1. VIT BUSINESS SCHOOL
Market Analysis of Caterpillar Inc
Heavy Machinery Sector
Manjunath.R.Joshi, Edwin Jovit
2. Contents
VIT Business School: ................................................................................................................................... 3
Introduction to Caterpillar Inc: ..................................................................................................................... 4
Caterpillar Inc and India ................................................................................................................................ 5
Products: ....................................................................................................................................................... 5
Competitor: ................................................................................................................................................... 6
Market Share Analysis................................................................................................................................... 7
Capital Labor Ratio: (in No of million dollar per unit thousand employees) ................................................ 8
Turnover Vs Employee Chart: ....................................................................................................................... 8
Company Analysis: ........................................................................................................................................ 9
3. VIT Business School:
VIT University was established in 1984 by well-known educationalist and former parliamentarian, Dr. G. Viswanathan, Founder and Chancellor. Dr. V. Raju, Former Professor of State University of New York, USA, currently the Vice Chancellor, Dr. Anand A. Samuel, Pro-Vice Chancellor. Chennai Campus is in Vandalur-Kelambakkam Road.VIT University has more than 17 Bachelor’s and 32 Masters’ programmes, 29000 (including 1000 foreign students from 44 countries) and 4000 faculty members Accreditation: The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) of the University Grants Commission (UGC) has accredited the university with a 'A'. The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the Energy Institute, UK have audited the teaching-learning processes at VIT and accredited the programmes in 2004, with the highest validity of five years Programmes at VIT are accredited by the Institution of Engineers, India (IEI). The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) of the USA accredited the Civil, Mech, CSE, biomedical, ECE, EEE programmes. VIT Business School, under the aegis VIT University has created a niche for itself as an institution promoting excellence in management education and research with Dr. M J Xavier as its Executive Director.
4. Introduction to Caterpillar Inc:
Founded in California, United States in April 15, 1925, after the collaboration of C. L. Best Tractor Company & Holt Manufacturing Company.
Headquarters Peoria, Illinois, United States
Chairmen and CEO of Caterpillar is Douglas R. Oberhelman.
No.1 in Global Ranking
It trades in NYSE
Its has a total revenue of US$53.75Billion
It works in Heavy equipment, Engines & Financial services.
Caterpillar Inc., is an American corporation which designs, manufactures, markets and sells machinery and engines and sells financial products and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network.
Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives With more than US$89 billion in assets.
5. Caterpillar Inc and India
1953 - India Government officials purchase 93 new Caterpillar machines for a road development project in India.
1962-1977 - India and Pakistan More than 450 Caterpillar machines work on one of the world's largest earthmoving projects - the Indus River Basin Project.
Earthmoving Equipment(Construction equipment) Division in Chennai 2000 acquiring it from Hindustan Motors Ltd.
In 2006 Caterpillar India acquired Engine components and heavy-duty diesel engines section of Hindustan Power Plus Ltd.
Caterpillar India and the service & maintenance is provided by Birla group's GMMCO Ltd.
Products:
2.1 Machinery
2.2 On-road trucks
2.3 Engines
2.4 Caterpillar Defense Products
2.5 Caterpillar Electronics
2.6 Agriculture products
2.7 Financial products and brand licensing
6. Competitor:
Heavy Equipment Industry Competitors :
United Technologies Corporation
L&T-Komatsu Ltd.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
JCB Inc
Deere & Company
ABB Ltd.
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Parker-Hannifin Corporation
8. Capital Labor Ratio: (in No of million dollar per unit thousand employees)
Turnover Vs Employee Chart:
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Caterpillar Inc.
Deere & Company
Komatsu Ltd.
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9. Company Analysis:
Weka
Weka analysis for last one month:
SPSS Analysis
Spss analysis for past 6 months with 94% accuracy, taking two lag quantities (i.e lagprice and lagqty).
Here dependent variables is Price and independent variable is Lagprice and lagqty.
10. For Further details Contact: Dr P James Daniel Paul, Professor, VIT- BS, Chennai, jamesdanielpaul.p@vit.ac.in Tel: +91 44 3993 1040 HP: +91 98402 94590 Manjunath.R.Joshi(B.E Mechanical) 14MBA1100,VITBS , Chennai Email id-manjunathjoshi45@gmail.com Ph-8940214687(TN), 7353597157(Karnataka)