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l level of turns per year. With new products, retailers are demanding slotting fees and everincreasing promotional support. Product managers are forced to achieve current product revenue and market share goals while stimulating demand for new products. Many industry experts feel that there will be consolidation of brands within many of the market segments in which Ramp。H has negotiated deals with sister panies overseas to manufacture and directship product.Ramp。H only operates in the ., it owns several manufacturing and distribution facilities around the world to support its production and distribution systems. Ramp。H is a whollyowned subsidiary of a multinational conglomerate. The conglomerate owns ten panies operating in the . Ramp。 Hickey, Inc.You have been recently hired into the Strategic Change (SC) group, a business unit of PricwaterhouseCoopers. SC is the strategy thought leader in PwC. The engagement partner in Consumer Products has e to SC to help develop a strategy for Roane amp。 Hickey, Inc. (Ramp。H is the largest of the ten. Ramp。H takes advantage of lower labor costs in Mexico, Canada and Southeast Asia to lower its manufacturing costs. Ramp。H has four market segments that operate as profit centers. The market segments are: Personal Hygiene, Consumer Tissue, Soaps and Detergents and Personal Care. Even though the revenues are roughly evenly divided among all four market segments, Personal Care contributes 90% of the pany39。H petes and, as a result of this brand consolidation, that Ramp。s trade promotion strategy as being the catalyst for the growth in trade promotion in the industry as petitors have been forced to respond.Ramp。H traditionally had the best order fill rate in the business。H, an American, joined the pany six months ago. He was the Executive Vice President of an important European division of a sister pany. The conglomerate has always prided itself on being able to leverage its multinational resources.Current SituationVenn Teldren, the Executive Vice President of Finance, is considered to be a brilliant man by many in the industry. Born and raised in Europe, Mr. Teldren rose quickly through the organization. However, because of his outspoken nature, he angered enough senior level executives (showed up as Mr. Teldren would say) that he has never received a position of president, even though his name is mentioned every time an opening appears.Recent