-based synergies
Supplier Power
Monopoly-like advantages
Airlines (US Airways/American)
Cable (Comcast/AT&T Broadband, Charter Communications
wants Time Warner and Brighthouse)
Horizontal Acquisitions
5
Acquisition of a supplier or distributor to the firm
Increases a firm’s market power by controlling additional parts
of the value chain
How does this work?
Horizontal Acquisitions
Vertical Acquisitions
Vertical Acquisitions Also Increase Market Power
Oil firms: Drilling, refining, distribution (BP)
4. Alibaba (China, internet shopping: Acquired firms doing
payments and delivery
Apple(stores)
6
Acquisitions To Overcome Entry Barriers
Entry Barriers
Factors associated with making it expensive and difficult for
new firms to gain market access
Economies of scale
Cost leadership (buy competitor, larger firm)
Differentiated products
Differentiation (VW bought Bugatti, Bentley, Porsche, Ducati)
Also often the reason behind cross-border acquisitions
Cultural and political differences (need local knowledge and
initial foothold in new market)
PepsiCo and Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OAO (2011)
Santander and Polish Bank Zachodni WBK SA (2011)
ChemChina and Pirelli (2015)
7
Acquisitions To Substitute For New Product & Capability
Development
5. Gain access to new products
Increase speed to market (Cisco, ChemChina/Pirelli)
Lower risk
Internal development of new products is often perceived as a
high-risk activity
New firm with market-tested products
Gain access to new capabilities
Special technological capability (Cisco, ChemChina/Pirelli)
A broader knowledge base
But may reduce innovation/product development skills over the
long run
8
Acquisitions To Change Portfolio of Businesses
Both related and unrelated diversification strategies can be
implemented through acquisitions
Related tends to work better
Change firm scope
Reduce a firm’s dependence on one or more products or markets
Unattractive industries, mature products
9
6. Other Reasons for Acquisitions
Managerial Opportunism
Size drives TMT pay
Size and complexity reduces employment risk
Overconfidence
Acquisitions
Jaguar (1990)
Aston Martin (1993)
Land Rover (2000)
Also transferred Lincoln and Mercury
Ford: Acquisitions
Premier Automotive
Group
Why Did Ford Make Those Acquisitions?
Market power (cost or revenue based)?
Synergies?
To overcome entry barriers?
To substitute for new product/capability development?
To reduce dependence on one or more products or markets?
Managerial opportunism (size drives pay, size and complexity
lowers employment risk)?
Overconfidence?
7. 12
Problems in Achieving
Acquisition Success
Too large
Managers
overly focused on
acquisitions
Extraordinary debt
Inadequate
target evaluation
Too much
diversification
Inability to
achieve synergy
Integration
difficulties
Problems
with
Acquisitions
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8. Problems: Integration Difficulties
Integration challenges include:
Melding two disparate corporate cultures
Building effective working relationships (getting along)
Resolving problems regarding the status of the newly acquired
firm’s executives
Loss of key personnel weakens the acquired firm’s capabilities
and reduces its value
14
Problems: Inability to Achieve Synergy
Synergy (2+2>4)
When assets are worth more when used in conjunction with each
other than separately
What about premiums paid?
Synergy (2+2>(4 + premium paid))
Synergies for bank mergers?
Synergies for manufacturing (car) firms?
15
Problems: Firm Too Large and Too Diversified
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http://www.tata.com/pdf/Tata_Group_presentation.pdf
9. Competitive advantage in all industries
Competing against focused single-business firms
TMT must understand all businesses
Capital allocation
Need to be at least some sharing/leveraging
Larger size requires more formalization and standardization
Larger bureaucracy, less innovation
May mean more focus on short-term performance
16
Problems: Inadequate Evaluation of Target
Due Diligence(尽职调查)
The process of evaluating a target firm
Ineffective due diligence may result in paying an excessive
premium for the target company
Requires examining
Potential synergies and complementarities
Differences in culture
Actions necessary to meld the two workforces
Tax consequences of the transaction
17
Problems: Too Much Debt
High debt can
Increase the likelihood of bankruptcy
10. Lead to a downgrade of the firm’s credit rating
Constrain investment in activities that contribute to the firm’s
long-term success
Research and development
Capital expenditures
Marketing
18
Problems: Managers Overly Focused on Acquisitions
Managers invest substantial time and energy in
Searching for viable acquisition candidates
Doing due-diligence
Preparing for negotiations
Managing the integration process after
acquisition
Need to be substantial synergies to compensate
Daimler/Chrysler Video
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Why Did the Daimler/Chrysler Merger Fail?
Integration difficulties?
Inability to achieve synergy?
Firm too large and too diversified?
Lack of due diligence?
Too much debt and managers overly focused on acquisitions?
11. External environment?
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Reversing Acquisitions: Restructuring
A strategy through which a firm changes its set of businesses
Failure of an acquisition strategy often precedes a restructuring
strategy
Restructuring may also occur because of changes in the external
environment
Downscoping
Downsizing
Leveraged buy-out
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Types of Restructuring: Downscoping
A divestiture, spin-off or other means of eliminating businesses
unrelated to a firm’s core business
Causes firm to refocus on its core business
May be accompanied by downsizing
Results in a smaller firm that can be more effectively managed
12. 22
Acquisitions Divestitures
Jaguar (1990) sold to TATA (2008)
Aston Martin (1993) sold (2007)
Land Rover (2000) sold to TATA (2008)
Mercury was discontinued
Lincoln back to Ford
Ford Downscoping
Premier Automotive
Group
Types of Restructuring: Downsizing
A reduction in the number of a firm’s employees and sometimes
in the number of its operating units.
May or may not change the composition of businesses in the
firm’s portfolio.
Typical reasons for downsizing:
Expectation of improved profitability from cost reductions
Desire or necessity for more efficient operations
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13. Ford Downsizing
The Way Forward restructuring plan (2006)
Focus on Ford (sold Hertz and Mahindra venture)
Cut plant capacity and reduced work force by 30K (about 25 %)
Probably planned to sell premium brands as well
25
Restructuring: Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
Party buys all of a firm’s assets in order to take the firm private
Lots of debt
Sale of non-core assets to pare down debt
Michael Dell and venture partner Silver Lake took Dell private
(2013)
Focus on restructuring to cope with new computing landscape
(fewer PCs, focus on cloud, big data - IBM)
Avoid quarterly earnings pressure
Ultimately about control
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Why Did Ford’s Acquisitions Fail?
Integration difficulties?
Inability to achieve synergy?
Firm too large and too diversified?
Lack of due diligence?
14. Too much debt and managers overly focused on acquisitions?
External environment?
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Chapter 6
Corporate-Level Strategy
1
Corporate-Level Strategy
What businesses should
the firm be in?
How should the corporate office manage those businesses?
Units should be worth more under the firm umbrella
Synergies
15. Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
2
Two Levels of Strategy
Business-level Strategy
Selecting strategy (e.g., cost leadership and differentiation) to
compete in individual markets
Could be different for each business unit
Corporate-level Strategy (Companywide)
Selecting and managing a group of different businesses
16. competing in different product markets
Improve performance of business units in the aggregate
Diversification
Mergers & Acquisitions (Chapter 7)
3
Diversification
What is diversification?
Do something different
Expand outside of main business
How is it related to firm size and risk?
Leads to bigger firms (additional businesses)
May reduce risk (less related to main business)
May increase risk (competencies may not travel)
Corporate Strategy: Low Level of Diversification
Dominant Business
Between 70% and 95% of revenue comes from a single business
Examples?
Black & Decker (power tools)
Harley Davidson (10 % apparel, licensing)
A
17. A
B
Single Business
More than 95% of revenue comes from a single business
Examples?
Whirlpool (appliances)
Wm. Wrigley Jr. (chewing gum)
5
Related Constrained
Less than 70% of revenue comes from a single business
Businesses share product, technological and distribution
linkages
Related Linked (mixed related and unrelated)
Less than 70% of revenue comes from a single business
Less direct links between businesses
Moderate to High Level of Diversification
C
A
B
18. C
A
B
PepsiCo (Frito L, Quaker, Tropicana, Aquafina) Campbell
(Prego, Goldfish, V8, Pepperidge Farms)
Merck (50 prescription products
plus Merck Animal Health)
6
High Level of Diversification
Unrelated Diversification
Less than 70% of revenue comes from the dominant business,
and there are few common links between businesses
Examples?
GE
3M
Tata Group
https://www.ge.com/pdf/company/ge_organization_chart.pdf
http://www.tata.com/pdf/Tata_Group_presentation.pdf
C
19. B
A
7
Reasons for DiversificationValue-Creating
DiversificationValue-Neutral DiversificationValue-Reducing
DiversificationEconomies of scope (related diversification)
Sharing activities
Transferring core comp.
Market power (related diversification)
Blocking competitors through multipoint competition
Vertical integration
Financial economies (related & unrelated diversification)
Efficient internal capital allocation
Business restructuringAntitrust regulation
Tax laws
Low performance
Uncertain future cash flows
Risk reduction for firm
Excess resources
Diversifying managerial employment risk
Increasing managerial compensation
8
Value-Creation: Economies of Scope
20. Firms create value by sharing (transferring) across business
units:
Resources
Capabilities
Core competencies
Creates value by:
Better use of existing resources
Eliminates resource duplication
No need to develop competencies that already exist
Difficult for competitors to understand and imitate
“Fluid value-creation”
9
Economies of Scope – Two Ways to Share
Operational relatedness in sharing activities
Sharing resources or simpler activities (e.g., inventory delivery,
purchasing systems, warehousing)
Corporate relatedness sharing corporate core competencies
Sharing more complex sets of capabilities and core
competencies that have already been developed
Marketing, design, technological capabilities
Apple economies of scope?
Innovation
Design
Customer Service
Marketing
21. Management (strategic decision making)
Corporate Relatedness
10
Economies of Scope?
- operational relatedness
11
Reasons for DiversificationValue-Creating
DiversificationValue-Neutral DiversificationValue-Reducing
DiversificationEconomies of scope (related diversification)
Sharing activities
Transferring core competencies
Market power (related diversification)
Multipoint competition
Vertical integration
Size
Financial economies (related & unrelated diversification)
Efficient internal capital allocation
22. Business restructuringAntitrust regulation
Tax laws
Low performance
Uncertain future cash flows
Risk reduction for firm
Excess resources
Diversifying managerial employment risk
Increasing managerial compensation
12
Value-Creation: Market Power
Market power exists when a firm can:
Reduce cost of its primary and support activities below the
competitive level
Sell products at prices above the existing competitive level
How do firms do this?
Through multipoint Competition
Two or more diversified firms simultaneously compete in the
same product areas or geographic markets
Coke and Pepsi
Airlines
13
23. Vertical Integration
Backward integration—a firm produces its own inputs
Tesla battery factory, DeBeers
Forward integration—a firm operates its own distribution
system for delivering its outputs
Tesla, Apple stores
What about size?
Size drives market power (e.g., Porter’s 5 forces)
Second Way To Achieve Market Power
14
Reasons for DiversificationValue-Creating
DiversificationValue-Neutral DiversificationValue-Reducing
DiversificationEconomies of scope (related diversification)
Sharing activities
Transferring core competencies
Market power (related diversification)
Blocking competitors through multipoint competition
Vertical integration
Financial economies (related & unrelated diversification)
Efficient internal capital allocation
Business restructuringAntitrust regulation
Tax laws
Low performance
Uncertain future cash flows
Risk reduction for firm
Excess resources
Diversifying managerial employment risk
Increasing managerial compensation
24. 15
Value-Creation: Financial Economies
Unrelated diversification: Not about sharing but about
investment and allocation
Buying assets and restructuring them
CEMEX 3 step process
Find high growth market
Find take over target (due diligence)
Improve performance (PMI)
Allocation of resources
Efficient internal capital allocation
Restructuring assets and capital allocation applies to related
diversification as well
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Capital Allocation
25. Firm
Business Unit
Business Unit
Business Unit
Business Unit
“The most critical choices top management makes are those that
allocate resources among competing strategic investment
opportunities” (Donaldson, 1984: 95)
Strategic decision making process performed by corporate
office (Stein, 1997)
17
--For fiscal 2006, Newell Rubbermaids total capital budget of
76MIO was allocated in the following manner: STATE THEM.
---Those allocations, in turn, hold the key to the problem or
question underlying this dissertation: is this allocation
efficient??, or could the available capital have been allocated in
a better way? For example, is too much capital going to Office
Products and not enough to Home and Family?? Or it may be
that Tools & hardware have the very best potential, and should
26. have received the most capital instead of office products?
---Those are all questions I investigate by looking at capital
allocation errors which I define conceptually as too much or too
little investment in segments with relatively worse or better
growth prospects, respectively.
Decision Making
Decision making
process of identifying and choosing one course of actions from
alternative courses of action
Rational Decision Making
Rational model of decision making
explains how managers should make decisions
assumes managers will make logical decisions that will
maximize the organization’s interests
also called the classical model
Successful Implementation - Plan carefully
Be sensitive to those affected
Evaluation - What should you do if action is not working?
Give it more time
Change it slightly
Try another alternative
Start over
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Assumptions of the Rational Model
Do We Make Rational Decisions?
In Simple Terms: It’s Hard to Make Rational Decisions
There’s too much information/evidence or not enough
The information doesn’t quite apply
People are trying to mislead you
You are trying to mislead you (biases)
The side effects outweigh the cure
Competitors may respond in ways that you may not have
anticipated (game theory)
Rational Decision Making
Rational decisions are rare, for some very good reasons
Bounded rationality
Biases
28. Successful Implementation - Plan carefully
Be sensitive to those affected
Evaluation - What should you do if action is not working?
Give it more time
Change it slightly
Try another alternative
Start over
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Bounded Rationality
Bounded Rationality
suggests that the ability of decision makers to be rational is
limited by numerous constraints
Complexity (cognitive capacity), time and money
Example: Buying a house
Did you look at all cities/communities in your targeted area?
Did you collect all information (schools, tax bill, HOA
information, historical price appreciation, crime rates, flood
plains etc.)
Did you check out all houses that were for sale meeting your
requirements?
How many real estate agents did you interview?
Did you make a buy/rent analysis?
Satisficing Model
Satisficing Model
29. managers seek alternatives until they find one that is
satisfactory, not optimal
We tend to satisfice
Biases Affecting Rational Decision-Making
Common decision-making biases (systematic errors)
Availability Bias
Readily available information (latest)
Confirmation Bias
Discount information that does not confirm
Representativeness Bias
Small sample problem (winning the lottery, shark attacks)
Sunk Cost Bias/Escalation of Commitment Bias
Anchoring/Adjustment Bias
Framing Bias
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Sunk Cost & Escalation of Commitment Bias
Sunk cost-old investments of time/money that can’t be
recovered.
Escalation of Commitment Bias-Continuing to invest and
increase commitment, even when it is evident that there is no
justification; too costly or painful to abandon
Organizations that penalize failed decisions heavily are more
30. likely to create conditions that lead to these biases
Anchoring/Adjustment Bias
Divide into two groups and ask….
Is the population of Turkey greater than 35 million?
What is the population of Turkey?
Or
Is the population of Turkey greater than 100 million?
What is the population of Turkey?
The answer to the second question (What is the population of
Turkey?) increases by millions if anchored by higher amount
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Framing Bias
Gains vs. Losses (Prospect Theory, Kahneman & Tversky, 1979)
Marine property adjuster:
Charged with minimizing the loss of cargo on three insured
barges that sank yesterday off the coast of Alaska.
Each barge holds $200,000 worth of cargo, which will be lost if
not salvaged within 72 hours.
Two options
31. Framing Bias
A. This plan will save the cargo of one of the three barges
worth $200,000
B. This plan has a 1/3 probability of saving the cargo on all
three barges, worth $600,000, but has a 2/3 probability of
saving nothing.
Which plan would you choose?
Framing Bias
C. This plan will result in the loss of two of the three cargoes,
worth $400,000.
D. This plan has a 2/3 probability of resulting in the loss of all
three cargoes and the entire $600,000 but has a 1/3 probability
of losing no cargo.
Which plan would you choose?
Framing Bias
A. This plan will save the cargo of one of the three barges
worth $200,000
B. This plan has a 1/3 probability of saving the cargo on all
three barges, worth $600,000, but has a 2/3 probability of
saving nothing.
32. 70 %
30 %
Framing Bias
C. This plan will result in the loss of two of the three cargoes,
worth $400,000.
D. This plan has a 2/3 probability of resulting in the loss of all
three cargoes and the entire $600,000 but has a 1/3 probability
of losing no cargo.
30 %
70 %
Framing Bias
The difference was framing.
People are risk averse when a problem is posed in terms of
gains (barges saved)
But risk seeking when a problem is posed in terms of avoiding
losses (barges lost).
Framing Bias
A. This plan will save the cargo of one of the three barges
worth $200,000
33. B. This plan has a 1/3 probability of saving the cargo on all
three barges, worth $600,000, but has a 2/3 probability of
saving nothing.
Which plan would you choose?
Risk Averse when facing gain (barges saved)
Will choose sure thing (A)
71 %
29 %
34
Framing Bias
C. This plan will result in the loss of two of the three cargoes,
worth $400,000.
D. This plan has a 2/3 probability of resulting in the loss of all
three cargoes and the entire $600,000 but has a 1/3 probability
of losing no cargo.
Which plan would you choose?
Risk Seeking when facing loss (barges lost)
Will choose the riskier option (D)
30 %
70 %
But we are missing something…
Biggest bias of all?
34. When we are evaluating alternatives, there is often one
alternative that we are overlooking…
It’s a given and therefore not considered an alternative…
It happens if we don’t make a choice…
Status quo is also a choice
Much more likely to pick even if expected outcomes are way
lower
Fear of the unknown
Leads people to overvalue what they have
Overcoming Biases
1) Understand your Biases!
2) Look at a situation from a different perspective or from a
different decision-making styles…what would a
Rational/Guardian/Idealist Person do?
3) Our “gut” draws from patterns/rules that we may or may not
see. Practice seeing patterns—data isn’t just data—there’s a
message.
4) Don’t fall in love with your decisions. Everything is fluid.
“Think Harder” & Repetition
Products and structure
35. Home & Family
Graco
Goody
Tools & Hardware
Irwin
Lenox
Cleaning-Org
Levolor
Rubbermaid
Office Products
Sharpie
Paper Mate
Rolodex
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36. --Newell-Rubbermaid is a well-performing diversified firm with
a number of products, some of which may be familiar to most of
us. They have structured these products in 4 business segments
(click)
--For example, The sell paper-mate and sharpie pens and
highlighters as well as rolodex filing systems within the
business segment of Office Products.
--The also make industrial tools including Lenox handtorches
within their Tools & Hardware segment.
--Finally, they market Graco baby and young child stuff like car
seats and strollers, and Goody combs and brushes through their
home and family segment..
---So, although the segments are fairly diverse in the products
they market and sell, those segments have one thing in common
in that they all need capital to grow and create future wealth
with. Capital that gets allocated to them from the corporate
office.
Capital Allocation process
Newell Rubbermaid
Office Products
30mio
Home & Family
8mio
Cleaning-Org.
22mio
37. Tools & Hardware
16mio
How should this be done?
Based on expected future business unit performance (prospects)
Figure out prospect, then allocate in accordance with them
Rational perspective of capital allocation
39
--For fiscal 2006, Newell Rubbermaids total capital budget of
76MIO was allocated in the following manner: STATE THEM.
---Those allocations, in turn, hold the key to the problem or
question underlying this dissertation: is this allocation
efficient??, or could the available capital have been allocated in
a better way? For example, is too much capital going to Office
Products and not enough to Home and Family?? Or it may be
that Tools & hardware have the very best potential, and should
have received the most capital instead of office products?
---Those are all questions I investigate by looking at capital
allocation errors which I define conceptually as too much or too
little investment in segments with relatively worse or better
growth prospects, respectively.
Capital Allocation process
38. Newell Rubbermaid
Office Products
30mio
Home & Family
8mio
Cleaning-Org.
22mio
Tools & Hardware
16mio
What are some impediments to rational allocation ?
Prospects (future performance) hard to estimate (bounded
rationality)
Escalating commitments
Tendency to be affected by gain/loss contexts (e.g., investment
portfolio)
Too much to poor performers to turn them around (risk seeking)
Not enough capital to better units (risk aversion)
Use previous year allocations as starting point
Availability, confirmation Bounded rationality
Escalating commitments
Contexts (gain/loss)
Status quo
40
--For fiscal 2006, Newell Rubbermaids total capital budget of
39. 76MIO was allocated in the following manner: STATE THEM.
---Those allocations, in turn, hold the key to the problem or
question underlying this dissertation: is this allocation
efficient??, or could the available capital have been allocated in
a better way? For example, is too much capital going to Office
Products and not enough to Home and Family?? Or it may be
that Tools & hardware have the very best potential, and should
have received the most capital instead of office products?
---Those are all questions I investigate by looking at capital
allocation errors which I define conceptually as too much or too
little investment in segments with relatively worse or better
growth prospects, respectively.
Reasons for DiversificationValue-Creating
DiversificationValue-Neutral DiversificationValue-Reducing
DiversificationEconomies of scope (related diversification)
Sharing activities
Transferring core competencies
Market power (related diversification)
Blocking competitors through multipoint competition
Vertical integration
Financial economies (related & unrelated diversification)
Efficient internal capital allocation
Business restructuringAntitrust regulation
Tax laws
Low performance
Uncertain future cash flows
Risk reduction for firm
Excess resources
Diversifying managerial employment risk
Increasing managerial compensation
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Value-Neutral: Antitrust Laws
Laws in 1960s and 1970s discouraged mergers that created
increased market power (vertical or horizontal integration)
Mergers tended to be unrelated
Relaxation of antitrust enforcement results in more and larger
horizontal mergers (80’s and 90’s)
Concerns emerging and mergers now more closely scrutinized
(2000’s and on)
AT&T and T-Mobile, Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange
(2011)
Economist article
Anti-trust Legislation
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High tax rates on dividends
Firms shift from dividends to acquiring firms and expanding
internally
1986 Tax Reform Act
Reduced individual ordinary income tax rate from 50 to 28
percent
Now treats capital gains as ordinary income
Created incentive for firms to favor dividends
Lately also buy-backs of firm stock
41. Anti-trust Legislation
Tax Laws
Value-Neutral: Tax Rates
What does high dividends and buy-backs say about a firm?
43
Reasons for DiversificationValue-Creating
DiversificationValue-Neutral DiversificationValue-Reducing
DiversificationEconomies of scope (related diversification)
Sharing activities
Transferring core competencies
Market power (related diversification)
Blocking competitors through multipoint competition
Vertical integration
Financial economies (related & unrelated diversification)
Efficient internal capital allocation
Business restructuringAntitrust regulation
Tax laws
Low performance
Uncertain future cash flows
Risk reduction for firm
Excess resourcesDiversifying managerial employment risk
Increasing managerial compensation
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42. Low performance makes diversification more likely
Turn performance around
Change focus to new business
Makes sense: firms in loss context take more risks
(diversification is risky)
High performance eliminates the need for diversification
Low Performance
Value-Neutral: Firm Performance
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Does Diversification Work? Only Up To a Certain Point
46
Diversification may be a good strategy if
Industry segment is becoming unattractive
Product line is mature or threatened
Low Performance
43. Poor Prospects
Value-Neutral: Poor Prospects
Uncertain Future Cash Flows
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“Eggs in more baskets”
Business unit returns are never 100 % correlated
Returns from unrelated units have low correlations
Excess resources invites diversification
Original theoretical argument for diversification
Many large US firms have sizable cash (Microsoft, Apple)
Low Performance
Uncertain Future Cash Flows
Risk Reduction
Value-Neutral: Risk Reduction & Excess Resources
Excess Resources
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Reasons for DiversificationValue-Creating
DiversificationValue-Neutral DiversificationValue-Reducing
DiversificationEconomies of scope (related diversification)
44. Sharing activities
Transferring core competencies
Market power (related diversification)
Blocking competitors through multipoint competition
Vertical integration
Financial economies (related & unrelated diversification)
Efficient internal capital allocation
Business restructuringAntitrust regulation
Tax laws
Low performance
Uncertain future cash flows
Risk reduction for firm
Excess resourcesDiversifying managerial employment risk
Increasing managerial compensation
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Managers like diversification – why?
Risk reduction
Increased compensation from running bigger, more complex
firms
Shareholders don’t – why?
They can do their own diversification
Diversification discount (beyond a certain level of
diversification)
How is this dealt with?
Corporate governance
No duality
Incentive compensation
45. Outside directors
Market for corporate control
What happens to firms that do not maximize share holder
wealth?
Self-disciplining (takeover, reputation)
Value-Reducing: Managerial
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Al Dunlap at Sunbeam – Case Analysis Questions (100 points)
1. What were some big problems Sunbeam was facing around
the time Dunlap was hired? Please do not comment on their low
stock price when answering this question.
2. Based on your answer above, discuss whether the strategic
actions Dunlap took to turn Sunbeam around were appropriate
(e.g., did they fit).
3. Boards have a fiduciary duty to look after shareholder
interests. With that in mind, please comment on the board of
directors at Sunbeam – did they do a good job of looking after
their shareholders?
47. Al Dunlap at Sunbeam
Dunlap v. [after Albert J. Dunlap (1937- )] 1. To turn a
company around at lightning speed. 2. To focus on
the best: to eliminate what is not the best. 3. To protect and
enhance shareholder value.
— Al Dunlap, Mean Business
For much of his career before coming to Sunbeam, Al Dunlap
was known as the poster child of
corporate restructuring. Coming off a highly successful
turnaround at Scott Paper, he had recently
published a best-selling book, which detailed his career success
at his previous jobs and celebrated
his latest accomplishment, “rightsizing” the appliance-maker
Sunbeam. Dunlap was both famous
and infamous for his hard-nosed approach to turnarounds, which
typically involved radical
restructuring and downsizing. Although he was often criticized
in the press, Dunlap was not shy
about his “take-no-prisoners” managerial style, which he
documented in his aptly titled book, Mean
Business.1
His declared victory at Sunbeam (see Exhibit 1), however, may
have been premature. Two
months after increasing Sunbeam’s stock price to its all-time
high of $53 per share, and only two
weeks after Sunbeam’s largest shareholder Michael Price stated
that Al Dunlap “is an outstanding
executive and Sunbeam is fortunate to have him,” Dunlap was
fired.2
Sunbeam’s board had hired Dunlap to turn around the company
48. in 1996, in hopes that he could
effect the same increase in shareholder value he had at Scott
Paper from 1994 to 1995. As his tenure
at Sunbeam carried into the second year, board members
watched their stock price fall from a high of
$53 to less than $16 the day his firing was announced. His
cost-cuttings hadn’t panned out, and the
companies acquired under his leadership had been much more
trouble than the board had
anticipated. Given his widely acclaimed history of turning
around ailing companies, and the rapidity
of his fall, many wondered what had happened. Was he really
just a “one trick pony,”3 overrated
and overpaid, or would his restructuring of Sunbeam have
worked if he had only been given more
time?
1 Dunlap, Albert J. Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies
and Make Good Companies Great. (New York: Simon &
Schuster,
1996).
2 Business Wire. May 26, 1998.
3 “Al Dunlap: Exit Bad Guy.” Daniel Kadlec. Time, June 29,
1998.
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“Rambo in Pinstripes”
The day Sunbeam announced to Wall Street that shareholder-
focused Al Dunlap would be its next
CEO, the company’s stock price jumped 49%, creating almost
$500 million of value for the
shareholders, including Michael Price and Michael Steinhardt,
the two men who controlled almost
42% of Sunbeam’s shares.4 Price and Steinhardt had pulled the
appliance maker out of bankruptcy in
1990 when they bought the company from Allegheny
International, a corporation that had acquired
Sunbeam in 1981 and had done little to improve it.
By the time Dunlap was hired in July of 1996, Sunbeam had
been through two other CEOs, an
intensive restructuring and a long period of instability.5 (See
Exhibit 2 for a history of Sunbeam.)
Paul Kazarian, one of the partners in the buyout from
Allegheny, and the CEO who took Sunbeam
public, was fired in 1993 for his highly volatile leadership style.
The CEO that followed, Roger
Schipke, was a former GE executive focused on growing
Sunbeam slowly, over the long term. He
resigned in early 1996, noting a change in strategy, dictated by
Price and Steinhardt, from long term
to short term. The controlling directors wanted to cash out, and
had retained Merrill Lynch to shop
the company in late 1995. There had not been any takers.
Sunbeam, many believed, was a dying brand. It had failed to
keep up the pace with competitors
50. like Black & Decker, and had not succeeded in attracting new
customers. Most of the consumers who
bought Sunbeam products were older, and had been buying
Sunbeam since its heyday in the 1950s
and 1960s. Its factories were also aging, as were its machinery
and tooling. There were no
information systems to connect one department or factory to
another. Turnover was high; among
factory workers, it was well over 50%. Its board of directors
was voted one of the worst boards of
1994 by Chief Executive magazine.6 By the middle of 1996,
the stock price had hovered in the teens for
close to a year and a half. Sunbeam needed a savior.
Dunlap had a well-established track record for “rescuing” ailing
companies. His list of
accomplishments ranged from implementing operational
improvements in the factory he supervised
at Kimberley-Clark (his first civilian job after graduating from
West Point), to putting Lily Tulip back
in the black for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (See Exhibit 3
for Dunlap’s employment history.) A
man from the “slums of Hoboken”7 who worked the factory
floor before becoming an executive,
Dunlap attributed many of a company’s ailments to “ivory tower
disease”: the inability of business
school-educated managers to make decisions about processes
occurring layers of management below
them.8 In later years, his restructuring plans carried the
trademark of firing from the top down, and
he earned a reputation for attacking corporate culture as the
source of a company’s problems.
He was perhaps hired as much for his reputation as for his
skills. His aggressive style offered
fodder to those he fired, and to the media, who portrayed him
51. as, in his words, “some kind of serial
killer.”9 His nicknames (“Chainsaw Al” and “Rambo in
Pinstripes” among the most used) were not
self-appointed, but Dunlap acted the part, at one point even
dressing up as Rambo and posing on the
4 “Chainsaw Al to the Rescue?” Matthew Schifrin. Forbes,
August 26, 1996.
5 OneSource Corporate Overview. August 10, 1998.
6 “America’s Best and Worst Boards,” April 1994.
7 Mean Business, 107.
8 Ibid., 113.
9 Ibid., 132.
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cover of USA Today (see Exhibit 4).10 Although his nicknames
were originally meant to be
compliments (John Aspinall, a friend of Sir James Goldsmith,
said, “Al is like a chainsaw. He goes in
52. and cuts away all the fat and leaves a great sculpture.”11), they
more typically provoked comments
like those of Thomas Petzinger, Jr. of the Wall Street Journal,
who described Dunlap as, “an 80s style
liquidator dressed up for the 90s as an angry white guy.”12
His tough-guy image and record for rapidly increasing his
company’s share price, however,
appealed to an important audience—shareholders. At his first
major turnaround, Lily Tulip, Dunlap
oversaw a $176 million increase in the company’s market value,
while firing workers and closing
factories. Working for Sir James Goldsmith and Kerry Packer
in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he
trimmed down large corporations, selling extraneous companies
and saving billions of dollars. At
Consolidated Press Holdings in Australia, he pared off 273
unrelated companies, generated a $623
million profit from a $25 million loss, and liquidated assets
worth over $800 million.13 At his most
famous turnaround, Scott Paper, Dunlap fired 10,500 people—
35% of all the employees and 71% of
the corporate staff.14 During his tenure at Scott, he also raised
the stock price from $38 a share (pre-
split) to $120 (pre-split), and sold the company to Kimberley-
Clark for more than a $6 billion
shareholder gain (see Exhibit 5). 15
At Scott Paper, as with most of his other companies, the
turnaround was executed in rapid
fashion. From the day of his arrival at the company to the day
the merger closed with Kimberley-
Clark, Dunlap’s tenure at Scott lasted only 20 months. The
merger, which was announced just a year
after he signed on, marked the end of the official restructuring
in typical Dunlap style. “You look at
53. some of these brand name companies where someone has been
there a year and a half or two years
and they haven’t turned it around,” he said. “If you are there
that long, you’ve missed the window.
The window shuts and you are trapped in the building.”16 In
addition to downsizing quickly, Dunlap
also strongly believed that layoffs should only be done once, in
order to avoid creating a culture of
paranoia among employees. “Do it once, do it severe, and get it
over with. If you have to go back a
second time, you’ve made a mistake.”17
Stakeholder vs. Shareholder
The ultimate goal of Dunlap’s restructuring plans was always to
create value for the shareholders
of the company. He championed himself as the shareholders’
savior, likening them to hostages held
for ransom. “Sir James and I coined the phrase ‘corpocracy’—
companies run for the benefit of
10 USA Today, August 30, 1996.
11 Ibid.
12 “Does Al Dunlap Mean Business, or Is He Just Plain Mean?”
Thomas Petzinger, Jr. Wall Street Journal, August 30, 1996.
13 “CPH Shedding Done About As Pens Poise for Chemplex
Deal.” Australian Financial Review, October 23, 1992.
14 “Can Al Dunlap Do It Again At Sunbeam?” Matt Krantz.
Investor’s Business Daily, July 22, 1996.
15 Mean Business, 21.
54. 16 “Who’s Chainsawed Now? Dunlap Out As Sunbeam’s Losses
Mount.” Martha M. Hamilton. Washington Post, June 16, 1998.
17 Investment Dealers’ Digest, Inc. January, 1995.
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bureaucrats rather than the shareholders,” he said. “Scott was a
microcosm of that. Its shareholders
would have been better off captured by terrorists. They’d have
been treated better.”18
Dunlap was no fan of the stakeholder model of corporate
governance, which emphasized a
manager’s accountability to multiple constituencies besides the
shareholder (e.g., the employees, the
community). “If you see an annual report with the term
‘stakeholders,’” Dunlap wrote, “put it down
and run, don’t walk, away from the company. It means the
company has its priorities upside
down.”19 Dunlap argued that shareholders were the only ones
in a company who had any kind of
stake to claim, and that the company should be run for their
profit alone. “Stakeholders! Every time I
hear the word, I ask, ‘How much did they pay for their stake?’
55. Stakeholders don’t pay a penny for
their stake. There is only one constituency I am concerned
about and that is the shareholders.”20
Dunlap’s invocation of the rights of shareholders caused Peter
Cappelli, chairman of the
management department at Wharton Business School, to
comment. “He is persuading others that
shareholder value is the be-all and end-all. But Dunlap didn’t
create value. He redistributed income
from the employees and the community to the shareholders.”21
Marjorie Kelly, a co-founder of the
publication Business Ethics, agreed. “So much for the theory
popular among business ethicists that ‘In
order to serve stockholders well, you have to serve all other
stakeholders first,’” she said, in reference
to Dunlap’s turnarounds. “The theorem at work goes more like
this: ‘In order to serve stockholders
well, you have to squeeze the living daylights out of
employees.’”22 Dunlap, however, accepted
responsibility for his management decisions, including their
effect on his employees. “I accept the
heat because I am my own biggest critic. Every day I’ll ask
myself, ‘Did I really do a good job?’ So
long as the answer is yes, somebody else’s criticism doesn’t
bother me much.”23
One of Sunbeam’s employees at the company’s electric hair
clipper manufacturing plant in
McMinnville, Tennessee, was Marsha Dunlap (no relation to
Al). She was fired in 1997, after having
worked at the plant for 34 years. She made $9.30 an hour and
provided her family’s only form of
health insurance. By transferring the hair clipper production to
Mexico, Sunbeam would save on
wages, insurance and pensions. “They say the wages in Mexico
56. is (sic) a lot less than what they pay
us, so that’s where their profit is,” she said. When she received
her termination letter, the effective
date for the end of her employment with Sunbeam read ‘July 4,
1997.’
“It was very devastating to find out that you’re going to lose
your job. People don’t understand,
not unless you’ve been there. And it affects everyone—the
whole community: the car dealership, the
real estate, discount stores, everyone.”24
At Scott Paper, it was more than just the car dealerships and the
discount stores that were
affected. In Scott’s hometown of Philadelphia, Dunlap
shuttered the company’s 750,000 square-foot
headquarters, fired 70% of the headquarters’ staff, and moved
the operation to a more modest setting
in Boca Raton, Florida. He reneged on all of Scott’s charitable
donations, including the last $50,000 of
a $250,000 pledge to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Just
after Dunlap’s appointment as CEO, Scott
18 “Scott’s Clean Sheet: Tony Jackson Speaks to Al Dunlap.”
Tony Jackson. Financial Times, October 27, 1994.
19 Mean Business, 197.
20 Ibid.
21 “Dunlap: I Saved Scott Paper.” Marcia H. Pounds. Sun-
Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale), January 14, 1996.
22 Marjorie Kelly, Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 2,
1996.
57. 23 Mean Business, 23.
24 Ibid.
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also began breaking off ties with suppliers, in an effort to bring
the total number down from 20,000 to
1,000.25
Al and others argued that his controversial layoffs were
necessary to save the company.
When I become ‘Rambo in Pinstripes’ or ‘Chainsaw Al,’ who
sells assets and fires people, I
have empathy for those let go. But what I keep uppermost in
my mind is not that I cut away
35%, but that I saved 65%. I think that’s terribly important. If
I don’t take action—if I back off
as most chief executives do, and fire a nominal 10% of the
workforce—that’s nothing. It’s a
tease. I could do less and avoid the criticism. But then I’ll have
to go back and slash again and
again. That is a fraud imposed on employees.26
He also remarked that benevolence isn’t what gets a company
58. back on track, saying “the harshest
critics call me a bastard and say I have no heart. I’m probably a
much nicer guy than most people
think, but who’s going to hire a nice guy to turn around a
failing conglomerate?”27
For all of the controversy he created, however, one undisputed
fact was that shareholders greatly
profited while Dunlap was at the helm. And Dunlap was always
one of those shareholders. Indeed,
one of his core beliefs was that managers should have their
compensation linked to shareholder
wealth creation. At both Scott and Sunbeam, his compensation
was directly tied to the stock
performance of the company, in the form of options and grants.
As a result of the rise in stock price
during his 20-month tenure at Scott Paper, Dunlap increased his
own wealth substantially—by
almost $100 million, according to his calculations. “Did I earn
that? Damn right I did. I’m a superstar
in my field, much like Michael Jordan in basketball and Bruce
Springsteen in rock ‘n’ roll. My pay
should be compared to other superstars in other fields, not to
the average CEO. Only a handful of
chief executives are worth the big bucks they are paid. Many
are grossly overpaid and should be
fired and then replaced by CEOs whose pay is strictly
performance-based.”28
Sunbeam
Because of his apparent success at Scott Paper, Dunlap received
a large compensation
package upon his arrival at Sunbeam (see Table 1A and 1B).
True to his philosophy of aligning
compensation with company performance, Dunlap took no
59. bonus, but received a substantial package
of stock options and awards. Also believing that CEOs should
put their own money into the
company they work for, he invested $5 million in Sunbeam
stock the first year of his tenure. As Nell
Minow, an institutional investor known for her shareholder
advocacy, said of Dunlap, “He puts his
money where his mouth is.”29 His initial purchase of 244,898
shares from the company came at a
price of only $12.25 per share; he bought them just 48 hours
before it was announced that he would
be the next CEO of Sunbeam.30 From those shares alone,
Dunlap made more than $1.5 million in two
days.
25 “The Shredder: Did CEO Dunlap Save Scott Paper, or Just
Pretty It Up?” John A. Byrne. Business Week, January 15, 1996.
26 Mean Business, 23.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid., 22.
29 “Corporate Blitzkrieg Brings a Rapid Turnaround.” James
Flanigan. Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1995.
30 Sunbeam Shareholder Proxies 1997 and 1998.
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Table 1A Al Dunlap’s Compensation at Sunbeam
1996 1997 Dunlap’s New
Contract for 1998
Salary $507,054a $1,115,385 $2,000,000b
Bonus 0 0 0
Other Compensation $68,600 $287,638 N/A
Options (number) 2,500,000c 0 3,750,000d
Black-Scholes Value on grant date $16,621,000 0 $75,000,000
Value at peak stock pricee $110,724,000 0 $127,406,000
Restricted Stock Awardsf
(number of shares) 1,000,000 0 0
Value on grant date $12,500,000 0 0
Value at peak stock priceg $31,200,000 0 0
Stock Grants (number of shares) 0 0 300,000
Value on grant date 0 0 $11,055,000
Value at peak stock price 0 0 $15,600,000
Stock Purchased (number of shares) 244,898 77,669 0
Value on date of purchase $3,000,000 $2,000,000 0
Value at peak stock price $12,734,696 $4,038,788 0
Source: SEC Filings.
a Dunlap became CEO of Sunbeam on July 19, and therefore did
not receive his full salary for 1996.
b Dunlap’s contract was renegotiated in February of 1998, but
terminated on June 15, when Dunlap was fired.
61. c These options were granted with an exercise price of $12.25.
A third of the options were immediately vested, and the
remaining
two-thirds would vest over two years. The term of the options
was ten years.
d Under Dunlap’s new contract, the options granted in 1996
were fully vested, and Dunlap received 3,750,000 new options
(with
the same vesting restrictions as his previous agreement) at an
exercise price of $36.85.
e Sunbeam stock reached a record high of $53 per share in
March 1998.
f One third of these shares were immediately vested on the grant
date, with the remainder vesting in two equal installments on
the
first and second anniversaries of the grant date.
g As per Dunlap’s new contract, 40% of his original restricted
stock award was cancelled, and the remainder became fully
vested.
Table 1B Value of Dunlap’s Stocks and Options Upon Departure
Unvested Vested
Options held at the time of departure 2,500,000 3,750,000
Black-Scholes value at the time of departure $7,450,000
$21,225,000
Shares held at the time of departure 1,491,564
Value on date of departure $23,492,133
Company shares outstanding 100,811,194
Source: SEC Filings.
62. Upon his arrival at Sunbeam, Dunlap made the board of
directors take similar action. He ended
monetary compensation for all outside directors, and severely
reduced the size of stock grants they
received. Previously, board members had received $20,000
annually, in addition to $1,000 for each
meeting they attended in person. They had also received 5,000
shares of stock, and options to buy
1,000 shares upon each re-election. Under Dunlap’s plan,
members of the board of directors were
each granted 1,500 shares of stock upon their election to the
board, and upon each subsequent
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election. They were also required to buy and maintain
ownership of at least 2,000 shares of Sunbeam
stock31 (see Exhibit 6).
Charles Elson, a law professor from Stetson University, was one
of the first people Dunlap asked
to join the board. The two first met when Dunlap was still at
Scott Paper, and Elson had just
published a study linking executive overcompensation to a low
63. level of stock ownership by the
board. In an article he wrote for the Wall Street Journal, Elson
proposed that board members be paid
only in stock, indicating the findings of his study. The article
caught Dunlap’s attention, and he
asked to meet with Elson, saying that he wanted to institute a
similar plan for board members at Scott
Paper. When Dunlap then went to Sunbeam, he called Elson
and said that he’d like to put a
shareholder advocate on the board. “I said, ‘great!’—thinking
he meant someone like Nell Minow, or
another well-known person,” said Elson. Dunlap asked Elson if
he’d consider becoming a board
member, provided he would be willing to buy stock in
Sunbeam—$100,000 worth. “That’s a lot of
money for a law professor,” said Elson. “Dunlap said, ‘I wanted
to make you sweat a little.’ I said, ‘It
worked—I’m drenched!’” He agreed to join the board.
Although applauded by shareholder activists, Dunlap’s
appointment of a close friend to the board
of directors also drew criticism from some in the investment
community. Sarah Teslik, executive
director of the Council of Institutional Investors maintained
that, “(Mr. Dunlap) is closer to Elson
than he is to his wife. Mr. Elson is not just a ‘yes’ man, he’s a
‘yes’ lapdog.”32
Despite some initial criticisms, the first months of Dunlap’s
turnaround of Sunbeam were quite
successful. By November of 1996, the company’s stock was up
to $25.37 and Dunlap had announced
the first phase of the company’s restructuring. It was
reminiscent of his previous work—he had
plans to cut the 12,000-person workforce in half, reduce the
product lines by 87%, close 18 of the
64. company’s 26 factories, consolidate the administration, and sell
off several divisions. He planned to
cut $225 million a year from operating expenses. He also
announced that he would double
Sunbeam’s sales over the next three years, primarily through
introducing new products and
expanding overseas markets.33
The market, however, was already crowded with competitors,
and shelf space at retailers was
limited. Another problem, thought Ron Graber, a former
executive at Black & Decker, was
Sunbeam’s product development. Dunlap’s plan called for a
lead time of six months for new
products—about a third of the usual 16 to 18 months, and
operating with a severely reduced research
and development staff. Graber offered the comparison of Black
& Decker’s “Snakelight” product,
which took 22 months to develop, and which had brought in
$100 million in sales by 1995. “Sunbeam
needs four Snakelight-caliber products each year to double sales
by 1999. I doubt those guys have
one.”34
By October of 1997, Sunbeam had hired Morgan Stanley to
investigate the possibility of either
selling the company or making an acquisition. At first, Black &
Decker, Sunbeam’s top competitor,
was rumored to be targeted. Months of decision-making,
however, ended in March 1998 with
31 Sunbeam Shareholder Proxy, 1997.
32 “Sunbeam’s Chief Picks Holder Activist and Close Friend as
Outside Director.” Joann S. Lublin. Wall Street Journal,
65. September 26, 1996.
33 “Dunlap Puts Sunbeam On a Reducing Plan.” Steven
Pearlstein. Washington Post, November 11, 1996.
34 “Forget About Sunbeam: You Should Invest Instead In Rival
Black & Decker.” Junius Ellis. Money, January, 1997.
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Sunbeam’s $2.5 billion purchase of three other appliance
companies: Coleman, First Alert and
Signature Brands (the makers of “Mr. Coffee”).35
Immediately after signing on Sunbeam’s new acquisitions,
Dunlap got a bonus—a three-year
contract extension that doubled his salary from $1 million a
year to $2 million, and a grant of 300,000
Sunbeam shares.36 “You can’t overpay a great executive,” he
said. “I’m in the business of creating
shareholder value. I intend to create a lot of value for me and
for everybody else. Don’t you think
I’m a bargain?”37
Not everyone was convinced that Dunlap’s compensation
package was in the shareholders’ best
66. interest. CEO pay gadfly and compensation consultant Graef
“Bud” Crystal led the chorus of those
criticizing Dunlap’s pay package. “He likes to portray himself
as a swashbuckling CEO, but real men
don’t take $2 million salaries and lots of free stock. He’s a pay
wimp, when it comes down to it.”38
“Chainsaw Al Gets the Chop”39
Although it was difficult to identify any single move that might
have caused Dunlap’s downfall at
Sunbeam, many pointed to two events in particular: the
acquisition of three new, troubled
companies, and the institution of a marketing strategy called the
“early buy” or “bill and hold”
program for gas grills and other seasonal products. The program
worked by offering retailers
substantially reduced prices on gas grills during the winter
months, when grill sales were slow.
Sunbeam then stored the grills in warehouses until retailers put
them on the shelves. The result was
that stores stocked up on grills off-season, and didn’t reorder
any in the spring.40 The ordered items
were accounted for as sales, even though they had not been
shipped or paid for, a practice commonly
used by many companies.
One article in Fortune noted the increased sales as a sign that
Dunlap was making the turnaround
work, and that he was succeeding in being more than just a cost-
cutter. “Al Dunlap wants to be
known as Mr. Growth. It’s hard to imagine. Yet when
Sunbeam announces year-end results in
January, people will see that sales, not just profits, are rising
dramatically.”41 However, Andrew
Shore, an analyst with Paine Webber who had followed
67. Sunbeam’s stock for more than a decade,
noticed that with the increased sales, Sunbeam was also
building up what he considered an
abnormally large inventory. Shore decided to alert his clients,
but continued to recommend the stock,
as he felt it would continue to be bid up. In March, it reached
an all-time high of $53 (see Exhibit 7).42
By April, however, Sunbeam had begun to search for Dunlap’s
replacement, someone to take over
the CEO position after a year of understudy.43 The company’s
stock price had also started to slide—
35 “Sunbeam Buys 3 Appliance Companies.” Steven Pearlstein.
Washington Post, March 3, 1998.
36 “Sunbeam Doubles Dunlap Pay: ‘Bargain’ CEO Gets $70M
Deal.” Bloomberg. Sun-Sentinel, March 10, 1998.
37 Ibid.
38 Ibid.
39 “Chainsaw Al Gets the Chop.” Daniel Kadlec. Time, June 29,
1998.
40 “The Unkindest Cuts.” Matthew Schifrin. Forbes, May 4,
1998.
41 “Can Chainsaw Al Really Be A Builder?” Patricia Sellers.
Fortune, January 12, 1998.
42 Ibid.
43 “Exit For Chainsaw? Sunbeam’s Investors Draw Their
Knives.” Patricia Sellers. Fortune, June 8, 1998.
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partially due to the admission by Sunbeam that its first quarter
earnings for 1998 would be below
company estimations. On April 3, it was announced that Donald
Uzzi, Sunbeam’s executive vice-
president for consumer products and one of Dunlap’s favored
employees, had been fired. By the end
of the day, Sunbeam had announced a loss for the quarter, and
the stock price had fallen 25%.44
As stock prices continued to slide, Dunlap announced a new
round of layoffs—40% of the
workforce. The day the cuts were announced, Sunbeam stock
fell an additional 7.5% from $27.81 to
$25.75.45
The increasing pressure from Wall Street and the media was
“enough to keep (Dunlap) looking
over his shoulder.”46 At a meeting with analysts in New York
in late May, he blew up at Andrew
Shore for suggesting that he should give back his stocks and
options, and work for a dollar. Dunlap
confronted Shore after the meeting and warned, “You son of a
bitch. If you want to come after me, I’ll
69. come back at you twice as hard.”47
Media attention on Sunbeam’s troubles sharpened when the June
8 edition of Fortune was released
with the following quote from Michael Price: “Look, this is an
interesting stock at $25. It’s down in
an up market. The company’s got a great mix of products. It
has two guys who control 30% of the
shares. And we’re not going to sit around and let Al wreck the
company. We’re paying a lot of
attention.”48
Although Price claimed the quote had been taken out of context,
many in the press interpreted it
to mean that Price had lost confidence in Dunlap. Dunlap had
further reason for concern on June 8,
when Barron’s published a scathing denouncement of
Sunbeam’s accounting tactics. The article,
which generated enormous publicity, discussed Sunbeam’s
“inventory stuffing,” the bill and hold
program, and other, what Barron’s called, “mother’s little
helpers” to make the company look more
profitable.49 Perhaps spurred both by Price’s statement and by
the Barron’s article, Dunlap called a
board meeting for two days later.
Charles Elson received a phone call asking him to attend the
board meeting while he and his wife
were on a trip to New York. On their way to the airport, Elson
stopped by a newsstand to buy a
paper and noticed that a few papers had printed stories about his
as yet unpublished study on CEO
succession. Elson and his co-authors had found a strong
correlation between director stock
ownership and corporate performance. Perhaps more strikingly,
the authors also found that
70. directors with significant stock holdings were more likely to
fire a CEO for poor performance. “Little
did I know,” Elson said, “that I was about to become a guinea
pig for my own study.”
In the board meeting, Dunlap and Russ Kersh (the CFO) went
through the Barron’s accusations
one by one, offering thorough explanations for each and
defending their positions. When they were
finished, the board members felt assured that the accusations
were false. Elson then turned to
Dunlap and asked, “So, how’s the second quarter shaping up?”
Dunlap deferred to Kersh, who said,
44 “How Al Dunlap Self-Destructed: The Inside Story of What
Drove Sunbeam’s Board to Act.” John A. Byrne. Business
Week,
July 7, 1998.
45 “Sunbeam Shares Fall On Restructuring Plan.” James
McNair. Miami Herald, May 12, 1998.
46 “Exit for Chainsaw,” Fortune, 1998.
47 Ibid.
48 Ibid.
49 “Dangerous Games: Did ‘Chainsaw Al’ Dunlap Manufacture
Sunbeam’s Earnings Last Year?” Jonathan R. Laing. Barron’s,
June 8, 1998.
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“Well, sales are a little soft.” Elson, not feeling that his
question had been answered, asked again,
“That’s not what I asked. How is the second quarter shaping
up? Are we going to make five to ten
cents a share, like we said we would?” Dunlap retorted that the
board couldn’t judge their
performance based on one quarter, that it was a turnaround
situation and would take a long time to
carry through. For such an innocuous question, the board was
surprised by Dunlap’s response.50
Dunlap then issued an ultimatum to the board: “Either we get
the support we should have, or
(CFO) Russ and I are prepared to go . . . Just pay us.”51
“We were shocked. No one had even hinted that he should
resign,” said Elson.
The directors agreed that they needed to investigate the matter,
to find out why Dunlap was so
eager to leave. Peter Langerman (Michael Price’s
representative on the board) and general counsel
David Fannin did some research on their own, and spoke with
several people who worked closely
with Dunlap about the financial situation of the company. They
found that Dunlap and Kersh had
underestimated the extent of the damage. They believed that
72. Sunbeam was in serious financial
trouble.52
The board planned to reconvene on Saturday, June 13. On his
way to the board meeting, Elson re-
read parts of Dunlap’s bestseller, Mean Business—a book Elson
himself had written an endorsement
for. He felt that there was a disconnect between the lessons of
Dunlap’s book and what was
happening at Sunbeam.
At the meeting, Langerman presented what he had found, and
the board elected unanimously to
fire Dunlap. Russ Kersh was fired just a few days later. Peter
Langerman, in an official press release,
stated that:
The outside directors have unanimously taken this decisive
action because we have lost
confidence in Mr. Dunlap’s leadership. This action did not
result from any concern about the
Company’s 1997 audited financial statements. Arthur Andersen
LLP, Sunbeam’s auditor, has
assured the Board that Sunbeam’s audited financial statements
are accurate in all material
respects. However, Sunbeam has continued to incur operating
losses in the second quarter of
1998 and the Board no longer expects the Company to achieve
the earnings and other forecasts
announced on May 11, 1998. The Board continues to believe
Sunbeam’s businesses are
fundamentally sound and expects the Company will be
successful under new leadership.53
Throughout his career, Dunlap had been alternately portrayed in
the press as a shareholder savior
73. and the enemy of the working man. The day of his termination
was cause for his critics to celebrate,
and journalists who had long followed Dunlap’s pursuits with
distaste opened a forum for those who
had ended up at the wrong end of Dunlap’s restructurings. “I’m
happy the son of a bitch is fired. I
was so happy—I was watching CNBC at 8 o’clock, and I’ve just
been happy all day,” said Emery
Michael Cole, who lost his job under Dunlap’s reign at Scott
Paper in 1994.54 “Somebody at that
50 Business Week, July 6, 1998
51 Ibid.
52 Ibid.
53 Business Wire, June 15, 1998.
54 “A Veteran Perelman Fireman Sets Out to Resuscitate
Sunbeam.” James R. Hagerty and Tara Parker-Pope. Wall Street
Journal, June 6, 1998.
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74. company finally got some sense,” commented Archie Worsham,
mayor of Coushatta, Louisiana,
which lost its Sunbeam factory in 1996.55
Despite the accusations and widespread criticism he faced in the
media, Dunlap defended his
leadership of Sunbeam and the financial statements released by
Arthur Andersen. “Everyone said
they were correct. I am not an accountant. Why wouldn’t I rely
on the outside auditors and the audit
committee? …I had no involvement with the audits…and I have
zero reason to not believe (the
numbers), because that’s what the accountant said. That’s what
the outside auditor said. That’s what
the… directors on the audit committee said.”56
Dunlap also believed that he was fired too quickly, and that he
should have been given more time
to make the turnaround work. “I passionately believed in
Sunbeam. I believed that we had
accomplished the first phase of the turnaround. I believed we’d
positioned ourselves for the future…
I signed a new three-year contract at the pinnacle of my
career… The contract I signed was heavily
incentivised with stock. Obviously, if I didn’t believe in the
ability to do this, I wouldn’t have
accepted a contract that was so heavily incentivised with
stock… I have never sold a share, never
exercised an option, and I have taken horrific losses along with
other shareholders.”57
55 Ibid.
56 CNN “Moneyline with Lou Dobbs” July 8, 1998.
75. 57 Ibid.
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Exhibit 1 Sunbeam Corporation 1996 Annual Report
To Our Shareholders
�
A new Sunbeam is shining—and with it a major American
company is being rescued.
Your new management team has laid out a rescue plan, we are
implementing that plan and it is
working—all in record time.
In July 1996, Sunbeam was flat on its back. Earnings had
plunged 83% since July of 1994.
Excluding acquisitions, sales were down 4%. The operating
margin had shrunk to an almost invisible
2%. The stock price had plummeted 52% since its high in 1994.
And even as this once great company
headed towards possible bankruptcy, Sunbeam had no strategic
plan.
76. That is why, when your Board asked me to rescue Sunbeam, we
had to move fast. I made it clear
that creating the levels of return our shareholders have the right
to expect was our top priority. I
have always believed that if you focus on maximizing
shareholder value, you will have the very best
people, the very best products and the very best facilities.
The rescue plan for Sunbeam was simple: 1) Recruit a top
management team; 2) eliminate waste
and make Sunbeam cost competitive again; 3) focus on core
businesses, divesting everything else; 4)
implement an aggressive strategy for global growth.
With rapid action, the first three steps are complete:
Step 1. An outstanding new management team is in place. Call
it the Sunbeam Dream Team.
The recipe was simple. We started with talented outsiders who
have helped me rescue companies
before; experts in areas like finance, international expansion,
purchasing and logistics. We added
newcomers with great track records, experts in manufacturing,
marketing and product development.
And we retained the best people from the old Sunbeam.
This is a powerful combination: the best insiders, the best
outsiders, and the best leaders from my
past teamed together to give Sunbeam great leadership for a
great future. Everyone in your company
is committed to building that future. As part of its commitment,
your Board of Directors has agreed
to be compensated solely in Sunbeam stock. Meanwhile, senior
executives have invested
substantially in Sunbeam stock as well. On my first day on the
job, I set the pace with a $3 million
77. purchase and I followed that up with a $2 million open market
purchase in February of 1997.
And because membership in this—or any—corporate rescue
team must include everyone in the
company, we have instituted a highly innovative employee stock
option plan, giving all domestic
Sunbeam employees a stake in their Company’s growth.
From this day forward, everyone on the Sunbeam team—the
shareholders, your Board, your
senior management and all your Company’s workers—are joined
together in a common mission: to
restore Sunbeam’s profitability and deliver the maximum return
to the shareholder.
Step 2. We’ve attacked excessive costs. Our cost saving
measures are projected to save Sunbeam
$225 million a year. For example: six separate headquarters are
now one; a 12,000 employee
workforce is now 6,000; 26 production facilities—some
operating at 30% to 50% of capacity—are
down to nine (soon to be eight); 61 warehouses have been
reduced to 18.
Step 3. We have focused on our core businesses. Companies
succeed by achieving excellence in a
core business, not mediocrity everywhere.
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We have redefined Sunbeam’s core product categories: Kitchen
Appliances, Health Care Products,
Personal Care and Comfort, Outdoor Cooking, and Away From
Home.
We are eliminating product lines that do not fit these categories.
For example, since December we
have sold our outdoor furniture division, our time and
temperature product line and our decorative
bedding line. We have also signed an agreement to sell our
Biddeford textile factory to an investment
group which includes the employees of that facility.
All this has been substantially completed in just six months.
But the final step is the most
important of all, and it’s just getting started:
Step 4. Execute an aggressive growth plan, making Sunbeam a
global leader once again. Our
goals for the next three years are: double annual revenues to $2
billion; raise operating margins to
20% of sales; triple international sales to $600 million; realize a
25% return on equity; and generate
approximately $600 million of free cash flow.
How?
1) Strong advertising support. We will rebuild consumer
awareness of our powerful Sunbeam® and
Oster® brands behind unprecedented levels of media
advertising. The advertising program started
79. in the fourth quarter of 1996 with a $12 million campaign that
has already increased Sunbeam’s brand
relevance by 25%. In connection with our new advertising
campaign, we are introducing new
packaging to make our brands more attractive, distinctive and
appealing.
2) Fast product development. We are committed to becoming
the industry leader in new product
development. To introduce 30 new domestic products a year,
we have cut new product development
time from two-and-a-half years to six months. We are bringing
out innovative products that will
satisfy the wants and needs of our consumers and that are truly
differentiated from any products in
the marketplace today.
3) Go global. Soon, Sunbeam products will be reaching
consumers throughout the world. In
December 1996, we completed the successful launch of 42 new
220-volt products into 10 international
regions. Additionally, in late 1996, we set a goal of signing 15
new international distribution and
licensing agreements by April 15th of this year and many more
throughout the year. Through mid-
March, 13 such agreements were in place, giving Sunbeam
access to fast-growing markets in Asia,
Latin America an Africa.
4) New channels of distribution. We are expanding our
distribution into new channels that offer
tremendous new opportunities for Sunbeam. We have a focused
“Away From Home” team
dedicated to broadening Sunbeam’s presence with commercial
customers such as hotels, motels,
restaurants and universities. We also have a team dedicated to
80. exploring new opportunities in other
non-traditional channels of distribution such as catalogs, the
Internet and our own Sunbeam factory
outlet stores. We have already opened six factory outlet stores
since November and plan to open 18
more this year.
This is the Sunbeam growth plan. It is simple. It is powerful.
And it is working, after just six
months. A talented, innovative new management team
transforming a leaner, more competitive,
more focused Sunbeam into the dominant global leader in the
industry.
Yes, a new Sunbeam is shining—and the best is yet to come.
Albert J. Dunlap
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Exhibit 2 Sunbeam Company History
1897 John Stewart and Thomas Clark found the Chicago
Flexible Shaft Company. Early
81. products include agricultural tools, sheep-shearing machines
and hand clippers, and the
flexible shafts used to balance or propel them
1910 The original company moves into production of electrical
appliances, like the Princess
iron. Stewart and Clark adopt the Sunbeam name in advertising.
1930-1946 The Sunbeam Mixmaster, the first automatic
coffeemaker and the first pop-up electric
toaster give Sunbeam widespread household recognition, and in
1946, the company
officially changes its name to Sunbeam Corporation.
1960 After a decade of innovating new products and increasing
growth, Sunbeam acquires
rival appliance-maker Oster.
1981 Sunbeam is acquired by Allegheny International. Product
development expands to
include two of Allegheny’s divisions, John Zink (air-pollution
control devices) and
Hanson Scale (maker of bathroom scales).
1988 Decreased revenues in other divisions forces Allegheny
into bankruptcy.
1990 Michael Price, Michael Steinhardt and Paul Kazarian buy
Sunbeam from Allegheny’s
creditors, re-naming it the Sunbeam-Oster Company. Kazarian
becomes Chairman and
CEO.
1992 Sunbeam-Oster goes public.
1993 Kazarian is forced out, and Roger Schipke replaces him as
82. CEO. Sunbeam relocates to
Florida, acquires the consumer products division of DeVilbiss
Health Care.
1994 Sunbeam board of directors is voted one of the top five
worst boards in America by Chief
Executive magazine. Among Sunbeam’s negative aspects listed
were its lack of
independent directors, and excessive control by Price and
Steinhardt.
1994-1995 Sunbeam acquires Rubbermaid’s outdoor furniture
business. The company changes its
name back to Sunbeam Corporation.
1996-1997 Al Dunlap replaces Schipke as CEO, lays off half the
workforce and closes or sells 80 of
the company’s 114 factories.
1998 The stock price reaches an all-time high of $53 per share.
Sunbeam acquires First Alert,
Signature Brands and Coleman. The stock price falls
dramatically, and Dunlap is fired
after disappointing first quarter results and growing concern
about his leadership.
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Exhibit 3 Employment History of Al Dunlap
1963-1967 Kimberley-Clark (factory superintendent)
1967-1977 Sterling Pulp and Paper (general superintendent of
a manufacturing plant in Eau Claire,
Wisconsin)
1977-1982 American Can (executive vice-president of
Performance Plastics division)
1982 (March) - 1982 (November) Manville Forest Products
Corporation
Dunlap became president of Manville in early 1982, presumably
to attempt a
restructuring. He left the company only months later, after
Manville Corporation filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy (as a result of asbestos-related lawsuits).
1983-1986 Lily Tulip (CEO)
Dunlap’s first turnaround of an entire company. In late 1982,
he was recruited by KKR,
which had bought Lily-Tulip for $150 million in an LBO in
1981. When Dunlap was hired,
Lily-Tulip was near bankruptcy, with a debt-to-equity ratio of
9-to-1. Dunlap fired 20% of
the salaried workers, 50% of the headquarters staff, sold two
plants, consolidated
manufacturing facilities, and grounded the company airplane.
84. Lily Tulip went public in
1984 with an IPO of $9.50 per share (with 17,572,800 shares
outstanding by year-end). It
was sold to Fort Howard Paper Company in 1986 for $18.50 a
share.
1986-1989 General Oriental Securities Limited Acquisition
Group (CEO)
Working with Sir James Goldsmith, Dunlap had some part in
restructuring Diamond
International and Cavenham Forest Industries (previously part
of Crown-Zellerbach).
During this time period, he also worked with Kerry Packer, an
Australian billionaire and
owner of ConsPress, to help restructure Australian National
Industries (1989).
1989-1990 Anglo Group, PLC. (CEO)
1991 Greystar, Inc. (CEO)
1991-1993 Consolidated Press Holdings Limited (CEO)
After helping Packer restructure ANI, Dunlap became managing
director of ConsPress in
September of 1991. Dunlap’s mission was to slim down
ConsPress from a corporation of
unrelated businesses (ranging from chemical manufacturing to
ski resorts) to its core of
media-related industries. By the end of 1992, he had reduced
ConsPress holdings from 413
business to just 140. He left ConsPress in February of 1993.
1994-1996 Scott Paper, Inc. (CEO)
85. 1996-1998 Sunbeam (CEO)
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Exhibit 4 Rambo in Pinstripes
Photo by Andrew Itkoff
“The meek will not inherit the earth, and for sure they won’t get
the mineral rights.”
—Al Dunlap, Washington Post, June16, 1995
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Exhibit 5 Scott Paper Stock Performance, Relative to the S&P
500
SCOTT PAPER RELATIVE STOCK PRICE PERFORMANCE
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
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Exhibit 6 Directors of the Sunbeam Board: Before, During and
Following Dunlap’s Tenure
Sunbeam Board of Directors, 1995
�
Roderick M. Hills, age 64, has been a Director of the Company
since 1990. Mr. Hills is currently a
partner in the Washington office of Mudge, Rose, Guthrie,
Alexander & Ferdon, a law firm, and
Counselor, Hills & Company, international consultants.
Amount of Ownership: 8,000 shares.
Peter A. Langerman, age 39, has been a Director of the
Company since 1990. Mr. Langerman has
been Executive Vice President and a Director of Mutual Series
Fund Inc., a no-load, diversified, open-
end management investment company, since 1988. He has been
a Director of Hexcel Corporation, a
manufacturing company, since 1995. Mr. Langerman has been a
96. Financial Analyst for Heine
Securities Corporation, an investment advisory service
company, since 1986. Amount of Ownership:
0 shares.
Daniel J. Meyer, age 58, was nominated to become a Director of
the Company at the February
1995 meeting of the Board of Directors. He has been the
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
Officer, of Cincinnati Milacron Inc., a manufacturer of
processing equipment and systems for the
metal working and plastic industries, since 1991. Amount of
Ownership: 0 shares.
Roger W. Schipke, age 58, has been Chairman of the Board, a
Director, and Chief Executive
Officer (“CEO”) of Sunbeam-Oster since August 1993. From
December 1990 to August 1993, he was
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Ryland
Group, Inc., a mortgage banking and
home building company. Prior to joining Ryland, Mr. Schipke
spent 29 years with General Electric
Corporation, most recently as Senior Vice President in charge
of the Appliances Division. Mr.
Schipke is a member of the Boards of Directors of each of the
Brunswick Corporation, Legg Mason
Inc., Mohawk Industries, Inc. and The Rouse Company.
Amount of Ownership: 479, 337shares.
Charles J. Thayer, age 51, has been a Director of the Company
since 1990. He served as Chairman
of the Board of Directors from January 1993 until August 1993.
Mr. Thayer also served as Interim
Chief Executive Officer of the Company from June 1993 until
August 1993 and as Vice Chairman
from August 1993 until December 1993. He has been Managing
97. Director of Chartwell Capital, Ltd., a
financial advisory services company, since 1989. Mr. Thayer
was Executive Vice President of PNC
Financial Corp., a multi-bank holding company, from 1987 until
1989. Amount of Ownership: 42,000
shares.
Shimon Topor, age 51, was appointed by the Board of Directors
to fill a vacancy on the Board in
February 1995. He has been a General Partner of Steinhardt
Management Co., Inc., an investment
partnership, since 1985 and is currently a General Partner of
several other investment partnerships.
Amount of Ownership: 0 shares.
Paul W. Van Orden, age 68, has been a Director of the Company
since 1993. He is Executive
Director of each of the Chazen Institute of International
Business at Columbia University Business
School and the Columbia University Center for International
Business Education. Amount of
Ownership: 6,000 shares.
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98. Exhibit 6 (continued)
Sunbeam Board of Directors, 1997
Albert J. Dunlap, age 59, has been Chairman of the Board of
Directors and Chief Executive Officer
of Sunbeam Corporation since July 18, 1996. From April 1994
to December 1995 he was Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of Scott Paper Company. From 1991 to
1993, Mr. Dunlap was the Managing
Director and Chief Executive Officer of Consolidated Press
Holdings Limited (an Australian media,
chemicals and agricultural operation). Mr. Dunlap is a Director
of General Oriental Investments
Limited. Amount of Ownership: 1,324,898 shares.
Charles M. Elson, age 37, has been a Director since his
appointment to the Board on September
25, 1996. Mr. Elson has been a Professor of Law at Stetson
University College of Law since 1990 and
serves as Of Counsel to the law firm of Holland & Knight (since
May 1995). He is also a member of
the American Law Institute and the Advisory Council and
Commissions on Director Compensation
and Director Professionalism of the National Association of
Corporate Directors. Mr. Elson is Trustee
of Talledega College and a Salvatori Fellow of the Heritage
Foundation. Amount of Ownership:
7,500 shares.
Russell A. Kersh, age 43, has been Executive Vice President,
Finance and Administration of
Sunbeam Corporation since July 22, 1996, and has been a
Director since August 6, 1996. From June
1994 to December 1995 he was Executive Vice President,
99. Finance and Administration of Scott Paper
Company. Amount of Ownership: 140,817 shares.
Howard G. Kristol, age 59, has been a Director since his
appointment on August 6, 1996. He has
been a partner in the law firm of Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt,
Maynard & Kristol since 1976. Amount
of Ownership: 7,500 shares.
Peter A. Langerman, age 41, has been a Director of the
Company since 1990 and served as
Chairman of the Board from May 22, 1996 until July 18, 1996.
Amount of Ownership: 0 shares.
William T. Rutter, age 66, has been a Director since his
appointment on April 8, 1997. He is a
Senior Vice President/Managing Director, Private Banking,
First Union National Bank of Florida, a
position he has held since 1986. Amount of Ownership: 2,000
shares.
Faith Whittlesley, age 58, has been a member of the Board of
Directors since her appointment in
December 1996. Mrs. Whittlesey has served as the Chief
Executive Officer of the American Swiss
Foundation, a charitable and educational foundation, since
1991. She is a member of the Board of
Directors of Valassis Communications, Inc. Amount of
Ownership: 3,500 shares.
Source: Sunbeam Proxy, June 11, 1997.
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Exhibit 6 (continued)
Sunbeam Board of Directors, 1999
Jerry W. Levin, age 55, was appointed Chief Executive Officer,
President and a Director of
Sunbeam in June 1998 and was elected as Chairman of the
Board of Directors in March 1999. Mr.
Levin was also appointed to serve as Chief Executive Officer
and a Director of The Coleman
Company, Inc. (“Coleman”) and Camper Acquisition Corp.
(“CAC”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Sunbeam, in June 1998. Coleman is a publicly held company of
which approximately 79% of its stock
is owned by the Company. Mr. Levin previously held the
position of Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Coleman from February 1997 until its acquisition by
Sunbeam in March 1998. Mr. Levin
was also the Chairman of Coleman from 1989 to 1991. Mr.
Levin was Chairman of the Board of
Revlon, Inc. from November 1995 until June 1998, Chief
Executive Officer of Revlon, Inc. from 1992
until January 1997, and President of Revlon, Inc. from 1992 to
1995. Mr. Levin has been Executive
Vice President of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc. since
March 1989. Amount of Ownership: 0
shares.
101. Philip E. Beekman, age 67, is a nominee for election as a
Director of Sunbeam. Mr. Beekman is
President of Owl Hollow Enterprises Inc., a position he has held
since July 1994. From December 1986
to July 1994, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Hook SUPERX, a retail drug store
chain. Amount of Ownership: 5,000 shares.
Charles M. Elson, age 39, has been a Director of Sunbeam since
his appointment to the Board of
Directors in September 1996. Mr. Elson was a Director of
Coleman from March 30, 1998 until June 24,
1998. Amount of Ownership: 10,500 shares.
Howard Gittis, age 65, was appointed to the Board of Directors
of Sunbeam in June 1998. Mr.
Gittis has been a Director, Vice Chairman and Chief
Administrative Officer of MacAndrews & Forbes
and certain of its affiliates since 1985. Mr. Gittis also is a
member of the Boards of Directors of Golden
State Bancorp Inc., Golden State Holdings Inc., Jones Apparel
Group, Inc., Loral Space &
Communications Ltd., M & F Worldwide Corp., Panavision
Inc., Revlon Consumer Products
Corporation, Revlon, Inc., REV Holdings Inc. and Rutherford-
Moran Oil Corporation. Amount of
Ownership: 0 shares.
John H. Klein, age 53, was appointed to the Board of Directors
in February 1999. Mr. Klein is
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BiLogix, Inc. and
Strategic Business and Technology
102. Solution
s LLC and Chairman of CyBear, positions he has held since
mid-1998. From April 1996 to
May 1998, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
MIM Corporation, a provider of
pharmacy benefit services to medical groups. Amount of
Ownership: 415 shares.
Howard G. Kristol, age 61, has been a Director of Sunbeam
since his appointment to the Board of
Directors in August 1996. Mr. Kristol has been a partner in the
law firm of Reboul, MacMurray,
Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol since 1976. Amount of Ownership:
10,500 shares.
Peter A. Langerman, age 45, has been a Director of Sunbeam
since 1990 and served as the
Chairman of the Board of Directors from May 1996 until July
1996 and from June 1998 until March
1999. Amount of Ownership: 0 shares.
Faith Whittlesley, age 60, has been a Director of Sunbeam since
103. her appointment to the Board of
Directors in December 1996. Amount of Ownership: 6,890
shares.
Source: Sunbeam Proxy, May 11, 1999.
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Exhibit 7 Sunbeam Stock Performance Relative to the S&P 500
SUNBEAM RELATIVE STOCK PRICE PERFORMANCE
0
50
116. 8
Sunbeam
S&P 500
Dunlap becomes CEO Dunlap is fired
Source: Datastream
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