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Consolidation

Presentation to Steel Business Briefing Conference Chicago

March 12, 2008

Below is a presentation I made at Steel Business Briefing’s North American steel conference held in Chicago March 2008. The topic of my panel was “American Steel: Land of Opportunity”. My presentation deals with the recent acquisition of steel assets in North America by companies headquartered outside the region and argues that the North American […]

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Steel Manufacturers’ Association Presentation

February 27, 2008

Below is a presentation I made recently at the SMA Board of Directors meeting in Florida. It deals with the issue of organizational size in today’s steel industry and asks some questions (more than providing any answers) about how the structure of steel organizations will change as they deal with much different dimensions of scale […]

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BlueScope buys SteelScape back – and a whole lot more

December 19, 2007

Here’s BlueScope’s detailed description of the what they just acquired from Ternium. Follow the link below and download the original from the link on the righthand side of the page. BlueScopeSteelpresentation20Dec07[1].pdf

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Sims & Metal Management Merger Presentation – September, 2007

October 18, 2007

More consolidation in the scrap industry. Here’s a nice overview of the acquisition of Metal Management by Sims. It’s a PDF file which will show up here somehow both to read and for download. Sims-Group-Merger-Presentation-Sep2007.pdf

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Steel Dynamics Omnisource acquisition

October 8, 2007

Here are the Steel Dynamics files relating to the Omnisource scrap processor acquisition. There’s a PDF file: SDI-Omnisource and there’s an audio file from the conference call on October 2, 2007. It’s a full hour: SDI’s OMNISOURCE Acquisition Podcast

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The best big organization will win

September 27, 2007

A senior steel industry manager who had just been offered a promotion to head office was reflecting on his choice. Looking for guidance, he asked a colleague for advice. ‘Just add value,’ was the terse reply. His implication of course was that corporate ‘overhead’ usually doesn’t. His deeper implication was that real value is only […]

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