Chris Reitzema

Content table

Introduction 2
John Lewis 3
Green Peace 4
Sources 5

Introduction

Every day in our life we are confronted with a lot of different businesses and their activities, servers and products. Every business has their own type of doing working, producing and controlling.
For this report the author will describe the type of business, purpose and ownership of two contrasting businesses. The first part of this report will focus on the ‘John Lewis Partnership’ and the second part of this report will focus on the ‘Green Peace’ organisation.

John Lewis
John Lewis is a business that sells a lot of different products for baby and child, fashion, home & garden, home appliances, sport and leisure and technology. So the type of business activity of John Lewis is a Tertiary sector because it sells many different finished products to customers. John Lewis is owned by private citizen, they risk their own money and the business is for making profit so John Lewis is a private business. The business is putting the happiness of Partners at the Centre of everything it does. It is the expression of an ideal, the outcome of nearly a century of creating a different sort of company, owned by partners to serving customers with flair and fairness. The John Lewis business began in 1864, the first shop they had was in London’s Oxford Street. They promised the customers that the price of any item they will sell will always be as low as the lowest price in the neighborhood. That was also their slogan for 75 years.
The purpose of the John Lewis Partnership is the happiness of all member, through their worthwhile and satisfying employment in a successful business. So it is about the wants and needs from the customers. The business is owned in trust, by sharing responsibilities of ownership as well as its rewards: Power, profit and knowledge. They want to be a perfect and famous business who has a good name all over the world and their principle: Relationships between partners, the partnership, the customers, suppliers and the wider community. Since 1929 the purpose of their business has been the happiness of those who work in it.
The structure gives them the management of freedom to be entrepreneurial and competitive in the way the run the business of a long-term success, while giving he company’s owners, the Partners. That is the high standard of corporate governance. The business had three governing authorities: the Partnership Council, the Partnership Board and the Chairman. So John Lewis is a Worker co-operatives, all 81000 permanent staff are Partners who own 37 John Lewis shop across the UK, that means it’s a National business. This is a different business instead of others because their partners are active co-owners in the business, which means they share in the profits and have a say in everything. This all adds up to making a partnership with and each of its household brands. They have Waitrose supermarkets, an online and catalogue business, a production unit and a farm. The partners of the John Lewis business share the befits and profits of a business that puts them first.

Green Peace
Greenpeace is a global environment organisation in 28 national and regional offices around the world, providing a presence in over 40 different countries. Greenpeace was founded in 1971 with the name: Don’t Make a Wave Committee. The purpose to start this organisation was to stop the nuclear test from the VS to an island close by Alaska. It is a non-government organisation who uses non-violent confrontation to highlight global environment social problems and their causes through specific research and bearing witness to environment events. This organisation takes action to:
Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet: climate change. Greenpeace want to aware the governments and industry to step up and make big improvements.
Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves. Greenpeace want to stop the fishing in the oceans because when it goes on like this, some fish types will die out.
Protecting the world's ancient forests and the animals, plants and people. Forests are keeping the climate stable and maintain the balance of life on Earth. That is why Greenpeace want to stop the companies who are felling trees.
Working for disarmament and peace by solving the issue by tackling the causes and nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are very dangerous for the world, Greenpeace want to stop the companies who still are making these weapons.
Creating a toxic free future with safer ways for dangerous chemicals in products and manufacturing. The only solution is to halt the expansion of all nuclear power, and for the shutdown of existing plants. Greenpeace want to protect the plans and waters to this pollution.
Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by protection for agriculture by stopping genetically engineered organisms.
Greenpeace is in present for 40 countries across Europe, the United States, Asia, Africa and the Pacific. The organisation is depend on the voluntary’s who work for Greenpeace.

The reason why Greenpeace exists is because they think this fragile earth deservers a voice. It need solution. It need change. It need action. The organisation act to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and converse the environment and make the world a better place. Greenpeace is tertiary sector because it involves providing services, both to business and consumers. Greenpeace stands up for the world and stand up for change. They think that we have to protect our world before it is too late to have a naturel world and we need to solve the problems the nature has. They promote open, informed debate about choices. They do research and lobbying to achieve their goals.

The Quakers, pacifists, ecologists, journalists and hippies who started Greenpeace dreamed big, infectious dreams. But the one who came with the idea to start Greenpeace was Canadian Bob Hunter. Greenpeace is a voluntary ownership supervised by trustees. Voluntary organisations do not aim to make profit, but this does not mean that they are not commercial. Any revenue they gain will reinvested to further the aims of the company.
Sources
John Lewis: http://www.johnlewis.com/ http://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/ http://johnlewis.house.gov/ Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.nl/ http://www.greenpeace.nl/contactus/ http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/ http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Greenpeace