Online business case studies - JDsports, ASDA and Subway

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Leslie Ngwenya

Unit 8 doing business online

The three businesses because I have chosen are:

  • JDsports                                                      website: Jdsports.co.uk
  • ASDA                                                          website: asda.co.uk
  • Subway                                                       website: subway.co.uk  

ASDA is Britain’s best value retailer; it became part of the Wal-Mart family in June 1999. ASDA was formed by a group of farmers from Yorkshire and now has 321 stores and 29 depots across the UK.ASDA have over 300 stores and 148,000 colleagues nationwide. ASDA isn’t run for profit. ASDA has two charity voluntary organisations, which are  

National Blood Service

  • ASDA went into partnership with the National Blood Service in 2004 which coincided with Worldwide Blood Day. Since then stores have been arranging blood donor days for colleagues and customers in the bloodmobile in ASDA car parks.
  • Being a blood donor is a valuable service to the community and helps to save lives. Each day 10,000 donations of blood are needed nationally to meet hospital demand and currently only 6% of the eligible population donate. Blood donations help save lives in surgery, road traffic accidents, and treat cancer patients and burns victims.

ASDA Foundation

ASDA has their own charity foundation. Established in 1988 and managed by the Administrator and Board of Trustees, the Foundation helps them to support the good causes we become involved with, whether that's through actual fundraising or simply rolling up our sleeves and helping out.

At ASDA they believe in fundraising and their stores and depots play active rolls in their local community, supporting many charities and local good causes. 

Join now!

This is their online website above which is called . It is aimed to all ages because it has a range of goods such as toys and furniture. Their website is easy to access because a variety of items are broken down to sub-titles i.e. Furniture, Entertainment and more. The website also gives you all the information about ASDA i.e. when it was founded and how many shops they gave and will have in the future. The website makes it easy for the people shop and they don’t any waste petrol going to collect the stuff because it is ...

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