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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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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In a competitive marketplace‚ the companies that get their products to market fastest‚ minimize their inventory costs and get the most mileage-literally and figuratively-out of their field-service or delivery fleets are the ones that succeed. (Rettig‚ 1). And many companies are automating their logistics processes by setting up supply chains that connect them with their customers and suppliers. Simply defined‚ logistics is a practice that ’s used to determine how to move people and materials
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CH1 60. (p. 2) What are the three reasons negotiations occur? Negotiations occur for several reasons: (1) to agree on how to share or divide a limited resource‚ such as land‚ or property‚ or time; (2) to create something new that neither party could do on his or her own‚ or (3) to resolve a problem or dispute between the parties. 70. (p. 15) Describe the strategies and tactics a negotiator would employ in a distributive bargaining situation. In distributive situations negotiators are motivated
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1.2 The use of PEST on Netflix Traditional Video Rental Stores involves brick and mortar stores are normally located in strategic locations and are usually staffed by around 12 employees depending on the size of the video store. These stores usually carry about 1000 titles of VHS and DVD format and most of the time requires owning all of it VHS and DVD outright. The rentals are limited to physical inventory and some titles excess inventory may be sold at a loss depending on popularity of the titles
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Business logistics The way business is done was revolutionised by the Internet and caused emergence of the e-commerce. The main changes from the business perspective happened in the supply chain. Supply chain is important for any business‚ because it literally shows the way inputs go through to reach the customers. It is often very sophisticated and complex‚ but simple version could be shown in the following scheme: As far as the logistics is concerned‚ we can look closely to that aspect
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sites is a tedious and expensive task‚ for which different material handling systems and equipments are being made use of. Based upon the principles of Material Handling Institute (MHI) of U.S a detailed study of the material handling systems and its analysis was done for the belt conveyor system of FACT. Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd have their own Raw Material Handling systems at Q10 berth and Ammonia berth of Wellington Island‚ Kochi. The material handling systems at Q10 berth comprises
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messages or tinting‚ which means they probably won’t lose much business on cultural grounds. FACE’s aesthetic is well positioned to attract the typical trendy‚ wealthier female crowd that frequents the 12th South‚ both young and old. Moving on to company value‚ FACE’s value proposition to customers is oriented around providing high-end‚
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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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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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