Wesfarmers Advantages And Disadvantages

The Australian Women’s Land Army was established out of the necessity for farm workers. Women were recruited to farms where they would “look after animals, plough the fields, dig up potatoes, harvest the crops, and kill the rats.” The Australian Women’s Land Army was not considered a military

According to Pettinger(2004) The Company extends its pillar of service not only by aiding clients in making decision to shop in stores, but also making it easy for them to drop by the stores and shop. There are two potential competitors existing in the market .There is Woolworths which has an 8% stake of the vast Australian market share and uses its subsidiaries such as Home Hardware and Timer, Thrifty Link, and Masters Home Improvement. There is also Metcash which has a 7.3% market share and uses its two subsidiaries: True Value Hardware and MITRE 10. Bunnings is currently the market leader in Australia (see Appendix figure1.1).Australia’s largest and most profitable home improvement retailer with (9,012,000) customers who shop at Bunnings over period of four week July 2014. This numbers was up in July 2012/13 which was 8,435,000. Bunnings potential competitors are Mitre 10 (1,789,000) and Masters (1,217,000).

One of the five oldest companies in the United States, Deere and Company is the world's largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment and a major U.S. producer of construction, forestry, and lawn equipment. The

For many years now, Australia’s trade has continually been evolving and improving. Throughout most of the 1900’s, Britain was Australia’s main trading partner. Trade with Britain was 5 times greater than with

Sydney Trains is a subsidiary of Transport for New South Wales, with a workforce of 9945 employee; that moves

Compared to earlier times the composition and direction of Australia’s major imports and exports contrasts majorly with Australia’s contemporary trade. In the 1900 Australia’s primary trading partners were European countries

Prior to WWI, women were considered as unemployable and only worthy for teaching and small shop keeping jobs. Unlike other countries like Germany and Britain during the war that allowed women to take on the ‘male’ roles in society, the Australian government refused to let women take up such roles. Instead women started organisations such as The Australian Comfort Fund (ACF) who sent ‘comfort boxes’ to the boys on the front line. These contained cakes, cigarettes and other luxury items . The

Australia in the early 1900s has developed a reputation as a ‘working man’s paradise’ for its greater opportunity to success and an egalitarian society. However not all workers proved this to be true. In order to determine this statement, Issues to be discussed include firstly the hours of work for different genders, secondly the working conditions and finally the dispute for the right to fair treatment to women and Aboriginal natives throughout the 19th century.

One of the earliest effects of World War One on Australia, was the government's termination of trade agreements with Germany and Austria-Hungary. Australian firms benefited from this, as they received contracts that had previously been given to German rivals - and fortunes were readily available. In 1915, no wheat was available to Britain from Russia and there were poor crops in North America. As the government was keen to make sure that Australian wheat, wool and meat was readily available for Britain to help the war effort, they passed a law giving them to take the whole wheat and wool harvests from Australia. This lead to Britain buying the whole refrigerated mutton and beef supply for the rest of the war and whole wool clippings bought at 55% above pre-war values. The shortages and war

“ Deere became a major plow manufacturer, and in 1868 he founded Deere & Company in Moline, Illinois, to manufacture plows and other farm machinery”(Source B).To this day, there has been millions of these items sold. ”During the Civil War the company prospered as it diversified its output to include wagons, carriages, and a full line of agricultural equipment”(Source A). Deere sold his shop to his partner, Andrus in 1847.

This was supported by the Australian population due to job scarcity as a result of the economic depression and racial prejudice

Deere & Company, together with its subsidiaries (John Deere), incorporated in 1958, operates in three business segments: agriculture and turf segment, construction and forestry segment, and credit segment. The agriculture and turf segment, created by combining the former agricultural equipment and commercial and consumer equipment segments, manufactures and distributes a range of farm and turf equipment, and related service parts. The construction and forestry segment manufactures, distributes to dealers and sells at retail a range of machines and service parts used in construction, earthmoving, material

Coles is an Australian Supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It is a retailer of food, liquor and convince in Australia. There are more than 102,000 team members across all brands including Coles express, 1st choice liquor superstore, Coles and Bi-Lo supermarkets, liquor land, vintage cellars and spirit hotels.

Bunnings is the market leader in this industry who gains 64% of total market share, followed by Mitre 10 with 13.0%, and Masters with 8.0% of market share (The Australian, 2016). The company’s revenue continuous increased since they started the business in 2011 to 2014, they gained total revenue around $1527 million in 2014 (Woolworths, 2015) but the company still got the loss from their operation expenses. Moreover, the sales dropped by 16% in 2015 that was the main reason for Lowe’s to delist the joint venture in the beginning of 2016 as it claimed that Masters has poor profit performance (IBIS, 2016). In the meantime, Woolworths publicised its intention either to selling the business or shutting it down (ABC, 2016, para. 15). Thus, there are several causes of these problems that Masters should solve in order to survive in this business and compete with its competitors.

Massey Ferguson Limited an International producer of Farm machinery and diesel engine started its operations way back in 1847 and by the end of 19