Dupont Case

Executive Summary DuPont is known for its low reliance on borrowing. In the 1970s, the company had to undertake the majority of the debt of the newly acquired company Conoco. In 1983, the investment company must determine the optimal target debt ratio in the future. Do you keep holding about 40% of assets with borrowings or trying to reduce borrowing to 25%? We define several criteria to determine our choice - revenue, risk and other quantitative / qualitative factors.

In the famous case in 1947, the federal government accused DuPont of exclusive rights in the cellophane market and stated that DuPont produced 75% of cellophane in the United States. DuPont has a market share of 75% with cellophane but refuted that its share of "soft packaging materials", including all other moistureproof papers, films and films, is less than 20%. After years of litigation in 1956, the US Supreme Court ruled that broader market definitions were more appropriate and litigation against DuPont was dismissed.

Among those familiar with this problem, DuPont explained to US officials about their problems, others said they did not want to raise this issue in trade negotiations. Former Chinese partner, Zhangjiagang Harbor Optical Industry Co., Ltd., continues to sell chemicals used in textile manufacturing, Dupont believes it is the top of that technology. DuPont and Glory refused to make executives comment. According to a survey conducted in the spring, one fifth of the members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai have been forced to transfer technology. Among these companies, 44% of aerospace and 41% of chemicals report "great pressure". China considers these two industries strategically important.

Thousands of people living along the Ohio River in Appalachian Ohio, where I am from, are poisoned by DuPont and other chemical companies. For DuPont, the company knows that PFOA / C8 is a chemical substance used for Teflon manufacturing for 50 years. It can cause cancer and serious health problems in humans and wildlife. Many employees and residents near the company's Washington facility suffered from painful death, congenital deficiency and serious medical complications while the company was silent. I can not tell what happened when the farmers in that area died of deadly looking at livestock development abnormalities, lathering in the oral cavity, blindness, tumors filled with cancer and so on.