J Sainsbury Plc

Sainsburys is currently the second largest chain of supermarkets within the UK, with a current supermarket sector share of 16.9%. Sainsbury’s was founded in 1869 and today operates in over 1,200 supermarket and convenience stores, and has over 161,000 employees. We will be looking at a number of areas internally and externally and see how they are effectively or not effectively performing.

Most businesses need a supplier of some sort, Tesco and Sainsbury’s are no different. Tesco Plc are an extremely large organisation, and therefore need to keep expenditure to a minimum, as if supplier costs get too high then profit margins will undoubtedly decrease, meaning prices will have to go up in order to retain a sustainable

The Dividend Payout Ratio shows Sainsbury’s holding quite a consistent return for shareholders. Indeed citing a 5.27% increase on 2012/2013 to 50.16 (2013). These were reduced by 10.91% by the 2013/2014 trading period, closing at 44.69. Similarly Tesco Dividend Payout Ratio figures suggest a level period from 2009 – 2012 at 41.93. The ratio figure rose exponentially, by 2253.11% to 986.66 by 2013, due largely to the huge 95.74% reduction in profit for the year of just £120M. Evidence that the situation is recovering somewhat is the published increase in profit of 708.33% to close at £970M in 2013. Further subsequent reductions in the 2013/2014 period of 87.58% closes with the ratio specified

Sainsbury’s goal is to reflect they commitment to meeting customers’ needs; however, they want to shop food, clothing, general merchandise and services also they vision is to be trusted retailer where people love to work and shop. They strategy plan is to know they consumers better than anyone else, be there for them whenever they need them also offering great products and services at fair prices. They colleagues make the difference; they value makes them different.

J Sainsbury plc (Sainsbury) is a retail chain based in the UK. Sainsbury is engaged in grocery retailing through its supermarkets and convenience stores principally in the UK. The company operates its business through three divisions, namely, Retailing, Financial Services and Property Investment. Sainsbury serves its customers through a chain of 537 supermarkets and 335 convenience stores under the brand Sainsburys, and financial services via Sainsburys Bank. Sainsbury offers around 30,000 food and non-food products and services. The company is headquartered in London, the UK J Sainsbury plc Key Recent Developments Mar 11, 2010: Sainsbury launches first bakery college in the UK Mar 08, 2010: Sainsbury to add

This is because of UK coming out of recession which meant that people don’t have money for fancy food and because of this exploit Aldi and Iceland are able to sell their food for less and by doing this they are able to attract more customers for their shop. Sainsbury’s is a homogenous supermarket and therefor they have

Therefore not being able to gain a profit, suppliers like Heinz and Kellogg’s that if they do not supply their products to Sainsbury’s it can lead to Sainsbury profit loss. The communication methods that Sainsbury’s use to communicate to their suppliers is through written, oral and online methods. The stakeholders of suppliers have affected the business of Sainsbury’s is that they are able to give them the products that will help them be able to meet their aim of serving high quality products to their customers so that therefore can increase their sales/profit to then be Able to become the number 1 largest supermarket in the

Another way that the economic policy could affect Sainsbury’s is taxation. There are five different taxes that the government can

Sells have increased as well from £4,791.5 million in 1988, until it reached £25,632 million in 2013 (appendix 3). Hence it can be said that J Sainsbury has been developing progressively over the years. The progress made by J Sainsbury is fundamental for the SWOT analysis about to

Recommendations made within this report are made with the intention of increasing Sainsbury’s market share over the next 5 years.

The current ratio is a widely used measure for evaluating a company’s liquidity and short-term debt-paying ability. The ratio is computed by dividing current assets by current liabilities. A high current ratio indicates that a company has sufficient current assets to pay current liabilities as they become due. The 2016 ratio of 0.79:1 means that for every dollar of current liabilities, General Mills had $0.79 of current assets. The current ratio increased from 0.75:1 in 2015. Compared to the industry average of 1.83:1, General Mills appeared to be less liquid.

This means that they prefer to have all the products available under one roof. Sainsbury by introducing non-food products have largely benefited from this strategy. In addition other social factors such as increasing female workforce, longevity in the population, etc. has resulted in a decline domestic meal making. Therefore there is a growing demand pattern of a certain types of products.

Sainsbury’s strategy follows with their quote ‘We will make our customers’ lives easier. Great quality. Great prices. Whenever and wherever’ or following with their motto ‘Live well for less’. It is believed that their goals to retain the customers by making lives easier everyday by putting out fair prices and quality services to all. To peruse their goals Sainsbury’s have their stores in key locations so that they offer great quality products and services at fair prices all the time; changing the dynamics of the industry to suit the customers lives. Sainsbury’s Strategic Report (2015) is divided in two sections; the non-financial KPIs are as follows: product quality, Like for Like Transactions, Price perception, Sales growth, Service

This report provides a view on operations of SAINSBURY’S , the third largest supermarket chain across United Kingdom. SAINSBURY’S , in spite of being the longest standing retail chain has been facing stiff competition from rivals like TESCO , MORRISONS. The competitors seemed to have developed at a faster pace since SAINSBURY’S has been through a difficult time in recent years and TESCO is now twice the size in terms of turnover.

Now, if these figures are compared with the market leader, it will be clearer about the company’s profitable position. In the years 2009, 2008 and 2007 TESCO, who is the market leader for the market Sainsbury’s are operating, also performed very well. TESCO’s revenue also took a steep upward curd in between 2007 and 2009. Their revenue increased by 29.4% to £54327m in 2009 from £42641m in 2007. TESCO’s ROCE was 11.44%, 14.02 and 15.90% in the mentioned years. The gross margin and operating margins