The Sovay Group Case

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This case is about the Solvay Group, which is a company that deals with chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and plastics. The Solvay group originally began in 1861, by a Belgian chemist Ernest Solvay. At that time he was experimenting and invented an ammonia-soda process for producing sodium carbonate, or otherwise called soda ash. After successfully inventing this process, he founded the Solvay group in 1863 to exploit this process. The case further talks about the newly assigned HR manager Marcel Lorent who has to manage a new group called the international mobility. This group was assembled to help transfer employees to other divisions as smooth as possible. After nearly going bankrupt several times in the duration of seven years the group decided to enter a phase of global expansion between the years 1870 and 1880, in which at this time the group set up facilities in England, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States and continued expanding through out the years through acquisitions and diversifications. The Solvay group of the present currently has three primary sectors that ...

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