Business- Unit 1, Task 1

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Emily Bolton                Task 1 Investigating BusinessesIntroduction In this unit I will be investigating two different businesses, one from the primary sector and one from the tertiary sector. One is a medium company; Tower Colliery and one is a small franchise; Spar. I will be investigating and comparing the history and location of each ownership. Tower CollieryTower Colliery is a medium coalmining business and which is operated in the primary sector. Tower Colliery was built in 1864 and is located in Hirwaun in South Wales. The Colliery was started on Hirwaun common, named after the nearby
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"Crawshay's Tower" a folly built in 1848. It is a limited liability business as it is a worker co-operative; it is the business’s problem if the company is in debt. Most of the skilled workers were from under around there as they were properly taught by older family. It extracts coal from the ground and sells it to men usually domestic and industrial customers. It exports coal all around Europe. It is a co-operative business as it is owned by the workers when the business closed on 1994 and they were left redundant. They then bought the business for about ...

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