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The Stock Market Challenge For this topic we were set a task to submit a report that aims to analyse and evaluate the financial performance of an organisation we each individually chose for the stock market challenge. To begin with I chose the company Glencore to invest £100,000 in. It is said that Glencore is one of the world’s largest diversified natural resource companies, producing and marketing over 90 commodities, with a network that spans more than 50 countries and around 181,000…

Company Overview Tesco is a global retailer which was established in 1919, and currently operating in twelve countries across Asia, and Europe. It is the biggest retailer in United Kingdom (UK) by sales and the biggest private employer, with more than 330 000 colleagues working in, 3 146 stores (Winterman, 2013). It was started as a retailer in grocery and now has been diversified its product portfolio into food items to non-food items like furniture, electrical items, clothing and beauty…

Walk into Walmart and look around. The place is amazing! For Walmart to provide so much for so many is good for the economy. By working for them we acknowledge how their jobs, wages, and products can be beneficial. The fact that humans always want more no matter how wealthy they are is sometimes ridiculous. The possibilities for new products, business and entire industries are infinite. But it is this fact that guarantees that we will never run out of employment opportunities. People can take…

Introduction: Tesco PLC is a British multinational supermarket chain headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, 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 12countries across Asia and Europe and is the grocery market leader in the UK, Ireland, Hungary, Malaysia, and Thailand. The company currently offers products in different categories including Apparel, Bakery…

Asda, a subsidiary of the American retail giant Wal-Mart, (the world’s largest retailer) has a very strong financial position coupled with its un-abating financial performance underlines its strategic capabilities over its competitors. A summary of its 2009 growth of Asda and its UK competitors is shown below. Supermarket Asda Tesco Sainsburys Morrisons Consumer Spend (£000s) 3,411 6,453 3,239 2,327 Market Share…

Tesco Plc (TSCO.L) was founded by Jack Cohen in 1919, launched its first store in Edgware, London in 1929. The UK’s largest retailer provide a wide range of service for foods and non-foods product, the third largest global retailer based on revenue. Tesco’s attempted to extend its business into US market. The opening a chain of grocery stores ‘Fresh & Easy’ has incurred a 186million loss in 2010-2011. Tesco withdrew from the US market eventually with a loss of 1.2billion pounds. Despite the…

Unit 1: Business Environment Task 1 (P1) During this task I will be introducing my own business as well as explaining an existing organisation, in this scenario it will be a charity in the voluntary sector. I will also describe what the differences are, how and why they will compare to each other Sainsbury’s Sainsbury’s is one of the major supermarkets in the United Kingdom with a big share of the supermarket sector market owning 16.9%. Sainsbury’s was founded by John James Sainsbury in the year…

and aims to do its best to ensure quality food, value for money and persuade people that ASDA is better than any other store. They issue regular questionnaires and ask what the public could suggest what they can do in order to make the business much better for them to visit and they would like to see. Profits and shares are another key factor they must consider. They have to see how they can attract new shareholders and customers. If they didn't attract new customers and shareholders and the…

The challenges facing Asda can be said to be primary to do with its declining market share. When discount retailers first entry Aldi into the UK, all supermarkets in the UK were British (Duke, 1993). What is more, Aldi changed the negative perception of discount retailers and therefore has grown in strength in all its international business (Datamonitor, 2007). Aldi and Lidl business model they introduced when they entered into UK unique in the sense that its aim was to attracted consumers with…

The organization is a well-known company. It has been brought to my attention about an internal problem at a few Walmart’s stores. I will be visiting the key super center as well as some of the hometown stores. My colleagues and I will be conducting interviews to find out more about the problem. My role will be to help solve this situation. Does motivation effect the productivity in the workplace? Why are the associates so discontent with their current management? This particular Walmart Super…