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Background of CompanyTesco is the most extensive retailer as well as wholesaler of Britain through its globalsales and its domestic market in the UK. It’s also referred as the third giant of the world inretailing services. Tesco was established in the year 1919 by Mr. Jack Cohen and came upwith their first supermarket in 1956 (Dudovskiy, 2016). The strategy followed by Tesco wasdetermined through its long-term engagement and is primarily dependent on four parts, suchas non-food industry, core UK industry, global presence, as well as retailing services. In theyear 2004, 98 new Tesco stores were opened, which reached to 207 in 2005, and half of thesestores are situated in Asia, and by 2009, the count came to 390 (Dudovskiy, 2016). Tesco isfamous for its brilliant management team and operating strategy. Tesco started with the self-service supermarkets opened in the US between the years 1930-1940. Just after the few yearsof its operations, management of Tesco understood that selling the considerable supplyvolume, and hiring few employees will reduce the cost of the product (Dudovskiy, 2016).This was the beginning of massive thing for an organization. After 20 years, Tesco becamethe common name not only for the groceries but also for the domestic items, fresh food, andclothing. Tesco started their diversification strategy, and that became the success step for thecompany in the business world. The key results expected from the corporate strategy ofTesco was to become the best retailer in the local market; take required actions for upliftingthe market of UK, and make use of UK market as the global business model (Dudovskiy,2016). It also tries to become best in both the food as well as non-food market around theglobe. They also work to become most influential in other businesses like Tesco.com, Tescopersonal finance, Tesco Telecoms. They also try to become best corporate socialresponsibility company. 2

Company structureBoard of directors at Tesco includes ten members, and many significant changes weremade during 2014/15 financial year. All these changes cover up John Allan appointment asthe Chairman of the board, new CEO Dave Lewis, and new CFO Alan Steward appointment,along with the four non-executive director’s retirement and joining of 3 non-executivedirectors (Dudovskiy, 2016). In the year 2015, CEO of Tesco announced the price reductionall around the functions of head office by 30% and the same was directly implemented on theTesco management structure. As given below, the governance structure of the companyincludes five committees reporting to the board of Tesco. Along with this, there are 11members involved in an Executive committee of Tesco that is led by the Group chiefexecutive (Dudovskiy, 2016).Corporate Governance Structure of TescoThe organizational structure at Tesco is hierarchical, which depicts the business size.At the store level, there are four layers of management at particular large stores. Below figureshows the organizational structure followed at Extra formats, Metro and Superstore(Winterman, 2016). It is crucial to note that below structure is not rigid for all the storesowned by Tesco, including slight variant structure, which also shows the size, location aswell as a range of the various other factors of stores (Winterman, 2016).3

It can be mentioned that four management layers at Tesco existing in the individualstore might develop unrequired bureaucracy with the wrong implication over the informationflow all across the Tesco management layers (Winterman, 2016). That’s why it is requiredthat senior management needs to refer the delayering options such as rising of operationalflexibility in store and acceleration of information flow through the reduction of managementlayers (Winterman, 2016). Business ModelTesco is one of the biggest grocery and commercial store around the world, and it alsoacts as the leading market force in the context of the European market. Tesco is not onlysuccessful regarding selling the items, but at the same time, it is professional and unique inthe way it handles the business as well as future possibilities of growth (Reading, 2004).Tesco business model is discussed in this section, about how the brand expands dynamicallyand has tried to conquer the market of Europe. In the starting of 2000, the UK was consideredas the prime for the internet shopping of grocery items as well as home delivery because ofthe adoption rates of high technology and high population areas density (Reading, 2004). Inthe year 2000, Tesco has quickly responded towards the opportunities available and has also4

adapted the business model through setting up the internet grocery channel, such as TescoDirect (Reading, 2004). By the year 2006, internet sales of the company were grown rapidly to around 23%,and for fulfilling the demands, the company augmented the operating model throughinvesting in the centres of grocery dotcom; warehouses were open mainly for the fulfilmentof online orders that were equipped with the innovative goods picking technology (Reading,2004). In the year 2011, for providing the future convenience to the customers and forenhancing the profitability of the business model by reducing the cost of home delivery,Tesco had lead the competitive pack through providing the Omni channel function of “clickand collect’, through which customers can place the orders online and gather the groceries atthe gathering point of their own choice (Reading, 2004). Despite the upside of revenue, theshift happened in the Omni channel of bricks and clicks, offer came through the issues relatedto operating model of Tesco; substantial investment was made informing the online platform,investment was also made in the centres of grocery dotcom to around £1.5-3.5million perwarehouse, investment was also made in the home delivery of labour and ordering difficultiesin supply chain due to the wrong forecasting of the internet grocery orders due to lack ofhistorical information (Ruther, 2003). Dynamical modelTesco is far away from the dynamics, in case of looking at the rapid expansion in thecomplete UK. Later on, they had also conquered complete Eastern Europe, Scotland, andIreland. The speedy development is done by timing and luck of the company. Tesco hasattained huge stores through purchasing it from weak competitors (Levy, 2012). In UKmarket, Tesco brand has been famous for obtaining small to mid-size stores, which result inachieving many new stores with the single transaction in business (McDonald, 2009). Purchasing equal to selling5

Everyone understands that more people buy the item, its cost will be reduced. Tescohas attained success through adopting the politics in the previous century. Through itspurchasing capacity, the company can maintain the highly competitive cost, through whichthey can start their self-production of grocery items, to become cheaper and gain morespecialization (McDonald, 2009). Self-producingTesco has attained high success due to its production of own grocery items for a longtime. In this manner, they work towards reducing rates as compared to their competitors, whofail to hold ways towards producing their goods (McDonald, 2009). Tesco has attainedsuccess in the context of self-producing items, and along with that company also deals withthe production of high-quality items that are sold out, under the brand name of Tesco Finest(McDonald, 2009). Currently, Tesco has set up its business contacts with various small biofarms, and in this way, they can provide bio fruits, meat, and vegetables at a competitiveprice under their label (Grant, 2016). Online shopping systemTesco is selling their items online and has attained massive success since 80’s and allaround Europe. Most of them are not aware that Tesco also produces different situationsbecause Tesco is the single chain like in Europe, whose online shopping system is profitableand successful (Witcher and Chau, 2010). Digital in-store implementation experience For enhancing the Tesco operating model efficiency, the company has invested in thedigital in-store initiatives. Self-checkout as well as scan as you shop devices are placed alongwith the employee check out stations for offering the customers with technology, to performthe functions of check-out without involving the employees of Tesco (Witcher and Chau,2010). From the perspective of operating and business model, the outcomes are shown in the6

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