Business Environment
Individual Assignment
Company Name: UK Commercial Property Trust Limited’s
Date: 18/12/2012
Word Count: 1379
Outline
The establishment of UK Commercial Property Trust happened in 2006 at St. Peter Port, in the Channel Islands (UK). Ignis Investment Services Limited runs and manages the company. The company invests in a portfolio of diversified, commercial properties in the United Kingdom through its subsidiaries. Its portfolio of commercial properties comprise of office, retail, and industrial properties (MPO, 2012). This paper analyses the business environment in which the UK Commercial Property Trust Limited operates.
In order to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the business environment, the rest of the paper is organized in two sections. The first will analyse the macro-environment of the organization with regard to the CSR & CSR Analysis (economic, education, and demographic factors). The second section will examine the microenvironment in which the organization operates with regard to the P.E.S.T.L (political and legal factors,social factors,technological factors, and environmental factors ) Analysis. The microenvironment is the immediate environment of the organization’s interaction with the external environment, and with the use of the P.E.S.T.L analysis provides a relationship of the external environment with the internal environment.Because of the limited availability of documented and accessible information on this company, this section will have relatively limited analysis. Then the paper will finish with a conclusion.
CSR & CSR Analysis
Educational Factors
Analysis of educational factors in an organization’s environment helps to ascertain the competence of the general population, which form the workforce, or potentially form the workforce. In UK Commercial Property Trusts’s external environment, the standards of education are high, evident by the high primary and
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