Marks & Spencer Business Environment: A PESTLE & Porter's Analysis

This report provides an analysis of the business environment impacting Marks & Spencer, a prominent UK retailer. It employs the PESTLE framework to evaluate political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors influencing the company's operations. Furthermore, Porter's Five Forces model is applied to assess the competitive intensity within the industry, considering the threat of new entrants, the bargaining power of buyers and suppliers, the threat of substitute products, and the intensity of competitive rivalry. The analysis aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the external and internal factors that affect Marks & Spencer's strategic decision-making, growth prospects, and overall sustainability in the market. Desklib provides access to this and many other solved assignments for students.

Business Environment

Table of Contents
• Introduction
• PESTLE Analysis
• Porters five force analysis
• Conclusion

INTRODUCTION
• Business environment is a combination of all internal and external factors such as
customer needs, employees, management, clients, market trends and economic
changes that effect the operations of business(Leke, Chironga and Desvaux, 2018).
• Marks and Spencer is a well renowned retailer in the market of UK which is
headquartered in London, England.

PESTLE ANALYSIS
• Political factors
• Environmental factors
• Social factors
• Technological factors
• Legal factors
• Environmental factors

PORTERS FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS
• Threat of new entrants
• Threat of substitute products
• Bargaining power of Buyers
• Bargaining power of suppliers
• Competitive rivalry

CONCLUSION
• It is concluded that business environment helps company in analysing competitors strategy
and actions for implementing better strategies in order to achieve growth and sustainability
in market.
• The presentation evaluates the impact of external and internal factors by applying Pestle and
Porters five forces model which helps in understating the competitive market and provides a
complete picture of the factors that can impact the company's profitability and growth.

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