SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY Language Center Independent Study Report THE MAIN REASON FOR THE SUCCESS OF CARREFOUR English for Business 1 Section: 30 Teacher’s Name: Dr. Shaukat Ali DATE: 16 December 2012 Acknowledgments We thank all the people who helped us finish this project‚ starting with Dr. Shaukat Ali and Ms. Annette Herzog for their co-operation. Also‚ we would like to thank the students who helped us by filling out the questionnaire. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS SUBJECT | PAGE | Acknowledgements
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TESCO is a public limited company. It is a retailing industry. It founded in year 1919 at Hackney‚ London and England. TESCO also have many products such as Supermarket‚ Hypermarket and Superstore. There are many retail shops in the TESCO. Example such as Giraffe Restaurants‚ Harris and Hoole‚ Dobbies Garden Centres‚ TESCO Metro‚ TESCO Extra‚ TESCO Express and One Stop. It classify in different type of stores. These retail stores also classify in different type of market structure such as Perfect
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1. Discuss Tesco’s priorities in the development of their Polish business. 2. To what extent is Tesco’s food retailing expertise transferable to Poland? The traditional retail sector in Poland started to modernize intensely in the later years of the twentieth century. After the collapse of communism entrepreneurship and privatizing in retailing was highly supported and approved by the government as this was economically important to Poland. Using this opportunity‚ Western European countries
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HKU984 ALI FARHOOMAND WAL-MART IN CHINA (2012) Introduction Summer was making its picture-perfect debut in New South Wales that day in October 2011‚ but Mr Greg Foran hardly noticed. Newly hired away from his role as head of Australia’s leading supermarket chain‚ Woolworth’s Supermarket Division‚ he was set to work as a senior vice president at Wal-Mart International‚ the fastest growing division of the world’s largest retailer‚ Wal-Mart Corporation. However‚ what exactly he would be doing
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International Case : Carrefour — Which Way to Go? Wal-Mart’s biggest global competitor is the big French retailer Carretour‚ a firm that has hypermarkets‚ big stores offering a variety of goods. It has made large investments around the globe in Latin America and China. But not all is well as competitors taking market share its home market‚ for instance. There has been even speculation of a takeover by Wal-Mart or Tesco‚ an English chain. Mr. Barnard has been ousted after heading the company
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the market leader for retail business in Europe & number 2 worldwide after Wal-Mart. It’s present in 34 countries across the globe within 14 countries across the MENA region. It is largest hypermarket chain in terms of size. The hypermarket exceeds 2500 meters in terms of space. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world. The third in profit (after Wal-Mart and Tesco). Carrefour operates mainly in Europe; it’s also present in North America as for example Argentina and Brazil and in the
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a Giraffe restaurant after Tesco acquired the family dining chain. The store also includes a Harris + Hoole coffee shop‚ a Euphorium bakery and a stand-alone F&F clothing section designed to feel like a fashion store. Mr Clarke said the hypermarket represents a “major rethink” for Tesco and is part of the company’s £1bn drive to modernise its stores in an attempts to halt a decline in sales in the UK. He said: “This is a very logical conclusion to the work we’ve been doing over the past
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supermarkets and 12 hypermarkets. All the supermarkets are branded ’More.’ and the hypermarkets are branded ’More Megastore’. The company has over 11‚000 employees and has a pan-India presence. More. supermarkets are neighbourhood stores with the core proposition of offering value‚ convenience and trust to the customers and averaging 2‚500 sq ft area. The hypermarkets are self-service superstores offering value and range in food and non-food products and services at a single location. Hypermarkets are located
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Supermarkets 1‚000 – 10‚000 sq ft Hypermarkets Above 10‚000 sq ft A supermarket‚ a large form of the traditional grocery store‚ is a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food and household products‚ organized into aisles. It is larger in size and has a wider selection than a traditional grocery store‚ but is smaller and more limited in the range of merchandise than a hypermarket or big-box market. The supermarket typically comprises meat
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Kotabe/Helsen‚ Global Marketing Management‚ 5e Case 9 Case 9 Wal-Mart Operations in Brazil: An Emerging Giant ___________________________________ This case was prepared by Professor Masaaki Kotabe‚ Louie Pranic and Richard Smith of the Fox School of Business at Temple University and Kleber G. de Godoy and Moacir Salzstein of Fundação Getúlio Vargas‚ São Paulo‚ Brazil‚ and updated by Dan Zhang under the supervision of Professor Masaaki Kotabe for class discussion rather than to illustrate
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