Primark & Sainsbury: Business Environment & Organization Types

This report provides an overview of the business environments and organizational structures of Primark and Sainsbury. It identifies Primark as an Irish clothing retailer and subsidiary of Associated British Foods, highlighting its mission to offer quality fashion at affordable prices and its vision to supply quality products with a focus on new promotion. Sainsbury, a supermarket chain, is described with its mission to be the consumer's first choice for food and other items. The report also details the organizational structures of both companies, noting Sainsbury's hierarchical structure and Primark's top-down management approach. It references academic sources to support the analysis of business context and the strategic fit between innovation strategies and the business environment.

BUSINESS & BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
(P1 & P2)

TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS
 Private sector organization
 Public sector organization
 Voluntary organizations
 Charitable organizations

TYPES OF PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS
 Sole trader
 Partnership
 Company:
 Private limited companies
 Public limited companies

PRIMARK
 Primark has a retail stores in the UK an Ireland, it is a
Irish clothing retailer company and subsidiary of
associated British foods.
 In this company 68000 employees had worked, on base
of previous year company generate a good revenue.
 It covers 320 stores in eleven countries, like Uk, Ireland,
Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Austria, France, Italy
and Netherland.
 It offers quality commercial fashion at best value for
money prices for all the family.

PRIMARK’S VISION & MISSION
Vision:
Primark have been to supply quality and affordable product
to the customers with a focus on new promotion.
Mission:
Primark company is to provide good and quality product to
the customer. They focus on a “value for money” .

SAINSBURY ORGANISATION
Establish: Sainsbury is a supermarket chain it offers on line shopping., it is a
second largest chain in Uk.
Supermarkets: Sainsbury PLC was founded in 1869 and today operates over
1200 supermarkets and convenience stores and an online grocery items.
Product portfolio:
It also has two property joint ventures with Land Securities Group PLC and
The British Land Company PLC.
It provides foods, clothing, home ware and financial services. Sainsbury have
pride on having good supplier relationships and work with them to support our
moral trade goals.
Recent acquisition: Sainsbury acquired home retail group on 2 September
2016, creating one of the UK’s leading food and non-food retailers is multi-
product, multi-channel business with fast delivery networks.

SAINSBURY’S VISION & MISSION
Vision:
To be the most trusted retailer where people
love to work and shop.
Mission
Our mission is to be the consumer's first choice
for food & other delivering

ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
 Organisation structure is a typically hierarchical
arrangement of lines of authority of an organisation. It
determines how roles and power are assigned and how
information flows between the level of management. A
structure depends on the organisation's strategy and
objective

TYPES OF STRUCTURE
 Line structure
 Staff or functional structure
 Line and staff structure

CONTD.
 Committee structure:
 Divisional structure:
 Project structure:
 Matrix structure:
 Hybrid structure:

SAINSBURY'S BUSINESS STRUCTURE:
The organizational structure of Sainsbury's is hierarchical
because there is series of levels of people and the level above
controls each level. Each level is the responsibility of the level
above. For example senior managers are responsible for the line
managers and line managers are responsible for sales assistants.

PRIMARK’S BUSINESS STRUCTURE :
The organisation structure of Primark's is top to down
management structure it can be established for high degree of
formation and specialisation.
In this structure decisions are made by the top management and
followed by the lower level.