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Alden Products, Inc.--European Manufacturing

By: Robert H. Hayes
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Abstract

The European organization of Alden Products, Inc. is contemplating a doubling of unit sales over the next ten years. Their largest plant, located in Holland, was set up 25 years earlier to supply all demands of the EEC countries on the continent. It has since expanded six times. Should it expand again? Should it build a new plant in Southern Europe? Or should it increase subcontracting?

Keywords

Production; Growth Management; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Strategic Planning; Performance Capacity; Business Strategy; Netherlands; Europe

Citation

Hayes, Robert H. "Alden Products, Inc.--European Manufacturing." Harvard Business School Case 697-099, March 1997. (Revised December 1999.)
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