Structure, Management, and Governance of Hilton Food Group

Business Environment

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3
Structure, management and the governance of the company......................................................3
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................5
Importance of PESTEL analysis for business organization........................................................5
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................7
PESTLE analysis.........................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Business environment is the sun total of all the internal and external environment that impacts
the functioning of the organization. It helps in identifying opportunities and threats, tapping
useful resources, coping with rapid change, improving performance etc. Hilton food group plc is
a UK based food packaging business which was founded in 1994 by Robert Watson and Philip
Heffer. In the further report structure of Hilton Company and its management will be briefed
upon. Also light will be put upon importance of PESTEL analysis and use of it to analyse
external environment.
MAIN BODY
Task 1
Structure, management and the governance of the company
Hilton food group plc is a food packaging business and is a public sector organization. It is
listed on the London Stock Exchange. It was earlier establishes for packaging of beef and lamb
in Huntingdon then it also entered into supplying chilled and frozen salmon. The strategy of
Hilton is to build on strong historic growth and leveraging its established business model (Amos.
and Sullivan 2018). It has the following subsidiary: Hilton Foods UK Limited, Hilton Meats
Zaandam BV, HFG Sverige AB etc. They try to do this by focusing on expansion with the
existing customers, continuously maintaining and increasing the cost and quality of their
products and services, attracting new customers. In 1994 it was formed to supply Tesco from
Huntingdom facility. In 2000 it took over an existing facility in Zaadam which was part of Ahold
group. New factories were opened by Hilton in Drogheda, Ireland and Vasteras and Sweden in
2004. The in 2006 more factories were opened at Tychy, Poland to supply Ahold Central Europe
stores. Hilton in 2007 comes on the London stock exchange with a good listing and also
agreement to supply Tesco central Europe stores. In the next year Hilton’s Irish factory started
meat as a breakfast and in 2009 they also came into an agreement to supply Rimi stores in
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia from Hilton’s polish facility (Brogi. and Lagasio, 2019). Hilton’s
Dutch facility extended to increase their capacity in 2010. Again a new factory opened in
Hasselager which was in Denmark to supply coop Danmark. There was an enhancement of
Danish facility to enable store order picking functionality for Hilton in 2012 and other similar
third party products. Eventually in 2013 they collaborated with Woolworths in Australia and
there was a new supply agreement with Tesco UK (Suddaby. and Foster 2017). In the next year
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they extended and upgraded UK and Swedish facility to increase capacity. In 2016 they also
extended their range to pizza, launched Hilton food solutions UK meat trading business,
cooperation agreement with Sonae, Portugal and also made an announcement of Australia
expansion and provide facility in Queensland. In further year they focused on fresh food supply
chain and made an announcement of expanding in central Europe to produce food like
sandwiches, pizza, ready meals and also soups. They also constructed a new meat processing
facility in Auckland to supply countdown. They also made an agreement with a vegetarian
product manufacturer named Dalco food and also acquired SV Cuisine which was a UK based
sous vide manufacturer. And in this year entered in an agreement to invest in Belgium to supply
Delhaize.
Organizational structure of Hilton food group
Hilton food group plc has fourteen segments spread globally such as Hilton foods UK ltd,
Hilton Meats Holland Ltd, Hilton food Belgium BV, Hilton food (Ireland) ltd, Hilton food group
(Europe) ltd, Dalco food BV. It further has Hilton food ltd, Hilton food Denmark, Food
connected ltd, Hilton food solutions, SV Cuisine ltd, Sohi meat solutions, Seachill UK ltd, Hilton
food Australia Pty ltd, Hilton foods New Zealand ltd, Hilton food Asia Pacific ltd (Ahmady
Mehrpour. and Nikooravesh, 2016).
Board of directors at Hilton
Board of director are the group of people who are elected and they are the representative
on behalf of shareholders. In Hilton they are responsible for protecting the interest of
shareholders, establish policies and make important decisions. They also perform the following
function like creating dividend policies, creating option policies, supporting executives and their
teams, setting general company goals, establishing compensation for executives they also hire
and fire senior executives of the company etc (Singh, 2018).
Hilton board of directors
Robert Watson OBE – He is the chairman of Hilton from 1 July 2018. He joined Hilton as chief
executive in 2002 and before this he worked at Foyle Food group which was founded by his
father. He was also a board member of Livestock Meat Commission from 1995 to 1999.
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