Recession hits local retail industry hard http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~gopez/story1.html San Diego County retail sales Home | Overview | The Data | Final Project | Story Highlights San Diego retail trade sales decreased 7.5 percent in 2008 when adjusted for inflation. Small and large retail businesses have made cuts to decrease losses. Economist says sales will remain stagnant in the near future because of debt‚ the collapse of the housing market and high unemployment Recession hits local
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INTRODUCTION Tesco is one of the biggest grocery and general merchandise retailer in the world‚ operating around 6‚351 stores across Asia‚ Europe and North America. Tesco’s core UK business is very significant within the group‚ with around 3‚054 stores and over 300‚000 employees‚ operating under four banners of Express‚ Extra‚ Metro and Superstore. Tesco as well has the widest range of any food retailer in the UK including the leading own-label range. Also‚ the company offers a home-shopping service
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stakeholder is a person‚ group‚ or organization that has direct or indirect stake in an organization because it can affect or be affected by the organization’s actions‚ objectives‚ and policies. Key stakeholders in a business organization include creditors‚ customers‚ employees‚ government‚ owners‚ suppliers‚ unions and the community from which the business draws its resources. Tesco is committed to conducting business in an ethical and socially responsible manner. This relates to all aspects of their
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Tesco vs Employees Fuel delivery drivers to strike: Transport workers delivering fuel to Tesco forecourts are to stage a two-day strike in a row over jobs because they were not getting pay properly. The stakeholders who were affected was Tesco sales and employees. Because of this conflict lots of people will be affected e.g. Tesco fuel supplier and employees because if there is no fuel will be deliver to the Tesco stations so people will not get any fuel and this will effect the Tesco employees
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past strategy. Tesco was founded in 1924 by John Edward Cohen in the East End of London. The name Tesco’‚ was first used on tea‚ and was derived from the initials of Cohen’s tea supplier‚ T E Stockwell‚ combined with the first two letters of Cohen. Tesco Stores Limited was incorporated in 1932. In 1935‚ Jack Cohen visited the USA and was impressed by the supermarkets’ self-service system which enabled more people to be served faster‚ with lower labour costs. In 1947‚ the Tesco branch in St Albans
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IMPACT OF RECESSION ON INDIA Indian companies have major outsourcing deals from the US. India’s exports to the US have also grown substantially over the years. More people have sold the shares in the indian share market than they bought in the recent weeks. This has added to the fall of sensex to lower points. One danger meanwhile is of a dip in the employment market. There is already anecdotal evidence of this in the IT and financial sectors‚ and reports of quiet downsizing in many other fields
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The Great Recession has impacted on households‚ businesses and government departments with unequal force. Some sectors have been severely adversely affected while others have escaped relatively lightly. What are the main economic problems arising from these differing experiences? Explain carefully your arguments. The Great recession‚ which started in Britain in the second quarter of 2008‚ has affected national and sub-national economies in different measures‚ causing a great unevenness in the
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Abstract A recession is full-proof sign of declined activity within the economic environment. Many economists generally define the attributes of a recession are two consecutive quarters with declining GDP. Many factors contribute to an economy’s fall into a recession‚ but the major cause argued is inflation. As individuals or even businesses try to cut costs and spending this causes GDP to decline‚ unemployment rate can rise due to less spending which can be one of the combined factors when
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SOME TOOLS AND POLICIES USED TO MEASURE CURRENT AND FUTURE PERFORMANCE At Tesco Plc‚ SWOT analysis is used in collaboration with other tools to measure future performance. Performance measurement tools such as balance scorecard; 360 degree feedback; Management by Objectives (MBO) and customer management techniques are used to assess the current performance and strategise the future performance of the staff of Tesco Plc. A record of the current key performance indicators (KPI) are kept for future
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Recession defined by Investopedia (2010) is ‘a significant decline in activity across the economy‚ lasting longer than a few months.’ With the fall of the US banking system in late 2007 came the recession which lasted all until the present day; we are now currently steadily recovering. But during the recession many countries suffered as did New Zealand‚ out of the companies that were affected‚ among them was Air New Zealand one of New Zealand’s biggest companies. The impacts of inflation causing
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