Assessment 1. 1
Munteanu Corina

Tesco is a british multinational grocery and general merchendise retailer headqurted in Cheshunt, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom . It is the 3rd largest retailer in the wordl measured by profits , and the second retailer in the world measured by revenues. It has stores in 12 couuntries across Assia , and Europe and is the grocery market leader in the UK.
Tesco was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen , as a group of market stalls . The Tesco name first appeared in 1924, after Cohen purchased a of tea from T.E. Stocwell and combined those initiales with with the irst two letters of his surname and the first Tesco store opened in the 1929 in Burnst Oak , Barnett. His bussiness expanded rappidly and by 1939 he had over 100 Tesco stores accross the country.
Originnaly, a UK – focused grocery retailer , since the early 1990s , Tesco has incresingly divesified geograpfically and into areas such the retailing of books , clothing, electronics, , furniture, toys , petrol and soft ware, financial services and internet services.
As fir today , Tesco is one of the world’s largest retailers with over 500,000 collegues , they serve millions of customers a week into the stores and on line.
Tesco is the global grocery and general merchendise , retailer , headquarted in Chesehund in the UK. The first compnie’s purpose under the retail of how much – society has chenged in recent years more sceptical about corporation , mor desired to see bussines and it has to demonstrate it has a purpose beyond the profit . Tesco values help to understand how to implement this into practice: * Understand customers. * Share knowlwdge and experience * Be the first to meet customer’s needs * Work as a team * Listen, support and say thankk you
The difference between this two bussinesses is the aim and the purpose of their activities. Ashoka ‚s purpose is the education of the poor women , providing financial resources to overcome the national and local system , while Tesco ‚s management is interested in comercialising grocery .
Ashoka is a company limited by government and registred as a charity organisation, while Tesco is a public limited company listed on the London’s Stock Exchange – where it’s shares can be traded.

Ashoka
With access to education , the company can do amasing things: launch bussiness, become health workers , run schools and lead guvernments. But first education is not truly available to everyone - and in many parts of the world girls are the first to be excluded from it .
Since 1993, Comfed has educated girls and has supported young women to help tackle poverty in rural envirionment. More that 9.000.000 children in the poorest areas of Ghana , Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe have benefited from Ashoka’s innovative education programms. The companies thoughts is that investing in gils and women is a proven way to emprove the healthand wealth of a whole nation.
The company believes that every child has the right fot education , since the poverty is the greatest barrier to accessing education in the community that we work. So, in this way, the compny provides financial support to overcome that barrier and then work through national and local system – while parets , teachers, government officials and traditional authorities – to deliver them .
The support of the company is like a one-off injection of money support.
Ashoka is one of the largest of social enterpreneurs , with nearly 3000 Ashoka fillials in 70 countries , putting their system , changing ideas into practice on a global scale. Founded by Bill rayton in 1980 , Ashoka has provided start-up financing start-up financing proffesional support services and connection to a global network across the bussiness and social sectors , and a platform for people dedicated to changing the world. Ashoka has activated multi – sector partners accross the world who encreasingly look to enterpreneural talents and new ideas in order to solve several problems.
Ashoka fellows remain the care of our community , and the insights show us how the world is moving and what is needed meet Ashoka’s mission has involedv beyond catalysing individual enterpreneurs . This means equiping more people – including young people - with the skillset and connection purpose, so that , they can contribute ideas and effectivelly solve problems at whatever scale is needed in their family, community , city, workplace, field, industry, country. This evolution comes from the urgent realisation that the peace of change is accelerating in an increasingly complex and interconnected world . The companies strategig initiatives focus on settiong in motion people , resources, partnership with private, philantropic .