WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS TIME IF KEPT ON BY WAITROSE? * I would like to have been apart and completed Waitrose’s graduate leadership scheme. This is because my skills in business and management will develop majorly and I wish to be a part of Waitrose’s vast and strong reputation. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP? * About 81,000 permanent staff * 288 Waitrose branches * 39 john lewis branches * Annual gross sales of £8.7bn * John spedan lewis set up the partnership * His combination of commercial acumen and corporate conscience, enables the john lewis partnership to be as successful as it is today * Won retailer of the year in 2011 * Waitrose Has a market share of 4.2% * AN EXAMPLE OF EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE * My parents had bought a table from John Lewis * Unfortunately during transit it was damaged * The John lewis delivery team apologised and instantly called their manager to arrange a second delivery for the table.
• The prices are not as low as competitors because its a small, local business with less volume. • No outside management experience is utilized, and St. Marseille's only management knowledge comes from operating a t-shirt business out of their home. • Employees other than family only work for short periods that leads to a high turnover, increasing training costs. • Parking facilities not conducive to customer needs at New Sudbury location. • Current location of South End business up for sale.
Duke Energy is traded on NYSE and DUK, also accumulating $110+ billion in assets. This company is financially stable holding 7.2 million electric customers and 500,000 gas customers. This company is able to keep so stable because of the services they provide. In this generation every person lives off of electric and needs it in their daily lives. They create budget plans for their customers so it can be affordable, and are able to receive the rest of the rest of the full payments at the end of the year.
Answer for Sample Case GreenKeeper Mowers A. Current Marketing Situation: Strengths Weaknesses *Good product *Limited production capacity *Engineering background *Little marketing knowledge *Market research *Environmentally sound *High price needed *Looking for strategy *High cost structure *Partner in manufacturing *Apparently low budget Opportunities: Lawns seem here to stay, so some machine is needed by almost every homeowner. (social and cultural) Baby Boomers, who are the largest group in the population, are reaching the “empty nest” stage of the Family Life Cycle, when they are likely to move to smaller homes. Incomes are near their peak for people in their 40s and 50s. (demographic) People looking for “upscale simplicity” move to small city homes with small lawns.
Students come to ISU because they have a scholarship or because it’s one of the cheapest university’s to attend in the state of Indiana. Indiana State University has a retention rate of 40%. Why is this? Some students transfer to another university because they only attend Indiana State University so they can get their grades up and another reason is, students just drop out because their grades are horrible before they even enter ISU’s campus.Where’s the pride? I have lived in Terre Haute for 23 years and have seen a limited amount of school pride.
In Rotherham’s article he says “According to the Bureau of labor Statistics, in 2010, the median weekly earnings for someone with some college but no degree were $712, compared to $1,038 for a college graduate.”the evidence provided clearly shows that getting a higher education and investing time and money into getting a college degree can result in earning more financially for people to support themselves and their families. The opposing side of this argument might say that “even though begin a college graduate, and having a degree can lead to finding well paying jobs. Graduates are often left drowning in
In 2003 Samsung ranked 25 from number 34, which shows that it was able to compete and be successful in the market with its new products. Samsung’s debt of $15billion in 1997 has been reduced to $4.6 billion by 2002. It was also able to survive in the Asian financial crisis due to its product being different than its competitors. The net profit of $5.9 billion compared to $2.8 billion in
The government want to build 240,000 houses every year until 2016 so that prices do not spiral out of control. 60% of these will target Brownfield sites. 2: the inner city Part of the demand for housing will be satisfied in inner city areas. Successive governments have had a variety of strategies to improve living in inner cities since 1945-most infamously the building of cheap, high-rise blocks of flats in the 1960s and 70s as a ‘quick fix’. Over the years,
Pg 8). However, not all new businesses begin as a start-up, some businesses split off from larger businesses, whilst others begin when two smaller businesses merge into one larger business. As start-ups are in the early stages they represent the greatest potential for growth but they also lack resources to promote stability or rapid expansion at first. According to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)…at the start of 2012 * SME’s (Small and Medium sized enterprises) accounted for 99.9 per cent of all private sector businesses in the UK * SME’s employed 14.1 million people and had a combined turnover of £1,500 billion * Small businesses alone accounted for 47 per cent of private sector employment and 34.4 per cent of turnover. (Federation of Small Business, 2012) The success or failure of these SME’s is often dependent on overcoming a series of barriers including access to finance, business know-how and access to technical support, access to premises and facilities, confidence and support network issues.
According to recent data, 841 different languages are listed for the country, although 11 of these have no known living speakers. There may be at least as many traditional societies, out of a population of about 6.3 million. It is also one of the most rural, as only 18 per cent of its people live in urban centres. The country is one of the world's least explored, culturally and geographically, and many undiscovered species of plants and animals are thought to exist in the interior of Papua New Guinea. Strong growth in Papua New Guinea's mining and resource sector has led to PNG becoming the sixth fastest-growing economy in the world as of 2011.