Vivendi Universal Case Study Project

Recommendations
There are many decisions facing Vivendi in the coming months that will determine the path and the future of the organization. After careful analysis of the problems surrounding Vivendi's short-term and long-term debt problems, it is clear that the immediate solution would be to sell Cegetel. The money that will be generated from the return on investment, approximately 4.32 billion, will be initially utilized to pay off the organizations short-term debt obligations. Overall, the transactional sale will free up approximately $6.4 billion in liquid cash. The sale will also play strongly into for Vivendi since the organization is strongest on the content side. Regardless of the path chosen by Vivendi, the solution is to sell assets to free up cash. Without an inflow of cash, the organization's stock value will eventually reach junk status and the company will be forced into bankruptcy.
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