Aims and objectives of Asda.

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Aims and Objectives

All businesses have aims that they want to achieve, and objectives that help them plan what they have to do to achieve those aims.

AIMS are the overall goals and purposes that the business was set up to fulfil. In other words, aims are the general statements of what the business wants to achieve or where it wants to go in future.

OBJECTIVES are specific targets that must be achieved if the business is to fulfil its aims. The objectives of a business are closely related to its aims and should fulfil two essential criteria. Objectives are set so that they can be achieved over a period of time.

ASDA group PLC aims to provide goods and services that are cheap and affordable to the public. Reducing packaging is one of ASDA’s key objectives and they are considering every option to achieve this goal. It intends to increase the amount of fresh products sold loose from boxes and reduce its range of own label pre-packed products sold in its stores across the country. Recently ASDA has announced that it intends to reduce the amount of own label packaging by 25 per cent over the next twelve months.

The main aims of ASDA are listed below:

Reducing the cost objectives of their items/products
To offer quality products at low price
Recycling their waste
Packaging their products well
Supporting Voluntary Services and Assisting charities in UK
Providing Financial assistance and insurance
Reducing energy consumption and being environment friendly
Building a Sustainable business
Surviving as a business
Improving quality of the products
Providing a highly competitive service

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Business Objectives are the clearly defined targets which are made to fulfil the aims. It helps to motivate the employees and enables the business ...

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The main aims of ASDA are listed below:

Reducing the cost objectives of their items/products
To offer quality products at low price
Recycling their waste
Packaging their products well
Supporting Voluntary Services and Assisting charities in UK
Providing Financial assistance and insurance
Reducing energy consumption and being environment friendly
Building a Sustainable business
Surviving as a business
Improving quality of the products
Providing a highly competitive service

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Business Objectives are the clearly defined targets which are made to fulfil the aims. It helps to motivate the employees and enables the business to track its progress in fulfilling the aims. The objectives of the business must be achievable. The business should be able to realistically meet the targets. For example, ASDA wants to be recognized as the most affordable supermarket in the country. It does not want bad publicity over environmental issues.

The mail objectives of ASDA are listed below:

to design out packaging waste growth by 2008
to deliver absolute reductions in packaging waste by March 2010
to identify ways to tackle the problem of food waste
To be recognized as the most affordable supermarket in the country
to reduce the amount of own label packaging by 25 per cent over the next twelve months
to improve their services than last year
to sell more of its products

The purpose of a business is to survive. Survival of a business enables it to generate profit, leading to the possibility of growing. The objectives of the business must be aimed at what the business does and should be agreed by all those concerned in trying to achieve the objective. The objectives should be challenging and should have time limit of when the objectives should be achieved.

Cwmbran Stadium is one of the sports facilities in cwmbran with international-standard athletics track & field as well as a brand new eight-court sports hall. It has fitness suite with welcoming facilities and friendly instructors offering the opportunity to have fun and make friends while working out. Apart from that, it also provides indoor swimming and eight court sports hall. There is also a café with vending machines.The basic aim of Cwmbran Stadium is to provide good sport facilities to the local community. It provides home for many resident clubs which organize many popular sports activities. Meetings are also held in the stadium at times.

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The aims of the Cwmbran Stadium are listed below:

To provide good sports facilities to the local community
To support Cwmbran Town F.C.
To operate a customer focused sports facility with a commitment to high standards of service, cleanliness and customer care
To encourage all sectors of the community to participate in sport at the facility
To provide a quality home and venue for the resident clubs and players across a wide range of sports
To form close working relationships with local sports clubs
To attract major sporting, musical and other suitable events to the arena
To provide a quality catering operation with wide range of facilities
To engage those who represent groups and organisations in the community with an interest in the positive development of the Cwmbran Stadium

The objectives of the Cwmbran Stadium are listed below:

To ensure that the interests of community and neighbourhood are properly taken into account when plans and programmes for sports are made
To encourage and assist the formation of constructive partnerships between sports clubs, local communities, local authorities and other interested parties
To identify ways in which clubs can help to address social, educational and economic disadvantage in their immediate neighbourhood
To research, identify and promote instances of good practice
To provide and exchange information and help for member, and other groups
Ensuring that the stadium is used as a community based facility
Supporting and promoting community development work
Creating a central base for amateur clubs, schools etc.

All the Business should have aims and objectives so that they know what they are doing and have certain target to fulfill. It needs aims and objectives to be successful and make profits. It needs to have its staffs working for a common purpose. Aims and objectives are made to make the business more challenging so that the staffs and all the members work equally hard to reach the goal.

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David Salter

1st of Dec 2012

*** Some of the points made about aims and objectives are good but this is a confusing topic and the writer has not really been able to tease out the differences between the two. They have done some useful research into what the businesses do but not so much their aims and objectives.

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