Tesco

BUSINESS OBJECTIVES Tesco sets objectives for the four main areas of its business: customers operations people (ie employees) shareholders. Figure 1: The Tesco Steering Wheel Page 5: Development of Tesco, Tesco's presence in Central Europe After serving in the First World War, Jack Cohen used his savings and started selling groceries in Londonl East End markets. Tesco was founded in 1924. The name was based on the initials of T E Stockwell, a partner in a firm of tea suppliers, and the first two letters of Cohen. In 1929, the first store was opened in Edgware, North London.

Data Analysis Of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. COMPANY BACKGROUND Wal-Mart initially began its operations in 1945, when Sam Walton leased a ‘Ben Franklin’ franchise variety store in Newport, Arkansas. After relocating to Rogers, Arkansas in the early 1950s, Sam Walton’s ‘Ben Franklin’ became ‘Walton’s 5 & 10’. By 1962, Walton found himself the chain owner of 11 different Walton’s stores across Arkansas. He then decided to rename the chain ‘Wal-Mart’, after himself. On October 31, 1969, after further expansion across the state, the chain was incorporated as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Three years later, Wal-Mart was approved and listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

He soon expanded the store, and in 1974 he began offering jaw-dropping, competitor-maddening discounts of up to 40% for best-sellers. Acquiring Marboro Books five years later, the company entered the mail-order and publishing business. By 1986 Barnes & Noble had grown to about 180 outlets, which included 142 college bookstores. Along with Dutch retailer Vendex, that year it bought Dayton Hudson's B. Dalton mall bookstore chain, forming BDB Holding Corp. In 1989 the company acquired the Scribner's Bookstores trade name and the Bookstop and Bookstar su... ... middle of paper ... ... the company, including all of the voting power of Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, a private textbook seller.

A few years later, Colgate and his brother-in-law, John Gilbert, built a starch factory in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 1947, the Dutch Street factory was moved there, yet the business office remained on Dutch Street. At that time, the principal products were Windsor Toilet Soaps and Pearl Starch. In 1857, Colgate died, and the company name changed to Colgate & Company. The company introduced perfumed soap and began manufacturing of perfumes and essences in 1866.

In this article (“International”, 2010), it shows that Tesco is also the grocery market leader in the UK where it has a market share of nearly 30%, the Republic of Ireland, Malaysia and Thailand. Jack Cohen founded Tesco in 1919 from a market stall in London’s East End. In 1929, the flagship Tesco store was opened by Cohen in Burnt Oak, North London (Clark, 2008). During the 60s supermarkets started to expand quickly by selling more products in larger stores. In 2000 Tesco.com was launched and until November 2006 Tesco was the only food retailer that makes online shopping profitable (Walker, 2006).

Today, Kroger has grown to 2500 stores with $70 billion revenues, 40 food processing plants ranging from bread, milk, soda pop, ice cream and peanut butter. Kroger operates under two dozen banners, has acquired warehouses, trucking companies, and has over 14,400 private-label items (The Kroger Co., 2012). Barney was always on the cutting edge of retail. Kroger quickly grew to 40 stores by 1902 with about 1.72 million in annual sales, and in 1904 Kroger bought 14-meat markets and for the first time ever a consumer could buy meat and groceries under one roof. On its 25th anniversary, Kroger ventured into streamlining shipping and bought 200 horses and wagons to deliver to its locations.

METRO Cash & Carry expanded its business in Romania in 1996 and in the Czech Republic in 1997. Also in 1997, METRO Cash & Carry bought out the European MAKRO operations from Dutch SHV. The expansion in Eastern Europe continued: METRO Cash & Carry opened its first store in Bulgaria, becoming the largest trader of fish and shellfish in the region. 2000-2014 Three new stores were opened in Slovakia right at the turn of the new century. The huge distances in Russia posed new logistics tasks for the company: Shipping goods through the Russian plains and mountains can take up to six days.

Starbucks entered the UK market in 1998 with the acquisition of the then 60-outlet Seattle Coffee Company, re-branding all its stores as Starbucks. By November 2005, London had more outlets than Manhattan, a sign of Starbucks becoming an international brand. In April 2003, Starbucks completed the purchase of Seattle's Best Coffee and Torrefazione Italia from AFC Enterprises, bringing the total number of Starbucks-operated locations worldwide to more than 6,400. On September 14, 2006, it was announced by rival Diedrich Coffee that it would sell most of its company-owned retail stores to Starbucks.

Hence, customers benefit from having a relationship with the energy supplier in-store, online and over the phone whilst collecting Nectar points on some Sainsbury’... ... middle of paper ... ...ience stores, a full online grocery and general merchandise offer are offered by Sainsbury’s. Therefore, if customers shop all three of the channels provided by Sainsbury’s, their total spend will be more than double that of the average supermarket-only shopper. Whilst developing new businesses, Sainsbury’s always invest beyond their core since it is an important part of their long-term strategy and objective for their future. The reasons of Sainsbury’s having growing space and creating property value as its objectives are to have new supermarkets, add space to existing stores through extensions, and have new convenience stores. The purpose of Sainsbury’s having compelling general merchandise and clothing as one of its objectives is to prove that it can be highly successful, with sales of general merchandise and clothing growing at more than twice the rate of food.

PLACE Cadbury sells anywhere where there is a demand for their products, special if there many customers that want to buy their products. Cadbury would sell their products to shops (business) that deals with beverages and confectionery like (Iceland, Sainsbury, Kwick Save, Tesco, Asda, Safeway) and also in post offices and newsagents and in vending machines. PROMOTION Through Cadburys promotional activities it can be clearly seen that they have been guided by their promotional and marketing objectives of "maximising profit” and also “to increase the sales”. Achievement of these objectives enables the business to meet the business objectives of being “Number one product in a given market”. Cadburys Company are the number one seller of chocolate confectionary product on the market, in the Europe and world-wide.