... THE CASE STUDY OF ACCESS BANK PLC BEING A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF B.SC (HONS) IN APPLIED ACCOUNTING BY xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ACCA REG. NO: xxxxxxx E-mail: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MAY, 2011 PAGES: 29 WORD COUNT: 6345 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Reason for choosing the topic 1.3 Aims and Objectives of the report 1.4 Research questions 1.5 Research Approach PART 2 Information gathering 2.1 Sources used for information gathering 2.2 Description of methods used: 2.3 Limitations of information gathered 2.4 Ethical issues 2.5 Accounting technique used (Financial analysis) 2.6 Limitations of accounting technique (Financial ratios) 2.7 Business techniques (SWOT and PEST analysis) 2.8 Limitation of business techniques (SWOT and PEST analysis) PART 3 ...
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...Module Code:SP Table of Contents Executive summary 3 1. RECENT PAST: Strategies deployed and resulting outcomes- recent Strategic development history. 4 Introduction:- 4 Strategic Development History:- 4 Growth Strategy:- 7 Organic Growth:- 7 External growth (Acquisitions):- 7 Product series Strategy:- 8 Tesco Finest Range:- 8 Tesco Average Range: 8 Tesco Value Range: 8 Store Formats strategy:- 8 2. CURRENT: Current Strategic Situation:- 9 PEST Analysis:- 9 PORTER’s Five Forces:- 11 SWOT ANALYSIS:- 13 3. FUTURE: Strategic Direction for the future:- 16 Strategic 1: Tesco should expand in South East Asian developing country:- 16 Strategic 2: Tesco should alliance with Star Bucks or Caffe Nero:- 17 Strategic 3: Tesco should introduce books section in back to school section:- 17 Strategic 4: Tesco should launch micro Tesco chain in UK:- 17 Conclusion:- 18 References:- 19 Executive summary The main purpose of this work is that to analyse the strategic growth of Tesco plc. After the brief study of Tesco’s history it has been analysed that Tesco works on many different strategies. Regarding to the growth strategy Tesco...
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...Developing a Hybrid Savings/ Current Account for Zenith Bank Plc Table of Contents 1.0 : Introduction 3 2.0 PEST Analysis 4 2: 1 Market Evaluation 6 3.0 Product Development 9 4. 0. Marketing Mix 11 4.2 Targeting 14 4.3 Positioning 14 4.0 Conclusions 14 1.0 : Introduction Zenith Bank Nigeria Plc was founded in May 1990 with the headquarters in Victoria Island, Lagos State Nigeria under the management of Macaulay Pepple, who was the pioneer chairman and Jim Ovia, who was the chief executive officer (ZenithBank.com). However, they are rated the second biggest Finance Industry in Nigeria and the best bank for a consistent 2 year period from 2008-2010 as well as the most respected bank in Nigeria (ZenithBank.com). Since 1990, Zenith Bank has operated in Nigeria and now operates in five other African countries in addition to the United Kingdom. It offers varied financial services such as current account, savings, commercial letter of credit, credit cards, mortgage, loan,investment banking and other financial products and services (ZenithBank.com). For several years, Zenith Bank has consistently announced profits from its wide ranging operations as a result of the growing opportunity offered by the Nigerian market. Nigeria is a nation of 150 million people with less than 50% bankable population as of 2000 (CBN, 2010). In 2010, over 65% of the population have become customers to one bank or another, thus presenting a growth opportunity for financial...
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...Table of Contents Introduction.......................................................................................................................................... 1 Internal analysis ................................................................................................................................... 1 External analysis .................................................................................................................................. 2 Competitor analysis ............................................................................................................................. 3 Consumer analysis ............................................................................................................................... 4 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Perspective ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Bibliography ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 Introduction Motivation: Anthon Berg (henceforward referred to as AB) is Toms Gruppen A/S’ (henceforward referred to as Toms) primary export product and is seen in various tax-free shops in different airports, which is why AB already is an international...
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...Advising Business Customers JYSK A/S Business Plan Business plan - JYSK Table of Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Problem statement ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Methodology .............................................................................................................................................. 4 Business overview ...................................................................................................................................... 5 Current position ..................................................................................................................................... 5 Competitive advantage .......................................................................................................................... 5 Growth plan ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Business strategy ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Tactics .................................................................................................................................................... 6 Strategic...
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...MACRO FACTORS AFFECTING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT SUBMITTED BY: AAYUSH VERMA INTRODUCTION A business firm is an open system. It gets resources from the environment and supplies its goods and services to the environment. There are different levels of environmental forces. Some are close and internal forces whereas others are external forces. External forces may be related to national level, regional level or international level. These environmental forces provide opportunities or threats to the business community. Every business organization tries to grasp the available opportunities and face the threats that emerge from the business environment. The term business ‘typically’ refers to the development and processing of economic values in society. Normally, the term is applied to portion of economic activities whose primary purpose is to provide goods and services for society in an effective manner. It is also applied to economics and commercial activities of institutions which having other purposes. Business may be defined as “the organised effort by individuals to produce goods and services to sell these goods and services in a market place and to reap some reward for this effort.” Functionally, we may define business as “those human activities which involves production or purchase of goods with the object of selling them at a profit margin”. Business organizations cannot change the external environment but they just react. They change their internal business components...
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...|HND BUSINESS | |Marketing Principles | |Assignment 1 – | | | | | |Word Count 2189 (Total 2525) | |Harry Singh | |02/11/2015 | Contents What Is The Marketing Process 2 Benefits and Draw Backs of of having a Marketing Orientation 2 Benefits and Draw Backs of of having a Marketing Orientation (Cont) 3 What is Macroeconomics 4 Pestle Analysis 4 Pestle Analysis (Cont) 5 What is Microeconomics 6 Porter's Five Forces Theory 6 Porter's Five Forces Theory (Cont) 7 References 8 References (Cont) 9 What Is The Marketing Process There are a number of different definitions from organisations or individuals to describe it, The UK Chartered Institute of...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY By analyzing PEST model partly which contains four main factor as Economic; Political and Legal; Culture, Social and Ethics and some others (technology or environment), this paper has clearly presented penetration strategy Tesco PLC, a multinational retailer in grocery and merchandise towards Vietnam market. The paper conducted the report through collecting secondary data from General Statistics Office of Vietnam, Work Bank Data Source, CIA and some other trusted data source to indicate in detail whether Vietnamese market is a possible one for Tesco. The result point out that Vietnam could be a possible market for the core strategy of Tesco PLC. 1. INTRODUCTION Retail section has becoming one of the most potential businesses in the booming industry recently. Along with an active market, a level of competitiveness among retailers is also considered as a core factor influences each typical business strategy with the aim at obtaining big goal of profit. Numerous big retailer Groups in the world, now is trying to expand their business towards prospective market but not only domestic one such as Wal-mart or Metroto be able to perform, develop and compete through having effective plan and well performing. This report would like to examine Tesco PLC, the biggest retailer from the United Kingdom as a representative case for the effective expansion strategy implementation basing on analysing some key factors of host country’s market in a macro level. The chosen...
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...MACRO FACTORS AFFECTING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT SUBMITTED BY: AAYUSH VERMA INTRODUCTION A business firm is an open system. It gets resources from the environment and supplies its goods and services to the environment. There are different levels of environmental forces. Some are close and internal forces whereas others are external forces. External forces may be related to national level, regional level or international level. These environmental forces provide opportunities or threats to the business community. Every business organization tries to grasp the available opportunities and face the threats that emerge from the business environment. The term business ‘typically’ refers to the development and processing of economic values in society. Normally, the term is applied to portion of economic activities whose primary purpose is to provide goods and services for society in an effective manner. It is also applied to economics and commercial activities of institutions which having other purposes. Business may be defined as “the organised effort by individuals to produce goods and services to sell these goods and services in a market place and to reap some reward for this effort.” Functionally, we may define business as “those human activities which involves production or purchase of goods with the object of selling them at a profit margin”. Business organizations cannot change the external environment but they just react. They change their internal business components...
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...scholars; means by which people in organisations should be managed and ways by which those in managerial position could adopt in order to resolve issues in the work place efficiently. Also by using 2 main organisations (provided as case studies), the assignment further seek to bring to clarity certain similar practices shared and also expose certain contrasting means of operation between both organisation in term of: *Organisational design and structure & *Organisational Culture Brook (2003) in his findings has acknowledge the complexity that most organisations finds themselves in and rightly identifies that there are forces which not just influences an organisation but also frames it. So through the PEST model (Political, Economic, Social and Technology), it can be argued on the other side of the coin, that organisations are not only affected by their environment and its forces, however their means of operation (which is classified in other terms as organisational design and culture) can also in return influence the environment in which they operate. With that notion covered, it is thus possible to have certain aspects of the business environment viewed differently by organisations operating within the same sector; where one may see it has an opportunity for growth while the other may see it has a threat. Every working environment tends to have a form of structure which is meant to facilitate the notion of accountability...
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...International Dimensions of Business HSBCs ascent into China. Word Count excluding references and table of contents: 3354 Business Management Contents Aims 3 1. Introduction 3 1.1 HSBC and China 3 1.2 Foreign Activity 4 1.3 HSBC in China 5 2. Chinese Business Environment 5 2.1 PEST Analysis 6 Political- Communism and World Trade Organisation Membership 6 Economical - High levels of FDI and a strong economy 8 Social- Education and Ageing Population 10 Technological- Accessibility 11 2.2 Analysis of the Chinese banking industry 11 2.3- Porter’s Five Force analysis 12 2.4 Culture Analysis 15 3. Mode of Entry 18 3.1 Reasons for mode of entry. 18 3.2 International Theory 18 4 - Conclusion 20 References 20 Aims This report will look at banking giant HSBCs entry into mainland China. The aim is to 1. Provide a brief outline of HSBCs entry into china, including background information on HSBC and China and take a look at the nature and location of HSBCs foreign activity. 2 Identify and analyse the main characteristics of the business environment in China that are likely to have influenced HSBCs decision to operate there. 3 Evaluate the factors that HSBC took into account when choosing its mode of international entry into China. 1. Introduction Globalisation has interconnected the world and is seen by some as an evolutionary process, although it does have its critics. Expansion into foreign markets is as a must for big businesses if they want to...
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...company Tesco PLC that is UK’s leading grocery store. The aim of this report is to develop a three-year marketing strategy plan and a one-year tactical communication plan for Tesco. Tesco at some stage has faced difficulty hence by exploring the brand and critically analyzing its marketing strategy, I will then develop a strategy that would turn Tesco’s fortune around. 1.1. Methodology Market research for the brand has been conducted through secondary research by visiting academic websites such as Mintel, Database reports,LexisNexis Database, Business reports, Articles, Blogs and News online. 1.2. History Tesco PLC is a multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. It is the third largest retailer in the world measured by profits and second-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues. It has stores in 12 countries across Asia, Europe and North America and is the grocery market leader in the UK (where it has a market share of around 30%), the Republic of Ireland, Malaysia, and Thailand. Jack Cohen founded Tesco in 1919 as a group of market stalls. The Tesco name first appeared in 1924, after Cohen purchased a shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell and combined those initials with the first two letters of his surname, and the first Tesco store opened in 1929 in Burnt Oak, Middlesex. His business expanded rapidly, and by 1939 he had over 100 Tesco stores across the country. (TESCO PLC, 2015) 2.BRAND...
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...Business Project – HMV Chan Ho Yeung 13431908 Context 1. Introduction 2 2. Comparative Analysis of the company’s competitive position in its various markets 3 2.1 PEST 4 2.2 Porter 5 forces 5 2.3 Value Chain 7 3. Considerations for the company’s position in relation to cross-cultural issues 10 3.1 Hofstede Cultural dimensions 10 3.2 Iceberg model of culture 14 4. The company’s position in relation to corporate social responsibility 16 4.1 Carroll’s CSR Pyramid 16 5. Conclusion 21 6. References 24 1. Introduction People who were born in 1990s or before, they should have gone to CD shops to buy CDs and supported their favourite singers. So that, you must know HMV. HMV, everyone knows that it is a CDs retailer basically. HMV opened in Oxford Street London on 20th July 1921. HMV’s full name is “His Master’s Voice”. At that time, HMV was a part of EMI - Electric and Musical Industries. In 1998, HMV was divested from EMI. It needs to especially mention the logo of HMV. HMV’s logo is based on a dog that called Nipper, is listening to a gramophone. In 1921, when HMV had started, they were a company which sold gramophone and also used HMV’s name to produce TVs and radios. After that, HMV did not sell gramophone, they was transiting gradually to sell CDs. Until now, HMV has changed a lot. They are not only selling CDs, they also sell the other products including film, games and headphones. In 1988, HMV has opened their first overseas store in Canada...
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...Analysis Of Jaykay Marketing Services Marketing Essay The supermarket industry in Sri Lanka is set out for an explosive growth in the recent years this is with the western lifestyle of modern Sri Lankans where convenience is a key benefit sought after.(Perera 2006) The traditional grocery store concept has been evolving in to a ‘’Mega Stores’’ and the heavy discounter concept which carry all the goods shoppers want (Stanton 2007). If we look at the drivers for the evolution of modern supply chains, or ‘’Modern Trade’’ they have been persistent in increase demand for value added consumer products, convenience food, beverage, and frozen confectioneries. ‘’The emergence of supermarkets, urbanization, income increase, high quality retail export markets, high quality bulk procurement, trade agreements, with other countries, increased migration of Sri Lankan citizens and increased female participation in labor force have created a new demand pattern, shifting the focus towards continuous supply of high quality, value added products with improved processing, packaging and labeling’’ (Samarthuga A 2006 15). Sri Lanka is an agriculture base country primarily it has 2 million hectares or 30% agricultural land, and almost 75% of the agricultural land is under small holdings and the balance is under estates. Sri Lanka Imports 65000 MT of diary commodities mainly FCMP and diary therefore seen and instrument to replace, and about 70% of the contribution to the livestock subsector comes from...
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...Investment analysis November 2015 Jaime J. Delgado Code Unit STR364 Student Num. Q12576077 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction…….………………………………………………………................... 2 p 2. Overview of Land Securities..…….................................................................... 2 p 3. The market trends, opportunities and risks..…...…………................................ 2 p a. Housing in London 2 p b. Commercial real estate in the UK 3 p 4. Strategy for management and marketing.……………………………………….. 3 p c. Business model .……........................................................................... 3 p d. Performance.……................................................................................ 4 p 5. Specific project analysis …………....…………………........................................ 4 p e. Stakeholders aspirations …………………………………………………... 4 p f. Operational performance …………………………………………………… 5 p 6. Conclusion and recommendation ………………………………………….............. 8 p 7. References …………………………………………………………………………….. 9 p 8. Appendix………………………………………………………..…..............…..…....... 11 p 1. INTRODUCTION This report aspires to critically evaluate the performance of Land Securities and provide enough evidence to allow non-professional investors to understand the Company performance, the market where it operates and decide if investing in Land Securities is...
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