ASDA PESTLE ANALYSIS Fatima Bashir Presentation
Introduction
ASDA is a public limited company and the second largest supermarket in the UK. ASDA founded in 1949 under the name of Associated Dairies and Farm Group. Asda offers various types of goods and service such as clothing, grocery, electronics, home furnishings and baby product (ASDA, 2014).
Asda mission statement
A mission statement sets out the long-term objective of the business. ASDA's mission is: “to be Britain's best-value retailer exceeding customer needs always”.
ASDA has a statement of purpose. Is helps stakeholders of the business to understand why the business exists. ASDA's purpose is “To make products and services more affordable for customers”.
In addition, ASDA also has values. ASDA values are “respect for each other”
Asda strategies
ASDA strategies are stated through its value, vision and mission statement of the organisation, want to be the best value retail company in the UK (ASDA, 2014).
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Each of these stakeholders is affected by the action of business because each group has an interest in the type of decision that the business managers takes. To conduct the analysis of Asda external environment, pestle analysis will be used.
Political factors refer to the legal activities and political rules that may influence the business in some way. However, ASDA will continue to face many changing in the business for better or maybe worse when it comes to changes in government laws, for example, taxation and unemployment. The government is encouraging business to create or provide different jobs for the consumer this may affect or puts pressure on ASDA as they have to meet the all the government rules and regulation while continues to run the business according to the law (Worthington & Britton
T – Time – a time limit should be put in place to achieve a certain goal so for example increase profits by 6% over 12 months.
As Asda is a public limited company its shares can be sold to the public by selling its stock. Asda’s purpose is to supply goods of a certain quality to customers and as well earn money to stay in the retailer’s competition which include Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrison’s. Asda is a national organisation founded in 1948 by J.W. Hindell however was took over by the retail corporate giant in America, Walmart, after a £6.7 billion takeover in July 1999. Asda’s current owner since 2016 is Sean Clarke. Asda is solely in the tertiary sector as it provides a service/product to its consumers for example vegetables and meat.
"A good mission statement portrays an organization's unique and lasting reason for being, and energizes stakeholders to follow common goals. It likewise enables a focused allocation of
ASDA is a large organisation that operates internationally; therefore they have branches in different areas. Their main targets are families, and they do everything towards making good customer satisfaction. In order to make this possible they communicate with their customers and employees through different methods. ASDA has their strategic decisions to operate and keep the customers informed.
Asda is a national business. This means that they have stores all over the nation. Asda is a tertiary sector and this is after primary that involves extracting raw materials and secondary is converting those raw materials into manufactured goods, so lastly the tertiary sector is commercial services that support the production and distribution process which include transporting, advertising, warehousing and selling.
Most organization have develop an element called a mission statement. A mission statement describes and helps focus the attention of organizational members and external constituents on the organization's core purpose. This is use in the criminal justice and security agency use mission statement for the success of the organization and better serve the community or businesses that they have agree to serve and protect.
They also have a change of suppliers every year. Asda also has a trend that attracts customers that is “you save money everytime” this attracts the customers as they will get their shopping done at a lower price than the rival companies such as Tesco which is also very popular.
It is clear from the list above that political factors often have an impact on companies and how they do business. Organisations need to be able to respond to the current and anticipated future legislation, and alter their marketing policy appropriately.
The mission statement is often publically stated and used by almost every organization today. It helps provide basic guidelines, essentially the core values of a company, and what they aim for. A mission statement gives customers
Political factors is an external environment in which a business functions. This is a type of external constraint for a business and are related to actions of governments. This factors can affect how the business operates. Political factors include politicians, who make important decisions. These can be done at national level at the UK
A mission statement is a statement of purpose, describing who the company is and what it does.
Macro environment comprises external forces that organisation cannot directly control, instead organisation need to manage their macro environment in a way that benefits them ("The Macro Environment & Pest Analysis", 2016). The PESTLE analysis is the most widely recognized approach for considering the external business environment (Gupta, 2013). PESTLE analysis stands for Political, Economic, Social, and Technological, Legal and environmental analysis and describe a framework of macro environmental factors utilized as a part of the environmental scanning component of strategic management. Generally, all the PESTLE factors might not important for all types of industry its depends up industry nature or size. This PESTLE analysis is based on Accor Hotels in Australia which is a famous and globally recognise hospitality brand.
Macro environment is crucial to the development of a company. All the external factors can have huge positive or negative influences on Travis Perkins plc, therefore a better understanding of the environment of the company is of supreme significance (Peng & Nunes, 2007). Among all the analysis tools, PEST analysis is one of the most effective tools to analyze the external environment of a company (Riley, 2012). This part will demonstrate PESTLE analysis of Travis Perkins plc below. The result of PESTLE analysis can be demonstrated in the following table 1.
I am going doing this to look at the external factors affecting a business and what advantages/disadvantages there may be and if it affects the company in the long term.
External analysis of general environment will be done using PESTEL which refers to how the political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal environment affects an organization. Below will be a diagram of PESTEL, followed by a brief explanation of each factor and their examples.