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African Publishing Company (APC)
APC is a public limited company. It was privatised by the
government of country A five years ago. The performance of
the company since privatisation in 2009 is summarised below:
is used that comes from non-sustainable
workers have short-term contracts that
business to make redundancies.
$13m
Dynamic business environment
There have been many recent technolo
2009 2014
that have affected the publishing indus
Profit (after tax and interest but
$108m changes include using computers to ty
before dividends)
computerised inventory control, high
Average APC book price
$5
$8
automated printing presses and the a
Number of APC books in publication 3,250
4,560
technology prompting a huge growth
and e-readers. Initially, APC was swe
Average annual salaries paid
$8350 $7690
changes rather than being an indus
12%
4%
% change in annual energy usage
them but a new operations directo
125
64
Employee accidents on APC premises
introduced the latest production
cost to the business. The econom
APC operates is also changing.TH
Table 1 Selected data for APC 2009-2014
Table 2 offer opportunities as we
business. The chief executive pl
Its operations include:
his fellow directe​

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