Im going to investigate two contrast types of business organization. I have chosen for a company in a private sector and a organization in the voluntary sector. New Look and Save the Children.

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Unit 1: The Business Environment
P1, P2- report
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10-12-2010


International Business Studies
Unit 1
Class 1

Table of content:

  • Introduction.                                                                        Page 3
  • P1 New Look.                                                                        Page 4
  • P2 New Look.                                                                        Page 5
  • P1 Save the Children Alliance.                                                Page 6
  • P2 Save the Children Alliance, Conclusion.                                        Page 7
  • Sources list.                                                                        Page 8

Introduction

I’m going to investigate two contrast types of business organization. I have chosen for a company in a private sector and a organization in the voluntary sector. First I'm going to tell something about the range of the different businesses. That's about where they operate, what they want to achieve and the sector of business activity they are involved to. After that I'm going to tell about the purposes of the business. That's about that the business provide a product or a service that they supply to someone else.  At least what kind of ownership the business has.  

One of the businesses that I chose is the retailer New Look. That’s a company in the private sector. They sell fashion for women, men and teens. Their head office is in Weymouth, Dorset in the United Kingdom. They have in 16 different countries a couple stores. In total there are about 1050 retailers in the world. So there are at least 30000 employees in the world who work for the New look.

The other business that I chose is the foundation International Save the Children Alliance. That’s an organization in the voluntary sector. They are active in more than 110 countries in the world. The foundation wants that every child has the right to a healthy, happy and fulfilling live. There works a lot of people at this foundation. Some people work voluntary, but other people get paid, like a CEO.




New Look

Part 1

I have chosen for the retailer New look. That's a global store where they sell fashion. They sell clothes, shoes and accessories for men, women and teens. It's a private business whose founded by Tom Singh. He was born in 1949 and he founded New look in 1969 in Weymouth, Dorset in the UK. Now he's one of the richest man in the UK. So of course the head office from the New look is in Weymouth, Dorset in the United Kingdom. The New Look has shareholders. Permira and Apax Partners both earn 27,7% of the New Look and Tom Singh owns 22,4% of New Look.. If a company is separated in shares there are more people who earn money of New Look. In a form there’s set out how profits will be shared and the different responsibilities and payments to partners. The New Look is a public limited company, this means that they have shareholders with a limited liability and its shares are offered to the general public. They are registered with the London SE. The first New Look store was opened in 1969 in Taunton, England. They are a tertiary sector business, because they sell their products to their customers.
They are a global fashion retailer, because they has retailers in the continents: Europe, Asia and Africa. There have about 1050 retailers in the world.

The purpose of the New look is to provide not too expensive clothes. They have great discounts every time of the year. I think their purpose is to make profit. They sell their fashion more expensive than they buy it. Organizations who are aimed to make profit sell their products more expensive than they actually cost. Organizations who are not-for profit, sells their products on normal prices. They don’t sell to make profit.

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Part 2

There are a lot of different stakeholders for the New look. The most important stakeholders are the employees and the customers. The New look wants to sell fashion that’s trendy and just got off the catwalk. They have to look at what their customers want. The most people who shop there are people from middle and higher class. They have enough money and are prepared to pay a little bit more for more quality. The female shoppers likes new, trendy clothes all the time. The male shoppers likes to afford buying ...

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