responsibility is when a business owes a duty towards the community as well as the environment. Businesses such as Coles and Woolworths take an individualism view in which they only care about their long term self - interest e.g. profits and sadly neglect their suppliers. Factors influencing ethical behaviour include: the person‚ organisation and the environment. Woolworths is focused on brand and loyalty while Coles are focused on increasing basket size. Although
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Introduction The mission‚ vision‚ and values contribute to an organization’s ability to reach its desired end state by clearly stating the fundamental principals that will guide the firm’s actions and defines a clear set of values that encourages staff to work towards accomplishing the desired end state. The Alameda County Community Food Bank was chosen for completing a strategic plan. This paper will discuss the strategic plan for the Alameda Community Food Bank‚ components of the strategic management
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Assignment 1 – Individual Case Study (Woolworths) Introduction Woolworths is one of the top 25 food retailers in the world holding approximately 31% of the food retail sector in Australia‚ with approximately 3100 suppliers providing some 3162 stores across Australia and New Zealand and employing over 191‚000 people. Woolworths is constantly changing to meet consumer demands. Since opening it’s first store in 1924‚ with a nominal capital of 25‚000 shares only 15‚000 of those shares were available
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study attempts to research and analyze both second hand literature as well as first hand observation. The report also plans to discuss the effects of retail image‚ personality and brand and their interrelations between the supermarkets‚ Coles and Woolworths in particular at the Westfield Kotara site. 2. Literature Review: Dong-Mo Koo’s study “Interrelationships among Store Images‚ Store Satisfaction‚ and Store Loyalty among Korea Discount Retail Patrons” analyses the concept how various discount
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Intangible Assets: An intangible asset‚ despite not having a physical form to it‚ has great value to a company and is to be disclosed in the financial reports. Some companies only disclose the brand and goodwill as their only intangible assets‚ while others include more such as software and the company trademarks (Loftus et al. 2012). The Accounting Standard AASB 138 advises businesses on the accounting treatment of these intangible assets‚ but only if the specific criteria have been met for an
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Budget System Vision Version 1.0 Revision History |Date |Version |Description |Author | |01/04/11 |1.1 |Vision Document |Rabail Shahnaz | |
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1.0 INTRODUCTION I always have the desire to be an academic graduate because my family treasured education so much. One of the major criteria for having a BSc (Hons) degree after ones name is by demonstrating the highest degree of academic excellence and undertaking to write and submit a dissertation on a selected topic. I am fortunate to be accorded such an opportunity through ACCA/Oxford Brooke partnership degree program. 1.1 Topic selection The topic I selected for the RAP is the evaluation
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INTRODUCTION Puma AG is a German company established on October 1st 1948. The company designs‚ develops and markets premium sportswear‚ quality footwear‚ and sporting equipment accessories for men‚ women and children under the brands Puma‚ Cobra Golf and Tretorn. Puma’s products are sold through retail accounts through wholesale channels‚ owned retail stores‚ internet sites and a mixture of independent distributors‚ factory outlets‚ franchisees and licensees worldwide.With Puma’sstrategic objective
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------------------------------------------------------2 Part A: Woolworths Ltd Strategic Analysis---------------------------------------------------------------2 SWOT analysis for Woolworths Ltd------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Key Capability Analysis---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Major stakeholder analysis for Woolworths Ltd---------------------------------------------------------5 Assessment
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Description of how Woolworths manages quality and determine how effective Woolworths is at managing quality. Under the strategic objective of protecting customer trust‚ Woolworths has a defined policy that applies to all its business units to ensure quality is maintained at the highest level and is consequently a positive reflection of the overall Woolworths brand. This policy is entitled ‘Woolworths Quality Assurance Standard “protecting customer trust”‚ version 6 June 2009’. Woolworths has identified
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