Empire College London

Student name: Gurjant Singh

Aulakh
Business environment
ECL/111/037087
Task#1(a)

Organisations history
wal-mart History
1(a) identify the purposes of different types of organization
Wal-Mart History
1950 -1990

Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart

1960s

Retail Revolution

1970s

Wal-Mart Goes National

1980s

Decade of Firsts

1990s

Americas Top Retailer

2000s

New Millennium

2011

10,000 retail units around the world.

2012

employs 2.2 million associates worldwide and serves 200 million

Organisations history
History of cafedriect

Cafe direct was born during a crisis, when in 1989 an

international coffee agreement which had fixed global prices
according to the cost of production, collapsed. Middlemen
swooped in to buy up the coffee and the lives of millions of
smallholder farmers around the world was in jeopardy as
they were left with no choice, but to sell their harvests at
rock bottom prices.

Purpose of wal-mart and caf

direct

Invest money
Make profit

Wal-mart

Mission
statement

Save money
Living better
life

Best value
Best price

Take care of our

Employee
& customers

Retain loyal
people

Act ethically

Treat people
With
respect

Respect
Our
vendors

Caf direct

Take care of
Our
employee

Run
business
Long
term

Stakeholder of Wal-mart and caf

direct
Governme
nt
Wal-mart

communit
y
Owner
sharehold
ers

Government

Caf direct

community
Owner
shareholder
s

Responsibilities and strategies

of wal-mart and cafe direct
environmental
sustainability

Responsibilities
Wal-mart

Womens
Economics
empowermen
t

Hunger
&
nutrition

Ethical
sourcing

Good
quality

Responsibilities
Caf driect

On the time

Good sales

Diversity&
inclusion
advertising

Task 2
Nature of the operating
environment

Wal-mart
Wal-mart is a very big business in the UK also it is a international business it has
different braches in 27 countries.
Its legislation and government policies is register tax employment law show annual
report import and export tax etc is involve in these type business
Economic policies of government affect the firms` costs (through taxation and interest
rate)
Legislation regulates what business can do in this area such as environment and
occupational safety and health.
Successful firms are good for government as they create wealth and employment

Nando's
In 1987 Fernando Duarte took his friend Robert Broz in to a chicken restaurant called Chicken
land in Rosettenville, Johannesburg. Fernando Duarte was an audio technician from Porto,
Portugal, whose family had emigrated to South Africa.
This business is national level business these type of business need to fill some
government policies to run business in country like
Employment law , hygienic food law , tax registration and health and safety law etc.
These type business have a very good impact on economic system to grow the
economic of country for example its provide the employment pay more tax etc.
Government cut tax by them and spending on economic influence like fiscal and
monetary policies .
In these types of business there are a lot of competitors which is impact on each other

Open supermarket
It is a local type business this type business need to fill some government requirements
like employment law tax registrations health and safety law .
Economic system:
An economic system is loosely defined as country`s plan for its services, good
produced, and exact way in which its economic plan is carried out it has three different
types
1: The market economy.
2: The mixed economy .
3: The command, or planned economy.
The local business is based on the market economy where depends on the buyers and
seller decision which is derived the economy ups or down .

POLITICAL

Provision of services by
local council

UK government policy on
subsidies

World trade agreements

e.g. further expansion of
the EU

ECONOMIC

Local income

UK interest rates

Overseas economic growth

SOCIAL

Local population growth

Demographic change (e.g.

ageing population)

Migration flows

TECHNOLOGICAL

Improvements in local
UK wide technology e.g. UK International technological
technologies e.g. availability online services
breakthroughs e.g. internet
of Digital TV

ENVIRONMENTAL

Local waste issues

UK weather

Global climate change

LEGAL

Local licences/planning
permission

UK law

International agreements on
human rights or
environmental policy