Case Name :      Middlesex Mushrooms Limited (B)

Authors :           John S. Haywood-Farmer, Kara Adlington

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            906D15

Discipline :        Operations Management

Case Length :    02 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

This is a supplement of Middlesex Mushrooms Limited (A), in which Tim Adlington, president and owner of Middlesex Mushrooms Limited (MML), must weight the advantages and disadvantages of forming a co-operative, as well as those of merging with Kuipers Farms Inc (Kuipers). An accident has just occurred at Kuipers, which has killed one of the owners and has incapacitated the farm. This not only puts the merger plans on hold but it may jeopardize the supplier agreement that MML and Kuipers had just finalized with a major Canadian supermarket chain. Adlington must decide how to proceed given the unfortunate situation.