A LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT BUSINESS STUDIES A LEVEL RESOURCES. Issue 3 Sept 2004 Page 1 PEST Analysis A PEST analysis examines the Political‚ Economic‚ Social and Technological environments that affect industries and companies. (PEST analysis is also known STEP analysis). It is now recognised by marketing professionals that in the longer term survival and success of a business is dependant upon the external environment a business operates within. It is not enough to say we have the right marketing
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Tutorial 1: Markets and Organizations Q1. Case Study [pic] Managing external influences First Group (First) is the UK’s largest transport operator‚ employing more than 137‚000 people in the UK and the USA. In the UK‚ it runs rail services carrying around 275 million passengers a year. It is the UK’s largest bus operator and also runs a rail freight business. In the US‚ it operates school transport for nearly four million students a day. The company is seeking to extend it operation in UK
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PEST Analysis A scan of the external macro-environment in which the firm operates can be expressed in terms of the following factors: * Political * Economic * Social * Technological The acronym PEST (or sometimes rearranged as "STEP") is used to describe a framework for the analysis of these macroenvironmental factors. A PEST analysis fits into an overall environmental scan as shown in the following diagram: Environmental Scan | / | \ | External Analysis | Internal
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PEST - Brazil Political and Legal Forces in Brazil As the country is handling a program for economic growth‚ investors can access the support of the government in both financial and advising aspects. One potential barrier for the Australian energy producer is the presence of state-level federations. These are association of industrial companies that cooperates to achieve operational success and also to lobby effectively to the government. MERCOSUL is supportive to direct investments in the country
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1. News Article Title: Modern trends and issues in the world beer industry (2 Points) Name of media presenting article: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (2 Points) URL to news article: http://www.tcs.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/White%20Papers/CPG-Whitepaper-Brewery-Industry-Transition-0313-1.pdf (2 Points)
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1. The U.S. brewing industry has become more concentrated over the last two decades for several reasons. a. The consumption of beer has been slowly declining‚ in order for companies to gain market share‚ they have to take customers from other companies. This would then lead to some companies to go out of business due to the lack of customers. b. Brand loyalty also increased. Advertisement played a large role. Larger companies were able to spent $0.40 per case of beer sold. Smaller mass-market
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important leading force in ecommerce. Although during the years‚ the company had to face ups and downs‚ it did not stop her to become the most important pioneer in this industry. This article approaches the evolution of Amazon.com from a PESTEL‚ Porter`s five forces‚ a competitor analyze point of view‚ also an internal analysis and a SWOT analysis. E-commerce has become a key driver of business success nowadays Keywords: electronic e-commerce‚ Amazon.com‚ technology‚ globalization Introduction The expansion
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MICE Industry analysis of Shenzhen China 1‚ Introduction 1.1 Purpose The purpose of this report is to analyze the MICE industry in a new develop area. The author have chosenShen Zhen‚ China to be the area where need to deeply analyzed. The analysis will include market share for surrounding areas and the characteristic in relation with both general and tourism development. There is also going to be an analysis discovering why investors would like to choose this particular area as their future
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dominant Economic and Business characteristics of the global beer industry are: The beer industry is incredibly large industry that has an enormous effect on the country‚ contributing greatly to the society. Two of its main contributions include tax dollars and jobs. The beer industry serves the country through its taxes‚ jobs‚ and purchases from other suppliers‚ its contribution to agriculture and more. The market growth rate of the beer industry is perplexing which is evident through following production
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PESTAL Analysis of Serena Hotel Political Pakistan has experienced many political upheavals during the last year of a century and the one thing‚ which the country was lacking‚ is political stability. This had a direct effect upon the policies of the businesses especially hotels management. Although tourism growth was affected all over the world after the 9/11 incident‚ and it had a far reaching negative impact on Pakistan’s economy in general and Gilgit Baltistan in particular‚ as its economy
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