P4 Unit 2

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P1 In this unit I will be describing sole traders, partnerships, LTD companies and PLC companies. A sole trader is a small business with 2 or 3 members of staff and it is owned by one person. A corner shop is a sole trader as they only have one owner and a small amount of staff. A partnership business owned 2 to 20 people and has unlimited liability. A PLC is a large business like Tesco and their shares are on the stock exchange. LTD companies are large businesses like Harrods and they make more profit and have limited liability. In this task I will be describing two different organisations and I will explain the purpose of the two organisations and there ownership. The 2 organisations I will be using are Barclays bank and Shelter UK. Barclays Barclays started in 1690. It started with John Freame and Thomas Gould and they started trading as goldsmith bankers in London's Lombard Street. In 1736 it became a family business and following Freame’s retirement his son in law becomes a partner and his name was James Barclays and that’s how the name Barclays bank came from. Barclays is a global organisation and they are in the private sector and this sector is very large sector and being in this sector means that the business is for profit. Barclay’s ownership is a PLC company that this means that it is not owned by just one person as in a PLC organisation people can buy shares and this means that people own parts of the business. Therefore Barclays has shares on the London stock exchange for people to buy and it has many owners. Barclay’s aims and objectives are to: * Make sure that make profit- they do this by making customers take out loans, mortgages and giving them a credit card. They make profit mainly from these 3 services because customers pay them back with interest. * To make sure their customers are happy with the products and services
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