Friday 5 November 2010

Tesco

1. Ownership;
Tesco ownership is public limited company. Public limited company is where the business sell shares on the stock market this is when a person can buy shares to own part of the business. Plc has limited liability this means if the business goes bust it only loses what it is invested in the business   

2. Size;
how many employees does the business have?
There are about 440.000 employees for Tesco.

What is its turnover?
Tesco turnover in February 2010 was 3.41 billion.

What is its profit?
Tesco profit of half year pre tax profit of 1.6 billion.

How many branches or outlets does the business have?
Tesco have six different branches Tesco extra, Tesco superstores, Tesco metro, Tesco express, one stop, Tesco home plus alltogther tesco have 2.482 branches.

Is it classed as a small, medium or large business?
Tesco is classed as a large business as it is worldwide.it is across the world it based in nine different countries


3. Scale;
Is it a local, regional, national, European or global business?
Tesco is a global business as it is in nine different countries

4. Classification;
What sector does each business belong to?
Tesco is in the tertiary sector in this sector you provide servicers. This is cause they are providing custromers with a servicers for example Tesco value.