Biosafety Level Logistics (BLL)
Biosafety Level Logistics (BLL) was a Swiss company specialized in providing biosecurity logistic services to other companies. In 2020, BLL obtained a five-year contract to provide bio-secure transportation services to several Swiss research centers specialized in the development of vaccines. To offer this service, BLL had to buy ten refrigerated trucks that had been meticulously adapted to transport the vaccines, forcing the company to decide on the best financing option: leasing or a bank loan.
This case is based on Exercise "Kramer Security Services (KSS)", CE-28-E, from the same authors.
Collection: IESE (España)
Ref: C-803-E
Format: PDF
Number of pages: 3
Publication Date: Jul 9, 2021
Language: English
Description
Biosafety Level Logistics (BLL) was a Swiss company specialized in providing biosecurity logistic services to other companies. In 2020, BLL obtained a five-year contract to provide bio-secure transportation services to several Swiss research centers specialized in the development of vaccines. To offer this service, BLL had to buy ten refrigerated trucks that had been meticulously adapted to transport the vaccines, forcing the company to decide on the best financing option: leasing or a bank loan.
This case is based on Exercise "Kramer Security Services (KSS)", CE-28-E, from the same authors.
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Year: 2020
Geographic Setting: Suiza
Learning Objective
Assess the impact of various financing options on the balance sheet and on the debt covenants.
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