Factors Influencing Business Practices: Bagietka Bakery Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Bagietka Bakery's business practices, focusing on the interplay of internal and external factors. The report delves into various internal factors such as raw materials, product composition, preservation methods, and product structure, highlighting their significance in ensuring product quality and longevity. It also examines the selection of suppliers and the cost structure of products as key internal determinants. Furthermore, the report utilizes PESTLE analysis to assess the external environment, considering technological, legal, environmental, political, economic, and sociological factors. It illustrates how Bagietka Bakery interacts with its external environment, emphasizing its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, job creation, and environmental considerations. The report concludes that both internal and external factors are crucial for business growth, with technological and legal factors being particularly impactful. The analysis underscores Bagietka Bakery's efforts to build a positive brand image through CSR and sustainable practices, which are key to achieving its strategic goals.

A business practice refers to the ways it attempt to perform so
in mainly cost effectual way. A industry may have some
appropriate rules for a business practices to make sure that its
workforce are efficient and capable in their job role and stand
by the applicable laws. The internal factor defines to the
anything in the organisation or under control of a industry no
matter whether business things are intangible or tangible.
These factors are after being analysed factors are divided into
strengths as well weaknesses of an organisation. External
factors reefers to those circumstances, influences and
situations that are company cannot control that impact the
industry decisions that a company’s stakeholders and owner
make.
There are a huge number of the external based factors can
have a straight affect on ability of any business to accomplish
its strategic goals and objectives. The below report is based
on Bakery Bagietka Ltd, this bakery is located in Old
Wellington Rd, Eccles in United Kingdom. They started their
business in 2007 and they are deal in various kinds of bakery
products such as breads, cakes, donuts, rolls and various
things. Their main motive is to provide fresh and quality
based products to customers. The below report includes the
how internal and external factors are effect the business and
various ways in which business can impact on external
environment.
Product composition and formulation: This factor of bakery
products is important for good’s life formative factor. In
similarity to utilization of eggs, mild or some other ingredients in
making breads, cakes and many other products. Thus all
ingredients have huge role in positive manner on the product’s
life
Preservation, type of acid and pH value: Increasing acidity of
the bakery products has been utilized as a method of preservation
since the ancient times for making bakery products. It is the best-
established information that microorganisms are only increase in
definite pH range. The pH ranges of a method are linked to
absorption of the hydrogen ions that, in case the food, approach
from a ‘acid’ ingredient that is dissociate in the water and
releasing them in procedures.
Structure of product and make up: Both are important factors
for the bakery success and making best products for customers.
These are helps in increasing the product’s life. Bakery products,
that are mostly solid and semi-solid based, they do not have the
truly homogenous or consistent structure. The chemical as well
physical situation is relevant to the microbial expansion, also
chemical- and biochemical reactions can a strongly
interdependent on position in bakery product. The lesser mobility
of the micro-organisms based in solid products allows the spatial
segregation that is causes the pattern of structure.
Selecting suppliers: It is most important to select best suppliers
for the transferring material in good quality so that they can make
best bakery products. To serve the best quality products for attract
as well retain customers; selecting the suppliers is most important.
Cost structure of products: To attract potential people towards
their brand and retain them the price structure of bakery products
is most essential internal factor. In context to Bagietka bakery,
they set their price as per cost of suppliers, raw material,
transportation and other things which are part of process in
making bakery products.
This basically considers the inner strengths or weaknesses.
Internal based factors can impact how a firm meets their
objectives and goals. Strengths have favourable effect on a
company and weaknesses have a damaging impact on the
organisation. In Context to Bagietka Bakery, there are lots of
internal factors in this field which may have effect and that are
explained below as;
Raw material: This most important factor for any bakery based
business and almost as a regulation the finished product’s
quality is the reflection of a good raw materials, not all the
quality individuality or parameters of the quality raw material
have an power on product’s life. Company wants to serve their
products with best quality, so to maintain the quality of
products they need best resources and raw materials for
making breads and cakes.
Business In Practice
INTRODUCTION Internal factors

This refers to those uncertainties and situation that are a
business cannot control the impact on decision making
process. To analyse the external environment of company,
this report consider the PESTLE Analysis to examine the
various factors which have impact on organisation.
PESTLE Analysis explains the structure of the environment
factors that are used in scanning the elements of strategic
management. There are different factors that are explained
below as:
Political: This includes the tax policies, trade, restriction and
many others. In context to Bagietka bakery , they have
many opportunities to explore and expand their business in
new areas or country’s because the European country
provide opportunity to operate business in their country. UK
also allows to business and support them in expanding their
firm.
Economical: This factor consider the growth of economic,
exchange, inflation rates and many more. In context to
Bagietka bakery, they are paying the NI and Tax to
government for better development and operate business
without any restrictions.
Sociological: This includes the population growth, health of
society and many more. In context to the Bagietka Bakery,
they use quality raw materials for making bakery products
for maintaining the health of society and provide a
satisfaction to community.
Technological: This play huge role in better growth and
development of business. In context to the Bagietka bakery,
they adopt new machineries and use full tools which are
helps in their business process or making bakery products.
Legal: This factor considers the employment, labor, health
and safety law and etc. In context to the Bagietka bakery,
they focus on health and safety law for workforce as well as
the customers. On the other hand company need to run their
business with the legislation of United Kingdom.
Environment: This factor includes the weather, climatic
changes and many more. In context to the Bagietka Bakery,
they make their bakery products as per the requirements so
that climate cannot damage their products.
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External factors
Environment: Company focuses on environment and society also
by taking some actions in favor of business as well as environment.
Industry recycles the some resources and material which can use in
some other way so that they can reduce the wastages and save extra
cost. Through this they can save environment from the damage and
also create a good image in front of society and market.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded the above report, the internal and external
both factors has huge role in better growth and development of
business. As per above analysis of various factors, all internal and
external factors are important for business to operate their firm in
smooth manner and expand their business in different areas. To
analyse the external factors this report consider the PESTLE
analysis to analyse each external factor in right manner so that
company can understand the impact of those factors on business. All
factors has positive impact on business and most effective factor is
technological and legal factor. Company have impact on external
environment and they operate some activities for better image and
values of brand such as they conduct Corporate social responsibility,
provide job opportunity to people, recycling the use full material so
that they can reduce the wastage and etc. All these external factors
are assists in build better brand image so that company can achieve
their targeted goals.
Bagietka Bakery’s impact on external
environment
There are some external environments which have impact on
business of Bagietka, that are explained below as;
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): It is a industry’s
commitment to handle all the environmental, social or
economic impacts of its business operations correctly as well
in the way with the public expectations and needs. This is
most important to increase the image of brand in market by
doing something for society and their welfare.
Economy: They work with more than 60 staff members and
also company provides job opportunity to people in market.
Firm contribute some efforts in better development of
country as well as business.
Political: Company has huge support to business for
operating their business in right or smooth manner.
Companies have political support in importing the
machineries and bakery products. Government of UK also
provide some facilities to business such as loans, import or
export facilities so that industry can operate their business
without any difficulties.