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1. Cash is king: If you have cash on your balance sheet, you have a greater degree of flexibility in your decision-making. Cash is the lifeblood of any business, and it matters more than earnings. As the saying goes, “Profits are an opinion, but cash is a fact.” More and more, bankers, investors and advisory professionals focus on the often-ignored cash flow statement. If earnings are growing faster than cash flows, red flags are raised.
2. Be relentless on cost control:[/b]In order to maintain your current or historic levels of profitability in an environment characterized by decreasing demand and increasing commodity prices, you will almost certainly need to cut costs and spending where possible. Escalating costs will cause margin compression and in turn put pressure on liquidity. Tough economic conditions require a razor-sharp focus on cost containment at a minimum, and on cost cutting where possible.
[b]3. Evaluate customers and suppliers: The recent challenges in credit markets, as well as a general economic downturn, have put increased pressure on the purchasing power and creditworthiness of customers resulting in a tightening of credit terms and product availability from suppliers. Ask yourself a simple question: If your customer were to file for bankruptcy tomorrow, what would the effect be on your business?
4. Get smarter on taxes: It is important to take appropriate advantage of the opportunities available to reduce your tax liabilities, such as fully utilizing available credits and deductions and making the least allowable estimated tax payment. If a company operates across multiple state and local jurisdictions, there are many opportunities to manage cash and reduce taxes in the sales and use taxes and property tax arenas.
5. Reconsider capital investment plans: Investing in new assets in a downturn can bleed you of cash when you need it most. Carefully consider your capital investment plans, and question the proposed value and timing. If it isn’t mission-critical, consider delaying or deferring it.
6. Get closer to your banks: Given the current state of the credit markets, banks will be a lot more cautious and concerned about credit quality. As a result, they will need greater persuasion to lend you money when you need it. Borrowing will likely come at a higher price, both in terms of interest rates and fees, and will almost certainly include more restrictive covenants and require increased monitoring and transparency.
7. Consider your financing options: Having issues with your bank (either due to your problems or their problems) can result in a severe restriction in your borrowing capacity, or worse, pulling your financing facilities altogether. With what’s happened in the financing environment, it’s not as easy as it used to be to simply secure an alternative source of capital. Make sure you understand all your options for funding your business.
8. Keep an eye out for bargains: As lending markets contract, some companies will have liquidity problems. A number of these companies will consider a sale transaction as a viable option. It could be a need to preserve personal wealth, the real or perceived lack of alternatives or a lack of confidence in a recovery. This feeling of uncertainty will drive many shareholders to seek an exit or a partnership with a strategic investor rather than hunkering down and trying to weather the storm independently, thus creating buying opportunities at depressed prices.
9. Protect your personal wealth: In our current economic environment, it is likely that businesses will have greater borrowing needs. In this environment, banks will want more security in the form of personal guarantees, additional collateral and more stringent debt covenants, even on existing loans. Solving business cash needs with personal assets will reduce the diversification of your overall personal net worth and further expose you to a long-term recessionary economy.
10. Worst-case scenario: You’ve taken a hard look at your business and stress-tested sales assumptions, but your fixed costs are such that even breakeven cash flows are based on certain levels of revenue. Your future is uncertain, and trade credit is contracting. Maybe a debt payment is due. Don’t panic. The credit crisis and economic downturn are impacting businesses across almost every industry, so you’re not alone. Carefully consider alternatives. What are the advantages and disadvantages of restructuring through a bankruptcy? Does a sale of all or part of the business make sense? Is raising equity an option? What is the enterprise value of the business, and is that value greater than the face value of secured debt? How do you determine the value of all or part of the business? In a financial restructuring, the critical issue is indicative value.

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When we think and talk about food safety, an important factor is often ignored. Consumers, media, regulators and industry tend to focus on the product and not on the safety of its packaging, but packaging is a critical component in the overall food safety process. Now more than ever, as food distribution networks globalize, packaging plays a vital role in ensuring the final product is safe and secure for consumption.
Most manufacturers are aware of the impact of faulty packaging on their businesses. They know that malfunctioning packaging and mistakes in the supply chain affect the quality and integrity of their product. All take steps to provide products that are safe and secure to the end user. To improve on this and drive a better business outcome, companies must first realize why crises in packaging occur, and then take steps to prevent them in the future.
There are several factors that all manufacturers should consider in building a defense against packaging failures. First, review the packaging and manufacturing process. Second, address the human error factor. Finally, review the supply chain and ensure that raw materials and value-added products that contribute to your food product are meeting international standards.
The packaging and manufacturing process
Contamination and mislabeling risks at the packaging manufacturing stage are often overlooked because the emphasis on food safety usually lies in the preparation of the food itself. Food safety management systems, however, can only do so much to protect end users.
The only way to shore up defenses against an outbreak and mitigate any failures in packaging labeling is to review and prepare against the factors at play in the packaging process, and ensure that manufacturing practices are adhering to all safety and quality standards.
For example, the hygiene of the environment in which food packaging is manufactured plays a part in the food safety process. This has a direct impact on the safety of the food it is intended to protect. An adverse health outcome can result from incorrect labeling (a missing detail on the list of ingredients) or a jar lacking a proper seal.
Materials also matter. The inks used for printing must not contain dangerous substances that may migrate through the packaging and into the food. The type of food can affect this, such as high-fat foods like cheese. Similarly, when using laminate films, all layers must be food-safe and stop the migration of hazardous substances into the food.
Take the simple glass bottle. If not manufactured correctly, it can contain mold deformations, sharp shards of glass inside and out and blister-like formations. Additionally, the coatings on the glass can affect the way jars of food run on a production line. A lack of proper coating could cause a jar to stop a production line from running, costing time, money and resources.
All of these aspects need to be adequately managed through a series of on- and off-line quality control practices. Unfortunately, incorrectly labeled packaging is often the chief reason behind product recalls as a result of packaging error. This is typically due to a failure to declare potential allergens in the food product itself.
This issue is already being addressed by industry. Some of the world's largest consumer packaged goods companies have banded together to form the Food Safety Alliance for Packaging (foodsafetyallianceforpackaging.com), a technical committee of the Institute of Packaging Professionals. The initiative has already developed hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) models for packaging materials in the categories of cartons, rigid plastics, cut and stack labels and composite cans.

Human error[b][/b]

With respect to human error in the food packaging process, there is a variety of improvements that can be undertaken. First, organizations must make sure that anyone that interacts with food and/or its packaging is well-equipped with knowledge of personal hygiene, washing and the sanitization of equipment, utensils and surfaces and an understanding of the consequences of malpractice.
The best way of achieving this is by instituting a training program that is tailored to the individual company's culture and employees, taking into account the unique risk context of the food preparation and packaging protocols.
International food safety standard awareness training, such as HACCP, helps identify hazards and control points for staff, providing another level of safeguard. At a broader level, regular microbiological tests and clear sickness policies must also underpin an approach to vigilance on education, as diseases can easily be transferred onto food packaging through physical contact.

Supply chain

By risk-assessing the packaging supplier in relation to its products, processes and customer base, a manufacturer can ascertain the level of food safety risks associated with a particular supply chain and packaging material. Risk assessments allow for an allocation of different levels of due diligence requirements that suppliers must adhere to and provide any early red flags in the food packaging process that might pose a safety risk.