TESCO PLC

Tesco PLC

Executive Summary

Tesco is a significant international retailer. As a global business, the company perceives itself as having a vital role to play in helping to minimize its environmental impacts. Although based in the United Kingdom, Tesco PLC has developed into an international grocery and general merchandising chain, employing 440,000 staff worldwide, and with sales exceeding £59 billion (in the year ending February 2009). Since the mid-90s, Tesco has been investing in new markets overseas, seeking out new opportunities for growth and ways of generating long term returns for shareholders. Today, the Group operates in 13 markets outside the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and North America. Over 10,000 employees work for the international businesses, serving in 2,026 stores and generating £17.9 billion sales and over £700 million profit. Over half of Tesco's selling space it is now outside the UK. Operating income exceeded £3 billion. These figures make Tesco the largest British retailer in terms of both combined sales and domestic market share, and the third largest in the world after Wal-Mart (United States) and Carrefour (France). It claimed that £1 in every £10 of UK retail sales goes the way of Tesco.

Table of Content

Introduction to Tesco PLC4

Stakeholders of the Company4

1. Shareholders4

2. Senior management4

3. Employees and workers5

4. Suppliers and contractors5

5. Customers and consumers5

6. Broader social environment and NGOs6

7. Competitors6

External (macro-environmental) analysis7

Porter's Five Forces7

PESTLE Analysis7

Political Factors7

Economic Factors7

Social Factors8

Technological Factors8

Weaknesses:8

Threats9

BCG Matrix9

McKinsey's 7 S9

STRATEGY (Strategy)9

STRUCTURE (structure)10

SKILLS (Skills)10

SHARED VALUES (Shared Values)10

SYSTEMS (Systems)10

STYLE (Style)10

STAFF (Personal)10

Conclusion11

References12

Appendices14

Tesco PLC

Introduction to Tesco PLC

Tesco is the largest supermarket chain in the UK and Third, in the world. Tesco is twice as large as its nearest rival, Asda. Tesco has expanded to other countries like Ireland, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Thailand, India, Japan and China. Tesco has hypermarkets on the outskirts of cities but also have built small stores in town centres for people who are doing their shopping on foot, currently has over 2026 stores in the UK and 1275 in the world. It seems that Tesco involved in all sectors of the economy.

Stakeholders of the Company

1. Shareholders

The shareholder is an investor who provides capital to the company and can more or less involve in their management. Given the contribution made generates certain expectations about the behavior of the company in general and with regard to their contribution. Their interest with the organisation is to get the return from the company's shares and investments.

2. Senior management

They want to assume the management of the company and also generate certain expectations about it (Aaker, 2009, p. 137). They are perhaps the part that the company may identify itself as a relationship manager node. Their interest with the company is to gain the profit from the company.

3. Employees and workers

As the main asset of the organization and certainly one of the stakeholders closest to the organization, CSR requires them to provide a fair, scrupulously respecting their rights as individuals and labor law enforcement. Beyond this, responsible management of HR evaluate and reward the contributions of each member of the organization ...