Assignment 1 – Written Business Report Thomas Buksztel 09199617 Word Count = 1627 Assignment 1 Written Business Report - J Sainsbury’s An Introduction to J Sainsbury’s J Sainsbury’s is the country’s longest running major food retailer‚ with its first store being opened in 1869. Currently throughout the UK Sainsbury’s has a chain of 502 stores and 290 convenience stores‚ serving over 18million customers per week and with the larger based stores offering over 30‚000 products to
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successful that at the time the Sainsbury Family took the company public in 1973‚ it was the largest initial public offering ever tendered on the London Stock Exchange. In 1975‚ Sainsbury’s launched into the hypermarket format in a joint venture with British Home Stores. A pioneering event in the United Kingdom‚ they were mega‐format supermarkets with an extensive selection of both food and non‐food items. Changing strategies in the late 1980’s‚ it SALES GROWTH COMPARISON
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References……………………….. Page 11‚12 Appendix…………………………..Page 13 Introduction The role given for this report is to show a financial analyst acting on behalf of a large institutional investor advising them on their future investment in Sainsbury plc. This report will explore calculations of the financial ratios‚ such as gross margin which measures the performance of how suitable a company manages its costs (Campbell R.Harvey‚ 2004a). For Sainsbury’s this report will investigate the ratios
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EDI or Electronic Data Interchange can be used to describe sophisticated technology which is used to transmit electronic documents including orders‚ invoices‚ receipts etc. EDI is growing at the rate of 200 per cent (edi case studies); with the UK accounting for roughly around 70% of the European market. EDI is being embraced globally for many reasons: ? Reduction in hard materials such as paper ? Cost reduction ? Customer service improvement ? Reduction in transcription errors ? Increased
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shopping structure when the customers enter the stores. Sainsbury: The Sainsbury mainly concentrates on the development
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What is SOSTAC™ ? The SOSTAC Planning System is one of the most powerful planning systems ever developed. Simple but extremely effective‚ as it contains all the ingredients vital for the perfect marketing plan. Whether a blue chip‚ like IBM and BT‚ or small business‚ professionals who discover SOSTAC Planning System embrace it for life. This method will help you to create‚ write and develop your marketing plan by breaking down into six elements: Situation analysis‚ Objectives‚ Strategy‚ Tactics
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on the company that has been chosen for the RESEARCH AND ANAYLSIS PROJECT. This project may not be as good as other research projects but the research work would hopefully differentiate the project from others. Retailers like Tesco‚ Asda‚ and Sainsbury in UK continue to compete with each other in order to become the best and biggest retailer in the country‚ and to grow in size‚ structure and increase their market share. The retail business is expanding as a result of companies acquiring other businesses
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The Factors affecting Sainsburys objectives Sainsburys are a private sector organisation whose main interest is in gaining financial reward‚ such as profit and shareholder value. Sainsburys are a particular public limited company whose securities are traded on a stock exchange and can be bought by anyone. (Business dictionary 2008). So the strategic plan would therefore be particularly concentrated on generating profit although this can be balanced against the needs of the stakeholders. There are
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at which they supply them‚ have been terribly successful. Sainsbury‚ one of the top leading supermarkets in the UK‚ has tried throughout the years‚ and facing the strong competition‚ to invest in both food and non-food products. However the company has failed to retain its top position in the market due to the challenges it was facing‚ its customer service and its low profit margin. First of all being a family owned business‚ Sainsbury was run by members of the same family for more than 100 years
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as calling. The idea the writer proposes is a phone for the visually impaired which has a sole purpose for calling people. The keys will be fitted with Braille so that the individuals are able to effectively feel what number they are pressing. SOSTAC - Situation Analysis Upon research it was found the size of the disability phone market is small in comparison to others‚ such as android where there are thousands of brands available. "Around 360‚000 people are registered blind or partially sighted
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