Analysis of Tesco Website and Finances

Analysis of Tesco Website and Finances Introduction: In this task I am looking at three different methods of appropriate to the users needs of Tesco. The three methods I be doing is a report of the Tescos business e.g. finance, chart of showing the financial report and a web page. I also be producing a corporation communications e.g. poster. Then I also am evaluating the external corporate communication of an existing product or service. In the last, I will be evaluating the effectiveness of business information and its communication as key contributors to the success of an organisation, using examples to illustrate your point which will cover P1,P2 and P3.          Report: Tesco Internal results 2014/2015: For the UK like-for-like sales it had decreased by 4.6%, which was impacted by the strong competition by its rivals across the grocery market, there was headwinds such as price cuts and fewer untargeted promotions. Tesco had an  £0.9bn Group trading profit with a year-on-year decline which reflected the challenges of its UK business. Tesco had its Total UK online sales raised to 11%; with like-for-like sales growth of +0.8% in UK convenience stores. The Interim dividend was at 1.16p as previously announced; with full-year capital expenditure reduced to  £2.1bn. The New Executive team in place was reviewing all strategic options to create a greater shareholder value. Preliminary results 13/14: Tesco has had an  £3.3bn trading profit year-on-year decline which they must reflects the challenges of its operations in UK and Europe. For the final dividend it was maintained at 10.13p, which has given them a full-year dividend of 14.76p. Moreover the UK sales exc. petrol had risen by +0.8%, which had a lower net new space contribution than previously planned. There has been strong UK growth in the online grocery department by +11% and its Express LFL had risen by+1.1%. Moreover, in the UK LFL inc. VAT, exc. petrol was reduced by 1.3% as this was caused by the transformation of the general merchandise which means it was made weaker and has an highly increasing competitive grocery market in the second half. There has been near 300 UK stores which has been refreshed this year with the typical sales uplift in the range 3% +5%. Also there has been ongoing multichannel focus with grocery home shopping launched in five countries around the globe. There has been a consistent approach to capital discipline, returns and cash. Internal results 13/14: There was a  £1.6bn trading profit which means that there was good progress in the UK and its operations across Europe. Moreover, the interim dividend was maintained at 4.63p and the UK sales exc. petrol had risen by +1.7%, which had lower net new space contribution than previously planned. The Sales was supported by strong growth in the online grocery department which was +13% in the UK and also +54% overseas. Also, UK Food LFL had improved by +1.0% in Q2; the UK trading margin remained stable at 5.2%. Furthermore, the total UK LFL was decreased by the initial work for the transformation of the general merchandise business, with it being ahead of the intended migration to higher margin, with higher-growth categories. Additionally, average large-store refreshes there had been a sales uplift from the range 3%-5%, which had improved margin. For the Q2 UK Clothing it had a sales grow th of +8.6%. The United States Strategic review concluded with the sale of the Fresh Easy to Yucaipa there had been a Partnership formed with CRE which had given Tesco a 20% stake in Chinas leading food retailer. There has been a consistent approach to its future growth, capital discipline, returns and cash. For the preliminary results 12/13: there was an  £3.5bn trading profit which its year by year performance largely reflected the reinvestment for the UK. Also its final dividend was maintained at 10.13p, which gave a full-year dividend of 14.76p. It had good progress in the UK, which delivered improved results for its customers and for Tesco. The report showed a strong online performance: with the Group sales doing especially well as it made over  £3bn for the first time which had risen by 13%. There was confirming exit from the United States which its process was well-advanced. For the F+F brand clothing its sales were now over  £1bn in the UK alone, which had +9% LFL sales growth. This shows that the company has a clear approach on its future growth, the capital expenditure, also the returns and cash, providing highly intended clarity for its shareholders. The Internal results 12/13: it had Group sales which had risen by 1.4% to  £36.0bn (which was up by 3.2% at constant ra tes); the Group sales exc. petrol has risen to 1.6% with an increased 3.7% at constant rates. Moreover for the statutory profit before tax has decreased at 11.6 % to  £1.7bn; there has been an underlying profit before the tax which has been decreased to 8.5% to  £1.8bn. Furthermore, for the group trading profit which made  £1.6bn, this has decreased by 10.5% and in the UK has been decreased by 12.4% to  £1.1bn; with its International operations also decreasing by 17.1% to  £0.4bn; there has been an amazing report with the Tesco Bank as this was has done the most successful which has raised by 114% to  £94m. Additionally, the report also says the underlying diluted eps reduction which was at 7.9% and the interim dividend per share was maintained at 4.63p. Also the group capital expenditure had been brought down from  £2.1bn to  £1.6bn which is a  £500 million drop; which will mean that it is on track for a full year reduction to  £3.2bn. Preliminary results 11/12: For the Group sales it has risen 7.4% to  £72.0bn, which was up 5.9% exc. petrol. Also the Statutory profit before tax had risen by 5.3% to  £3.8bn; there has been an underlying profit before tax up 1.6% to  £3.9bn. For the Group trading profit it has risen by 1.3% to  £3.8bn; Also the UK was down by 1 % to  £2.5bn; with International up by an amazing 17.7% to  £1.1bn. Also the Underlying diluted EPS growth of 2.1%; which the dividend per share growth was 2.1%. There have been results in line with the latest market consensus. It has had an increase in return on the capital employed to 13.3%; In the year 2014/15, 14.6% target was maintained. The financial strategy has put increased focus on them delivering a sustainable business growth, improving returns and higher level of cash generation. Also there has been reducing Group capital expenditure from  £3.8bn in 2011/12 to  £3.3bn in 2012/13. References: http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=864, http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=732, http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=676, http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=538, http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=261, http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=163 The report is for the shareholders of the business because they want to know that whats happening in the business, if the business is making profit or loses. The purpose of this information is to update knowledge of the shareholders. Finance statistics: Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Profit ( £ millions) 62,537 67,074 71,402 70,712 70,894 The audience of this information is the shareholders and the people who want to buy the shares of Tescos because the information shows how the business is doing in terms of profits, which will help the shareholder update knowledge about the business. Web page: Tescos web page contains lot of feature for example they have navigation bar and search bar which helps the customer to get straight to what they are looking for e.g. Tesco direct, club card. They also advertise their own food by using Tesco products and make videos of that which they upload on YouTube and give link on to their web page as you can see. They also have slideshow, pictures; offers to engage with customers, so they buy the products from Tesco and to show what offers and new products are coming. The audience of this information is the customers who more often shop online because they busy or dont have time to visit and buy from the stores. The purpose of this information is to keep their customers buying Tescos products even seating at home and get their online shopping delivered to their house. Which makes the customer happy and saves they time. P4 Evaluation of an external corporative communications of an existing product or service: Nike Professionalism: Nike created this trainer with lot of professionalism because the shape of the trainer attracts customers and specially the colours and the material which they used, make the trainers unique and stand out to the customers. Immediate impact: The immediate impact when you first see the trainer is that the colours which they have used is a stand out to the customers and the Nike logo part is very attractive to the customers because of it has the mixture colours as you can see. It also have white and black doted bottom base of the trainer which make it more stand out the overall look of the trainer. Memorable: I think the trainer is memorable because the colures and the art of unique logo part seats in the customers mind. Also the design of the trainer will remain in customers mind because you dont see many trainers made of this design and colours. The trainer has an orange colour bottom which is very eye catching and memorable colour. Keeps with the image of the organisation? /How does this help the business or organisation? I think the trainer keeps the image of the business because Nike business is mainly known to its trainers and the quality of the material which they used to make the trainers. It helps the business because the trainer is well designed and made which means the customers will buy the trainer and the business will get more customers and make profit. Advantages: It keeps the feet warm and dry even in the most extreme conditions. It is well made and designed which will attract more customers to the business. The colours used are very memorable e.g. purple, orange etc. Disadvantages: Its only made for woman. Its very expansive, so some people wont buy it. Some people may not like the shape of the trainer. Nike The product which I will be talking about is Nikes trainers. Nike communicated well with their customers thought advertising the product e.g. poster on busses and bus stops. This is important because if the business does advertisement to promote their products, this makes an awareness of the product to people. This also helps to get more customers and let the people known about the business. The objectives of Nike are that to put awareness of their products and business, increase sales, gain customer trust and to give good quality products to customers. This communication of advertising has helped the business to be successful achieving these objectives. Advertising increased product awareness because when business advertise a product, people see it and the product get known to people, which also increase the sale of the business because when your product is well known to people, they buy from your company. When the business gain customers trust than customers will buy all of th e business products because they know the business is trustable and sell good quality of products which means the business will make profit. If the business continues to make profit every year then the marketing share price and the market shares will increase. Nike also used professional footballers to promote they products e.g. Rooney, Ronaldo etc. This shows the customers that Nike is big bread and most famous footballers use their products, which makes them to buy the same products which they wearied to feel just like them. this is very helpful to business because most of the people watches football, so when they see they favourite footballers using Nikes products, they will get interested in the product and buy it, which will help the business to gain more customers and trust. It also achieves one of Nikes objective of making profit because customers will buy Nikes products because of the professional footballers advertisement. Nike promotion was good because they achieved the o bjectives by using professional footballers; posters etc to keep their relationship good with customers because if the customers arent happy with the business then they wont buy the product and the sale will go down. The bad thing about the promotion was that it cost a lot to promote a product using famous footballers because you dont know if customers even like the product or not or they will buy it or not, so its a risk that you even can get the money back which the business used in promotion. Conclusion In this assignment, I have created a report, graph about the finance of the Tesco and also I have analysed the webpage of Tesco. Then I have evaluated an external corporative communications of an existing product or service which I done Nike trainer. In the last I choose a business which is Nike and evaluated the effectiveness of the business information and its communication as key contributors to the success of an organisation.

Learning Materials Found in the National Library of Philippines

Last Saturday though the library is only open till 3pm, I manage to revisit the National Library with a special friend, even though I am very much familiar with the materials that this library use and have, I still push to go there to make a list of these things. As I enter the library, I notice that we first logged to the log book gave by the library guards, and these comes in my first list. I was not able to ask the guard the reason for this, but I am sure that this is a part of their security measure. For instance, on that day, something happened and all on the list that they have with the guard may be use as witness for it. Then, we went to luggage counter to deposit our bags. This is also their way to protect their library from thieves. If you are a first timer in this library, you are required to have a library I. D. Before, when it was my first time, with my classmates, we all pay for the ID, which is worth P50. 00, surprisingly; it is still worth like that. Before you can enter the library as visitor, but now my friend with me, they also require him to have an ID. As I was waiting for my friend to fill up his form in applying an ID for the library, something caught my attention. It was an old Catalog box filled with index cards with list of names and personal information. Then I thought of that maybe these are the ID cards of those who use to be here, just imagine how long this library is running. As we are waiting for the ID, the Elevator caught my attention. The last time we went here, I remember that we used it with my clan. At the right side of the elevator, there you can see the restroom for the user and the office of the personnel of the library. I believe that the office is air conditioned, because the dew and fog made by the air-con which is very visible because of the glass walls. As we go upstairs, students were checking on the computers set for the easy books access. This is the library I saw that uses this kind of technology. You can find here the information that can help you find the books that u need at ease. Once you type the idea of what you need in the book, the computer will give you list of different books, thesis, newspaper, magazines, dissertation and such that is related to your desired book. Aside from that, it will also give you the information about what stations you can find it, author, page, year and lots. If you listed the target books, you will next go to the stations that the computer gave you, for instance the General Books. This station generally composed of books like dictionaries, Bibles, Encyclopedias and such. Each station is air-conditioned but smells like old books. Aside from making the visitors feel comfortable, the main function of this is to take good care of the books, because high temperature will lessen the books’ life span. Each station have place for the visitor like reading stations. These composed of tables and chairs perfect if the book barrower needs a lot of time with the desired books he have. Next item that I have is the small piece of paper given by the library personnel. In this paper, you will write the information you got from the computers of you desired books. This will be given to the library personnel inside the book gallery which will be replaced by another paper containing the book number and book shell of your desired book. This makes the searching easier. Also I notice, in every stations we passed thru, there they have a mini museum of our national treasures and history memorabilia. Before I remember, it took my friends a lot of time here than searching for their books. Aside from that, they also have a photo copy station which becomes very useful during my research making last semester, although pages that are allowed to be copied are very limited. I am not really aware of what is the objective of me going here just to get a list again of the materials that the library have and use, but then I realize at the middle of my list I wrote books. The main reason why people go in a library is they have a need for a certain book, and library without a book in it is not a library. As I was there I also use that opportunity to also read about my present studies in my different subject as part of my advance study.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Night Analysis Sample

Go Gentle Into That Good Night,† emphasizes that death should not be accepted; It should be fought with rage and anger through his Incorporation of Intense word choice, figurative language, and dark imagery. Thomas' incorporation of lugubrious language illustrates that death should not be accepted. Repeating words such as â€Å"rage,† â€Å"dying,† and â€Å"night,† the reader is emotionally drawn to the perils associated with death. Where each word appears, the plea Is to not succumb or fall easily Into death, do not move away from the light and fall Into the night.Through these powerful and Intense words. He reader completely understands that fighting death is not just an option but a necessity. He promotes this idea with the words â€Å"burn,† â€Å"grieve,† and â€Å"blind. † When a soul accepts death, he becomes blind, the soul will burn, and those left behind will grieve. Through these actions, the reader understands that not figh ting death leads to peril for more than just the life which has been lost-the family is left to mourn and anguish over the validity of the life which Just easily gives way to the darkness.The author's utilization of metaphors further perpetuates the need to fight the letches of death. Through â€Å"wise men† and â€Å"good men† the emphasis is placed on the ideals that each comparison renders. The educators, philosophers, professors and educated represent the logic associated with dying. These men depict that death Is unavoidable and an Inevitable and logical occurrence. With death, one should understand that It will occur and that nothing more needs to be considered. No emotions should be unveiled in the midst of dying because it is simply what is supposed to happen.However, Thomas insists that even the mean of intelligence, in he grip and clutch of death, will react emotionally and will fight at will to overcome what they declare illustrating the hypocrisy behind the ir teachings and the logic behind not accepting death. In addition, the author's use of the metaphor â€Å"good men† drives home his continual assertion of â€Å"rag[long]† against the â€Å"night. † These mere stepping stone into a better place, Heaven. One does not really die. The soul just moves onto where it should be, and with this ideology and promotion of faith, death should not be seen as the end, Just the beginning.In contrast to what is reached, Thomas distinguishes that at the time of the impending peril and release of the soul to this sanctuary, the men of faith fight and cling onto breathing and remaining alive. The author's point of these comparisons is to validate that one must not fall prey to the words of logic or the words of faith because each emphasizes by action that living is worth the fight and until the last breath is drawn, one must â€Å"rage, rage against the dying of the light. † Through fierce tactile imagery, the author insis ts that one must assert the need to live.Upon the â€Å"dying of the light,† one's desire to remain alive must â€Å"burn and rave at the close of day. † To go willing, even at â€Å"old age† is not an option. He propagates that the will must be ignited and the fire within must fume and fight against the extinguishing of the light. The reader feels the urgency of keeping the light burning and not allowing the day to end. The need is intense and immediate. Thomas further clarifies this position with the images achieved through â€Å"curse† and â€Å"bless† with â€Å"fierce tears. † The passion is felt; the anger is achieved; the fight is exalted.The reader is pulled into Thomas' feelings, his anger, and his desire for his own father to reach beyond the limitations of death and fight back. With this fight, the gift is granted and death can no longer achieve the â€Å"dying of the light. † Through Thomas' style, readers are moved to und erstand that death is not something which should Just be accepted-it should be fought with fierce and intense force. Although inevitable, the grip of death can sometimes be avoided if one is willing to â€Å"rage† against it, hold onto the ideas of tomorrow, and insist that the day not end.

Descartes A Paradigm Shift in Philosophical Thinking Essay

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