Tescos Legal, Political and Social Factors

The business I have chosen for this investigation is ASDA superstore. This is a large chain of supermarkets throughout Britain which retails clothes, merchandise, food, and electronics etc. in this part of my course work I will briefly explain the aims and objectives of ASDA I will also explain the external factors which affect the aims and objectives of the business however I will first be talking about a brief history of ASDA.

Political: this inturns the legislation and government rules of the country that may influence and pose as a threat to the business,

Tesco's suppliers provide them goods for their stores in order to sell which is really important, because without them Tesco would not have anything to sell. Tesco make sure to have good quality suppliers who can offer better stock than their competitors. Suppliers help Tesco because it deliver them with the stock for their company to run and be successful, also Tesco helps their suppliers by providing them money because they have large unpackaged orders at a time and also the suppliers will achieve good name because they supply their goods to Tesco and this is a successful high-street.

Political factors refer to the legal activities and political rules that may influence the business in some way. However, ASDA will continue to face many changing in the business for better or maybe worse when it comes to changes in government laws, for example, taxation and unemployment. The government is encouraging business to create or provide different jobs for the consumer this may affect or puts pressure on ASDA as they have to meet the all the government rules and regulation while continues to run the business according to the law (Worthington & Britton

Political –how changes in government policy might affect the business, like a decision to subscribe building new houses in an area could be good for a local brick works.

(3) Political and legal environment, factors related to policy and law that influence company’s operation.

It is clear from the list above that political factors often have an impact on companies and how they do business. Organisations need to be able to respond to the current and anticipated future legislation, and alter their marketing policy appropriately.

Economic factors – which include interest rates, economic growth, exchange rates, inflation and taxation changes (Nieman, G; 1998). The change the economy can have a major impact on the behaviour of the business. For example: inflation may cause a higher wage demand from employees (Herrigton, Kew & Kew; 2009).

Having full time staff creates a huge advantage for Tesco because full time staff tend to be more experienced at the job which will help Tesco to become successful. Full time staff can share their ideas, skills and knowledge (human capital) with the new employees who need training. The advantages of human capital are they would be able to apply their skills and knowledge when they are at work to complete given tasks throughout their day to day business. Also this means that they don’t have to pay external companies to help them train staff, this leads the company saving money as they train staff

Financial elements are more concern to Tesco, on the grounds that they are liable to impact interest, expenses, costs and profits. They affect specifically on the purchasing conduct of clients. The principle critical element on the economy is the elevated amounts of unemployment. Business cycles from high Gross domestic product development to low-negative Gross domestic

Tesco is a public limited company and it’s one of the largest retailer in UK and is the fourth largest retailer in the world. They have over 500,000 colleagues and they provide goods and services to 12 other countries like South Korea and Poland. Tesco is an international business but UK is where its business is more focused on. 75% of Tesco group revenue comes from UK business as they get lower sales from other countries outside UK. By offering the customer new goods and services in expanding UK markets, such as telecom and financial services and expanding their market abroad, enabled Tesco to expand their business so that it can deliver long term growth for the business. It also allowed Tesco to expand into new markets and improve their business in the competitive markets. On the other hand, Tesco main value is to provide good quality of goods and services that are cheap and affordable to the public. Which link to their slogan “every little helps.”

The downfall of Tesco has resulted in their chief executive, Philip Clarke stepping down and their UK chief executive Chris Bush, UK finance director Carl Rogberg, UK food commercial director John Scouler and food sourcing director Matt Simister all being suspended after an investigation into how it had happened. Tesco overstating their profits has affected them

Tesco is the third largest multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer all over the world. It is observable that lots of people would choose Tesco as a place to go for purchasing daily groceries and household products. The reason why choosing Tesco for study case is because it has a long history so it has already experienced many evolutions of the economy. In order to survive .those competitive (in different) economical evolutions, Tesco has constantly changed its market operation methods and now it has mature and multiple ways to respond to many related issues. From another point of view, Tesco itself has a special operational way and marketing method, it advocates ‘Every little helps’ slogan and adopt the small profits but quick returns strategy to improve customers’ experience while shopping at Tesco. Besides, Tesco actively

Since acquiring number one ranking in 1996, Tesco has developed a successful multiformat strategy that has accelerated its advantage. Its UK sales are now 71% larger than Sainsbury’s. Also the Competition Commission’s report makes it very difficult for a competitor to challenge its scale and has effectively scuppered Wal-Mart’s chances of stealing UK leadership. Therefore, Tesco is in an enormously strong position in its domestic market.

Tesco had to adapt to the local requirements, offering new solutions to previously recognized issues, by combining centralized purchasing and working with local suppliers, Tesco achieved economies of scale and transfer the benefit it to its customers in its express outlets. It actively engaged in creating a favorable environment in various markets; from bringing its UK based suppliers to USA and setting up in DC to engaging in Thailand with local community to explain the benefits of its value chain.