Case Code: BSTA006
Case Length: 11 Pages
Period: 1994 - 2003
Pub Date: 2005
Teaching Note: Not Available
Organization : Sidbec; Ispat
Industry : Steel
Countries : Canada
Themes:
Business Strategy
Price
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Despite its good performance under the new
management, there was some amount of skepticism regarding whether
Sidbec’s profitability run would continue.
Mittal had managed to
turn the firm around without laying off employees or changing the unit’s
existing management.
New Steel had chosen Mittal as the “steel
maker of the year” in 1996. Having successfully turned around Sidbec,
analysts wondered what Mittal’s next move would be.