Task 1 – Two Businesses on our doorstep Describe the type of business‚ purpose and ownership of two contrasting businesses (P1) ASDA- Type of business‚ purpose and ownership (P1) Business Sector Asda is a British supermarket chain that retails food‚ clothing‚ general merchandise‚ toys and financial services. It also has a mobile telephone network‚ (via the Vodafone Network)‚ Asda Mobile. Its head office is at Asda House in Leeds‚ West Yorkshire. Asda became a subsidiary of the American retail
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When Should Your Business Offer Health Insurance? Since the introduction of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)‚ health insurance has changed drastically. If you operate a business‚ a lot of these changes affect you‚ regardless if you offer health insurance or not. If you are considering offering health insurance to your employees‚ then you should take these changes into account along with other information that may affect your decision. Certain Employers Are Required to Offer Health Insurance Once the
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David Korten’s "When Corporations Rule The World" The book "When corporations Rule the World" by David Korten describes the way things will be in the future with multi-national corporations. These large corporations are found all over the world. There are many different problems that are appearing and many of them can be seen to be connected to corporations. We need to look at what is occurring with corporations and see if they are causing more problems or are helping to solve problems of the
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2.0 The Different Types of Business Activity By the end of this chapter‚ you should be able to: • Classify entities into primary‚ secondary and tertiary sectors • Explain features of public and private business • Understand the different forms of merger and take-over • Compare methods that measures the size of a business Levels of Economic Activity Stage Business Involved Primary Woodcutter Secondary Furniture Makers Tertiary Retailer Example – Stages in the production and sale
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Unit 2: People in business Supervisor – is a higher hierarchical level than the customer or sales assistant. They provide support for the manager by leading a small team within the business as instructed by the store manager. The supervisor has to make sure that the team achieve the targets set for it by the manager. Duties Coordinating and planning staff activities to make sure that all jobs are being carried out so that sales targets are met. Supervising the work of the team members. Dealing
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Managing Business Activities to Achieve Results The 1st assignment – Managing Business Activities to Achieve Results Prepared for: Mr. Martin Ortega (BTEC lecturer) Nguyen Trai University‚ Hanoi Submitted: 10/05/2013 Prepare by: Name: Tran Anh Vu Date of birth: 27/01/1992 Course: 2010 – 2014 Sectors Study: Btec Program Student Code: 1050001027 NAME OF STUDENT TRAN ANH VU REGISTRATION NO. 1050001027 UNIT TITLE Unit 15: Managing Business
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Unit 203 Unit 203- work in a business environment 1.1 describe what is meant by diversity and why it should be valued Diversity can be differences in race‚ heritage‚ customs‚ belief systems‚ physical appearance‚ mental capabilities; etc Diversity should be respected and valued because nobody is completely the same as anyone else‚ even within the categories above. People tend to reject what is different. We must value our diversity in order to work together. 1.2 describe how to treat
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Week 7 Learning Activity 1. Was the relationship among Grace and her sons a partnership for a term or a partnership at will? Grace Tengalhat and her sons‚ Manny and Jason verbally agreed to share the business for five years. “Partnership for a term is a partnership that exists for a specified duration or until a specified event occurs‚” (uslegal.com)‚ since they agreed for five years‚ this is a partnership for term. A partnership at will is when a partnership is made with no fixed term. 2. Did
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Introduction A Strategic Business Unit (SBU) is when a unit comprises one or more products having a common market base whose manager has complete responsibility for integrating all function in to a strategy against an identifiable competitor. An SBU is composed of a product or product lines having identifiable independence from other products or product lines in term of competition‚ prices‚ substitutability of product‚ style/quality‚ and impact of product withdrawal. (Kendrick‚ 2009) Sometimes
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giving it up is extremely needed due to all the negative consequences it brings. Bearing in mind that such point of view is going to cause numerous controversies‚ mainly among the age advanced part of society‚ we still believe that our point of view should see the daylight.
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