Arcelor Mittal Steel

Term Paper # 109402

Business > Administration
Business > Companies
Business > Management

An analysis of ArcelorMittal Steel, its growth as the world's number 1 steel producer and its organizational structure.

4,147 words () | 12 sources | APA | 2008 Singapore

Paper Summary:

The paper examines ArcelorMittal Steel, formed by the merger of Arcelor Steel and Mittal Steel. After giving a brief history of the two separate companies, the author examines the organizational structure of the new company and the senior executives working for the new organization. The writer also examines the introduction and expansion of IT technology within the new company both as a means of improving communication within the organization but also as a means to improve production, marketing and communications with customers. This paper contains a number of graphs and tables.

Outline.
ArcelorMittal Steel
History of Mittal Steel
Mittal Steel Growth Timeline
History of Arcelor steel
Organizational structure changes
Group management board
Board of Directors
Management committee
Role of Information Technology in Organisational Change
Reccomendations
Conclusion
Sources

From the Paper:

"Arcelormittal is world's no.1 steel maker with revenue of $105.2 billion a year and with crude steel production of 116 million tones per year. That's around 10% of the world's steel produced. The company has over 310,000 employees in more than 60 countries and across 4 continents. The company is leader in all major global market for automotives, construction, household, appliances and packaging. Earlier Mittal steel was leader in steel industry in terms of volume and Arcelor steel was leader in terms of revenues before the two leaders merged to become the world leader in highly fragmented steel industry. L.N.Mittal is on buying spree it seems he is on a way to combine the steel industry. He is been successful in combining 10% of it. Steel produced by ArcelorMittal is three times more than its next competitor, which is Nippon Steel a Korean steel company."

Sample of Sources Used:

McKinsley quarterly February 2008, "integrating two steel giants", An interview with ArcelorMittal post mergers manager.
Gary boomer, "the role of IT in merger and acquisitions"
WEBSITES:
(www.arcelormittal.com)
(http://www.arcelor.com.fr/index.php?lang=en&page=77)