The three main industrial sectors are:
- Primary sector – producing raw materials, extracting natural minerals or products, includes farming, fishing, mining, and forestry
- Secondary sector – producing, manufacturing, processing from raw materials. Manufacturers of consumer goods
- Tertiary sector – provides services including banking, insurance, leisure, retail and public services.
The type of industrial sector that Barnsley College is part of is the Tertiary sector. This sector is known as the service sector because it provides services such as public services, financial and business services, transport and communication, retailing, distribution, hotels and catering.
The takeaway operates in more than one sector, it operates in the secondary sector because they produce and manufacture food and in the tertiary sector because they provide a service.
Above is a graph showing the trends of each sector. The graph shows that employment in the primary sector has decreased over the past few years and employment in the tertiary sector has increased.
The reason why employment is low in the primary sector is because of the new technology equipment that has been made for farming. This equipment helps huge amounts of land grow, so not much work needs to be done if this equipment is used.
Another reason is because coal mining in Britain is imported cheaply from aboard and also because of concerns of pollution, coal has been less used, gas and electricity are usually the preferred options.
In the tertiary sector, the employment has been increased. The reason for this is because several new jobs involving leisure and technology services have been created, this benefits people as they have more amount of money to spend.
The tertiary sector does have some good and bad affects of the takeaway. There are a few current trends of the Business, these are:
There is another small Business located in the area that sells pizza which possibly has very little effect on the Chinese takeaway because the Chinese takeaway could be attracting more customers than the Pizza takeaway or maybe it could be the other way round.
Another Current Trend that is quite important is the Kwik Save supermarket which affects the growth. The supermarket sells varies of food including some Chinese dishes that the takeaway serves. This does have some affects to the takeaway because it would mean losing out customers to Kwik Save. Other affects of this trend is:
- Eat it whenever they like
Also it depends on the people’s disposable income because if they receive low wages then Chinese food is unlikely the first on their list for food because some might find it rather expensive and cannot afford to spend a lot of money on it.
There could be a chance of growth if there is less competition around such as if the pizza takeaway shuts down and by marketing such as making special offers and advertising.
There has been an increase because the previous owner prices were rather high and now the prices have dropped there has been a demand increase of the takeaway.
Another factor is the possible decline of the Business such as the competition in the area that are making special offers and deducting prices, if so then the takeaway is likely to lose trade in the area.
There is a trend towards people buying ready-prepared meals because it is a growth area and people also want to try different foods such as people going on holiday want to experience new food.
Overall the Takeaway is stabilised because there isn’t much competition in the area apart from the Kwik Save supermarket and the Pizza takeaway.
Business Activities
Business activities are the job roles and activities that are involved to run the Business, it relates to dealing with products and services.
There are several activities that are carried out by Barnsley College, but the core activity is teaching. This is important to Barnsley College because it helps the students gain a good outcome to progress onto further and higher education and also concerns their career. There are several activities the College carries out including, monitoring the student’s progress by producing a report from time to time, evaluating their work, dealing with administration work such as the students profiles and details, providing learning facilities such as computers and access to the internet, communicating with the students to help support them and many more including the basics like cleaning etc.
The core activity of the takeaway is producing food to trade to the public, this is because they need to gain money and profit to support their financial matters.
Other activities include purchasing stock, dealing with deliveries, record keeping, financial matters, communication for telephone orders and enquiries, providing a
service and cleaning.
Below is a graph showing the trends of the two activities of Education and Hotels & Restaurants. The graph shows that the activities involving education has increased over the past seven years, this is because further and higher education is now funded differently from schools and also is very complex these days.
The activity of Hotels & Restaurants has decreased, this is because a number of restaurants have increased in Britain and so has the number of takeaway food outlets.
Communications such as telephones have increased because it is a faster way to communicate with other people such as customers and clients or other member of staffs in the Business.
Location
Location is important to a Business and sometimes choice of location can be critical. Success of running a Business mainly depends on the location and location can have major effects and influences on Businesses.
Businesses locate where they believe will be successful. The reasons for this can include :
- The number of people available to work in
- The cost of premises
- Financial help from the government
- Transport links for supplies and distribution
- The need to be where suppliers and raw materials are based
- The need to compete with other businesses in the same activity
- The need to be where customers are
- History and tradition
Businesses want to pick a good location where they can get the best trade from the public but if the location is in a small quiet area then they are unlikely to get the best trade there.
Barnsley College has 7 college sites which are mainly located in and around the town centre and are within a short walking distance of the public transport, Barnsley interchange. The reason it has been located there is because it is near the main town centre district, this way it also helps to keep the costs of transport as low as possible because it is handy and convenient for the student’s to shop or eat in Barnsley town centre. This type of location is quite good because they can do everything at the cost of one travel. The reasons why they are located there is because of the transport links and
The takeaway is located on the High Street along with a few other shops and also has a Kwik Save supermarket opposite further to the left. The reason it is located there is because it is convenient for customers to buy takeaway food and also shop from other shops all through one trip so they don’t think it’s a waste of journey just going to one shop. Another reason is because it is near to the customers and the estate they live in.
This is probably one of the best locations for the Business to operate in because it is located on the main High Street road where mostly cars pass by and therefore they can see the shop when passing by. It has been located there for the past 20 years since the previous owner.
There are some disadvantages to this location because another takeaway is in the area which sells pizzas, this does have a slight affect because it would mean losing a few customers to them but can be a benefit for the Chinese takeaway because the pizza is just off the road where it can be hard to spot.
Stakeholders
All businesses have stakeholders meaning the interest the people have in that business. Businesses are influenced by different groups of stakeholders and some may have more influence than others. Stakeholders include:
- customers
- employees (including managers)
- shareholders
- the local community
- the government
Stakeholders of Barnsley College
The main stakeholders of Barnsley College are the students/customers because it’s their main concern and interest of their education, they want to learn more because they are interested in what they like to study and maybe of the activities involved because this helps to develop new skills so they can get a professional career. There interests could also be the facilities that are available and concerned how friendly the tutors are.
Although this could result changes to their interests of the College and the particular course they are studying because it might not be what they expected, students may have expected something different to what they thought in the beginning before they enrolled in the College, they might have thought it would be more exciting rather than boring. They also might not have liked the way the tutors acted towards them such as being unfriendly and unhelpful.
The stakeholders of Barnsley College are important to the College because it has a big impact on the rest of the students. Some of the stakeholder’s interests of Barnsley College may be different to one another because they both might be interested in completely different courses such as one may be interested in Business and the other in Art.
Other stakeholders of Barnsley College are the employees and the Government. Employees may be interested in the job roles of being a teacher, they may be interested in working with the students and communicating with them. They also may be interested in the way the staff at Barnsley College are treated and the rates of pay.
The Government may be interested in Barnsley College because they might find that the College is going successfully well and might want to encourage them with new opportunities and promote them.
Stakeholders of Takeaway
The main stakeholders of the Takeaway are the customers because they may enjoy eating Chinese food and the way the food is cooked. Their main interest is the food and probably because they value the prices.
There have been some changes to the stakeholder’s interest over the past year because before the owner today, the previous owner served a few other English dishes that are not available to buy now so there’s possibly been a reduction of stakeholders since then, and also a possible rise now that the new owner has taken over serving some new dishes that has not been served before.
Other stakeholders could be the employees because they might enjoy catering and the activities that are involved. Employees can influence stakeholders by bringing new ideas into the Business that can maybe increase their interests.
The stakeholders of the Takeaway are important to them because if a customer is unhappy with the food then there are likely to be affects on other customers too, so therefore the takeaway responds quite effectively.
The influence of stakeholders is different in each Business because they both have customers and employees but no shareholders because the takeaway has a sole trader ownership. They both serve the local community but the extent to which Barnsley College does is greater because it is a large Business and offer high standards of services more than the takeaway can. Barnsley College is valuable to the community because it adds to the overall feeling of increasing self esteem and self confidence becomes more employable. Barnsley College also has to answer to the Government particularly for the funding. In this case funding comes from the Government and is raised through taxation.
