Managing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

MANAGING SMALL AND
MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................3
TASK.............................................................................................................................3
Nature of the entrepreneur behind the venture................................................................3
SME Start up procedure...............................................................................................3
Business concept and any sources of competitive advantage............................................4
Current level of demand and the competitive environment..............................................5
Growth and Development of CafePod Coffee.................................................................5
The challenges of managing and running the Business....................................................6
Current growth and development tactic of SMEs............................................................7
Government support measures that may be accessible to help venture overcome the
challenges that it faced.................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................7
RECOMMENDATIONS.................................................................................................7
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Managing small sized companies business demands strong range of successful
visionary planning, and resources structural progression for gaining wider range of efficacy
goals informatively. CafePod coffee is an independent growing private firm producing
freshly brewed varied type of organic coffee products, founded in 2011 in UK. The report
will be analysing nature of entrepreneur, business concept and sources of competitive
advantage, growth and development of business to date for gaining in detail analysis. Further,
study will be examining focus on challenges in managing small businesses, SME current
growth rate and various nw development strategies used by company. Government support
measures that may be available for small companies to overcome challenges will be analysed,
towards gaining stronger scale functional rise informatively.
TASK
Nature of the entrepreneur behind the venture.
CafePod Coffee is an independent coffee company, providing high quality coffee in
various categories such as smooth, intense, ristretto, Arabica, decaffeinated and compatible
pods. It offers espresso blends using coffee capsules that are made from food grade
recyclable plastic. Entrepreneur Peter Grainger, founder of Cafe pod cafe has been analysed
to be widely one of the highly passionate, foresighted and visionary leader and owner. Nature
of entrepreneur is widely dynamic which has built strong creative diversity within working
parameters, which enabled to bring on functional strength and high rise on best services. The
company served best premium quality services and products, where coffee production and
standards services by entrepreneur have been innovatively formed. It can be also analysed
that CafePod Coffee entrepreneur is also known for being innovative and creatively further
determined to be determined. The entrepreneur is also acknowledge to have good leadership
skills, where company workforce is highly talented and creatively diversified for varied scale
new advanced services for bringing on functional scale expansion rapidly (Kumar and
Harris, 2020).
SME Start up procedure
The SME start up procedure can be analysed to be widely crucial for bringing on new