UK: Primark cuts three suppliers following child labour claims A News item from Business Respect‚ Issue Number 130‚ dated 17 Jun 2008 UK clothing retailer Primark has ended its contracts with three suppliers in India following allegations channelled through a BBC documentary that they used child labour to finish garments with embroidery and sequin work. The company said that the work had been improperly sub-contracted against the company’s code of conduct‚ and it had taken action accordingly
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PESTLE Analysis Political ITC faces stiff restrictions from the government on its tobacco business because of the nature of the product. Discriminatory central taxes are levied on the cigarettes. This has been worsened by the rise in VAT notwithstanding the fact that only 5.7% of all adults smoke cigarettes while almost 35% adults consume tobacco. The per- capita consumption of cigarettes in India is among the lowest in the world while tax per 1000 cigarettes as a percentage of per capita GDP
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environmental factors affecting the organization 2. The important factors relevant in the present context and in the years to come. Please see Table 4.1 with the summarized key Macro Environment analysis Table 4.1 General Environment Analysis PESTLE elements | Description of framework elements | Identification of opportunities (O) and threats (T) | Political | * Government stability * Political values and beliefs shaping policies * Regulations towards trade and global business *
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MIS REPORT ON IMTIAZ SUPER STORE Back in the early 1960s‚ Hakim Khan Abbasi opened up a general store in Karachi’s Bahadurabad neighbourhood. He named the shop after his son‚ Imtiaz and always focused on establishing strong relationships with customers. Since that time‚ the neighbourhood store has been expanding into a retail chain that operates multiple outlets throughout the port city. Imtiaz Abbasi‚ the son after whom the store has been named and who took the reins of the Company from his
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Analysis Report: Canada‚ In-depth PESTLE Insights OVERVIEW REFERENCE CODE: ML00002-006 PUBLICATION DATE: Aug 2012 WWW.MARKETLINEINFO.COM © MARKETLINE. THIS PROFILE IS A LICENSED PRODUCT AND IS NOT TO BE PHOTOCOPIED Country Analysis Report: Canada‚ In-depth PESTLE Insights ML00002-006 © MARKETLINE THIS PROFILE IS A LICENSED PRODUCT AND IS NOT TO BE PHOTOCOPIED OVERVIEW OVERVIEW Catalyst This profile analyzes the political‚ economic‚ social‚ technological‚ legal‚ and environmental (PESTLE) structure
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PESTLE Analysis Political Factors “A Healthier You” Government Strategy Reporting of organic prices. Safety Inspections Services. Evaluation: POSITIVE impact Economic Factors GDP: ↑ 3.9% in the 3rd qtr Real Personal Consumption expenditures ↑3.0% in 3rd qtr Disposable Personal Income ↑ 6.1 % in the 3rd qtr US Business Cycle: At “slump”/ Wages/Labour European Markets: Weak dollar against Euro‚ Surging Energy Prices‚ Increasing Interest Rates Evaluation: MODERATE impact PESTLE
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design and an agile response to the market demands have resulted in fast international expansion and a warm welcome of the business concept on behalf of the public. Inditex is present in 77 countries with stores of its nine different brands. The group’s most renowned brand alone‚ Zara‚ has over 1600 stores around the globe (Inditex‚ N.D.a). Inditex is the only clothing company in the international field with its own manufacturing process. The supply of raw materials‚ the distribution process and the
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Abstract This paper appraised business external and internal environments‚ with specific reference to the Nigerian business environment. The methodology adopted is basically theoretical and narrative based on aggregative and specific SWOT Matrix and PESTLE Analysis models‚ respectively‚ from previous studies. A review of related literature and exploration of theoretical framework provided more insight into the various factors of the environments of business. The appraisal showed that both external and
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Corporate Social Responsibility - Primark Primark’s products are mainly sourced from suppliers in Europe and Asia. Its key sourcing countries are China‚ India‚ Bangladesh and Turkey. Primark has initiated a programme of activities which supports its corporate social responsibility (CSR) stance and ensures that its trading meets the company’s values and ethical standards. Corporate social responsibility represents the responsibility that a business has towards all its stakeholders‚ not just
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C (1996) Organisations and the psychological contract; The British psychology society‚ Leicester McFarlane Shore‚ L Wiley and Sons Rousseau‚ D.M (2000) www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rousseau/0_reports/PCI.pdf Psychological contract inventory‚ Technical report Sims‚ R. R. (1994) Human Resource Management ’s Role in clarifying the new psychological contract‚ Human Resource Management‚ 33(3)‚ Fall‚ pp 373-82. Spindler‚G. S. (1994) Psychological contracts in the work place: a lawyers view‚ Human Resource
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