TESCO PLC
Tesco plc. (Public limited company) is a global grocery and general merchandise retailer, headquartered in Cheshunt in the United Kingdom. Tesco is the third largest retailer in the world, measured by revenues and the second largest, measured by profit. Tesco has around 5380 stores around the world; David Reid is the chairman and Philip Clarke.
Most of the people think that Tesco is an international business however; Tesco is defined as a global business because as mentioned before, it has a large number of stores in 14 countries across Asia, Europe and North America.
Tesco is in the tertiary sector and is the leader grocery market leader in the UK; it has a market share of 30%. It also is the market leader in Malaysia, Republic of Ireland and Thailand.
Tesco’s ownership is based in a lot of shareholders.
Dagenham Park Leisure Centre
Dagenham Park Leisure Centre is a public organisation, which means that is own by the government, in this case Barking & Dagenham council. As we can see from the name it is located in Dagenham and it’s a local organisation and is part of the tertiary sector. The main purpose of this organisation is to offer the local community facilities such as a fitness suite, a dance studio, a meeting room, a sports hall, a climbing wall and much more facilities so people can practice different types of sports, dance and even hire rooms to organise meetings. 2. Describe the different stakeholders who influence the purpose of these contrasting organisations.
TESCO PLC
In Tesco we can identify different stakeholders such as investors/shareholders (owners), customers, employees, suppliers and financiers.
Investors/shareholders are very important stakeholders in Tesco as they are the owners and will obviously want it to do well because otherwise they will not make a profit. Without investors/shareholders there wouldn’t be any funds, so