SWOT Analysis of Tesco: Impacts and Challenges in the Business Environment

This report provides a SWOT analysis of Tesco, highlighting the impacts and challenges faced by the management in the business environment. It covers the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats faced by Tesco, along with an operational impact analysis. The report also discusses the importance of technological innovation in maintaining competitiveness.

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Business Environment

Executive Summary
In this report SWOT analysis are included, even with the what may be the impacts and
affects the management that can face while difficulty in working on the techniques and methods
that are even with the example of the model.

Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
SWOT ANALYSIS.....................................................................................................................4
Operational Impact Analysis.......................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Business environment is the group of all sort of factors that will involve the internal or external
factors as such group will involve the consumers and staffs requirements and the consumers that
are expecting in term of supply, demand etc. In context to the marketing term, marketing term
will define as the set of the skills of the company and the management to maintain the stage and
will create a good relations with consumers. Business environment is the combination of all
internal and external factors that helps in monitoring the efficiency and effectiveness of the
business (Mazilescu, 2020). Tesco is taken as the base company and it specialises in selling of
groceries and merchandise retail. It was found by Jack Cohen in 1919. In context to Tesco, this
report covers SWOT analysis that is utilised by the management for determining the factors that
affects their performance and they are mentioned below -
MAIN BODY
SWOT ANALYSIS
SWOT analysis is utilised to determine the internal factors that create an impact on the functions
and operations of the management. SWOT analysis refers to the strength weakness of
opportunity threats that will help the management to determine the internal factors. Hence, there
are SWOT analysis of the Tesco that are mentioned below -
 Strength – The management that has biggest grocery and merchandise retail in the
United Kingdom that will develop more set of an opportunities for the management. As
they have higher sales and income in its place of the other market sequence. As they have
very huge market segment in the market place as effectively.
 Weakness – They have low term of cost plan of actions that will create an impact on their
profit boundary. The low cost plan of action that can minimise the profit margin of the
management (Ahlstrom, and et.al., 2020). As also they have poor functional presentation
in the specific market. As there are few stores in channels of the management that are not
working or executing the well in the certain State.
 Opportunities – Is the joint project by developing use fortunately for the management.
The Tesco stores are failing and the joint venture deliver the market information that help
the management to enhance their presentation in such areas. Another sources of online
delivery of the food. As because of techniques and methods that are adopted in respect to

create use of opportunely for the management to develop and update them as per to the
customers and get more benefits and achievement in the market place (Cossengue,
2020). The another opinion is developing market as the Tesco has many supplies in
creating the country so it develop more set of chance for the management to hold more
consumer base and will maximise their success and competence.
 Threats – If the management is effective on the international level so the opposition level
impact on the management and become main threat for the business. With the
maximising development and presentation of another business to become threaten for the
management to make their effectiveness in the Marketplace (Akinsiku, and Oyediran,
2020).
Operational Impact Analysis
A business analysis is a structured procedure of the management that uses to identify and
measure the probable impacts of the disruption to critical business functions by the risk and
issues, misfortunes or crises. A business impact analysis is term as the key element of the
company’s business continuity plan. A business impact analysis determine and analyses business
procedure and an effect of those procedures that are being out of the directive, and the main
target is to create retrieval goals and aim that order how to arrange each of the business issues
and the operations in an experience of some sort of disaster. A business impact analysis (BIA)
analyse the costs of disturbance of the management of the business operations and procedure and
collect the source of data that wanted to create recovery plan of actions. Possible loss situations
should be determine during the risk assessment. Operations and functions that might also be
episodic by the disappointment of the supplier of products and their facilities that are delayed
and get the deliveries. As there are many possible situations that might be measured. The manner
of the business in time when the business operations or procedure is disturbed that can have an
important manner on the loss that can be continued. A store spoiled in the weeks that are prior to
the leave shopping season that might lose the manner of the substantial sum of its yearly sales
and revenue as effectively and efficiently in Tesco. A power outage will lasted a few minutes
that might be a minor an inopportuneness for most of the business but one of the lasting for hours
that might resulted in an important business terms in the business. The another issue for the
business is disruptions it as because of varying in laws and rules it create an impact on the skill

deals and cost materials of the management. As also of their high arrears in credit card obligation
the financial profits that will affect the business in a negative manner.
The organisation Strengths – S
 Existing brand
 Existing consumer
base
 Existing distribution
Weaknesses –W
 Brand perception
 Intermediary use
 Technology and skills
 Channel support
Opportunities – O
 Cross selling
 New markets
 New services and
facilities
 Alliances and co-
branding
SO Plan of actions
Leverage strengths to increase
the opportunities like
attacking plan of actions.
WO Plan of actions
Counter weaknesses by
exploiting chances like
building strength for attacking
plan of actions.
Threats – T
 Consumer choice
 New entrants
 New competitive
products or goods
 Channels conflicts and
issues
ST plan of actions
Leverage strengths to decrease
the threats like defensive plan
of actions.
WT plan of actions
Counter weaknesses and
threats like building strength
for defensive strategies as
effectively.

CONCLUSION
In the above mentioned report it has inventions and techniques and methods that are applied
by the organisations that are given in the business. How the companies or the management that
have face the impacts and challenges and what are the manner to come out from those issues and
problems that is mentioned. It will involve the knowledge and understanding of technological
invention that are also given with the importance of those roles and the responsibilities as
effectively.

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