I) Introduction
Waitrose is an upmarket retail chain of the United Kingdom. Upmarket retail chain means the products available in Waitrose are expensive and high quality. Wallace Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor opened their first small grocery shop Waite, Rose and Taylor at 263 Acton Hill, West London in 1904. The John Lewis Partnership took over Wait Rose and Taylor in 1937 and changed the name to Waitrose. (waitrose.com) Waitrose has more than 300 stores throughout the UK, including branches in England, Wales and Scotland as well as shops in Welcome Break motorway service stations, the Channel Islands, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.(http://www.waitrose.presscentre.com) Waitrose was the first supermarket to sell its own label garden products. Waitrose hits its highest ever share of the grocery market (4.3%) earlier this year. The Telegraph 2014) Tesco and Morrison both are main competitors of Waitrose in supermarket business in the United Kingdom. Product of Waitrose is very costly for middle class people so it is difficult to cover major market share. The John Lewis Partnership is having huge number of employees. Waitrose runs 26 The John Lewis stores in United Kingdom. Waitrose have set our sights on opening up to fifteen new supermarkets and up to ten new 'little Waitrose' convenience shops in 2014.(http://www.waitrose.presscentre.com. Waitrose have been awarded BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ status for our stores in Stratford City in London and Bracknell in Berkshire. (Waitrose.com, The Telegraph 2014)
II) Analysis
1) Sales
The Investopidia defines sales as the income value or revenue received for goods and services over a given period of time. Waitrose is main food supermarket for people who like to buy quality food and who can pay mo...
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...ncipally through improved management of trade receivables and trade payables. This has been partially offset by a reduction in borrowings and overdrafts of £230.3m and an increase in property, plant and equipment and information technology systems of £71.9m.
2) Profitability
According to Investopedia.Com profit means an economical satisfaction that is realized when the amount of revenue gained from a business activity exceeds the expenses, costs and taxes needed to sustain the activity. Any profit that is gained goes to the business's owners, who may or may not decide to spend it on the business. Profit depends on capital expenditure and revenue. Gross Profit is cost of goods sold is subtracted from revenue and net profit is working capital subtracted from total revenue. Difference between net profit and gross profit is net profit does not include expenses.
Brookshire Grocery Company, known for its commitment to excellent customer service, was established in 1938. The company began with one store in downtown Tyler, Texas under the name Brookshire Brothers. Soon after, the company changed its name to Brookshire Grocery Company and expanded to four stores in Tyler and Longview, Texas, which included the first air-conditioned store in East Texas (brookshires.com). Over the years, the Brookshire Grocery Company chain has grown to more than 150 stores throughout Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and, most recently, Mississippi.
This, in turn, also improved the cash conversion cycle from 72.1 days to 57.1 days. The EBITDA margin decreased, however, this decrease would have been more if the underperforming stores were still operating. Source: Televisory’s Research Source: Televisory’s Research. Source: Televisory’s Research. Source: Televisory’s Research.
Waitrose is a national supermarket chain with over 305 stores across the UK and Channel Islands. Waitrose is part of the John Lewis Partnership with aims and objectives based upon their future expansion. From the “about Waitrose” webpage, it states that ‘Waitrose aims to extend its store presence whilst improving price perceptions and developing an integrated multi-channel offer.’ Furthermore they have three main aims, ‘Increase advantage of
5) In the early days he made it very easy and simple for people to buy
In addition, from their financial statements, it appears that they made substantial property purchases in 1995 ($126,000). These were financed them with their revolving loan. One can assume that this expense was a result of their significant increase in sales, but it is generally not a good cash management strategy to use short-term debt to buy long terms assets.
The word profit is used in many different contexts such as day to day business transactions to a discussion about a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Yet, what is profit and what kind of social implications are there when this is one of the main focuses within our economy? The pursuit of profit is one of the underlying features that make up our capitalist system. It sparks that competitive drive among businesses and corporations. The simple definition of profit is “when a ...
In 1945, Sam Walton opened his first variety store and in 1962, he opened his first Wal-Mart Discount City in Rogers, Arkansas. Now, Wal-Mart is expected to exceed “$200 billion a year in sales by 2002 (with current figures of) more than 100 million shoppers a week…(and as of 1999) it became the first (private-sector) company in the world to have more than one million employees.” Why? One reason is that Wal-Mart has continued “to lead the way in adopting cutting-edge technology to track how people shop, and to buy and deliver goods more efficiently and cheaply than any other rival.” Many examples exist throughout Wal-Mart’s history including its use of networks, satellite communication, UPC/barcode adoption and more. Much of the technology that was utilized helped Sam Walton more efficiently track what he originally noted on yellow legal pads. From the very beginning, he wanted to know what the customers purchased, what inventory was selling and what stock was not selling. Wal-Mart now “tracks on an almost instantaneous basis the ordering, shipment, and delivery of literally every item it sells, and that it requires its suppliers to hook into the system, enabling it to track most goods every step of the way from the time they’re made and packaged in the factories to when they’re carried out store doors by shoppers.” “Wal-Mart operates the world’s most powerful corporate computing system, with a capacity (as of late 1999) of more than 100 terabytes of data (A terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes, or roughly the equivalent of 250 million pages of text.).
The competitive pressures that Oliver’s Market must be prepared to deal with are the pressure associated with the market maneuvering and jockeying for buyer patronage that goes on among rival sellers in the industry and the pressure associated with the threat of new entrants into the market. They must be prepared to face with the rival stores, Trader Joe’s, Costco, and Whole Foods who had recently entered in the sales territory with brand new stores and so far Wal-Mart and Target also had announced plans to develop regional supercenter, that is, large –format discount center into their territory.
Marks & Spencer is one of the UK's foremost retailers of clothing, foods, homeware and financial services, boasting a weekly customer base of 10 million in over 300 UK stores. Marks & Spencer operate in 30 countries worldwide, and has a group turnover in excess of £8 billion. It has specific values, missions and visions. It’s main vision is ‘to be the standard against which all others are measured’, it’s main mission is ‘to make aspirational quality accessible to all’, and it’s main values are quality, service, innovation and trust. (www.marksandspencer.co.uk).
ASDA is the subsidiary of WalMart, who is the retail giant in the world. ASDA retail store is mainly based on foods, clothing, and toys for children, general items, mobile phone networks, financial services and oil pumps. But I chose this company apart from the fact that it is UK’s biggest retail chain. Now people
Total revenue, which is the total amount of income received from the sales of a certain quantity of goods or services. Total revenue can be calculated by multiplying the price of a product times the quantity sold. For instance, if 160 baseball caps are sold and each baseball cap was priced at $5 each, the total revenue would be (160*5) $180.
The inventory turnover is almost half compared to the industry average, although it managed to increase by 0.3 compared to 2002. The company needs to maintain a constant cost of goods sold and at the same time manage inventory more efficiently to maintain market competitiveness. The average collection period also increased slightly to 58 days, three days increase compared to 2002. The company needs to negotiate or persuade on efficient payment methods to customers to decrease the collection period down to industry average. The total asset turnover increased 0.1 to 1.6 but still failing to meet the industry standard of 2.0. Martin Manufacturing needs to boost sales while maintaining a constant asset value to meet or exceed industry standards.
Challenges in Today's U.S. Supermarket Industry. 2014. Challenges in Today's U.S. Supermarket Industry. [ONLINE] Available at:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479076.aspx. [Accessed 31 March 2014].
The advancements in the technological world have allowed supermarket chains and other national stores to quickly dominate the market and are driving out the concept of the ‘local stores’. This surge in the market has seen shares rise and profits bulge with the three main contenders in mind being Sainsburys, Safeways and Tescos who now serve the whole of the UK between them and are the household names of the shopping world. The ICT input to these businesses is vital in that it provides speedy service; controls stock levels and will even allow bank balance transfers to be carried out with minimal difficulty or technical experience.
The other day I walked into the supermarket to buy a box of Kleenex. I was faced with a variety of colors, textures, box designs, and even the option of aloe. All these features designed for a product to blow my nose into! Selection wasn't limited to the Kleenex section, either…I found abundance in every aisle. We seem to always want more - more choices, more variety, more time. In fact, even the word "supermarket" implies a desire for more than just a simple market.