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  1. BUSINESS OPERATIONS TOLL-FREENO:+61879057034 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com A AS SS SIG IGNM NME ENT H NT HE EL LP P & & WR WRITING ITING S SE ERVI RVICE CE A AUSTRAL USTRALIA IA

  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 3 TASK ................................................................................................................................... 3 1) Key PESTLE factors that are impacting Tesco Plc ..................................................... 3 2) The core target market of the Tesco Plc ..................................................................... 4 3) Tesco uses its marketing mix (4Ps) to attract its target market ................................... 6 CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................... 7 REFERENCES .................................................................................................................... 8 THIS IS A SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT BUY COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT PREPARED BY EXPERTS CONTACT US: TOLL-FREE NO: +61 879057034 WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com TOLL-FREENO:+61879057034 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com A AS SS SIG IGNM NME ENT H NT HE EL LP P & & WR WRITING ITING S SE ERVI RVICE CE A AUSTRAL USTRALIA IA

  3. INTRODUCTION Business operations are a collective techniques which gathers the value of assets and also monitors different operations of the organisation. The main aim of the business operations is maximize the value of the assets, generate recurring income, and secure value of fundamental management imperatives. The business enterprise model describes how management imperatives are achieved whereas operations are the execution of this model (Chandraserkar, 2010). For the present report, organization chosen is Tesco PLC. It is a UK based multinational company which comes under retail industry. It covers high ratio of market share in UK in terms of grocery. Company is founded by Jack Cohen in year 1919 and Tesco PLC has been investing in other different types of products and also expanding its business globally (About us, 2016). The reports include the key factors of the PESTLE which examine the macro environment, the target market which is targeted by the Tesco and the strategies used in the marketing mix. TASK 1) Key PESTLE factors that are impacting Tesco Plc To analyse the macro environment of organisation, Company uses PESTLE factors to examine the organisation's political, economic, social, technological, legal and environment factors (Cockburn and et. al., 2014): Political Factors: As the company is operating worldwide, the political factors are influencing the sales performance of the Tesco globally. Political factors of Tesco Plc include tax rates, acts of legislation and stability of the country in which it operates etc. Due to the ongoing financial instability or in the period of recession, prices of the products go down and company offer products at economic rates according to the wealth of the customers. Whereas in the normal period, the company increases the prices of the products and try to increase their sales performance as well as the profitability of the organisation (Martin, 2009). Economic Factors: Tesco main focus is on the leverage costs, demand, price and profitability of the organisation. The company should be adaptable in nature with respect to changes in policies such as changes in taxation or others factors which could influence the finance of the business enterprise. Tesco is expanding globally but its market share is more in the UK as TOLL-FREENO:+61879057034 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com A AS SS SIG IGNM NME ENT H NT HE EL LP P & & WR WRITING ITING S SE ERVI RVICE CE A AUSTRAL USTRALIA IA

  4. compared to the internationally market. Tesco follows two major strategies to achieve their goals i.e. internationalization and diversification and if tax rates of the product increases then, it will be a huge effect on the organisation because they have to make balance between their actual prices and selling prices (Bharwani and Mathews, 2012). Social Factors: Changing in lifestyles leads to bulk shopping and one-stop shopping from the customers in the UK. . Tesco has increased their products in their retails outlets and some non- food items are offered for sale (Baxter, 2015). Consumers demand the products and services according to their tastes, preferences, attitudes and perception which are influenced by the social factors. Tesco is offering organic products to their customers because they are now aware of the health issues due to which people are changing their food products and adapting those changes. Technological Factors: New and advance technology has offered various opportunities to the Tesco such as the development of online shopping with facilities like home delivery etc. Tesco is also providing self -service checkout points which are easy for customers and which are reducing the labour costs of the company as well (Team FME, 2013). Moreover, Tesco is contributing some amount on the energy efficiency projects to fulfil their long-term goals to decrease the company's carbon footprint. Some of the advanced technologies of the Tesco are: Radio Frequency Identification, Electronic shelf labelling, Electronic Fund transfer system etc. (About us, 2016). Legal Factors: Tesco can be influenced by the government policies and legislations which can affect the performance of the company (Murray-Webster, 2010). When FRA introduces policies like Code of Conduct in which change in price without prior notice etc. are should be banned. And to adapt these policies, Tesco is providing fuel to its customers at low price when they make purchase from grocery stores. Tesco has also kept low prices for its promotional activities so that they can improve their sales performance. Environmental Factors: Tesco is taking the social responsibility while developing its products in the organisation. Company is focussing on the environmental factors like cutting wastage while product manufacturing, optimum utilization of resources and reducing environmental damage etc. Tesco is adopting different ways of operations which is benefiting the society and TOLL-FREENO:+61879057034 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com A AS SS SIG IGNM NME ENT H NT HE EL LP P & & WR WRITING ITING S SE ERVI RVICE CE A AUSTRAL USTRALIA IA

  5. addressing environmental issues (Smidt and Wever, 2013.). The organisation is also concentrating on minimizing the wastage in their stores by increasing the social ethics and morals in their customers. 2) The core target market of the Tesco Plc To target any market for making profits for any organisations, the company makes strategies like segmenting target market into different sub groups, targeting specific markets and positioning that particular product etc. (DeSarbo and et. al., 2009). To attract more customers, the company engage in market segmentation, targeting and positioning practises. Tesco Plc is focussing on the particular product i.e. Tesco clothing in which the company has done segmentation, targeting and positioning of the product: THIS IS A SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT BUY COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT PREPARED BY EXPERTS CONTACT US: TOLL-FREE NO: +61 879057034 WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com Segmentation: It is a marketing strategy which divides large target market into sub-groups like consumers, business, region on the basis of needs, interests and requirements of the target groups and further executes this strategy on different markets (Budeva and Mullen, 2014). The segmentation is further categorized into demographic, geographic, behavioural and psychographic segmentations. Tesco clothing is also categorised in these four segmentation and they are as follows: Demographic segmentation: It includes age, gender, income level etc. so the Tesco can provide clothing for all ages of the customers according to their income level. TOLL-FREENO:+61879057034 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com A AS SS SIG IGNM NME ENT H NT HE EL LP P & & WR WRITING ITING S SE ERVI RVICE CE A AUSTRAL USTRALIA IA

  6. Geographic segmentation:This segmentation includes customer’s location, regions etc. and also consider ACORN classification in their segmentation to attract the customers and improve their sales performance. Behavioural segmentation: It includes rate of usage, benefits, loyalty status etc. in which customers buy the products according to the value of that products (Gretzky, 2010.). Tesco is also providing their clothes to the cost advantage customers who prefer clothes quality equivalent to price. Psychographic segmentation: This segmentation is segmented into tastes, preferences, lifestyles, attitudes and class of the customers. Tesco is offering different varieties of the clothing products to their customers according to their tastes, preferences, lifestyles etc. Targeting: The targeting strategy includes segmenting of the market, selecting more appropriate for the organisation to determining the products that will offered in each segments as well as increases of the profitability (Doole and Lowe, 2008). Tesco is targeting the demographic segmenting because in that it offers both gender related as well as age related segments. Because the company is selling the clothing lines for both men and women and these clothing lines may include casual and business attire for both genders. Tesco is also targeting teenage girls with their trendy new fashion lines including different apparels with affordable prices. Children, infants, toddlers etc. also comes under Tesco targeting market to attract its customers. The company is providing clothes to both the genders of all the ages at different prices at one place so that it can be easily accessible and affordable for the customers. Tesco provides some benefits to their loyal customers to retain them in the organisation and company targets impulsive buyer to sell their products. The organisation is offering costly products to their premium class customers whereas their low price products to the middle class people (Shiels and et. al., 2013). Tesco is placing their retail stores in the centre of the cities to attract large number of customers and to increase the demand of its products. Positioning: Tesco is positioning the retail stores which help the customers in getting their preferable clothes in nearby places. Positioning defines where your product and services is in the market with a good position and holds the brand image in the mind of the customers (Kengthon, 2011). Tesco uses large number of strategies to attract targeted customer market TOLL-FREENO:+61879057034 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com A AS SS SIG IGNM NME ENT H NT HE EL LP P & & WR WRITING ITING S SE ERVI RVICE CE A AUSTRAL USTRALIA IA

  7. such as functional positioning, symbolic positioning, price positioning, experiential positioning etc. Positioning of a product involves dealing with marketing mix each elements to established their brand image in the target market as well as in the minds of the customers. In functioning positioning, Tesco sells its Tesco Finest range products through advertisements for the selected customer segment (About us, 2016). 3) Tesco uses its marketing mix (4Ps) to attract its target market Marketing mix defines as the elements which are used by the marketer to influence the demand of the products and the elements include product, price, place and promotion (Bowie and Buttle, 2011). Tesco uses each and every elements of the market mix to provide competitive benefits to the target customer and enhances its sales performance. THIS IS A SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT BUY COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT PREPARED BY EXPERTS CONTACT US: TOLL-FREE NO: +61 879057034 WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com Product: Tesco is providing range of products and services to their customers which are expanding in terms of sales as well as in the profits. Products and services which are offered by the Tesco are food, clothing, consumer electronics, financial services, banks etc. Tesco focuses to achieve the competitive advantage to their customers by maintaining a balance between quality and price for its products and services. The organisation should consider restoring or revising models of their products to provide its customers according to the needs and requirements (Kotler, 2008). product i.e. Tesco clothing in which the company has done segmentation, targeting and positioning of the product: Price: Tesco pricing strategy plays an important role in their business strategy which are TOLL-FREENO:+61879057034 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com A AS SS SIG IGNM NME ENT H NT HE EL LP P & & WR WRITING ITING S SE ERVI RVICE CE A AUSTRAL USTRALIA IA

  8. contributing to its competitive advantage. Tesco tag-line 'Every Little Helps' is absolutely relating to its company's pricing strategy. Tesco is focussing into reducing the purchase cost and business operational costs through economies of scale (Shiels and et. al., 2013). Company is also aiming at cost advantage measure to retain its brand value in the market and in the minds of the consumers. Cost advantages can be enhances by process efficiencies, expanding exclusive contact of low cost materials by anchoring cost leadership. Place: It is an element in the marketing mix which is relates to the location and region where customers purchase their products and services and company distributes their products at various location (7 P's of marketing mix. 2015.). Tesco distributes its products by two mediums i.e. offline and online. Offline sales channels of distribution has four retail stores formats and they are : Tesco Express, Tesco Metro, Tesco Compact and Tesco Superstore (About us, 2016). Whereas online channel of distribution is Tesco Direct which is related to the company website. Tesco should make large investment in the store expansion in low income districts and localities. Promotion: Tesco main aim is increasing in profitability in all perspectives and also increases its brand value in the market. This objectives can be achieved by promotional activities such as advertisements, mass media like television, newspapers etc., social media like Facebook, Twitter etc. The organisation can offers sponsorship, discounts, vouchers etc. and charitable events to create its brand image in the market (Urde and Koch, 2014). The company introduces Tesco Clubcard which is an effective promotional tool for cost advantage in which company collects the feedback of the consumers and this can help in the brand value of the company (About us, 2016). CONCLUSION From the entire study it has been found that business operations plays important role in the organization and it is a beneficial for Tesco in every possible manner. Marketing tool being designed by the company is strong and helps the company to attract more customers. To know the macro environment of the organisation, company has done PESTLE analysis to its factors about the organisation. Apart from this, firm operates in competitive market due to which main stress is on segmentation, targeting and positioning as it provides competitive advantage to the organization. Prices set by organization are low so as to attract more customers and due to this reason company is regarded TOLL-FREENO:+61879057034 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com A AS SS SIG IGNM NME ENT H NT HE EL LP P & & WR WRITING ITING S SE ERVI RVICE CE A AUSTRAL USTRALIA IA

  9. as leader in the market. THIS IS A SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT BUY COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT PREPARED BY EXPERTS CONTACT US: TOLL-FREE NO: +61 879057034 WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com TOLL-FREENO:+61879057034 EMAIL: help@assignmentprime.com WHATSAPP NO: +61 424715655 WEBSITE: http://www.assignmentprime.com A AS SS SIG IGNM NME ENT H NT HE EL LP P & & WR WRITING ITING S SE ERVI RVICE CE A AUSTRAL USTRALIA IA

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