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Building Societies and other types of organisation

Building societies date back to the late eighteenth century. The first known building society was set up in 1775. This was to enable people...

Matching people with technology to create a global strategy

In recent times, the structure and operation of many major industries has changed greatly through their use of information technologies. For example: online data systems have...

Combining an offline and online business

These days, we are surrounded by 'high-tech' developments. Ordinary citizens may not suffer too much from failing to keep track of new technologies the...

A customer centred approach to providing insurance

One approach to business is to develop a product and then look for customers. However, for many businesses the customers come first. They adopt...

Delivering a business strategy

TNT is the market leader in the provision of business-to-business (B2B) express delivery services. It delivers documents, parcels and freight securely between businesses, using the...

Achieving a competitive advantage through risk management

Returning publicly owned enterprises to the private sector is a process known as privatisation. The effects of privatisation are highly significant as organisations, which...

The power of partnerships

This case study focuses on how the creation of risk and revenue sharing partners (RRSPs) has enabled Rolls-Royce to take on contracts which have...

Calculating and managing risk

Eurostar is the high-speed rail service directly linking the UK to France and Belgium via the Channel Tunnel. It started operating in 1994, providing city...

To Create a Better Everyday Life for the Many People

“Once upon a time, a long, long time ago we decided that, instead of making furniture for people with fat wallets, we would side...

Creating a European branded business

This case study shows how and why Spillers Petfoods acquired Quaker European Petfoods for £465m in April 1995 to create Europe’s second largest petfood...

Venturing for growth

No business could survive on its own without friends and allies. To be successful, businesses need to develop relationships with other organisations and to...

Focused, global and integrated

In the early 1930s, Jefferson Smurfit Snr saw the untapped potential of a small Dublin box factory, and with the purchase of that firm,...

Entering overseas markets

Provident Financial was founded in West Yorkshire, England in 1880 by Joshua Waddilove. The company’s headquarters are still based in West Yorkshire. However Provident...

Going for growth

Going for profitable growth is nothing new for Dixons Group plc. The company began in 1937 in a modest way in portrait photography. Today,...

Strategically repositioning a business

When faced with the need for change, it is easy to consider the organisation’s current activities and then look for strategies that are familiar...

The world’s first electronic stock market

The Nasdaq Stock Market® is a world famous stock market, based in the US. Nasdaq® uses computer and telecommunications networks to trade and monitor...

Expanding a business through skilful acquisition

The name ‘Rolls-Royce’ has always been associated with high quality products. Most people probably link the company with high quality aero-engines and motor cars....

Going for growth by investing in people products and plant

Hazlewood Sandwiches Greencore's traditional activities lie at the start of the food production chain, whereas the new convenience foods operations are at the end of...

Combining factors of production to achieve growth objectives

Enterprise and risk Enterprise refers to all the organisational skills that go into creating a product or service. It also includes a willingness and ability...

Pursuing a growth strategy

Northern Rock is the eighth largest bank in the UK by market capitalisation. In other words the value of the shares in the business....

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