Business Environment Analysis Report: Primark Case Study, Semester X

This report provides a detailed analysis of Primark's business environment. It begins with an introduction to the concept of the business environment and its impact on a company's operations. The report then delves into the different types of organizations, including private and public companies, and voluntary organizations, using Primark as a case study. It examines Primark's size and scope, its relationship with various organizational functions, and the positive and negative impacts of the macro environment on its business operations. Furthermore, the report assesses the internal and external evaluation of the organization, considering the relationship between macro-environmental factors and its strengths and weaknesses, ultimately concluding with an overview of the key findings and insights into Primark's business strategies and challenges.

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Types and purpose of different kinds of organisations.....................................................3
P2 Size and scope of organizations........................................................................................6
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................7
P3 Relationship between different functions of an organisation............................................7
M2.........................................................................................................................................10
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
P4 Positive and negative impact of macro environment on business operations.................10
D2.........................................................................................................................................12
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12
P5 Internal and external evaluation of an organisation........................................................12
P6 Relation between macro environmental factors and strength & weaknesses..................14
M4.........................................................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Business environment means the amalgamation of both internal and external components
of atmosphere that inspires a company's managing situation. It involves factors such as
customers and suppliers, holders and competitors, up gradation in technologies, statutes and
government activities and merchandise. Both internal and outside elements can impact each
other and perform together to induce a business like health and safety rules is an outside
ingredient that affect the inner environment of a company's operations. It is vigorous in nature
which means it keeps on reshaping (Agarwal, Grassl and Pahl, 2012). The changes in it are
unpredictable, means very difficult to forecast the exact character of prospective happenings and
the alteration in economic atmosphere. It helps in describing the opportunities and risks arising
in an organisation to interact within an entity. It supports an enterprise for reaching the disputes
successfully. Present report is based on Primark which is a UK based retailing company that is a
subsidiary of Associated British Foods and its headquarter is in Dublin. It facilitates with a
variety of products involves clothing of new born babies and children's, women wear,
accessories, home appliances, foot wears etc. It sale products at low cost to the customers under
average prices.
TASK 1
P1 Types and purpose of different kinds of organisations
An organisation is an enterprise composed of multiple individuals like association or
institution which has a collective objective and is connected to an outside environment. The
types of an organisation are as follows-
Companies- It is owned by stakeholders who appoint managing director of a business.
The Chief Executive is considered to be senior most official in an organisation having
responsibility for decision-making. Specialists are authorised to carry an enterprise on behalf of
panel. A company is a lawful body which has its own rights with an existing that is unrelated in
law from its holders. It also has a right to sue or can be sued in its name.
Private company- It has Ltd. after its name. They are smaller than as compare to public
companies. Shares of a private company can be purchased and sold with permission of penal.
Stakeholder have limited liability. It is limited by shares and is not proposed to public.

Stakeholders also have limited liability. These shares can only be transferred by an agreement
between the seller and the purchaser. Primark is one of the largest seller of clothing in the
international market and it has stores in UK and USA, it has 384 stores total in the world.
Source: Primark's revenue worldwide from financial year 2007 to 2016 (in million GBP).
Above presented diagram show the business expansion of Primark in the international
market and company is having a regular growth in the international market.
Public company- It can sale shares to the general public and to monetary institutions and
have stakes traded on the world of commerce. The main objective of is that huge amounts of
wealth can be increased rapidly.
The disadvantage is that the supervising power of business can be lost by the indigenous
stakeholders if huge quantity of shares are bought as part of hostile takeover (Boons and Lüdeke-
Freund, 2013). With regard to develop a public company the board of directors must approach to
the Stock Exchange Council, that will inspect the accounts carefully.
Illustration 1: Primark's revenue worldwide

Voluntary organisations- It is a group of persons who ingress into an agreement,
ordinarily as volunteers to form a business to achieve an objective. For example trade
associations, learned societies, environmental groups and professional associations. These
enterprises are established to carry out some interest for the huge community than its members.
These benefits could be educational, social, economic or environmental etc.
Purpose of organisations-
The beginning point for any planning is the objective of a business. It describes who is
responsible for an enterprise and how it pays taxes (Cantwell, Dunning and Lundan, 2010).
Primark exists to serve consumers so they are very important than share holders, employees and
the management. The purpose of it are as follows-
Responsiveness- An organisation should be capable to give responses rapidly to reach
the needs and requirements of the customers to fulfil their demand. They have to give answer
quickly not to take too much time for this time management will be needed by them. The less
time they take, the immediate will be response for better outcomes. The desires of the consumers
always changes with the passing time and services of a business. Therefore, an enterprise has to
discover accordingly.
Reliability- It is to be needed by every organisation to meet the promises made to the
clients. Commitments to them should never be made assemble lightly. It requires to be the
highest preference of a company and always be reached.
Profitability- This is the supreme production measure for commercial organisations. It is
quantifies either regarding absolute margins or as ratio like earning per share or return on capital.
But this is not the superior goal of all the businesses.
Growth- It is an essential objective of many businesses. Actually, for some enterprises
this is the pre-eminent goal.
Stakeholders value- As they are the owner of an organisation, it is important to
maximise the benefit of their holdings. What is strange that the limit to which this goal is
characterise in many planning processes, although few enterprises tie their ideas to an explicit
evaluation of stakeholders value.
Customer satisfaction- Without clients or consumers no business can survive for long
period of time. The enormous rise in competition in commercial markets, the dissolution of

monopolies and the move towards the enlarged customer power are considerate these entities to
give huge weight to their interest.
P2 Size and scope of organizations
Organisation is a social unit of individuals that is designed and controlled to meet a desire
or to carry overall goals (Carroll and Shabana, 2010). All businesses have a administration
structure that defines relationship between the various activities and the workers, liabilities and
authorities to perform several tasks. This is a open system that impact and are affected by the
atmosphere.
The scope of an organisation involves the long-term goals that will attach utilities to the
business and survive with the uncertainty of present time. It comprises of the course of action
and allotment of resources to obtain the results.
Voluntary organisation- These businesses relies on incident or regular participants for
its operations and not paid off workforce (Chandrasekar, 2011). It is identified by sovereignty of
the state, self-governing by a board of voluntary trustees, membership which is neither assumed
or authorised, assistance from philanthropy, interest for or service to outsiders and not-for-profit
aim. Its main aim is to change the world by providing better facilities through charities to fulfil
the needs of the weaker section of the society. They are non-profit organisations means nor
working for earning revenues.
Oxfam is an international charitable organization emphasis on the mitigation of global
poverty. It is founded as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of Quakers, social
analyst and Oxford academics. It is a large organisation having around five thousand nine
hundred workers. Its objective is to influence the British government to enable food relief by the
Allied siege for the starving population of occupied Greece.
Size:
It works for those people which are having a huge need of survival due to natural and
man made disaster, it has a broad network in more than 90 countries of world. It have volunteers,
donators, managers which are work to sustain objectives.
Scope:
The organisation is working in more than 90 countries and they are working for better
food for poor people, water, health and education of poor kids, women's rights, people suffering

from natural disaster etc. in these areas they are working to supports women, kids and poor
people.
Background of the organisation:
Oxfam was established in 1995 and it was a collective group of non governmental
organisation. This group was having a main aim to provide a quality services to people living
below poverty level and having injustice for any kind of issues.
Private company- A firm in the non-public sector of a economy supervised and
managed by private individuals. A limited company who cannot issue its shares to public
subscription and whose holders are not free to transfer their stake holdings. The main objective
of a private company is to earn maximum profit by increasing their sales to earn maximum
profit. They work only for achieving their objectives in terms of money.
Primark is a UK based retailing business which is subsidiary of Associated British Foods.
It is a large organisation with approx two hundred stores and around thirty shops at the moment.
This is a portion of a industrial or secondary sector that involves the development of final
tangible goods by using production of primary section. It is a division of light industry of the
primary sector (Craig and Campbell, 2012).
Size:
Primark is working in UK and USA, it has more than 300 stores in both. It has a mission
to provide luxury clothings to people and it works in the premium sector market.
Scope:
PRIMARK is mainly working in the clothings in the premium market and they are having
a wide range of clothing for men, women and kids. They are having a wide scope to develop
their new market in different areas of world like Germany and India.
Background of Primark:
Primark has established in the year of 1969 and they have open their first store in the
Dublin Ireland after getting success in the success in the country they start their new stores other
state of the UK.
Public company- It is a firm which is supervised and operated by the government and
civil servants. Its shares are traded on a security exchange and can be purchased and sold to

anyone. These are strictly managed and are required by charter to publish their whole and true
monetary position so that the investors can describe the true worth of shares.
Tesco is a public company. It is a global organisation as operates in approx fourteen
markets in Europe, Asia and North America. It has approx three lac workers and over two
thousand nine hundred stores. The main scope of it to develop benefits for customers to gain
their loyalty for lifetime. It offers a huge variety of goods and services such as groceries,
clothings, home appliances etc. to the general public. Main objective of this company is to
increase profits and to facilitate products to maximise sales.
Size:
TESCO is a market leader in the grocer retail and it has captured more than 27% market
share. It has a mission to provide best products in the competitive prices which can help to their
targeted customers to get maximum satisfaction.
Scope:
TESCO is working in the grocery retail, telecom, banking & finance and technological
support for other companies. In the grocery retail sector they are working on leading position.
Background of TESCO:
It was established in the year of 1919 from Jack Cohen on the initial stage in the Well
Street Market. After a rigours development in the shipment of tea has developed them as a brand
in the market. They have developed their grocery retail stores in the market and establish their
own supermarket in the retail.
TASK 2
P3 Relationship between different functions of an organisation
Primark require to perform various function with regard to manufacture and sale their
goods or services such as structure and production, human resource, sales and marketing,
finance, execution and research and development.
Every function requires to perform together to achieve the overall objectives of an
organisation (Foerstl, K., et. al., 2010). Communication beyond all the tasks is an important
activity to attain this. The beginning point of such transmission is the development of direct set

of objective of company. These goals desire to be moreover divided into particular objectives of
each function.
Source: Primark (Organizational Chart).
All business function are interrelated to which helps to the company to attain objectives.
Information from marketing department impacts on the sales, purchase, finance, HR to put their
extra efforts for upcoming demands.
Design and production- To develop a good or service an enterprise will require to
amalgamate capital, information, energy and materials.
Labour is the physical and mental activity of employees and carry a variety of forms
involving filing, data processing, lifting and line management. In fact it is a task that a worker
need to manage with regard to manufacture goods or services.
Capital is the system and tool required to develop the product and services. The physical
capital is bought through monetary such as sale of shares, bank loans in an organisation and
utilise profits earned by the business (Gecevska and et. al., 2010).
Illustration 2: Organisational Chart of Primark

Energy is furnish through the utilization of gas, solar power, electricity and steam. It is
required to build up the premises, assemble the machinery work and make sure that the
enterprise is pleasant place for workers to work in. Material in their unfinished form is required
to manufacture goods and services. Information is the skill and expertise requires to produce the
final product.
Finance- The monetary division of an organisation will keep physical and electronic
documentation of money comes in and goes out. This data will be utilized to manufacture several
financial statements for purpose of tax and to follow with legal needs.
This section also be liable for executing expenses of employees and salaries. For paying
wages this department require to take into consideration statutory deductions like taxes and
employee benefactions such as repayments of loans and pensions.
Human resource- Its main functions are hiring, selecting and providing training to
employees. This will include developing workforce to raise their potential in such manner that
moreover the organisation's goal.
It may also require to follow with codification applicable to that country in which they
are situated (Halbert and Ingulli, 2011). This ordinarily acquires a well-being role that involves
focusing after employees although they are at work.
Sales and marketing function- The merchandising department will research the needs
of the customers to develop plans and product to fulfil their desires. In research, it will inspect
the market they are focusing at the variety of customers making market and their requirements.
After that it will desire to unite consumers preferences with manufacturing a product which is
profitable. Once the good has been structured by the manufacturing department it will need to
pack, advertise and then promote the commodity.
Sales department is liable for influencing the customer to buy the product, produced via
marketing research. Its selling plan could include mail shots, telephonic sales, formulating the
sales interviews and travelling sales representatives.
Administrative- This includes dealing with all executive tasks that involve mail
handling, computer services and associating with enquiries/complaints. They also produce
documentations for the business and manage its equipments and premises.

Research and development- The main objective of it is to upgrade the prevailing
products, develop new and better goods, improve methods of production. This enable the
enterprise to decrease cost, increase outcomes and remain in competition (Iskanius, Page and
Anbuudayasankar, 2010).
M2
Advantages and disadvantages of functions of organisation-
The main benefit of functions of organisation is to ensure that a greater section of labour
enable the enterprise to take advantage of specialisations of tasks. It also increases the efficiency
of the employees and remaining need to perform a finite number of operations and get directions
and suggestions from from specialists.
The demerits of functions of organisation is that they are very complex to perform.
Employees are directed by the superiors to remove the Confusion created in an enterprise. Under
this the tasks are divided into portions and sub-portions that create difficulties in cooperating the
working of dissimilar parts (Oh, 2010).
TASK 3
P4 Positive and negative impact of macro environment on business operations
Macro environment is external to the business operations. These factors are
uncontrollable and after the direct effect and control of an organisation. It comprises of
individuals, agencies, organisation, groups, occasions, circumstances and forces. These are
rapidly contacted by the business for its functions. It implemented a good conversation and
interconnected relationship in the form of behavioural business transition. Proper structuring and
execution of macro environment authorise Primark to make suitable strategies and procedures to
follow with and make alterations.
The main elements of macro environment are as follows-
Political factors- These are basically how the government infers in the economy. It
includes policies related to taxes, trade bounds, labour law, political stability and tariffs. It also
involve product and services that the government wants to provide or not. Therefore, government
has a huge impact on the education, health & safety and infrastructures of a country. Change in