An Examination of UK Business Types, Structures and PESTLE Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the UK business landscape, analyzing various company types, including small, micro, medium, and large businesses, as well as different structures such as partnerships, public limited companies, cooperatives, and limited liability businesses. The report also explores the impact of different organizational structures, such as hierarchical, functional, and matrix structures, on business productivity, with Deliveroo used as a case study. Furthermore, it applies PESTLE analysis to examine the external factors—political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal—that affect business performance, providing insights into how these factors influence a business's operations and strategic planning. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the importance of understanding the interplay between internal structures and external influences in achieving business success. The report aims to provide students with a clear understanding of the UK business environment.

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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Section 1......................................................................................................................................................3
Different types of companies & how they use to work............................................................................3
Section 2......................................................................................................................................................4
Different companies from sole traders to cooperatives and Limited Liability Partnerships.....................4
Section 3......................................................................................................................................................5
Different organizational structures & explain how organizational structure affects business
productivity.............................................................................................................................................5
Using PESTLE analysis explain how different external factors affect the performance of a business.....6
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCE..............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Business implements out the sector through which the generation of revenues and proper
goods and services can be produced. It is mainly being done by proper proportionate planning
through which all the services and the facilities can be provided to the customers for their
technological advancement (Redlich, and et. al., 2018). UK attains so many firms and companies
like micro, small, medium and large. And all such requirements are being helpful as to maintain
the proper resources and ownership that is being required to frame the benefits for the company
for instance cooperative, sole trader, partnership and many more. The Organisation chosen for
this report is delivered as it is the largest food Deliveroo company headquartered in London UK
and used to supply their food and network channels from outside restaurants by maintaining the
delivery preparation. This report will further cover the organisational structure and all the
important external factors in order to strategise the performance.
MAIN BODY
Section 1
Different types of companies & how they use to work.
The companies used to be operated and framed in order to maintain the standard of living
and also to provide growth in the employment sectors as UK so so to hell technological
advancement in all the companies and approaches through which there has been frame to target
the customers in all the local areas. It is being analysed that there are certain companies in UK
which helps out to increase the economic growth which are as follows:
 Small business: It is mainly the companies which are started in smaller section and used
to cover only 10 to 50 employees in their general working areas they attain the turnover
for around £10 million. It focus on all the smaller sections of the market areas in order to
generate the revenues and also being handled by sole proprietorship. It mainly work on
low scale medium and try to provide and connect with smaller areas in sections as tab
mainly being managed by partnerships or also by the employees who are being working
in the company (Viriyasitavat, and et.al., 2019).

 Micro business: It is mainly the business practice which used to help out to enhance the
economy of the country and also protects out all the areas in the unprivileged society. The
mainly have employees less than 10 and covers around £2 million of annual turnover. All
such business is being maintained to increase the development and the profit in the
market areas and also to grow the society and design with the production and their
innovative approach and ideas. It is mainly the start-ups that is being engaged by
individual for their personal growth.
 Medium business: Such business practices which have annual turnover for around £50
million and employees per working or less than 250 are being covered under medium
business practises. These businesses cover a larger section as compare to all micro and
small, and try to implement the equipments and all the important machineries set up
being required for raising the production in the business practice. It mainly focus on
framing the growth in the success (Burton, and Turnbull, 2019). Such companies usually
provides the employees of rural areas To develop and get the employment facilities and
with that also try to approach the suppliers and the investors in order to make their
business easy in practice and to help the country in expanding national areas.
 Large company: It is mainly the multinational companies in all the massive companies
which are being made in order to increase the growth of the country, to generate
maximum revenue for the country, to maintain the friendly relations with the neighbour
countries and many more. They mainly have 250 workers and more working in the
companies and with that around more than £50 million of turnover. The used to serve
maximum employment and generate the revenue for the larger section of the societies by
fulfilling the demands of the customers by taking the valuable feedbacks.
Section 2
Different companies from sole traders to cooperatives and Limited Liability Partnerships.
 Partnership: These are mainly all the business practises in which more than two
individuals are being involved to share all the liabilities, assets, profit and loss that is
being served in the business. As to be in a partnership it is important to get the
registration from companies act. All the partners had a joint liabilities regarding their
working process and to take mutual decision for the company. They try to invest either

from their own savings or also take the investment from the shareholders but taking a
mutual decision on their behalf. All the interest is being transferred for all the adequate
areas on behalf of partners (Wu, c and et.al.,2020).
 Public limited liability business: All such business practice which usually maintain a
proper ownership through sharing the liabilities in the performance and attaining the
transparency in the legislative areas to maintain the financial institutions are being
covered in it. It is mainly where the capital and the funds are being raised and proper
public areas are being served for the tradable areas and stocks. These business practices
are mainly being made transparent for the general public to know about all the working
process and it maintains the stocks in tradable areas in markets.
 Cooperative: All those companies and business practices which usually been covered in a
certain segments and provide services for all the equity shares in a limited manners and
also to raise the capital are covered in it. It provides a democratic areas for in group
improvement and development programmes and also manages the dividends and a
framework culture through which the companies and employment can be frame in a
better manner.
 Limited liability business: This kind of business are usually being arranged in a proper
manager and taxation it can be implicated to the partnership manner and also cover the
smaller section through which the advancement and the working approach can be given
out. It covers the hybrid practice in all the business advancement and also the limited
shares and proper working environment is being given to the workers who are being
connected with such employment. They usually attain the hybrid nature through which all
the approaches and ideas can be framed (Hadaya, and Gagnon,2017).
Section 3
Different organizational structures & explain how organizational structure affects business
productivity.
Organisational structure helps out to provide the methods through which effective
strategies can be implemented in raising the organisation and also to develop the companies in a
better manner. It provides an approach through which is systematic performance and the growth
can be rest out they are mainly as follows:

 Hierarchical structure: It is mainly A pyramid shaped organisational structure which
had sought to implement all the important decisions from topmost level to the lower areas
as all the CEO, managers and directors tend to provide a commands to all the employees
and try to motivate them by proper processes of training sessions and all the increments
that are being given to them (Lin,and Wang,2019).
 Functional structure: All the employees and work in the topmost management level
where all the important decision or been taken from the foremost top-level management
and higher authorities so that the growth and advancement can be maintained by with
easy reliability.
 Matrix structure: It is mainly the cross functional structure where all the teams and the
areas are being managed with the relationship skills in employees are being adapted
through that various methods. Deliveroo use this organisational structure as it is mainly
the growing company and it usually increase their employees as my further expansion in
all the areas so a proper division of work in a management is important employees
thereby are being divided by them in a team of specialist through which a decision
making and all the important coordination with functional areas by providing training,
commands, control can be given and managed (Shen, 2018).
Using PESTLE analysis explain how different external factors affect the performance of a
business.
PESTLE Analysis Provides important strategies and approaches through which all the
external factors of environment can be covered as in context to deliver or it is as follows:
 Political factor: This cover all the elements with the policies that have direct and indirect
impact in the business practice. Deliveroo as they used to cover all the important political
stability by maintaining the integral factors and policies that are being raised in the
taxation for their further expansion. As there has been made a positive factor by covering
all the Stability and the legislature in their expansion.
 Economic factor: It creates a positive impact By implementing and promoting the
profitability in the economic areas and expansions The try to maintain the GDP and also
frame out regarding the interest rate that has been made for the fluctuating market areas.
High employment facilities are being given by them which helps out to lower the sales in

the inflation zone. Which is quite negative factor at the instance of time when there is an
inflation through which the unemployment rate can affect the company is working.
 Social factor: it mainly covers all the influences that has been made by the business
practises for expanding the market areas. Deliveroo covers a positive approach towards
social patterns and all the consumer behaviour by getting influence regarding the taste,
structure and the needs of the consumers it work according to the consumer needs and
demands and also maintain the skill talent through which they implement the social
trends that are being needed in all the delivery processes. Whereas it helps out to
consume a grouping in increase dynamic nature.
 Technological factor: This covers important innovations and ideas as Deliveroo
Implicates out proper innovation in the delivery process and also expands their business
practises through online mediums they try to maintain the online retailing and also frame
the various social media practices to reach consumers with their services and products.
They try to maintain and improve value chain method. It helps out to maintain the future
advancement and goals through the companies (Woodfield, and et. al.,2017)
 Environmental: It mainly covers out of the global development and advancement
according to environmental changes. Deliveroo or covers out the business standard
through which all the allocation of the resources and maintaining the food products is
being framed it helps out To frame the sustainability and also to maintain the consumer
relations in operational areas and working sectors. It can frame out all the environmental
issues and also helps in enhancing the business direction and ecological processes.
 Legal: discovers out all the expansions in the laws and regulations through which the
government has been made the policies. Deliver or tries to maintain all the important
laws regarding the labour law and cover out several facilities of equal treatment to the
employees and providing free treatment and health and safety measures which make them
a positive factor to approach in all the safeguarding areas
CONCLUSION
This above report it is concluded that Business helps out to increase the Production and
revenues it provides a method through which proper trade relations can be maintained in the
global market segments and also allocate to serve out employment. There are so many

companies in UK that helps out to maintain the employment and trade relations. Organisational
structure helps out to implement the working areas and strategies that are being needed for the
companies in hand still working. Further it is also concluded that pistol analysis helps to frame
all the strategies and the extra environmental factors.
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