economic environment‚ with a strong international performance largely offset by a reduction in UK profits. Whilst the year gave us many things to be proud of‚ overall it was not the most pleasing performance. My team and I are resolved to get Tesco back to winning‚ particularly at home. Group sales increased by 7.4% to £72 billion‚ while Group trading profit was up 1.3% on last year and underlying profit before tax rose to £3.9 billion‚ an increase of 1.6%. Group capital expenditure in the
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United Kingdom has been dominated in the last ten years by large chain Supermarkets. There has been a fight for supremacy between the likes of J. Sainsbury‚ Tesco‚ Marks and Spencer‚ Asda‚ and further south‚ Waitrose. Around ten years ago‚ Sainsbury ’s used to have the top spot but their loyal shoppers started turning their heads towards Tesco and better value for money later on in the nineties. I will analyse the United Kingdom ’s grocery industry‚ involving a P.E.S.T. analysis‚ which is a way
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案例三：沃尔玛(Wal-Mart)SWOT分析 优势Strengths. • 沃尔玛是著名的零售业品牌，它以物美价廉、货物繁多和一站式购物而闻名。 • 沃尔玛的销售额在近年内有明显增长‚并且在全球化的范围内进行扩张.(例如‚它收购了英国的零售商ASDA) • 沃尔玛的一个核心竞争力是由先进的信息技术所支持的国际化物流系统.例如‚ 在该系统支持下‚每一件商品在全国范围内的每一间卖场的运输、销售、储存等物流信息都可以清晰地看到。信息技术同时也加强了沃尔玛高效的采购过程。 • 沃尔玛的一个焦点战略是人力资源的开发和管理。优秀的人才是沃尔玛在商业上成功的关键因素，为此沃尔玛投入时间和金钱对优秀员工进行培训并建立忠诚度。 劣势Weaknesses • 沃尔玛建立了世界上最大的食品零售帝国。尽管它在信息技术上拥有优势，但因为其巨大的业务拓展，这可能导致对某些领域的控制力不够强。 • 因为沃尔玛的商品涵盖了服装、食品等多个部门，它可能在适应性上比起更加专注于某一领域的竞争对手存在劣势。 • 该公司是全球化的，但是目前只开拓了少数几个国家的市场。
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environment Tescos Political factors This could include government support‚ provide‚ enhancing skills of the working population of Tesco’s which may include training days or induction days if you have just been previously employed. The main factor could be government support which has to routes that it can go down. Direct support or indirect support which also includes the fiscal policy which is linked with taxes‚ vat and cooperation tax The level of taxation changing means that Tesco also have
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goods and services that supermarkets provide‚ and the prices at which they supply them‚ have been terribly successful. However‚ the growth and profitability of these companies – in particular‚ the four major chains‚ Asda‚ Morrisons‚ Sainsbury’s and Tesco – has been controversial. Many critics have argued that the supermarkets have exploited their dominant market position in a way that is contrary to the public interest. The principal responsibility for enforcing competition law lies with the two
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distributed in the topic BMAIE001AZ2012/3 Managing Finance Agyei-Boapeah‚ H (2012). Working Capital Management 2. Lecture notes distributed in the topic BMAIE001AZ2012/3 Managing Finance Websites BBC News (2004) Sainsbury Loses Out To Rivals BBC News (2012) Tesco Market Share Dips Below 30%. [ONLINE] Available at: http:// www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16817254 [Accessed: 18 October 2012]. BBC News (2008) Thousands Stranded By XL Collapse. [ONLINE] Available at: http:// news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7611639.stm [Accessed:
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of development of Sainsbury’s local stores. The fiercer market needs Sainsbury’s local to improve competitive advantage for achieving sustainable development‚ as a result of the more emphasis on convenience stores set by main competitors‚ such as Tesco and Morrison’s. The competitive advantage could be improved by reducing cost with effective procurement，increasing customers’ satisfaction‚ innovation application‚ and motivating employees. According to these findings‚ Sainsbury’s local stores may
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high growth from the Chinese Economy. It is for these reasons that your company has decided to expand into the Chinese Market. Unfortunately‚ you cannot simply decide and then enter. This has been illustrated by many big firms such as Wal-Mart‚ Tesco‚ Carrefour‚ who have failed in foreign market. Speaking of failure‚ it is important for us to define failure for your company. The most obvious form of failure would be if you were unable to establish yourself in the Chinese Market and were forced
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customer-loyalty schemes have been rejuvenated. {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Wal-Mart’s acquisition of ASDA Group Ltd in 1999 has seen the company’s stores offer a greater range of non-food products — a move that has been followed by Tesco PLC. Most of the major multiples are incorporating rising numbers of non-food lines into their future development plans as a means of competing with Wal-Mart. Larger superstores are increasingly moving away from traditional‚ basic food lines to include
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INDUSTRY PROFILE Food Retail in Europe Reference Code: 0201-2058 Publication Date: June 2010 www.datamonitor.com Datamonitor USA 245 Fifth Avenue 4th Floor New York‚ NY 10016 USA t: +1 212 686 7400 f: +1 212 686 2626 e: usinfo@datamonitor.com Datamonitor Europe 119 Farringdon Road London EC1R 3DA United Kingdom t: +44 20 7551 9000 f: +44 20 7675 7500 e: eurinfo@datamonitor.com Datamonitor Middle East and North America Datamonitor PO Box 24893 Dubai‚ UAE t: +49 69 9754 4517 f: +49 69 9754
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