Marks & Spencer Business Environment Analysis Report - Semester 1

This report provides an analysis of the business environment, focusing on Marks & Spencer (M&S). It begins with an introduction to the business environment, highlighting internal and external factors that impact a company's operations, such as employees, customers, and supply and demand dynamics. The report then explores the purpose of private, public, and voluntary organizations, outlining their different legal structures and the laws that govern them. The analysis further examines the size and scope of the public, private, and voluntary sectors, specifically in the context of M&S. It notes M&S's global presence, including the number of stores in the UK and internationally, and its significant employee base. The report concludes with a list of references, including academic sources related to business environments and models. The report offers a concise overview of M&S's business environment and its interaction with various sectors.

Business
Environment
Task 1

Cover Content
• Introduction
• Purpose private, public and voluntary organization
• Size and scope of public, private and voluntary sector
• References

Introduction
The business environment is that which consider all the internal and external
factors which directly affect the management and function of the company and
some of those factors are like employees, customers and gets affected with
demand and supply as well and its regulation too. The report is based on
Marks and Spencer, firm is leading retailers in UK and somewhere the entity
is having 1433 stores around the globe.

Purpose private, public and
voluntary organization
There are different kinds of organization which has various legal structure in
their organization in which they use to work. Although the private, public and
voluntary entity has several laws, which do followed by firm in right context
to form their business in proper format.

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Size and scope of public, private
and voluntary sector
Moreover, it has seen that the M&S is serving millions of people across the
globe and firm is working at very large level. M&S is serving people with
their quality product and services too. Although, around 970 stores are there in
UK only and having 450 branches as well at the international level. Hence,
company also deals in the food product which took rise in the recent years and
even they have approximately 85,000 employees working with the firm.

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References
Chavis, L.W., Klapper, L.F. and Love, I., 2011. The impact of the business
environment on young firm financing. The world bank economic
review. 25(3). pp.486-507.
Osterwalder, A. and Pigneur, Y., 2010. Business model generation: a
handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. John Wiley
& Sons.

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