Strengths The market of online drinks retailing has grown very strongly these last five years‚ increasing by 123% between 2005 and 2010. Quantitatively‚ the market was valued at £370 million in 2005 and more than £740 million in 2009. More importantly‚ a survey of Mintel assumes that the market will continue to grow in the next five years‚ though more slowly (59%). By the year of 2012‚ which is for our business the year of setting up‚ the market should go past the £1 billion mark.
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The Harmonized Savings Plan at BP Amoco Brief description of case background On August 11‚ 1998‚ United States Amoco Corporation (Amoco) and The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. (BPC) announced the BPC merger with Amoco. With a combined number of participants of 40‚000 and $7 billion investment assets under management‚ the merged pension and savings plan of the new company is viewed by both management and employees as a bellwether of the success of the merger. Therefore‚ the new investment team
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I. CASE SYNOPSIS TNK–BP is a joint venture company between TNK (Tyyumen Oil Company) and BP (British Petroleoum) in Russia. British Petroleum‚ was the world’s third largest oil and gas supermajor who was founded as the Anglo Persia Oil Company. BP’s upstream business operated in various countries (USA‚ UK‚ Australia‚ Angola‚ Azerbaijan‚ Canada‚ Egypt‚ Russia‚ Trinidad‚ Tobago and Indonesia). BP’s production growth was constrained by its mature oil fields‚ so BP was aggressively looking for new
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In 2010‚ BP encountered two predicaments. The first was stopping a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after an oilrig exploded. The second was persuading people that they were doing just so. The company damaged its environmentally friendly image when the Deepwater Horizon oilrig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20‚ 2010‚ eventually creating the largest marine oil spill in history. Eleven workers were killed‚ an estimated 6‚000 barrels of oil leaked per day‚ and years of irreversible damage
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will look at British Petroleum‚ BP‚ one of the largest oil companies in the world. Following the Gulf Oil Spill does BP have sustainability in this market? This paper will examine the early history of the company. It will look at the competitive advantages of the organization by looking at its SWOT analysis. The company’s market strategy will be examined including its growing interest into alternative fuels. Its internal structure will be compared to the persona that BP is trying to convey that they
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British Petroleum (BP) case study British Petroleum (BP) is a global oil and chemical company with global headquarter in London and United States operation in Houston‚ Texas. BP owns numerous oil fields‚ refineries and chemical manufacturing plants worldwide. It is the largest company in the United Kingdom while BP America in U. S. is the largest BP division. BP operations as of 2013 were spread in over 80 countries around the world. The brands controlled by the multinational include BP‚ Castrol‚ ARCO
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Ethics in the Workplace Case Study: BP Oil Spill On April 20‚ 2010 off the Gulf of Mexico‚ there was a blowout of the Macondo well which is owned by British Petroleum also known as BP. When the blowout took place it got immediate media attention because aspects of the event were known over the world. Within events transpiring it was discovered how limited the resources and reaction to the disaster was going to be. This paper will detail aspects of the event from symptoms of the problem‚ the root
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customers’ loyalty (Porter’s Five Forces of Competitive Position Analysis‚ 2011-2015). c. Bargaining power of suppliers: we will need products suppliers both in the UK and abroad as our products will be mainly imported from Africa and Caribbean Island. So we will always have the option of changing our supplier as there many choices and the cost of labour is low and also cheap (Porter’s Five Forces of Competitive Position Analysis‚ 2011-2015). d. Bargaining power of buyers: customers will have
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The Economic Impact of the BP Oil Spill In April of 2010‚ a British Petroleum operated oil drilling rig off the Gulf of Mexico‚ the Deepwater Horizon‚ exploded suddenly after high pressure methane gas from the oil well rose to the drilling rig‚ causing it to ignite and then sink to the bottom of the ocean floor. The explosion caused a sea-floor level oil blowout‚ and crude oil was leaked into the surrounding water for three months before a solution was found. After eighty-seven long days‚ the wellhead
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The BP oil spill‚ more famously referred to as the Deepwater Horizon Spill‚ occurred in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico and flowed unmitigated for as long as 3 months. The BP oil spill has fared as the largest marine oil spill ever confronted in the history of the petroleum industry. The oil spill on the 20th of April 2010 was primarily the result of a gas release followed by an explosion in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig‚ in the Gulf of Mexico‚ established on the Mocando exploration well designed for
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