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Timber World
Timer World is in the Primary sector and the Secondary Sector and the Tertiary Sector because they cut down trees and turns them into useful wood such as furniture or decking or into paper. It is a private business because they keep the profit to themselves and the government has no say in it at all. They are also in the Tertiary Sector because they provide services. Their main business activity categories are: -
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JJB Sports
JJB Sports is in the Secondary and Tertiary sector because they manufacture goods and they sell products brought from suppliers to customers and also provide services such as exchanges, after sales services and repairs etc. The business is private. The main business activities are: -
Football & Replica
Rugby
Footwear
Clothing
Cricket
Golf
Bikes
Sports Equipment
Fitness Accessories
Fitness Equipment
Outdoor
JJB Team wear
Sports Centre and Gym
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Tesco
Tesco are in the Secondary and the Tertiary Sector because they manufacture goods such as domestic products, groceries, and drinks etc. They also provide services such as repairs, delivery, and exchanges etc. Tesco is a Public Limited Company. The main business activities are: -
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Boot’s Main Activities
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Delivery, Exchange, Refunds, Product Replacement, Insurance, Warranty, Boots Option, Pharmacy, Gift card, Photo Printing.
Boots main business and Key Goal
Boots manufacture and sell beauty and skin care products. They focus on two core businesses – Boots the Chemists Ltd and Boots Healthcare International. Their key business goal is to be the place for health and beauty customers. They want to secure leadership in the U.K and build on our brands growing success internationally.
Sector, Size, and Scale of business
Boots is in the Secondary and Tertiary sector. They manufacture goods such as perfumes, deodorant, and shampoo etc. They also provide different services such as refunds, exchanges, delivery etc. Boots is a huge business. It has over 175,000 registered patients for Boots Dental Care and has over 54 practices nationwide. There are over 80,000 registered patients for Boots Foot Care. Overall the Boots website receives almost 600,000 visitors to the site and is the U.K’s 10th busiest retail website. Boot’s is a PLC, which means a company, which may have an unlimited number of shareholders and offer its shares to the wider public.
The company must have a minimum share value of £55,000. Some PLCs are listed on the London Stock Exchange.
The aims and objectives of Boots
Boots Healthcare International’s aims are to become a top 10 global players in “Over the Counter Healthcare’ by developing 6 to 8 leading consumer healthcare brands. The company sells products in over 130 countries. They also aim to become the place for Beauty and Healthcare. They want to secure market leadership in the UK and build on their brands' growing success internationally. They have focused the organisation on that twofold goal. They now have two core businesses - Boots the Chemical Ltd and Boots Healthcare International.
Boot’s Main Activities as an Organisation & How It Helps to Achieve Aims and Objectives
Boots develops, manufactures and markets products, both to the UK and to a larger worldwide customer base. Its ability to develop powerful own brand and exclusive ranges sets it apart from competitors and gives its customers compelling reasons to come to Boots. Boot’s main activities all work together to help it achieve their aims and objectives, they do this by: -
- The Health, Beauty, Men’s, Premium Beauty, and Baby sections help them achieve one of their main and most important aims of all – to be placed in the top 10 Global Players in ‘Over the Counter Healthcare’. They wanted do this by developing 6 to 8 leading consumer healthcare brands.
- The company sells product to over 130 countries, and without delivery service that wouldn’t be possible to achieve another important aim – to become the place for Beauty and Healthcare.
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- Land, Buildings and Location
- People
- Planet/ Equipment or access to facilities
- Financial
- Business Skills
Land, Building and Location
Boots has over 250 stores nationwide, with a total 2,726.900 sq ft of selling space. All buildings are decent size. There are buildings in every major cities and towns. There are over 17 service centres and 12 delivery platforms & 3 integrated home delivery/service platforms
People
Boots has roughly 100,000 employees working for them. They have different types of customers that consume products from Boots. Boots has suppliers that deliver goods to them regularly.
Equipment
Boots acquires the following equipments: -
- Tills
- Shelves
- Forklift
- Display Units
- Store Room
Financial
Business Skills
Boots professional and business skills abilities are excellent, their finance and I.T. department work together to produce the results that boots now are receiving. In 1991 boots established the ‘Boots Contract Manufacturing and Boots Healthcare International and the following year the installation of computers was completed in all stores. In 1997 – 1998 boots opened stores in Holland, Thailand and joined Mitsubishi to open stores in Japan.
Boot’s management processes that it uses to control its resources and to achieve its aims and objectives are divided into 5 main departments.
- Finance – It’s made up of two teams, Finance and IT. Finance is responsible for a variety of administrative functions for Boots. Accounting is carried out in the department too, including payment of all invoices and the receipt of all monies. The financial records of all departments are complied by the finance department and are separate from each other.
- Marketing Department – It raises funds to pay for work, raises public profile, holds high profile events.
- Distribution Department – Its main task is to ensure that all the goods produced or stocked are delivered to the right place on time and in the right condition.
- IT Department – The department may also be known as IT services or IT support, because as well as being responsible for obtaining and installing IT systems in the business, a key role in supporting users and maintaining the system.
- Sales Department – It’s a crucial function for all the businesses. This is basically everything gets sold and managed into categories. Boots has sales targets, and meeting these targets is the responsibility of sales staff or sales team.
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Targets Set By Organisation
Boots may set different targets for employees, such as: -
- Amount of Products – The organisation may want x amount of products and they will set targets for staff to follow to ensure that the objectives are met.
- Human Resources – Boots may want staff to recruit new employees for a new departments or section of the business that is in development. They would set a target for this and is to be met within a certain deadline.
- Financial – Boots may want to spend money on a certain section where facilities or software may need improving e.g. improving computer usage in stores. They would want staff to come up with a budget and a plan so that the organisation knows how much the initial cost will be.
Performance Monitoring
Boot’s staffs monitor the businesses performance by setting out an agenda to everybody that’s concerned with an appraisal. This is where a meeting takes place between the people that are concerned and the issues regarding are asked. The results are recorded and then are analyzed. Other methods of getting results are from meetings, interviews and questionnaires. These methods often get quicker responses but may not always be accurate than the appraisal is.
One aim that helps Boots to meet their aim and objective is Boots aims to be the place for health and beauty customers.
Sales and Production
The sales department help the aim because the department create the products that help achieve the goal, without the product the business would not achieve what it has now.
Sales and Finance
This department will fund money for the products to be produced, without the money the business would go bankrupt and wouldn’t be able to achieve the goal that they want.
Distribution and Finance
This department help to send products from the warehouses and deliver them to the shop or stores. This is a key department because if they didn’t make deliveries on time and keep the stores stocked they would loose out on customers and the sales that they need to achieve the aims and objectives.
