As you know there are different types of Ownerships in a business such as a Sole Trader, Partnerships, Private Limited Company, Public Limited Company and Franchisees. Today, I am going to compare two Business's Aims, Objectives, Ownership and the purpose of the businesses.

Friday 26 November 2010

Comparing the Aims, Objectives, Ownership and the Purposes of two Businesses

Cancer Research aims are to fund raise, to provide goods and services to the local and wider community, to survive, to expand, to maximise sales through improving quality, to provide a high competitive service, to provide a charitable or voluntary service and to be environmentally friendly.

Cancer Research aims are not to make a profit but to make fund raise.
To provide a service to the local and wider community such as collecting clothes from the community, work in junctions with hospital.                                                
To survive so they can help the community as long as they can.            
To expand so more people can get to know about the Cancer Research and they become more familiar.                                                                                                           
They maximise sales through improving quality and adverts also they want more people to donate.                                                                                                                        
To provide a high competitive service, for example people standing outside of Tesco with buckets. By providing a high competitive service they will get more people.           
To provide a charitable or voluntary service, for example the workers don’t get paid, it’s all voluntary work.                                                                          
To be environmentally friendly; to be friendly with the people, so they feel comfortable, safe and happy.  


Cancer Research objectives are to sell more products than its competitors, provide more product and service than last year, produce new goods and services and improve a product or services.
 
Cancer Research can sell more products than its competitors by them advertising their service offered to help cure cancer on TV and advertisements. This will mean that more people are aware if what they do, so they would want to help them even more. This will increase sales and competition.
Providing more products or services than last year – They can make comparisons with other competitors to see what they are doing in order to provide services and product.
Produce new Goods or Services – They can find out what the majority of their customers’ needs and wants are and then offer products and services based on their findings.
Improve a product or service – They would try to buy a new or advanced technology to improve a service.
Whereas in British Airways, their aims are to make a profit, provide goods and services to the local and wider community, to survive, to expand, to maximise sales through improving quality, to provide a high competitive service and be environmentally friendly.
To make a profit – British Airways want to make a profit so they can pay for the tax
By providing goods and services to the local and wider community British Airways will attract customers and will be able to provide a better deal for customers.
To survive so they can provide the best good and service to customers.
To expand so more people can get to know about British Airways and they become more familiar.
To maximise sales through improving quality of the service they provide and also by the adverts.
To provide a high competitive service such as advertising British Airways in TV, posters, leaflets and billboards.
To be environmentally friendly with the customers, so they feel happy comfortable, which would also be great for attracting new customers.
British Airways objectives are to sell more product than it's competitors, provide more product or services than last year, produce new goods or services and improve a product or service.
British Airways objective are to sell more products and services than its competitors. This can be done by British Airways advertising their service on TV, posters, billboards and leaflets.
Provide more products or services than last year – They can make comparison with other competitors to see what they are doing in order to provide the service.
Produce new goods or services – They can find out what the majority of their customers’ needs and wants are and then offer the service to the customers based on their findings. Improve a product or service – to improve a product or service, British Airways could introduce a new or advanced product or service. This would also improve the service or product.

Sunday 31 October 2010

BBC

The Ownership of BBC is a Public Limited Company.
This means that BBC is owned by a man called Sir Michael Lyons and Mark Thompson, who is the Director General of BBC.

About 30,000 people work for BBC.

The turnover for BBC for 2009 was £800 million. BBC turnover for 2010 is still proceeding on and as of this, we cannot get any information on the turnover for 2010. Unfortunately, we will have to wait until the end of December to find the results.

However, the profit for BBC for 2009 was £32.20 billion. As for the profit for 2010, we can not proceed with anything else such as checking the results for 2010. As the result are still going on, we will have to wait until the end of December for the result.

BBC have about 800 stores World Wide.

BBC is a Large Business because they provide a service all over the World based World Wide. Also, they have more than 100 employees working for them. They have 30,000 employees working for BBC. That's 30 times more employees they have.

BBC is a Global business because they provide a service all over the World. They provide a service of telling the News around the world such as the Weather, Sports, Politics Issues and mnay more others things.

BBC is a Tertiary sector because it only provide a service. A tertiary sector is a sector that covers all the services and where nothing is produced.

David Lloyd

The Ownership of David Lloyd is a Sole Trader.
The Owner of David Lloyd is a Professional British tennis player named David Lloyd.

David Lloyd has around 6000 employees, including an expert health & fitness team of over 750 and more than 350 professional tennis players.
Not knowing the turnover, after looking at the profit it seems that the turnover would be very high.

However, David Lloyd did not make a profit in 2009, they made a loss of £241 million. For 2010, the results are still going on, which means that we will have to wait until the end of December for the results.

There are 78 clubs around the UK, which means that there must a lot of people working for David Lloyd.

David Lloyd is Medium business as they lost a lot of profit and had to close many branches. Many Large competitors have now entered the market, which means that there is more competition between the businesses.

David Lloyd is an European business as it is based in the UK and some places in Europe such as Amsterdam, Barcelona and Dublin. It is not based Global.

David Lloyd is a Secondary and Tertiary sector. Secondary because they provide a service such as Fitness machines and Sports facilities. Tertiary because to use the facilities and the machinery, you have to pay.

British Airways

The Ownership of British Airways is Public Limited Company.
This means that British Airways is owned by a Man called Martin Broughton, who is the chairman of British Airways.

About 57,000 people work for British Airways.

The turnover for British Airways for 2009 was £7994 million. British Airways turnover for 2010 is still proceeding on and as of this, we cannot get any information on the turnover for 2010. Unfortunately, we will have to wait until December to find the results.

However, British Airways did not make a profit in 2009, they made a loss of £38.50 million. For 2010, the results are still going on, which means that we will have to wait until the end of December for the figures.

British Airways have World Wide Reservations, this means that you will have to count the number of airports that have British Airways planes. However, British Airways have 233 aircraft's.

British Airways is a Large business as it is amongst the top air service business.

British Airways is a Global business as it not only provides a service in Europe but also provide a service all over the world.

British Airways is a Tertiary sector. They provide a service such as flying you to another country of your wish. Also because you have to buy the service such as buying the ticket. A tertiary sector is a sector that covers all the services and where nothing is produced.

Cancer Resarch

The Ownership of Cancer Research is a Public Limited Company.

Cancer Research is owned by the Government, this means that the Government keep all the profit.

More than 4000 Researchers, Doctor and Nurses across the UK, volunteer work for Cancer Research.

The turnover for Cancer Research for 2009 was £468,345 million. Cancer Research's turnover for 2010 is still proceeding on and as it is proceeding on, we can not get any information on the turnover. We will have to wait until December to find the results.

However, the profit for Cancer Research for 2009 was £133,874 million. Nevertheless, the profit for Cancer Research for 2010 is still proceeding on, this also means that we can not overview anything results until the end of December.

As Cancer Research is a World Wide and a fund raising business, they are mostly based all over the place and on line.

Cancer Research is a Large business as Cancer Research is the largest Cancer fund raising business in the world.

Cancer Research is a Tertiary sector. They provide a service, they also sell a service. A tertiary sector is a sector that covers all the services and where nothing is produced.