Linear Programming.

Linear Programming Our school is planning to introduce house t-shirts for each of the four houses, however, they have set the task of obtaining the t-shirts to each individual house. Our house, Garrett Anderson, has 85 people, and we thought that it would be cheaper to share the price of the t-shirts with another house, Fry. Garrett Anderson t-shirts would be white, the house colour, with the house logo on it, and Fry would be purple, with their house logo on it. Fry need 70 t-shirts. It costs £5 to buy each white t-shirt and an extra £0.75 each t-shirt to be dyed the purple colour. It costs an extra £1.00 to buy a large sized t-shirt, regardless of colour. It is optional for years 11-13 to buy a t-shirt, but if we buy 100+ t-shirts, we receive a 10% discount, but if we buy 150+ t-shirts, we receive a 15% discount. The overall cost would be shared between the two houses. However, I complied a new question, as this did not complete the criteria of the coursework having a profit function and it became quite complicated as Problem Two My house Garrett Anderson needs house t-shirts with the house logo printed on it. Our school has given us £800 to buy them. From a rough count taken during a house meeting, I have found that there are about 3 times as many people needing small t-shirts than big t-shirts, and we would need not more than about 65 large

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Subway Franchise

Table of Contents Introduction 2 .1 Business My Idea 2 .2 My Skills 2 .3 Projects Aims & Objectives 2 .4 Business Aims & Objectives 3 .5 Methodology 4 .6 Mission Statement 5 .7 SWOT 6 .8 PEST-G Analysis 8 .9 Target Audience 11 .10 Business Structure 12 Marketing Mix: 13 .11 Product 13 .12 Place 13 .13 Promotion 13 .14 Product for my business 13 .15 Place for my business 13 .16 Promotion for my business 13 Market Research: 13 .17 Primary Research 13 .18 Secondary Research 17 .19 Sampling 17 .20 Questionnaire graph 17 .21 Results 17 .22 Location 17 .23 Target audience 17 .24 Materials 17 .25 Transportation 17 .26 Communication 17 .27 Labour 17 .28 Image of location 17 .29 Qualitative decisions 17 Finance: 17 .30 Cost of the site 17 .31 Breakeven Graph 17 .32 Cash Flow Forecast 17 .33 Profit and Loss 17 .34 Discussion of Finance 17 .35 Bibliography 17 2 Evaluation 17 3 Appendices A-J 17 Introduction .1 Business My Idea My idea is to set up an established franchise. Thus a Subway Franchise. My decision was based on the idea that there is a gap in the market for this particular business especially in the South Norwood area. The only well known sandwich outlet is Subway and although it is already a well-established brand name, I believe that in the correct location my own store will have the potential to make a lot of profit and survive.

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Tesco - Aims and Objectives

Tesco - Aims and Objectives Introduction The name of the company that I am going to be studying is called Tesco. Tesco is an international franchise. It has its headquarters in Chesunt, but has many stores around the country. These stores are in many cities including Manchester, Birmingham, and London. It has many types of stores and includes Tesco Extra (24 hour), Tesco Metro (located in town centres) and Tesco Express (attached to garages). It sells many things including food and non-food items. These items include: toys, food, drinks, toiletry, CDs, videos, DVDs, books, cosmetics, medicine, tobacco, alcohol, fruits, vegetables, electrical goods, clothes, organic food. The type of ownership that my company has is public limited company. This means it is a large company with many employees. It has shares on the stock exchange and anyone over 18 can invest in a share. This will make anyone who has bought the share a part owner of the joint stock. Tesco mission statement: Tesco is one of Britain's leading food retailers. The company owes its success to its emphasis on meeting changing customer needs through service and innovation, while maintaining its commitment to value and quality. International: Tesco now operates 440 stores in 12 international markets. We employ 326,000 people world-wide, working in 2,318 stores, with total sales of £33.6 billion. Tesco sales by

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Investigating business Resources

UNIT 2 Investigating business resources Wembley stadium I am going to state the reasons why the construction company had so many problems building the Wembley stadium, and what they could have done to make any improvements on their control of costs and budgets. During the construction of the Wembley stadium they had many problems, some of which include: Financial problems including budgeting Time control of construction Arch foundations, lack of planning Workers went on strike during construction When constructing a large commercial building under a deadline date, there must be precise planning for the whole project to finish successfully. A budget will be allocated for the project and a date will be set as a target for when they are planning for finish the construction. The company in charge must be aware of their budgets so that they know when they within the budget that they are allowed to spend. Once they have calculated the money that they are going to receive and the money that it is predicted to cost for them to construct the building, then they can get started with the construction. If they do not make calculations correctly then their figures will be incorrect and they may overspend money that is not theirs. Budgets must be managed during the construction too, because the construction company may overspend without realising that their figures may be wrong.

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Introduction to Tesco.

Case Study: Introduction to Tesco The name of the company that I am going to be studying is called Tesco. It has its headquarters in Chesunt, but has many stores around the country. These stores are in many cities including Manchester, Birmingham, and London. It has many types of stores and includes Tesco Extra (24 hour), Tesco Metro (located in town centres) and Tesco Express (attached to garages). It sells many things including food and non-food items. These items include: toys, food, drinks, toiletry, CDs, videos, DVDs, books, cosmetics, medicine, tobacco, alcohol, fruits, vegetables, electrical goods, clothes, organic food. In Newport there are stores based at Spytty and Maesglas. The type of ownership that my company has is public limited company. This means it is a large company with many employees. It has shares on the stock exchange and anyone over 18 can invest in a share. This will make anyone who has bought the share a part owner of the joint stock company. As Tesco is a joint stock company the shareholders want a good return on their capital and to receive a dividend each year. If the company went bankrupt then the owners would have to pay off all of their debts, this would even mean selling their houses and cars. The main objective of a business is to make a profit. If a business did not make a profit, it could not survive for long as it would be spending

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Market Research

Table of Contents Introduction 2 .1 Business My Idea 2 .2 My Skills 2 .3 Projects Aims & Objectives 2 .4 Business Aims & Objectives 3 .5 Methodology 4 .6 Mission Statement 5 .7 SWOT 6 .8 PEST-G Analysis 8 .9 Target Audience 11 .10 Business Structure 12 Marketing Mix: 13 .11 Product 13 .12 Place 13 .13 Promotion 13 .14 Product for my business 13 .15 Place for my business 13 .16 Promotion for my business 13 Market Research: 13 .17 Primary Research 13 .18 Secondary Research 17 .19 Sampling 17 .20 Questionnaire graph 17 .21 Results 17 .22 Location 17 .23 Target audience 17 .24 Materials 17 .25 Transportation 17 .26 Communication 17 .27 Labour 17 .28 Image of location 17 .29 Qualitative decisions 17 Finance: 17 .30 Cost of the site 17 .31 Breakeven Graph 17 .32 Cash Flow Forecast 17 .33 Profit and Loss 17 .34 Discussion of Finance 17 .35 Bibliography 17 2 Evaluation 17 3 Appendices A-J 17 Introduction .1 Business My Idea My idea is to set up an established franchise. Thus a Subway Franchise. My decision was based on the idea that there is a gap in the market for this particular business especially in the South Norwood area. The only well known sandwich outlet is Subway and although it is already a well-established brand name, I believe that in the correct location my own store will have the potential to make a lot of profit and survive.

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People and business

.0 Introduction The company I have chosen is Stead and Simpsons Plc. Stead and Simpsons has been involved in retail since 1834, this means that this year is their 170th year. Stead and Simpson was a leather merchant and curriers business but soon expanded to include the production of leather and ready-made boots and shoes nationwide. Stead and Simpson moved to the midlands during the late 1840's and established factories in Daventry and Leicester. In the early 1870's Stead and Simpson opened its first retail branches in Carlisle, Whitehaven, South Shields and Sunderland and by 1889 the company had approximately 100 branches, this means that Stead and Simpson grew at a very fast rate. The company stopped manufacturing its own products in 1973 and successfully continued growing the retail stores. It was originally a partnership between Mr Edmund Stead and Mr Edward Simpson. There was a management buyout in 1993. Stead and Simpson is a public limited company, this means you can buy shares on the stock market. The majority of the company is still owned by the ancestors of the original partnership, so is still in the family. Stead and Simpson target market is middle and lower class families, they aim to meet the needs of the average British family, and supply quality shoes at competitively low, affordable prices. Stead and Simpson group caters for a wide variety of customer

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Organisational Structures

Unit 1 Task 2 P3 P4 Most organisations start small and evolve. For example, when a small group of people decide to start a small business, involving 3 or 4 people, they usually each bring a set of skills and a great deal of enthusiasm to the business. There is no need for a formal organisational structure: communications are direct and problems are sorted as they arise. If the business grows the individuals come under more pressure and will possibly consider employing someone. If they do they may encounter small communication problems and the new comer needs to learn about her/his job and is unlikely to be as enthusiastic about work as the owners. If the business continues to grow they will encounter more pressure due to over work which they normally solve by employing more people. This increases communication and management problems. The company may also require more physical resources and eventually it will require more space. If the company moves to larger premises it will need to consider organisation to some extent, this is when organisation structures come in to play. An organisation that evolves can be made effective, providing its management are aware of the situation. Tal l Organisations are structured in a variety of different ways, dependant on their objectives. The structure of an organisation will determine the manner in which it operates and its

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english

Drama work In class we have been studying the theme "keep young and beautiful" in those days women did not have equal rights to men. So as the men went to work and earned their profit for the family the women would stay and home and do their chaos and make-up their selves in order to look pretty for their husbands. Originally in the 1930's "keep young and beautiful" was sang by Al Dublin and Harry warren. In the 1930's The song "keep young and beautiful" was sang ironically because a woman was singing a negative view about women. Women saw this as fun and educational as they agreed with the message and saw it was their job. In the 1990's the song was covered by Annie Lennox in a sarcastic version this was because as women now had equality and could see the patronising and negative messages in the song. At the beginning of the performance we walked onto the back of the stage and were standing in a horizontal line with our backs to the audience in different positions. As we had our backs to the audience we were all in flirtatious positions Gangendeep had her hands holding her hips, I had a glorious smile with my hand just above my head, Nicole also had her hands holding her hips, Dearmett had her hands out with a proud smile like she just got a A* in her GCSE's and Cylen had a cheesy smile standing straight with her lip gloss glowing like stars. For the first verse of

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Types Of Business.

Types Of Business Businesses can be divided into 3 sectors, the private, public and voluntary sector. The voluntary sector covers organisations such as charities and businesses that do not make a profit. People who work for these organisations do not get paid for their work although they do have a total annual income of over £15bn. £4bn of this money comes from private donations, fundraising and charity shops. This money is then used by the charity for things such as medical research. The private sector divides into 3 further parts. These are: * The personal sector * The corporate sector * The financial sector The personal sector makes economic decisions and finds out information about individuals and households such as how much income people earn, how they spend their money and how much they save. All this information directly affects the economy as it generates demand for goods and services. The corporate sector includes businesses privately owned. Almost all businesses are in the private sector except for charities. Finally, the financial sector deals with the financial side of things. This includes financial institutions such as banks and some building societies. Their role is to make and receive payments on behalf of customers as well as acting as the link between those groups that have the money to save and those that need to borrow. Private sector businesses are

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