Why Is It Important To Sainsbury's Competitors?

Sainsbury’s have 157,000 employees and the amount of money that they profits per year is £25,632 million as 23 million customers come per week which demonstrates that it is a profit maker. The total sale of Sainsbury’s was +4.3% (including VAT, excluding fuel) in 2013, whereas the “like-to-like” sale was +1.8% (including VAT, excluding fuel) in 2013.

Sainsburys is currently the second largest chain of supermarkets within the UK, with a current supermarket sector share of 16.9%. Sainsbury’s was founded in 1869 and today operates in over 1,200 supermarket and convenience stores, and has over 161,000 employees. We will be looking at a number of areas internally and externally and see how they are effectively or not effectively performing.

Tesco have been around from 1919 and has continued to grow and to expand ever since and is now a recognised brand nationally around the UK. Tesco was founded by Jack Cohen it originally started out with him behind a stall. The First Tesco store which opened was in 1929 in Burnt Oak in Middlesex. This expanded and became bigger by 1939 which led to over 100 Tesco stores across the country. Around the world there are 6,784 stores and Tesco have more than 500,000 employees all around the world which I am one of. From the 1990s Tesco’s became an international business of more than 3,200 stores. Tesco’s have become global white stores over 12 countries.

This year Sainsbury had reported £581m in annual profits (Before tax) of which they awarded a 4.4% pay increase to 135,000 store employees.

Sainsbury’s have a long term goal to deliver their products and keep their customers happy. One of their objectives is to make life easier for their customers by offering products with good quality and service with a fair price. This also makes the customers happy and makes them want to shop

Sainsbury’s goal is to reflect they commitment to meeting customers’ needs; however, they want to shop food, clothing, general merchandise and services also they vision is to be trusted retailer where people love to work and shop. They strategy plan is to know they consumers better than anyone else, be there for them whenever they need them also offering great products and services at fair prices. They colleagues make the difference; they value makes them different.

Owners- Sainsbury’s have shareholders in the form of stakeholders. Owners are one of the most important stakeholders. They want their business to expand and earn as much profit as they can. Owners aim to make money and raise the business they have shares in. They buy and sell their shares in order to see their share of profit increasing.

J Sainsbury plc (Sainsbury) is a retail chain based in the UK. Sainsbury is engaged in grocery retailing through its supermarkets and convenience stores principally in the UK. The company operates its business through three divisions, namely, Retailing, Financial Services and Property Investment. Sainsbury serves its customers through a chain of 537 supermarkets and 335 convenience stores under the brand Sainsburys, and financial services via Sainsburys Bank. Sainsbury offers around 30,000 food and non-food products and services. The company is headquartered in London, the UK J Sainsbury plc Key Recent Developments Mar 11, 2010: Sainsbury launches first bakery college in the UK Mar 08, 2010: Sainsbury to add

The amount of online shopping rises to cause the increase excluding fuel across the Sainsbury's group. So in administrative expenditure, although Sainsbury cut financial implications relating to handling and transport, the decreasing is not as much as Morrisons do. In comparison to previous data, Sainsbury’s has experienced a considerable upsurge in their income. The variety of service provided by Sainsbury’s has been extended states the financial chairman report. General merchandise and Sainsbury’s Entertainment are two of the new elements of the stores Sainsbury’s developed in 2016.

has worked for the financial year when compared to the sales of 2010 of £21,421m (Sainsbury,

Sainsbury has developed different supply chain channels to manage the complexity faced due to different store formats such as country town, Sainsbury local. Sainsbury believes in continues improvement and aims to achieve it in many different ways. Sainsbury recognise the importance of its people who plays a major role in delivering excellent business. The logistic staffs of Sainsbury tend to work in flexible and well maintained environment. One of the collaboration of Sainsbury is to focus on the demands of the consumers and maintain a healthy relationship with the suppliers and other partners. Above all Sainsbury is committed in reducing the impact of its operation towards the environment (J. Sainsbury Plc-b, 2002).

This report aims to evaluate Sainsbury’s policies in Egypt by implementing several frameworks such as SWOT, VRIO and PESTEL analysis, and FDI (Greenfield, Joint venture, Franchising). This report is using former evaluating tools in order to diagnose Sainsbury’s resources and capabilities also for the future movement in Egypt.

     This report will show how Sainsburys have used performance management to increase their ability to provide a quality service and gain a competitive advantage, it will also show how systems have been implemented to achieve this and what Sainsburys have changed in recent years to achieve the competitive advantage it was looking for, The main area Sainsburys have changed is there Supply chain which had a cost gap of around £60 million. It will also look at how the operations functions carried out by Sainsburys can be linked in with other areas of the business like Finance, Human Resource Management and Marketing. The main contents of this report will

Sainsbury’s is facing the huge growth and evolution of the globalisation which also represents an opportunity for the group. The organisation can also penetrate the emerging international market same as what Tesco and Carrefour (a French distributor) did, even if this plans are not in Sainsbury’s board. The investigation of price fixing between the four biggest brand names in the United Kingdom market can have some negative effect in the industry and for every competitor. It would be leading to lose the brand image that Sainsbury’s is having with their consumers. Moreover, the Government is about to decrease the tax rate from 30 to 28 % which will save a weighty amount of money. Sainsbury’s has to follow the packaging and labelling rules according to the food and drinks local laws.

Sainsbury's continued their programme of change aimed at releasing the talents of their colleagues, helping them to focus on the customer, and restoring their pride in working for Sainsbury's. It's clear to them that new and exciting working environments add to this pride. This will grow as they increase the pace of their programme of developing and extending stores. It is also why they're keen to tell everybody about their acknowledged successes, such as organics and ready meals, their record in protecting the environment and supporting farmers, and new initiatives, such as their innovations in e-commerce.