Criterion 1F (Small Business)
My small business is called Quality Fish And Chips. It is located at:
62 Ingham Road,
Thornhill Lees,
Dewsbury,
West Yorkshire,
WF12 0AQ.
Main Activities
The main activities of Quality Fish And Chips (QFC) are to sell multiple products at a high quality to the local community. They also aim to prepare and cook the food on site, do takeaway meals and deliver to the community within a 2 mile radius.
Aims and objectives
An aim is a long term plan, to achieve the aim a company usually has multiple objectives. The aim of QFC is to survive, to help this aim there are objectives; these are to produce a profit of £500 in the first month. After the first month the company will probable choose to make more money, E.g. the next month they could aim to make £1000.
Type of ownership
The type of ownership at QFC is a sole trader as it is officially owned by 1 person. Sole traders have certain disadvantages mainly to do with liability. But also have big advantages like keeping 100% of the profit.
Factors influencing the location
The factors influencing the location is that it is on a corner of a busy road so lots of people could see the shop and decide they would like food from there. There are also lots of parking opportunities around the shop as well as residential housing so they can make a small journey to the shop if they wished to have food from QFC to eat. The position helps the business make money because it is on the edge of a main road, this makes people make up their mind if they are undecided about if they want something to eat.
Business Location
Main Roads - Access
Local Residents - Market
Parking Opportunities – Land
Criterion 1C (Chiquita)
Criterion 1C (Small Business)
In this section I will explain how the main activities help my small business to survive/make a profit/expand.
- Provide Quality Food To The Local Community.
This will help the business survive as providing a good service will mean customers will return to the shop and buy more food or could even tell friends and family to try the shop.
- To prepare and cook there own food on site.
This will mean that they are creating fresh food that will taste better and keep the customers coming to the shop and the food will also be healthier.
- Deliver take away food within a 2 mile radius
This will satisfy customers who cannot reach the store if they are injured, or live too far away. This could make people tell others around the area and will please even more people.
- The Company Is A Sole Trader
This will have certain advantages and disadvantages, e.g. a sole trader gets to keep 100% profit, but has unlimited liability. This can cause problems when the company tries to survive as the owner could make the wrong decision. This can also cause complications when it comes to expanding as the owner could make the wrong decision again and pick the wrong place to set the companies base.
- The Location Of the Business
The location is vital to a company’s survival, if it’s in the wrong place the company could lose money and close down, but if it’s in the right place then the company will make a great profit.
Criterion 1A (Chiquita)
I think that Chiquita’s Main Activities are relevant as it’s helping the company to make a profit, survive and expand.
Build a high performance organisation by making it more efficient and effective. – I think this will help the business as this will make the company run a lot more efficient and will help make more money.
Strengthen the core business, in other words always be good at selling bananas. – I think this will help the business as it will ensure that they concentrate most on there main product which is bananas.
Pursue profitable growth. E.g. do more than just sell bananas. Make more marketing, new products that use bananas and new ideas. – I think this will help the business as it expands the business and makes more money for the company as they are selling multiple products.
Criterion 2F(Chiquita)
The company we are going to be discussing is Chiquita. We visited the company on (date) and had a series of activities to do there, we started with a slide show of Chiquita’s history, and soon moved on to a Factory Tour. After the factory tour we had a look at Chiquita’s finance’s
Marketing and sales: Marketing and sales helps a company to gain a larger market therefore making more sales. This means more money is coming into the company as of the extra sales and then the company can survive if it’s a new company or make a profit if it’s an older company.
Research and development: Researchers can research new items for companies and make a larger range that can then be marketed and sold as a new item as well as selling the old items this makes more money because if people doesn’t like the old items but do like the new items then the company will be making more sales and then getting more money.
Finance department: The finance department is critical if a company is to survive or make a profit as it handles all money coming in and out of the company. If there was no finance department then the company would go down hill rather quickly and probably shut down. This would result in a large loss of money for the company’s owner(s) and would also result in a failed company.
Criterion 2C(Chiquita)
The 3 above sections of different companies would probably use various different ways of communications between each other, the main one would probably be Intranet. An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet technologies to securely share any part of an organization's information or operational systems with its employees.
Another way they could communicate is using E-mails, but this can be quiet slow and could result in a major catastrophe as someone may miss the E-mail and then a vital message may not be passed etc.
Other communications could include Regular meetings where the head of each department meets on a regular basis to discuss problems of the department they are leading and discuss the good points of the department they are leading then as a group they can discuss how to fix the problems and keep the good points going and get more good points into the departments. This makes the business run more smoothly and means the company will work better together and make more money.
Criterion 2A(Chiquita)
The different parts of a company need to communicate to be successful, if they don’t then the company will defiantly collapse.
Criterion 3F(Chiquita)
Criterion 3C(Chiquita)
Criterion 3A (Chiquita)
Criterion 4F (Chiquita)
Criterion 4F (Small Business)
Criterion 4C (Chiquita)
Criterion 4C (Small Business)
Criterion 4A (Chiquita)
Criterion 4A (Small Business)
Conclusion