Company Analysis : Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc

Tesco have been around from 1919 and has continued to grow and to expand ever since and is now a recognised brand nationally around the UK. Tesco was founded by Jack Cohen it originally started out with him behind a stall. The First Tesco store which opened was in 1929 in Burnt Oak in Middlesex. This expanded and became bigger by 1939 which led to over 100 Tesco stores across the country. Around the world there are 6,784 stores and Tesco have more than 500,000 employees all around the world which I am one of. From the 1990s Tesco’s became an international business of more than 3,200 stores. Tesco’s have become global white stores over 12 countries.

The Mace Group Ltd was formed in 1990 by a small team of construction professionals in London, United Kingdom. It has over 4,000 employees. The company has three strategic sectors serving clients in the private, public and infrastructure sectors and five strategic hubs in Europe, Middle East & North Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific and Sub-Sahara Africa that service over 70 countries. By the end of 2013, there were 214 operations directors, 82 directors and yearly turnover was 2.5 billion dollars. Today Mace is an international consultancy and construction company, offering integrated services across the full property and infrastructure life cycle. In North America area, Mace provides project management, cost consultancy and facilities management services across the country. It has regional hubs in New York, Newark, Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco. In Engineering News Record’s Top 250 Global Contractors List for 2014, Mace has been ranked 10th in the list of top 20 non-U.S firms in international construction management and programme management fees, 9th in the list of the top 20 non-U.S. firms in total global construction management and programme management fees and 166th in the overall list of top 250 international contractors.

The high cost of living affects Lidl as it is very hard for people to live with the recession and the credit crunch. Customers disposable income is very low which is going to mean that they will only buy goods which they feel are essential such as bread and milk etc. This can cause Asda to have reduced sales and less impulse buys as customers are buying only what they need not what they want.’ ‘http://www.powerfulwords.co.uk/sample-assignments/accounting/business-and-academic-leaders.php.’’

WAITROSE Ltd was found in 1904 by Wallace Wyndham Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor when they opened their shop in Acton (Andidas, 2003). In 1937, it was acquired by the John Lewis Partnership and its Self Service was introduced in 1951. From a small business selling grocery products, it has been built up to a network of over 300 shops known for its own historical and the quality of products. The majority of their customers are those who have stable incomes and above due to their uncompetitive price. Their key aims and objectives are to archive improvement in services and gain more profits by open new store and expand their business into the North-West. In addition, Waitrose also wants to archive more targets in the next period of time such as to motivate their staff to provide better services, which can increase levels of customer service, and develop their organic range as well as their relationships with local community In this project. In this essay, the dominant stakeholders and their main interest will be identified as well as the discussion of Waitrose 's detailed analysis.

Morrison’s is a food retailer which was established in 1899. Morrison’s started off as a stall at a local market in Bradford run by William Morrison and has since grown to be the UK’s fourth largest food retailer. Morrison’s aims to, “attract, motivate and develop people to ensure that Morrison’s becomes the ‘food specialist for everyone’”. In addition to Morrison’s being a supermarket it also offers a range of other services; cafés, recycling, dry cleaning, photo printer, petrol station and pharmacy. Morrison’s is highly customer orientated as they try to provide the best service to their customers by providing them with high quality and reasonably priced items.

When it comes to food in today's day and age it correlates with being convenient, fast, and budgeting because people are usually on the go. Generally, people are used to a grab and go routine between work, school, and a family life. Government regulations such as the FDA and other laws given to factories and supermarkets are being trusted to keep the population safe from any food dangerous; therefore, people don’t do their own research on the foods they’re serving. Authors Pollan and Schlosser in Food Matters, allows individuals to analyze and think about the intake of foods used in their daily life. Pollan shares some rules to be considered when shopping for foods in the supermarket. If people read in detail the theories and information given

From the economic review for January 2012 has a graph that shows the output of the three major economic sectors: manufacturing, construction and services. The graph shows the recession in 2008 to 2011 and how it recovers.

P5 - Describe how John Lewis would be influenced by economic factors in a time of economic recession and economic growth in the UK economy

Tesco was feeling the pressure because they saw a fall in profit since 2008 and were worried that their customers would not return. However as time moved on the economy started to pick up again in 2009. Customers started to spend more and were more comfortable about their current financial situation. However Tesco realised that their customers were not purchasing goods of high price, meaning that customers were likely to purchase readymade meals and organic products. The demand for a product depends on the economic factors such as interest, inflation and local employment levels. Tesco doesn’t have control on the economic factors; however these do have an effect on the business.

All of these factors have an enormous impact on my selected business (Barclays) as the economy goes from growth and decline. As well as many others, Barclays is majorly affected as it is in the financial industry. These different factors appear throughout what is called the ‘Business Cycle’. The cycle shows the fluctuation of the activity within the economy over a period of time and consists of 4 main stages; as well as many others,

This study will examine Wilmott Dixon Group, a construction company and conduct a case study on how the company began, its growth, market, life cycle and will conduct a SWOT and Pestel Analysis. This work will further state a five-year development plan for the company to move forward in a sustainable and fair trade market.

Loblaw Companies Limited is the leader of Canada’s food and pharmacy, their independently-operated stores, food and household products as well as pharmacies can be found in every Canadian’s neighborhoods.

An economic factor that might affect Tesco is the demand of the consumer and customer which will decrease with the different problems; people are having in the world. As the demand decrease so the economy of the business will decrease and the profit of the business will decrease too. This refers in the fiscal and monetary, for example since when the government decided to raise the VAT from 17.5% to 20%, the business increase their goods price and due to that reason the customers do not purchase enough goods like they used.

As I have mentioned before, this research paper is being taken exclusively with the aim to evaluate the Tesco’s performance in both financial and business terms over a three years period. Since the financials will be compared with its three year

On 2/16/10 Burger King, the second largest U.S. hamburger chain after McDonald 's, said it would serve Starbuck’s “Seattle 's Best” coffee in about 7,250 U.S. outlets by September making it a direct challenge to McDonald’s strong sales of its new coffee items. On the other hand, TheStreet.com Ratings Investment Analyst Jake Lynch recently reported McDonald’s to be a top dividend-paying stock to buy because its fourth-quarter net income increased 23% to $1.2 billion, revenue jumped 7.3% to $6 billion, and its stock has increased 15% in the past year.