Business Environment of Cafe Pod and Dorchester

The Business Environment

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Main Body..................................................................................................................................3
The external environment......................................................................................................3
The organisational structure...................................................................................................5
Organisational planning and performance.............................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
Business environment refers to different business surroundings and including factors
that may affect the business functions. It is related to internal and external as well and affect
the business functions that is operating within the market (Bratianu and Bejinaru, 2021). The
two chosen local contrasting companies for this reports are Cafe Pod and Dorchester. The
reason behind choosing these businesses is they are local to UK and both are operating in
different industries of UK. Cafe Pod is independent coffee company established in 2011, they
work with creativity, passion and pushes the boundaries of the company in different manners.
Café Pod is private company that is operated its business into the private sector in London
(CAFEPOD COFFEE CO. - CRAFT COFFEE, 202). Whereas, Dorchester is a hotel that is
established in London again and comes under the hospitality industry. It is also a private
company that serve for their customers. These both companies are work for profitability and
manage their local business into UK market effectively (DORCHESTER COLLECTION,
2021). Furthermore, one is working in manufacturing industry whereas other is in hospitality
industry. This become the main reason for choosing these companies as they have different
industries and external environment. So, it will be helpful for analysing external environment
of two different industries in business while operating in same environment. This report
includes the external environment of the companies, a detailed explanation of organisational
structure. In last the report highlighted the organisational planning and performance in
different basis of the two different companies.
Main Body
The external environment
The external environment is very helpful for the company to work effectively within
the environment and make growth into their internal business practices. This process become
very effective and appropriate to summarise the issue that a company face due to their
external factors (Shams and et.al., 2021). The two industries are mainly belongs to two
different industries that would be make different external environment to the company. For
this PESTLE analysis is conducted for each industry:
Political factors: These factors are basically related to the government interventions
and political stability in the different factors within the society (Cascio, 2021). Tax policies,
stability of the government, social policies and many other issues. The major issue which
Dorchester can face due to political factor is the traveling bans in UK due to covid-19