...the largest retail bakery chain in United Kingdom business which is Greggs PLC. It analyzes the company’s latest performance in defying the economic downturn achieving a very successful term. It considers, using SWOT and PESTEL to analyze the company’s plans for international expansion. It will also discuss Greggs’ Chief executive, Ken McMeikan in managing the company activities and dealing with the company’ stakeholder. I. Introduction Greggs, which is also owns Bakers Oven, is the leading bakery retailer in the UK, with some 1,400 retail outlets throughout the country. It was founded by John Gregg in the 1930s, when he opened a small bakery store in Newcastle. Now, the company is managed by Ken McMeikan, who took charge of the business following Ian Gregg. The company has 1,400 shops around the UK with 19,000 employees and 6 million customers and plans to add 600 new shops in the next few years. This report will analyze Greggs’ situation and its performance as well as their strategy in defining the external environment which has led the company to achieve its success. II. Company’ performance and management style 1. Greggs’ Latest performance Based on its interim results for the 26 weeks ended 27 June 2009 (www.greggs.co.uk), during the economic decline their sales went up to 4.4 per cent to £312 million and the operating profits up to 8.9 per cent to £16.3 million. These figures prove that Greggs are able to survive and make a profit even in the current climate (www...
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...Question 1 (a) i. Motorola Company ‘To be the leading product provider of innovative products that meets the expanding needs of customers around the world’ There are a lot of customers around the world, thus there’ll have different needs and wants demand by customers. Motorola would like to be the leading product provider. So, it has to be a product provider that can provide innovative products for all the customers in orders to fulfill what have been demand by the them. It can complete its tasks through the providing portfolio of technologies, solving method and services. ii. Honda Company "Maintaining a global viewpoint, we are dedicated to supplying products of the highest quality, yet at a reasonable price for worldwide customer satisfaction." Its mission statement is also known as their company principle. Honda company is trying to offer products at sensible price for customers in orders to fulfill customers’ contentment. It will offer the highest quality product in sequence to maintaining the global viewpoint. If the Honda management team works accordingly to the Management Policies it will definitely lead the company to achieve their mission in future. So, we now can see that Honda Company has a lot of brunches at all around the world in order to expand their business. iii. AirAsia “Create a globally recognized ASEAN brand” AirAsia provide the cheapest ticket that can let traveler travel to any Asian destination compare to other air line company. It is...
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...A SWOT analysis identifies and assesses the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats an organization faces. A SWOT analysis of the pharmaceutical industry illustrates to upper management what the industry is excelling in, what improvements need to be made, where growth is possible and what preemptive measures need to be taken to protect shareholder or company value. Strengths • The strengths of the pharmaceutical industry’s SWOT analysis document the internal industry components that are providing value, quality goods and services and overall excellence. The internal industry components can include physical resources, human capital or features the industry can control. For example, the pharmaceutical industry’s strengths could include low operating overhead, firm fiscal management, low staff turnover, high return on investment (ROI), state-of-the-art laboratory equipment and an experienced research staff. Weaknesses • The weaknesses of the pharmaceutical industry’s SWOT analysis document the internal industry components that are not providing significant added value or are in need of improvement. The internal industry components can include physical resources, human capital or features the industry can control. For example, the pharmaceutical industry’s weaknesses could include high-risk business modeling, disengaged Board of Directors, dated medical equipment, poor branding, low staff morale or diseconomies of scale. • Sponsored Links o viral clearance study ...
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...By Mashell Chapeyama PEST analysis Pest analysis is a way in which the organization evaluates how it would fare in the environment. With PEST the organization is evaluating critical factors that affect the organization. These factors are: political, economic, socio-cultural and political. This essay is going to discuss these four factors as they affect a company named Chipinge Banana Company, which is found in Zimbabwe. It is a company that specializes in growing and selling of Bananas. These bananas are sold in the country as well as other foreign markets, particularly Asia and Middle East. Political The political system is not stable. Usually there is uncertainty in relationship to land ownership. There is a threat that some farms may be taken by government for resettlement reason. Some countries do not want to do business with Zimbabwe because it has bad human rights record. Some workers may be displayed from work due to political violence. Currently, we are going towards elections which can turn to be violent. Zimbabwe has a very high taxation system in the world. One advantage is that Zimbabwe is part of free trade agreements such as comesa. Zimbabwe has many bilateral trade agreements with many countries. This means there are some favourable conditions in that we can sell some products to countries which trade well with Zimbabwe. Economic Zimbabwe has the advantage of using many currencies, including the pound, US dollars, the yen, the kwacha, and the rand...
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...Trapped in the Dutch Anesthesia Market Executive summary The Dutch healthcare sector, where AA operates, is highly intervened and regulated Governmental price capping renders a pricing strategy based on Bouwman's model innefective. The PESTLE analysis points to several, sometimes concurring, threats from the outside. The SWOT analysis pointed to the need to redefine our mission as business. AA has gradually shifted from a clinical services company to a consultancy services company. Background information Anesthesia Associates Care (AA) operates in the Dutch medical sector, and it was first established in 2000 as an anesthesiology freelance practice in the city of Rotterdam. Although the author of this report works three to five days per week as a clinician, his function in AA also includes quality management and strategy. The Dutch medical sector where AA operates is highly intervened and regulated. The financing of hospitals and medical services is done by an oligopoly of insurance companies. The government, under advice from the insurers, imposes capped hourly wages for anesthesia services. Non-compliance with the price limitation is a criminal offence. Between 2002 and 2007 the demand for anesthesia locum tenens was so high that AA expanded to eighteen anesthesiologists and nine nurse anesthetists, while it expanded from Rotterdam to all corners of the Netherlands. Today, our client portfolio includes sixty-one Dutch university...
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...Discussion and Evaluation of Woolworths Foods purchasing process Authors: Ian dlamini, Sne Byron Van Herder, Naseer Khan, Mohamed Kadar & Muhammad Moola, Executive summary Woolworths is one of the biggest retail stores in South Africa. Founded in the early nineteen thirties by Max Sonnenberg, Woolworths has grown to a retail giant with over four hundred stores throughout Africa and Middle East. Along with Woolworths being of such large proportions it now is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Within our study of Woolworths we will be examining the purchasing process of this retail giant and in order to achieve this we will employ tools and techniques to simplify our study. This study will compromise of a detailed discussion, illustration and evaluation of Woolworths purchasing process and for the purpose of our study we narrow down the study to a smaller aspect of Woolworths namely Woolworths Food. As we look closer into exactly what is required we employ the use of tools to aid in our study. These will consist of a SWOT analysis of the company, a PESTLE analysis of the purchasing processes and a PORTERS five forces analysis. We will then narrow down the purchasing process to one area of Woolworths namely Woolworths Food and base our study on that. A concise discussion is to follow in which we outline the most important factors that influence the purchasing decision. Included in the factors to be mentioned within our investigation we would refer to...
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...PEST and SWOExecutive Summary Transportation has played a part in human beings affairs over the years. It gave man a change to travel to different places. Transportation also provided man with the capability to transfer his/her goods, products, materials and belongings from one place to another without experiencing many difficulties. There are many kinds of transportation one of which is the modern railways. A company engaging in railway systems is MTR Corporation. The paper conducted a strategic analysis of the MTR Corporation and its strategic position. The paper performed a SWOT analysis of the company. The paper Identified options for the future development of the organization. The paper evaluated the merits of potential future strategies. The paper also recommended courses of actions that will be implemented by the organization. The findings of the paper state that the company has two strategic options. One is resource led and the other is market led. Among the two options the market led strategic option is more desirable for the company. The paper found out that MTRC’s market led strategic option to increase its railway systems will help in accommodating the needs of the increasing number of tourists and residents of Hong Kong. This option will help the company to maintain its good image in the industry. This option will give the company additional income. The strategic option to increase the railway system will also assist in maintaining the minimal incidents of traffic...
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...Case 1 PEST analysis for Target Canada MGMT 6057 Contemporary Business Management Fanshawe College Submitted To: Albert Knab Submitted By: Jwal Dakwala Student Id: 0723855 Date: October 18, 2014 Introduction The acronym of PEST is: * Political * Economic * Social * Technological PEST includes factors related to political, economic, social and technological related factors of the company whose effect can cause a great loss to the company. PEST analysis describes the structure of some macro-environmental factors that are used in scanning, environmental fundamental element for a strategic measurement which affects all the firm of the company. PEST factors are crucial to the company’s environment which can affect the company’s growth or can even shut down a company. Such factors are beyond the company’s firm and can cause a great threat by themselves. Political components fundamentally incorporate the tenets and regulations made by the legislature and some lawful issues which incorporate formal to casual decides that are most to be trailed by the organization. Financial components incorporates the impact of monetary development, investment rate, swapping scale and expansion rate. Social variables incorporates social components and it likewise incorporates wellbeing distinguishment, populace development rate, age dispersion and security. Technological elements incorporates innovative angles which can bring down the impediment to entrance and which can...
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...conformation of a mousetrap?" They needed to know that the product was the answer to a cry coming from the marketplace. Trap-Ease mission statement. Trap-ease America believes it has developed a product that fulfills a great need in the mousetrap product arena. We have worked hard to develop a trap that eliminates the need to be "involved" with the trapped subject. The company's aim is to provide a seamless experience in pest control. Our product is made to insure an "out of sight, out of mind" experience for the user. The user is not invested in the caught object as it is with more conventional traps. We believe that our product is great for the individual who wants pest control without seeing the pest. My mission statement: Pests are a fact of life. The fact is , pests invade the dwellings of people more than we like to think. The distaste of the presence of pests in a dwelling is unacceptable. Trap-Ease has made as its goal, the production and sales of pest-control devices that meet the need of sense-disengaging pest control devices. This is the main goal of our enterprise. 2. The target market - The chosen target was not well thought out. It was too general. It did not address actual need which had not been discovered. It could have ben broadened by segmenting it into different sorts of women. She could have broadened it with professionals, students, environmentally concerned invividuals, etc. 3. The product doesn't seem...
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...Management Principles and Practices Term Paper Blackberry Rosul Jasim Submitted to Catherine M.L. Pearl December 1, 2015 Table of Contents introduce & analysis of blackberry environment…………………………..…………...….. 2 -3 focal issue and analysis of issue………………...………..…...………………………………. 4 -6 recommendations ………………………………………………………………….……..…..... 7-8 self-reflection ……………………………………………………………………………….... 9 reference list…………………………………………………………………………………...10 appendices Introduction & Analysis of Blackberry Environment Blackberry also known as Research in Motion Limited (RIM) founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data.In this perper i setting to accomplish the potential combeback for the comanay. PESTLE analysis The economic factors plays a key role in the smartphone industry as the demand is...
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...Business Plan (Industry Analysis and Description of Venture) Name of the Business: 4-D Gaming Zone Course name: Introduction to Business (MGT368) Section: 9 Instructor: Faisal Wali (FsW) Prepared By:- Sehel Somani ID#1010312030 Mahmud Hossain Rajit ID# 1010769030 Md. Abul hasan Chowdhury ID# 1010282030 Chowdury Farhat Aseeya Nidhi ID#1010313030 Industry Analysis Overview of the industry : PESTLE Analysis: Social factors: Any changes in social trends can impact on the demand for a company's products and how that company operates. Also the company may change its management strategies to adapt to the changes in social trends. As discussed earlier the inflation rate in Bangladesh is pretty high and also due to worldwide recession there is a fall in the trend of lifestyle and career expectation. This may have a negative impact on the 4D gaming zone as people may be more busy in setting up their career then going or spending on entertainment purpose. Also In global context, Bangladesh is now world’s eighth populous country having 148.5 million people with a high growth rate. The life expectancy in Bangladesh is 68 years. Population is characterized by a high proportion of young age population and the population is slowly aging, also there is huge rural to urban migration thus the demand for entertainment may have a upward trend. Technological Factors: There is a strong need for technological development in Bangladesh. Technological improvement...
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...http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Briscoes-Group/434017 Briscoes Group ASSESSMENT 1: BUSINESS REPORT Cover page (Design your own cover page for this assignment) Table of Contents (headings and page numbers) 1. Introduction (purpose of the report and an outline of the content of this report) 2. Background: (name of company, size of company, what industry it is in, what it produces, company structure, markets, competitive advantage). Briscoe Group Limited (BG) is one of the greatest retail organizations in New Zealand working its capacity over 150 years . The Group works roughly 79 stores all through New Zealand inside of two retail areas, home product and donning merchandise, under the three brand names Briscoes Home product, Living and Giving and Rebel Sport, which together created deals income in the Group's most recent money related year in abundance of $507 million with having its home office situated in Auckland; New Zealand. The organization's item portfolio incorporates home decorations, washroom and room items, pads and floor covers, indoor and outside furniture, cultivating frill, wearing products, wellness related types of gear, donning attire, footwear and other related stock. Notwithstanding that, the organization gives different administrations including home delivery, blessing card plans, guarantee upkeep administrations and eCommerce.(briscoes, 2015). 3. Environmental Analysis 3.1 Macro-environmental (PESTLE) analysis What...
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...Business Success in the New Normal - Analysis Techniques Business Perspectives GB 500 December 2013 1.Organizations are directly influenced by the constantly changing external factors that directly and indirectly impact their business decisions and performance. Doing an analysis opens a portal to more informed decision making and plans, even if the future is not predictable. PESTLE is generally used in workshops, meetings or groups where collective information is being shared. It analyzes the social impact of external factors. Each letter in PESTLE represents a component of the external operating environment. They stand for Political, Economic, Socio-cultural, Technological, Legal and Eco-environmental. This analysis will lead to an assessment of external opportunities and threats. PESTLE analysis find out where the business or product is in the context of what is happening outside. In 2011 Starbucks conducted a PESTEL analysis, below are the findings: Political- 1) Industry explicit rules and regulations 2) the level of relationships between USA and countries that produce coffee beans 3) level of political stability within a country Economics – 1) Buying Power of consumers 2)Local currency exchange rates 3)Local economic environment within each market Starbucks operates 4) Taxation levels Social – 1)Changing family patterns in USA and Europe 2) Consumer preferences 3) Changing work patterns 4)Change in lifestyles of population...
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...reputation.( www.fisherpaykel.com/nz/company/about/ )and thinks about clients, kin and our planet and have an eagerness and soul of openness all through business. Life speaks the truth normal as much as it speaks the truth the unforeseen, and provides food for both. Clients are individuals with schedules and customs, desires and shocks, occupied and calm times, delights and tragedies. Company comprehend the dynamic way of cutting edge living. And interested about the world and how individuals live, wherever they may be. Company standpoint is worldwide, yet it sees every nearby neighborhood. http://hotcopper.com.au/documentdownload? 2.2 Divisions and organizational structure 3. External environmental analysis 3.1 Pest analysis 3.1.1...
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...SWOT analysis - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats What is SWOT analysis? SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. SWOT analysis involves identifying your business’s strengths and weaknesses, and examining the opportunities and threats which may affect you. SWOT analysis can be used to analyse your organisation and its environment. Carrying out a SWOT analysis can help you identify changes that can be made to improve your business. Carrying out a SWOT analysis To carry out a SWOT analysis effectively, it’s a good idea to get a team together, drawn from across the business, for a brain-storming session. Consider each of the four SWOT areas in turn, and make note of all the ideas, suggestions and comments which are made. These can be reviewed and edited after the brain-storming session. Brain-storming session A good method to use is to take a large sheet of paper, or a whiteboard, and split it into four sections, as demonstrated in the following table. Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats Now you need to fill the four sections with your ideas. See below for guidance: Strengths Strengths are those features of the business which allow you to operate more effectively than your competitors. For example, a strength could be your specialist technical knowledge. You need to consider your strengths from your own point of view and from that of your customers' and clients'. You must be realistic and honest. Try answering...
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