Business Report: SWOT Analysis of TESCO and Operational Impact

This report provides a detailed SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis of TESCO, a major player in the UK grocery market. The analysis covers various aspects of TESCO's operations, including its financial performance, market share, and strategic positioning. The report highlights TESCO's strengths, such as its strong market presence and innovation capabilities, while also addressing its weaknesses, such as leadership changes and quality control issues. Furthermore, it explores opportunities like online grocery expansion and the potential to capitalize on high unemployment rates. The report also identifies significant threats, including the impact of Brexit, economic recession, and the UK-EU relations. The analysis incorporates marketing, HR, finance, and research and development perspectives, supported by references to relevant academic sources. The report aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of TESCO's current business environment and potential future challenges and opportunities.

SWOT ANALYSIS
AND
OPERATIONAL IMPACT
ANALYSIS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................5
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................5
SWOT ANALYSIS.........................................................................................................................5
Marketing analysis:..........................................................................................................................6
HR....................................................................................................................................................7
FINANCE........................................................................................................................................7
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT............................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
SWOT analysis defined as the strength, weakness, opportunity and thread. This analysis
is help to evaluate the company's strength, weakness opportunity and threat. In the aspect in the
market places which elaborate, what is the position of company and what are the threat which
affect or influence the company profitability (Sutrisno and et. al., 2016).
So as per this, the chosen firm is TESCO and we analyse, what are the strength,
weakness, opportunity and threats of TESCO in the market in a summarised way.
MAIN BODY
SWOT ANALYSIS
Strength-
Financial aspect: at a time in TESCO they are facing approx 6.4 billion loss in their
annual reports in 2015. and also operating cost about 1.9 billions in annual reports of 2020 are
being recovered.
Market share: TESCO is majorly establish in great Britain and their total market share is
about 26.9% of grocery market share (Campisi and et. al., 2018). And TESCO facing
competition with sainsbury which has market share about 15%. moreover, TESCO ruling like a
king in market.
Strong performance during COVID: Despite in this pandemic, singly TESCO make the
profit upto 11% in last three month up to September. The volume of total margin of profit from
TESCO process of selection which hire up 16000 people.
Innovation: TESCO have ability to produce new product and launch in market. The
innovation of new product have chance to get new customer.
Weakness-
Leadership changes: according to retail gazette, the change in TESCO industry which
have create some new changes that acquire new concept of leadership and formulate new
changes that built issues.
Quality control: TESCO do not focus on quality, but customer feedback and review
create a room fr improvement of product and services (Hu and et. al., 2019).
Shortage of product: to resist shortage due to immediate buying. TESCO get clarity to
customer that they have their stock in such a manner to complete the demand of customer.

Inventory management: in many cases due to expire product TESCO pay many of fine
for some product they will pay 175000 for expire product.
Food safety issue: their is wide range of food product in TESCO, in some cases their are
laps are usually created and food got extra ripped and waste.
Opportunity-
Online grocery store in market: in this current situation the spread of corona is maximum
so the plan of online grocery with safety is effective step is taken by company.
High unemployment rate: their is shortage of job in many country and lots of
unemployment people are moving so TESCO have chance to hire those people and provide him
job. They help to achieve organizational goals.
Threats-
UK-EU relation: in current time UK facing Brexit problem which create termination of
free trade agreement with EU (Arias 2016).
Brexit: this term is affect about 80% of imported food which is sold in supermarket.
Economic recession: as per the adoption of new technology the huge investment is taken
out form the fund and this will cause the economic recession.
Marketing analysis:

HR
FINANCE

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Sutrisno and et. al., 2016. Integrating SWOT analysis into the FMEA methodology to improve
corrective action decision making. International Journal of Productivity and Quality
Management, 17(1), pp.104-126.
Campisi and et. al., 2018, November. SWOT analysis for the implementation of spaces and
pedestrian paths at the street markets of Palermo. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol.
2040, No. 1, p. 140003). AIP Publishing LLC.
Hu and et. al., 2019. Time-dependent reliability analysis in operation: prognostics and health
management. In Engineering Design under Uncertainty and Health Prognostics (pp.
233-301). Springer, Cham.
Arias, B., 2016. An analysis of the operation of a flexible oxy-fired CFB power plant integrated
with a thermal energy storage system. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas
Control, 45, pp.172-180.