Mayne's background
Mayne is an Australian company, operating internationally which represents more than 50 countries worldwide. Mayne was established 119 years ago as a parcel delivery service and, since that time, the company has evolved from one of Australia's largest transport operators to become a successful provider of health care products and services. Mayne Nickless Limited was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange on June 30, 1962. The company was renamed Mayne Group Limited in November 2000, enhancing its visibility in the marketplace to better reflect its broad, national health care and logistics operations. It was previously known as Mayne Nickless Limited. Mayne entered the health industry in 1986 and the Pharmaceuticals and Pharmacy businesses, acquired in 2001. It was previously managed by Bob Dalziel during the years of November 1995 to June 2000 but when things did not come to a better state, they were replaced by Peter Smedley in July 2000 who has reputable reputation as an asset acquirer for stakeholders when he was in Colonial.
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Maynes KM10 GSMThus, Mayne's stakeholders' expectations are high in which they hoped Peter would do the same to Mayne but unexpectedly, Peter Smedley was fired because of his wrong review and misguided strategy bringing Mayne to become worse than it was before. As problems were still not fixed and yet it became worse and was badly underperforming, in October 2003 , Mayne sold its hospital business to Affinity Health. With the sale of its hospital business, Mayne could concentrate on its core business rather than diversifying.
Question 1- Mayne's problem and its causes
There are quite a few problems that Mayne currently have and it was mostly because of wrong management structure implemented. I would be concentrating on problems that occurred during the period before Mayne sold its hospital business and the era when...