Btec Business Unit 1 P1

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Unit1 – The Business Environment. P1. MARRIOTT Marriott Hotels and Resorts is an American diversified company that organises a range of hotels and resorts for the customers/tourists across the world, which makes it an international company because it is served worldwide. Today, Marriott has more than 400 hotels in over 50 countries around the world. Marriott is in a tertiary sector of business and is a Public Limited Company which means that it offers shares to the general public and has limited liability. Its stock can be acquired by anyone and holders are only limited to potentially lose the amount paid for the shares. I know this because Marriott has been made for public to make a profit for themselves. Whenever there is an offer, public has to know about it first in order to keep their company going by attracting the public so they can gain more popularity and profit for their company. The company is owned by Bill Marriott and was found by J. Willard Marriot in 1957. Marriott Hotels & Resorts is held by Marriott International. The term usually means that holding companies allows the reduction of risk for the owners and can allow the ownership to grow bigger. This also happens if a company owns enough stock then it will make another sub company to control management and operations its board of directors. This is why Marriott Hotels & Resorts is from Marriott International which owns several other companies. This would also be known as a “Wholly owned subsidiary.” The purpose of Marriott is to get as many customers as possible to make their company in of the leads of world wide. Their business is grounded in 5 core values: ‘Put people first, pursue excellence, embrace change, act with integrity and serve our world. This has been proved by their history of innovation that the fact, Marriott has been at the forefront of
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