Sainsbury’s Background information Sainsbury’s is the UK’s longest standing major food retailing chain which was founded in 1869 being established as a partnership when John Sainsbury’s and his wife opened a store in Holborn, London. Selling fresh foods then later expanding into packaged groceries like tea and sugar. Today Sainsbury’s has 1,200 super markets and convenience stores employing over 161,000 people. Sainsbury’s was the largest grocery retailer in 1922, as 1995 came, Tesco became the market leader and Asda became the second largest putting Sainsbury’s in third place. Ownership Sainsbury’s PLC is a Public limited company which means that they have their shared bought and sold on the stock exchange.
Company Overview Founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1902, The Kroger Co. (NYSE:KR) is one of the world's largest grocery retailers based on annual sales, holding the #23 ranking on the Fortune 100 list with fiscal 2013 sales of $98.4 billion. The Kroger Co. Family of Stores spans many states with store formats that include grocery and multi-department stores, discount, convenience stores and jewelry stores. Food stores are Kroger’s primary business and account for approximately 94% of total company sales. The convenience and jewelry stores and manufacturing facilities contribute the remainder of total sales. Up to September 11, 2014, Kroger has operated 2,638 grocery retail stores in 34 states under nearly two dozen banners.
CVS Caremark Global Expansion to United Kingdom Global Business Management Abstract CVS Corporations was founded by Sid Goldstein, Stanley Goldstein and Ralph Hoagland, May 8, 1963 in Lowell, Massachusetts. In 2007 CVS pharmacy merged with Caremark Rx which created CVS Caremark. CVS Caremark is currently the number two pharmacy store in the United States with revenues exceeded $100 billion dollars and has over 7,400 hundred stores in 42 states. The corporation has been successful for over 40 years in the United States. CVS Caremark is designing a global expansion strategy to target areas that are profitable and promising demographically.
Table of Contents Company Overview…………………………….……………………...3 Financial Statements…………………………………….……………4 Summary of Financial Statements………………………………8 Ratio Calculations…………………………………………………….10 Comparison of Ratios………………………………………...……..11 Discussion of Key Statistics……………………………………….12 Forecast…………………………………………………………………...13 Other Pertinent Information……………………………………..14 Recommendation……………………………………………………..15 Reference Page…………………………………..…………………….16 Company Overview: Publix Super Markets, Inc. is an American supermarket chain. It is the largest and fastest growing employee owned supermarket chain in the United States. Publix is a privately held company with operating stores in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee. Publix was founded by George W. Jenkins in 1930 in Winter Haven, Florida. It has since grown into a Fortune 500 company with more than 1,000 stores.
Staples' European operations consist of nearly 200 retail outlets, under the Staples name in the United Kingdom and Germany and under the name Office Centre in the Netherlands and Portugal. Office Depot, Inc. ranks as the second largest operator of office supplies superstores in the United States, trailing the industry leader Staples, Inc. The company operates about 870 retail stores in 44 states and the District of Columbia, offering a full range of office supplies and office furniture, business machines, computers, and computer software. Most of the stores
Whole Foods and Trader Joes’ are two retailers who have expanded to hundreds of locations while adhering to an unexpected market positioning for previously untargeted market segment. Trader Joes operates over 340 stores in 9 states; Whole Foods has over 200 stores in various states and also has stores in Canada and the United Kingdom. Trader Joes has 14 stores for every 12 Whole Food Store. Whole Foods is decentralized and Trader Joes is
B122 TMA01 Table of Contents Executive summary (inclusive part I)2 Part I2 Part 24 Part I This report aims to look at the retail industry and how it operates. I choose to focus my report on one the country’s largest supermarkets: Tesco. I gathered my information through conducting secondary research, mainly by looking at the website to gain most recent and up to date information. The report found that Tesco uses various methods to ensure customer and employee satisfaction whilst sticking to health and safety regulations. Tesco is one of the UKs largest and well-known supermarkets.
They sell general merchandise, clothes, quality food and finance such as M&S bank. M&S was established at Kirkgate Market, Leeds in 1884, it has grown from a single market stall to being a Public Limited Company (plc). It is listed on the London Stock Exchange is included in the FTSE 100 Index (list of top performing 100 companies) and has Group revenue of £10.3bn. Their UK turnover is split between Food (55%) and General Merchandise (45%). M&S has stores all over the world and their largest presence is within the UK with 798 stores and 455 international stores and they employ around 86,000 employees globally.
cASE STUDY Safeway Top NorTh AmEricAN rETAilEr cENTrAlizES TrANSporTATioN mANAgEmENT AND AppoiNTmENT SchEDUliNg AND SAvES Safeway Key Statistics • ranks 55 in Fortune 500 and is part of the S&p 500 • Top Five North American Food retailer • Deployed one Network Transportation and Appointment Scheduling solutions in less than 3 months • centralized transportation and appointment scheduling processes • Delivered a single systemic platform across manufacturing and retail Transportation operations • reduced scheduling overhead by 90% for many americans, “going to Safeway” is synonymous with “going to the grocery store.” Safeway is one of North america’s largest food retailers, with about 1,740 stores located mostly in industry Grocery Retail Annual Sales $42 Billion the western, midwestern, and mid-atlantic regions of the US, as well as western Canada. It also operates regional supermarket companies, including The Vons Companies (primarily in Southern California), Dominick’s finer foods (Chicago), Carr-Gottstein foods (alaska’s largest retailer), Genuardi’s family Markets (eastern US), and Randall’s food Markets (Texas). It also owns eretailer Groceryworks.com. Outside of the US, Safeway owns 49% of Casa Ley, which operates about 135 food and variety stores in western Mexico. Demand Driven Networks | One Network Enterprises cASE STUDY Safeway Top Competitors • Kroger • SUpErvAlU • Wal-mart Ultimately the process resulted in: • A centralized transportation process, however a decentralized scheduling process resulting in 5 dedicated schedulers (one for each warehouse) across each of Safeway’s 16 facilities.
Including: foods, beverages, cleaning agent and personal care products. - Unilever owns over 400 brands, its 25 largest brands account for over 70% of total sale. - Unilever is houlding 2 company include Unilever N.V., based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Unilever PLC, based in London, United Kingdom. Both companies have the same directors and they operate as a single business. Unilever PLC has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.