Marks & Spencer's Internal and External Environment
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This report describes the internal and external environment of Marks & Spencer's company and its impact on the business. It includes factors such as political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors.
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Introduction Business environment means all the factors internal and external that affect the business functions including the employees, management, demand and business regulations , production etc. This report will describe about Marks & Spencer's company and the environmentwhere they areoperating their business . It is one of the top retailer companyin UKand huge reputation in the market. They are selling product such as home appliances, clothes, furniture. Ways in which business can impact on external environment There are some ways which can be used by Marks & Spencer's to impact on the external environment and it will also help them to take competitive advantages. Familiar with government -Marks & Spencer's can create good relation with the government of countries where they are operating their business so they can get political support and also can work toward environment and social issues. Use of technology -M&S can adopt trending technology within their workplace, so they can increase their production and improve their business .Technology has huge impact on the company and following rends in a market creates opportunities for company and help them to grow in market. Analysis factors-It is important for Marks & Spencer's company's leaders to analyse the external factors properly, so they can overcome from the problems, and they can take competitive advocates within the retail market. REFERENCES Books and journal Ebrahimi, A. and Banaeifard, H., 2018. The influence of internal and external factors on the marketing strategic planning in SNOWA Corporation.Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing. Gaganis, C., Pasiouras, F. and Voulgari, F., 2019. Culture, business environment and SMEs' profitability: Evidence from European Countries.Economic Modelling.78.pp.275-292. Gavurova, B., Packova, M., Misankova, M. and Smrcka, L., 2017. Predictive potential and risks of selected bankruptcy prediction models in the Slovak business environment.Journal of Business Economics and Management.18(6). pp.1156-1173. Seo, Y. W. and Lee, Y. H., 2019. Effects of internal and external factors on business performance of start-ups External factors External factors are factors which arise from the outside of the business environment like government influence, economic changes, technological changes etc. PESTEL Analysis of M&S Political factors- Marks & Spencer's is operating their business in all around the world and every country has their own tax structure which affect the profitably of the company. Economical- Economic factors such as economic crises within the country can affect whole country which can led the company to decease in demand . This situation has huge impact on every business including Marks & Spencer's. Social-Trends and lifestyle change with the times and it is important for the Marks & Spencer's to understand what customers are following and according to that they should develop their product to add some value for them. Technological -Technology has huge influence on the Marks & Spencer's to helps them to achieve their business goals and objectives. They take competitive advantages if they focus toward the online shopping or website development. Environmental -Marks & Spencer's is responsible toward the environment, and they are putting theireffort toward the environment by organizing the environment about the global warming and awarding people about the climate change issue. Legal- Every country has its own polices and rules which outer companies haveto follow and Marks & Spencer's is responsible toward it and able to create good relationship with the government's. Marks & Spencer's internal and external environment Internal environment Internal environment such as employees, plans & polices of the company, human resources, labour management are part of company and it has huge influence on Business of theMarks & Spencer's. Company can use SWOT analysis to identity their strength and weakness, so they can improve and take competitive advantages where they are operating theirbusiness. SWOTAnalysis of M&S Strength- Top leading retailer company within UK market and having good. M&S is having wide varieties of products so their customers can buy as per their demand. Employees are well-trained and they get trainingat their workplace to develop new silks. Weakness- Marks & Spencer's A fresh slump in sales of clothing in the late 2019 due to poor arability of clothes in their storesand an outdate supply chain. Bad customer services due the lack of sufficient customer care workers Opportunities- Company can gain opportunities in the market by developing their out- dated products. Improvement in the customer services can help them, to gain loyalty of the customers and create higher opportunities to. Threat-New and existing customers within this industry is creating threat for the company because they are selling their product in fewer prices as compare to the M&S.