Financial Analysis of Woolworths Group - Desklib

COMPANY ANALYSIS OF
WOOLWORTHS GROUP

INTRODUCTION ABOUT
WOOLWORTHS
• Woolworths Supermarkets is also known as by the other
name "Woolies"
• It was incorporated way back in early 1920's around 92
years ago.
• Its headquarter is located in Bella Vista, new South
Wales, Australia.
• Woolworth mainly deals out in an industry of retail
segment while operating through a chain of supermarket
stores.
• It is a listed ASX company with more than around
111,000 employees working for the organization.

Market share of Woolworths in
retail industry
• In terms of sales
revenue, Woolworths
carry almost half of the
Australian retail market
share.
• Coles and Woolworths
jointly control around
80% of the total
Australian retail market.

Woolworths Financial Statements
utilisation for its users
No. Financial
Statement
Utilised by Stakeholder Use of financial
statement
1. Statement of
financial position
Investors, Management,
Auditors, Employees,
Government, Public at
large
To know about the
financial position at
particular point of time
2. Statement of
profitability
Taxation authorities,
Business lenders,
Auditors, Employees
To ascertain the
profitability position of
the business group
earned by them during
a particular period
3. Statement of
Cash flow
Business manager,
Creditors and other
lenders
To know about the cash
solvency position of
business