Case EPC-2020: Increasing competitiveness and profits

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Case EPC-2020: Increasing competitiveness and profits

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Jan 6, 2021

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In this hypothetical case (EPC-2020), the global EPC market is explored and, from that basis, guidelines are presented on how to make an EPC firm more competitive and increase its profit to a healthy 5%-6% of sales.
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Jan 6, 2021

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