- Public services (including administration, defence, health and education)
- Financial and business services (including banking, insurance companies, law and accountancy)
- Transport and communication (including bus and train providers, radio, telecommunications, television and transport companies)
- Retailing, Distribution, Hotels and Catering (including fast-food outlets, newsagents, supermarkets, pubs and shops)
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Personal services (including health & beauty, hairdressers and sells commodities like information, training etc.)
Employment Structures
The developing countries tend to have larger primary sectors with more people working in industries such as farming or fishing. Manufacturing businesses have just recently been established in those countries. Developed countries such as the UK, started up manufacturing industries many years ago and it has emerged that the secondary and tertiary sectors are likely to be more important than the primary sector because that is where most of the employees work.
In very wealthy countries, it is now common to find that many manufactured goods are now imported from developing countries. This process makes the tertiary sector bigger and more important than the primary and secondary sectors put together.
In the UK, the primary and secondary sectors are rapidly declining over the past 30 years. Over 70% of workers in the world are now employed in the tertiary sector. The reasons for the decline in those sectors are because modern technology, for example, machinery, combined harvesters etc. has taken over and also, many manufacturing industries have relocated to other parts of the world due to the fact that the costs of manufacturing are less. They do this so it can enable them to make profit. I think that the tertiary sector is growing rapidly. More people are working in jobs where they don’t have to make anything e.g. working in an office, working in a supermarket etc. Even though the tertiary sector is growing, it is still dependent on the primary and secondary sector for some businesses e.g. Tesco. Tesco needs to rely on both sectors in order to produce its own brand of foods.
Trends
All of our products, whether it is clothes, rugs, trainers, are made abroad because labour is cheaper and to build a factory abroad costs less than it would cost here. Also, to transport these goods are so much easier. The Internet has helped us also because people can order their shopping from their house, paying only a small sum of money for their goods to be delivered.
My first business is McDonalds. McDonalds started up in 1940 but did not become famous until eight years when they brought in a self-service operation. Then six years later, the McDonald brothers, Dick and Mac, met an entrepreneur called Ray Kroc. He agreed to open new restaurants for them and the first was in Illinois. Ray’s new company was called “McDonalds Systems Inc.” which was founded on March 2nd 1955. What started out as a salesman’s dream to become rich has turned into a dynasty with more than 28,000 restaurants in 120 countries. The industrial sector that McDonalds belongs to are the secondary and tertiary sectors because they are manufacturing and providing a service, which is making burgers & other foods and selling it to customers.
My second business is Waitrose, which is a supermarket. Waitrose started up in 1904 when Wallace Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor opened their first small grocery shop at 263 Acton Hill, West London. Then, 33 years later, the John Lewis Partnership purchased the business and opened the first Waitrose supermarket in 1955. Today, after less than a century, the company has become the leading food retailers with 165 branches, employing over 27,000 people. The industrial sector Waitrose belongs to are the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. The reason for this is because they produce natural products in the farm, manufacture their products and sell them to customers.