common to hear of today’s world economic system as being “globalisation”. Some describe the historical events leading up to today’s global free trade “inevitable”. The UK’S former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was famous for her TINA acronym and Gordon Brown the current PM encourages UK global trading by welcoming even more foreign investors. So‚ whether in the newspaper articles‚ politician speeches‚ or business leader press conferences the G-word appears to be the most important issue in contemporary
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UNIT 38 TASK 1 (P1‚ P2‚ M1‚ D1) Introduction In this assignment I will be talking about Marks and Spencer and how the economic environment could have an effect on them. The economic environment is basically all the economic factors brought together. By saying economic factors‚ I mean aspects such as; employment‚ inflation‚ interest rates‚ productivity and wealth. All of these elements mentioned above have an influence on the buying behaviour of consumers and organisations. P1 In terms of economic
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Chapter 1 - People in Business Stakeholders Entrepreneur - a person who spots an opportunity and takes the initiative to set up a business to make a profit. Entrepreneur takes a big risk when setting up a business‚ both financial and personal risks. eg; Bill Gates set up Microsoft. Investor - is a person who provides capital to the entrepreneur that she needs to set up and run a business‚ in exchange for return on investment. Dept capital - money returned with interest or Equity finance - return
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P1 Identify the purpose of four different business organisations Name of Business (P1 & P2) | Purpose | Two objectives | Reason for ownership and sector | Size and Number of employees | Scale | Business 1:JD | The purpose is to sell sport related equipment in one place‚ so building a large market. Moreover‚ golfers‚ footballers‚ basketball players etc. can all go to the same shop. However‚ as a business its –purpose- is to make profit‚ and its marketing (is aimed at teenagers and young
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Describe how external factors are impacting on 2 organisations and their stakeholders. 1st organisation: Tesco FACTORS (add description) | Impact on business activities | Impact on Stakeholders | Political 1:Membership of international trading communities’ e.g. European Union.The economic association of over two dozen European countries which seek to create a unified‚ barrier-free market for products and services throughout the continent‚ | This would affect Tesco on their business
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Chapter 1 Nepalese business Environment Business is an organization‚ trade‚ commerce‚ profession‚ occupation and industry carried out to make profit through customer satisfaction. Environment literally means the surrounding external objects influences or circumstances under which someone or something exists. Business environment can be defined as the combination of the entire factor that influences a business activity. A business firm exist in two worlds i: e internal and external
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Task 1 Part A: Akpo Akpo will be a multisport complex situated in Seasiders Way‚ Blackpool‚ FY1 6JJ [’http://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-to-let/property-37984746.html’] ‚ that will give us enough space to develop the business. There are currently no other sport facilities like this in this area. The idea came from my background in extreme sports/ sports‚ mostly because I couldn’t find all of them in the same place and I had to travel to be able to do it. In this assignment I will
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P3 Explain how businesses are classified using local and national examples For this part of my coursework I am going to find out about three different sectors which are primary‚ secondary‚ tertiary. For each of them I will give two examples for each local and national businesses. Primary Sector The activities of businesses in this sector are all involved with producing or obtaining raw materials or natural products from land or the sea. The main categories are shown in the following
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Understanding the Business Environment Part A (100w) Company Name: Coca Cola Description: The Coca-Cola Company is the world ’s largest beverage company and is the leading producer and marketer of soft drinks. Today‚ Coca-Cola is consumed throughout the world at the rate of more than 600 million times per day and this figure is continuing to rise. However‚ Coca-Cola is not the sort of company to live on its past glories; instead it looks to the future as a challenge and constantly seeks new
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ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 1.1) Economic activity and economics (Pp. 14-16) Prosperity: The ready availability of goods and services to fulfil needs. Resources: Land‚ labour and capital. Scarcity: The excess of human needs over what can be produced. Economic activity: occurs when people (consumers‚ managers) make choices to maximise their prosperity using scarce resources. The Science of Economics: is concerned with the study of economic activity. This field is complex
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