the opportunity of work experience to a range of people including the young unemployed‚ people with disabilities‚ the homeless‚ parents returning to work‚ students who are the first in their families to aim for higher education and school students. The company Marks & Spencer (M&S) is one of the UK’s leading retailers of clothing‚ food‚ home products and financial services. Ten million people shop each week in over 375 M&S stores in the UK. In addition M&S has 155 stores managed under franchise
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changes have once again disrupted stability. In July 2012‚ M&S announced widespread changes across the company‚ including a new head of general merchandise‚ style director and a new head of food. A number of external and internal factors explain these changes. External Factors Consumer spending & Competition External factors can be described as things affecting the company beyond its control. Firstly‚ the retail industry in which M&S operates has weakened as a result of low consumer spending
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168724279835390946502057613169 m/s = 48 km/h 2. The coordinate of an object is given as a function of time by x = 7t – 3t2‚ where x is in meters and t is in seconds. Its average velocity over the interval from t = 0 to t = 2 s is: A) 5 m/s B) –5 m/s C) 11 m/s D) –11 m/s E) –14.5 m/s vt= 7-6t = 7-12=-5 m/s 3. The coordinate of a particle in meters is given by x(t) = 16t – 3.0t3‚ where the time t is in seconds. The particle is momentarily at rest at t = A) 0.75 s B) 1.3 s C) 5.3 s D) 7.3 s E)
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SWOT analysis The strengths and weaknesses of a SWOT analysis focus on the current market position of a business in relation to its: • Customers – is the business meeting the needs of its target markets • Competitors- is the business offering a better way of meeting customer needs compared with its competitors • Internal resources- is the business making effective use of its internal resources to meet customer needs and deal with competition The opportunities and threats
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Order-winners and order qualifiers and its use in the establishment of the relative importance of certain performance objectives. Order winner and order qualifier are criteria defined by managers within their operation strategy plan to gain competitive advantage in the market. These terminologies were first introduced by Professor Terry Hill‚ at The London business school (Encyclopedia of Business‚ 2nd Ed.) and ever since it’s been used as a measuring tool to assure managers about their product
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PRODUCTS The Mac product range currently consists of: • • • a) Desktops – iMac‚ Mini and Mac Pro Portables – MacBook‚ MacBook Pro and MacBook Air Servers – Xserve Product nature The first question to ask is‚ what is the nature of the products that Apple designs‚ manufactures and sells? Its products involve the following key characteristics: • High-specification standard products – there is very little choice and models are continually discontinued to ensure the range does not proliferate (see
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M&S (A) Marks & Spencer (known as M&S) is a famous British retail chain selling clothes‚ food‚ household goods and furniture from over 450 shops in the UK and some 200 managed under franchise in 30 territories mostly in Europe‚ the Middle East‚ Asia and the Far East as well as wholly-owned stores in the Republic of Ireland and Hong Kong. In 2007 it had a turnover of over £7 billion and employed over 70‚000 people. M&S’s origins come from a chain of ‘penny bazaars’ (market stalls selling everything
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buying office make the design for marks and spencer that they think will work very well in store. When it’s done and everyone agrees with the design‚ the design is sent over to China. In China‚ they make the design which they think will fit the sizing ranges‚ then its sent back to head office. At Head Office they fit the Top to a model and make sure all sizing is right. The top is then sent back to China where they modify all the changes that were made in the Head office. Then the changes are sealed and
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Report on M&S and River Island. Name - Jain Akshay Kumar Ganpatlal Student Id - 4691888. Module name -Business Management and Decision-Making Process Module code - 206LON. Module teachers – Sunny Ramsurrun Date of submission - 07-04-2013. Word count – 2500 words. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) executive summary 3 2) introduction 3 3) COMPANY PROFILE OF marks & spencer…………4 4) COMPANY PROFILE Of RiVER ISLAND………………..4 5) swot analysis……………………………………………5 6) Management OF M&S AND RIVER
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and Spencer’s is a multinational chain of department stores‚ which sell a wide range women’s‚ men’s and children’s clothing and footwear‚ gifts‚ home furnishings‚ beauty products‚ financial services and food‚ all exclusive to Marks and Spencer’s. It is a successful company that has 375 stores in 29 countries worldwide and over 10million shoppers a week. As well as owning the US supermarket group "Kings Supermarkets" M&S website The company has expanded both vertically and conglomerately. Looking
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