Woolworths Limited is an Australian company. It is the largest retail company in Australia and New Zealand by sales and largest food retailer in Australia. As of now it more than 180,000 employees that represents about 1.5 % of Australia’s population. Woolworths majorly focuses in retail and liquor sector but has it’s own petrol stations and it recently entered in home improvement sector. Woolworths first store was opened in 1924 and it was the first store in the world to use cash register to print receipts for customers.
The company is primarily in the product business. It has more than 3000 stores in Australia and New Zealand. It is one of the largest retain giants in the world. Its major business comes from selling products, which it
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96% of its fresh produce comes from within the Australia, which also help in keeping the price low. It earns its gross margin by developing better handling and storage practices and maintaining quality thus reducing the wastage and saving revenue. It also promotes its product by frequent sale and clustering of products does making bulk sales. It has its own producing label that has helped supermarket, since a lot of people prefer to buy home brand product because of its cost and quality rather then imported products. It also buys the product directly thus removing the middlemen cost or commission. Their long, strong and old relationship with its supplier is another reason for Woolworth’s business success. Woolworths became the first company to introduce an issue or complaint redressal system specifically for vendors or supplier who are unable to bring issues through other means. This shows their commitment to the suppliers and hence to their business growth. According to the financial reports of 2014 Woolworths limited did a sale of 60.8 billion dollars, its net profit after tax was 2,451.7 million dollars.
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Woolworths have a strong business model that makes it front-runner in retail industry in Australia. It’s focus on customer growth and retention by offering them low prices and offers. It has provided more than
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1. Place: Woolworths is at much fewer places than Coles thereby not preferred as much as Coles.
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.
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).
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Woolworths is a supermarket chain situated within Australia and New Zealand and is owned by Woolworths Limited. Established in 1924, as a single basement store in Sydney Australia, Woolworths has become the largest food retailer within Australia,
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Woolworths is a conventional supermarket owned by Woolworths Limited. It started as a basement store in Pitt Street in 1924, and is now one of the leading competitors in the supermarket business. With over 850 stores in Australia, and 110,000 Woolworths staff, they provide
In the food industry Woolworths focus on having quality food everyday and all the time. They are known for their fresh produce and pride themselves on their “cold chain” concept where food is always stored between 5 and 0 degrees Celsius. They typically compete against supermarkets such as Shoprite, Spar and Pick n Pay obviously has a wider variety of groceries.
“Woolworths Limited is an Australian retail company made up of a number of businesses all providing our customers with quality, range, value and everyday low prices. We 're built on a passion for retail, attention to detail, working hard, ensuring the safety of our customers and our people, and having fun.
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The business took off, thriving at a relentless rate amid the war years. In 1931, Woolworths Australia opened stores in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin and we were chosen to supply them with an extensive variety of confectionery.
The first Woolworths store opened on the 5 December 1924 in Pitt Street Sydney. In 1993 Woolworths Ltd was offered to the public in the largest share float in Australian history and investors responded by applying for 2.65 billion. In 2007, Woolworths opened its first new “Green” supermarket, which incorporated equipment that reduced energy usage, water usage and waste generation and minimises the use of materials that can cause environmental harm. Furthermore, in 2008 Woolworths set about rebranding their Safeway products and stores in Victoria to the Woolworths brand. Finally, in 2010 Woolworths celebrated their 86th year in the retailing business.