SM ASS01 GROUP PRESENTATION BACKGROUND OF THE COMPANY Brief history of the company Est. Sydney 1924. Financial position: revenue and profitability Reporting sales of 47.06 billion in 2007/08 financial year Market position: growth‚ share‚ competitors 31% market share‚ 10.7% growth. Activities in food‚ liquor‚ petrol‚ consumer electronics‚ general merchandise‚ retailing through chain store operations‚ together with hotel‚ gaming and entertainment operations (data analysis‚
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Introduction Woolworths Limited is a retail company made up of a range of businesses that provide customers with quality‚ range and value. This report focuses on two parts‚ Woolworths Ltd Strategic analysis and strategic review in order to provide advise to the Board and Senior Management of Woolworths to obtain a higher achievement in 2012. In the first part‚ the report demonstrates analyzing the business environment by SWOT analysis‚ key capabilities‚ major stakeholder interests and identification
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Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Defining Sustainability 2 What Sustainability means to Woolworths 3 Corporate Stakeholders of Woolworths 3 Woolworths Drive for Change 5 Integrated Reporting 6 Why Integrated Reporting? 6 Woolworths Integrated Reporting 7 The Future of Integrated Reporting 7 Conclusion 8 Word Count: 1995 Executive Summary This report examines the new world of sustainability reporting‚ and the complex web of stakeholders. It focuses particularly on the
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Woolworths Case Analysis Wandeli Loubser 15301648 BACKGROUND OF WOOLWORTHS Woolworths began life in what had been the dining room of the old Royal Hotel in Cape Town on a sunny October morning in 1931 as a clothing store and was founded by Max Sonnenberg. In 1934 Woolworths opened a second branch in Durban‚ followed in 1935 by branches in Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. Shareholders who bought Woolworths stock in 1936 at 75c a share would have seen that stock grow to many‚ many times its original
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my own‚ such as browsing the internet for secondary data such as articles about fruit and vegetable consumption and levels of health awareness. I would also gather exploratory research by visiting the fruit and vegetable section of a few of the Woolworths branches to notice what fruit and vegetables were the most empty‚ and therefore had been purchased the most. While I was in the store I would also conduct some primary research by method of observation‚ whereby I would observe consumers reactions
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Carbon Footprint: Carbon footprint means the total emitted greenhouse gas specially carbon by any organisation‚ event product or person. Woolworths is one of the largest company of Australia and despite this company trying to reduce their carbon production but still it producing heaps carbon.. (http://www.carbonfootprint.com/carbonfootprint.html) Measurement process: Using trees to offset carbon (tree planting) Why company should measure carbon footprint: * Demonstrate companies environmental
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Osama Bin Laden Term Paper 1. What details of the events has each writer selected to focus on? New York Times-the writer choose to be a descriptive writer by mainly going to details about the topic and vivid events which took place on 9/11‚its relation to Osama Bin laden. They captured topics such how the president and his advisers plot with kill and stop the terrorist acts of bin laden. The Post-they focus mainly on the death of Osama Bin Laden and what was going on in America
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Is Woolworths diluting its value proposition by dropping prices and increasing the product range? • No‚ Woolworths is not diluting its value proposition by dropping prices and increasing the product range. • Own-brand products bring great value and perceived quality‚ synonymous with the Woolworths brand. • Reduced input costs do not result in a product quality alteration and therefore I suggest that no negative impact exists. • Reduced pricing to remain competitive during tough economic conditions
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what they produce and how they use resources at their disposal to do so. In this sense we may distinguish between the positional perspective‚ developed by Michael Porter‚ according to which achieving competitive advantage is the result of exploitation of imperfections in the market‚ the resource based perspective‚ which states that competitive advantage lies in the ownership of valuable resources‚ and the dynamic capabilities view‚ which follows the resource based view but also adds the dimension of
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COVER PAGE MARKETING PLAN FOR WOOLWORTH FOR ONE YEAR PERIOD NAME | STUDENT NUMBER | ESAN BABATUNDE VICTOR | 21347348 | AFOLABI JOHN OLUWASEUN | 21336715 | ZAKHELE DERRICK NDHLOVU | 21130575 | MAJOR LINDA MDAKANE | 20503699 |
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