PEST ANALYSIS OF TESCO Tesco was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen. The supermarket chain now has stores in 14 countries across Asia Europe and North America. Sir Terry Leahy chief executive since the mid 1990s states. "Our core purpose is‚ ’To create value for customers to earn their lifetime loyalty’. We deliver this through our values‚ ’No-one tries harder for customers’‚ and ’Treat people how we like to be treated’". The underlying aim is of course to make higher profits‚ but there is a clear
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and capabilities in strategy formulation. • The resources of the firm • Organizational capabilities • Appraising the profit potential of resources and capabilities • Putting resource and capability analysis to work—a practical guide • Creating new capabilities. Shifting the Focus of Strategy Analysis: From the External to the Internal Environment THE FIRM Goals and Values Resources and Capabilities Structure and Systems THE INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT STRATEGY STRATEGY •Competitors •Customers
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Unit 4- Task 4 SWOT Analysis “The results of a questionnaire given to 200 people that regularly visit McDonalds found the following: * 85% are happy with the service in their local McDonalds. * 80% would like McDonalds to be open 24/7. * 50% thought they could make a happy meal healthier. * 65% would like more wraps on the menu. * 30% would like part of the menu to be focused on healthier options. * 20% said staff were unfriendly. * 90% said parking facilities were good
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MANAGER A product manager‚ in my point of view deals with all aspects of marketing and planning to forecast of the product. The manager is in charge of developing product marketing and product design‚ the factors defining said product and handles all analysis of the market conditions and. MARKETING MANAGER A marketing manager handles all aspects involved with the marketing techniques of the product‚ defines the market served‚ analyses the competitive market‚ sets product prices‚ promotes and advertises
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PEST ANALYSIS The PEST analysis is a useful tool for understanding market growth or decline‚ and as such the position‚ potential and direction for a business. PEST is an acronym for Political‚ Economic‚ Social and Technological factors‚ which are used to assess the market for a business. Basically it is a scan of macro-external environment‚ in which a business wants to operate. Political Factors include: • Tax policy • Employment laws • Trade restriction and Tariffs
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PEST Analysis for a Company in the Tourism Industry The Tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The World Travel and Tourism Council estimates that in 2004 Travel and tourism is expected to generate * US$ 5‚490.4 billion of economic activity * 10.4% of total GDP * 214‚697‚000 jobs or 8.1% of total employment * 12.2% of total exports [1] My task is to conduct a PEST analysis for a company within the Tourism industry. Within the tourism industry‚ I have
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Marketing Environment What would you assume to be the key PEST drivers? PEST/STEP is about the macro environment. We should use the finer grained variant of Kotler which details Social into Cultural‚ Demographic and Natural (the first two probably being very “yielding”). Political Forces Alcohol consume is a threat to public health and should be constrained • Market monopolization in Scandinavian and other countries • Alcohol taxes in most countries of the world • Anti-alcohol campaigns
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1. Introduction 1.1 History: Wal-Mart first stuck its toe into Mexico in 1991 through a joint venture with Cifra‚ Mexico’s leading retail company‚ initially limited to developing Sam’s Club warehouse stores in Mexico. The tremendous success of the first Sam’s Club stores and the impending passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) encouraged further collaboration‚ and Wal-Mart and Cifra expanded their joint venture through the 1990s. Wal-Mart purchased a majority stake in Cifra in
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Financial Accounting and Reporting (8th Edition)‚ FT/Prentice Hall. Lewis‚ R. & Pendrill. D. (2004)‚ “Advanced Financial Accounting” (7th Edition)‚ FT/Prentice Hall. Britton & Jorissen. (2003)‚ “International Financial Reporting and Analysis” Thomson Task 4 Tisdale M.A. (N.D.) WiseGeek: “What is a Trade Surplus” [Online] available on http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-trade-surplus.htm# Pettinger T. (2012) Economics: “Balance of Payments Disequilibrium” [Online] available
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POLITICAL ANALYSIS TAXATION As of 1 January 2001‚ South Africa’s territorial system of taxation (or source-based system) was replaced with one based on worldwide incomes for resident companies‚ including resident branches of foreign companies. In order to preserve some of South Africa’s appeal as an "off-shore" location for international headquarters‚ a separate regime for non-resident International Holding Companies (IHCs) is maintained which allows for income from foreign subsidiaries
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