responsibility is when a business owes a duty towards the community as well as the environment. Businesses such as Coles and Woolworths take an individualism view in which they only care about their long term self - interest e.g. profits and sadly neglect their suppliers. Factors influencing ethical behaviour include: the person‚ organisation and the environment. Woolworths is focused on brand and loyalty while Coles are focused on increasing basket size. Although
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Q2 As we all know Woolworths is one of Australia’s largest supermarket operators. Woolworths supermarkets are everywhere in Australia. Is no exaggeration to say that more than half of Australian’s daily life cannot be separated from Woolworths. Every day people buy a lot of goods from Woolworths‚ such as food and other daily necessities. Woolworths is committed to providing better goods and services to consumers. Nevertheless‚ the customer still needs some other protective. Therefore I think the
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Intangible Assets: An intangible asset‚ despite not having a physical form to it‚ has great value to a company and is to be disclosed in the financial reports. Some companies only disclose the brand and goodwill as their only intangible assets‚ while others include more such as software and the company trademarks (Loftus et al. 2012). The Accounting Standard AASB 138 advises businesses on the accounting treatment of these intangible assets‚ but only if the specific criteria have been met for an
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Description of how Woolworths manages quality and determine how effective Woolworths is at managing quality. Under the strategic objective of protecting customer trust‚ Woolworths has a defined policy that applies to all its business units to ensure quality is maintained at the highest level and is consequently a positive reflection of the overall Woolworths brand. This policy is entitled ‘Woolworths Quality Assurance Standard “protecting customer trust”‚ version 6 June 2009’. Woolworths has identified
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Section A Question 1 1.1 There are six components of the macro environment: 1. Political environment 2. Economic environment 3. Social environment 4. Technological environment 5. Legal environment 6. Environmental environment The above components have affected Johnson Matthey as follows: 1.1.1 Political environmental factors Johnson Matthey is a globally operated organisation‚ having operations in more than 30 countries. Therefore alterations in the laws and taxes in the countries
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study attempts to research and analyze both second hand literature as well as first hand observation. The report also plans to discuss the effects of retail image‚ personality and brand and their interrelations between the supermarkets‚ Coles and Woolworths in particular at the Westfield Kotara site. 2. Literature Review: Dong-Mo Koo’s study “Interrelationships among Store Images‚ Store Satisfaction‚ and Store Loyalty among Korea Discount Retail Patrons” analyses the concept how various discount
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References: Fredendall‚ L. & Hill‚ E. 2001‚ ‘Basics of Supply Chain Management’‚ CRC Press LLC‚ Florida. Rossi‚ S. 2007‚ ‘Woolworths awards suppliers in supply chain project’‚ no. 1‚ pg 5‚ EBCOhost‚ AN 24056925‚ viewed 18 October 2009.
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It is clear that George feels Kates love and in the brief moments he spend with her his anger melts away and he allows himself to be cared for. However‚ though Kates maternal nature is undeniabely a strenght‚ it has led to one of her greatest weaknesses - self-deception. Kates obsession to keep Larry alive is pitiful‚ and has brought her character to a state of emotional instability‚ an incrediable weakness. Her emotional vanuralibility is presented to the audience through what we are told by other
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of customer throughout 2‚ 900 stores‚ The Coles Group certainly be one of the top companies in Australia and New Zealand. However‚ it has lost its market share to the more enhanced and focused Woolworths company. The loyalty program battleground between two companies seemed more advantages over the Woolworths side since it gained 40% of market share with less on 50% advertising spending. There are some possible problems the Coles Group has to consider while managing its broad relationship marketing
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Business 22743 BUSINESS VALUATION AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Group Assignment OCTOBER SESSION Report to: PROFESSOR ZOLTAN MATOLSCY Case Study: Woolworths Prepared by: Student Name Student Identification Brent HENLEY 10388039 Peter HOWE 02130033 Christian ORITZ 03005802 Zhiming YE 10669428 ASSIGNMENT DUE 21 October 2009 Table of Contents Woolworths Limited: Case Study 3 Executive Summary 3 Restating Financial Statements 3 Industry and Business Strategy Analysis 4 1. Industry Analysis 4 2
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