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nit 1: Business and the Business Environment

Assignment Brief 1

BTEC Programme Title: Pearson BTEC Level 4 Higher Nationals

Diploma in Business

Unit Number and Title Unit 1: Business and the Business

Environment
Academic Year 2022-2023

Unit Tutor/Assessor’s name Dilmurod Sharifov

Assignment Title Industry Analysis on Food Retail Industry

14.11.2022
Issue Date
Submission Date 07.12.2022

Submission Format
 The submission file format must be Microsoft Word Document: DOC,
DOCX.
 Pearson BTEC Learner Declaration form must be included in the
assignment.
 The submission is in a portfolio of factsheets and an organizational
flow chart document.
 The factsheets should be written concisely to summarise and highlight
essential information and data.
 This should be written concisely, formal business style using Times
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 New Roman 1.5 line spacing and font size 12.
 You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs, and sub-
sections as appropriate.
 All work must be supported with research and referenced correctly
using the Harvard referencing system.
 You will also need to provide a bibliography using the Harvard
referencing system. Inaccurate use of referencing may lead to
plagiarism issues if not applied correctly.
 The recommended word limit for the factsheets is 1,000–2,000 words,
although you will not be penalized for going under or exceeding the
total word limit.
 Plagiarism rate MUST NOT exceed 30%, excluding cover pages,
references list, appendices, and direct citations.

Unit Learning Outcomes covered in this assignment

 LO1 Explain the different types, size, and scope of organisations.
 LO2 Demonstrate the interrelationship of the various functions within an
organisation and how they link to organisational structure.

Transferable skills and competencies developed

 Analytical skills to conduct own analysis to draw conclusions.
 The ability to provide information based on collation, analysis, and
interpretation of data.
 Creative thinking for presenting information and data in a simplified and
informative manner.
 Digital skills, using different software applications to visually present
information and data concisely.
 Communicating effectively in all forms, written, visual and oral, for operating
efficiently in the international business environment.
Vocational scenario

Organisation
Tesco PLC is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer
headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, England. It was opened in 1919 by Jack
Cohen as a group of market stalls in Hackney, London. It has shops in Ireland,
the UK, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. It is the market leader in
groceries in the UK (where it has a market share of around 28.4%). is classed as
one of the 'big four' supermarkets along with Asda, Sainsbury's, and Morrisons
In the 2021-2022 financial year, Tesco’s annual revenue amounted to more than
£56 billion in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. This was an increase of over
three billion pounds compared to the prior fiscal year. The company’s profit in the
UK and the ROI increased and came to 2,191 million in 2021/2022.

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 Embedded in teams across the company, strategy professionals explore complex
business issues; conduct consumer, competitive, and market analyses; create
financial models and develop action plans. The Strategic Planning teams help
write the future of the food retail industry by charting the company’s path forward.
Role
You are employed as a Junior Insights Strategist for the Strategic Planning team.
The team acts as a key partner to senior leaders, the executive team, and the
CEO. It provides thought leadership and an external perspective on the most
critical strategic initiatives and pressing challenges facing the company.
Your key roles include the following:
• supporting data and business analyses to develop business plans;
• measuring business performance to compare actual data to forecasted
values;
• executing market research projects and gathering intelligence on current
industry, technology, and consumer trends.
Assignment activity and guidance
You have been tasked with conducting an industry analysis that focuses on the
food retail industry to gain access to industry perspectives, best practices from
other high-performance companies, and insight into high-growth sectors.
You will present your analysis to your line manager and to the management team.
The industry analysis will involve the research and analysis of overall market size
(local, national, and international) and Public, Private and Non-Profit sub-
sectors and the organisational mapping of ONE of the highest-performing
companies.
Organisations to be considered should be public, private, and non-profit
companies such as supermarkets, convenience stores, food manufacturers, and
others.

You will present this industry analysis as a portfolio of ‘insights’ factsheets,

to include:
1. an introduction to sub-sectors and the different types of organisations in the
industry, the market size, and the growth of the international business
environment;
 Explain different types and purposes of organisations in the industry such
as public, private and voluntary sectors and legal structures (P1).
 Describe the size and scope of a range of different types of organisations
and growth of the international business environment (P.2).
2. A FACTSHEET FOR A SELECTED SUB-SECTOR ORGANISATION SUCH
AS:
 convenience stores, department stores, supermarkets & hypermarkets,
multichannel stores, with explanation of each of the chosen organisations,
including background details of the organisation;
 the products and services they supply;
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  the size and scope of the organisation;
 their vision, mission and business objectives;
 the organisational and legal structure and information about their
stakeholders.

 Create a factsheet for a chosen sub-sector organisation by defining each of

the selected organisations by including background information of the
company, goods and services that they offer (P1 & P.2).
 Define their mission, vision and business objectives (P.1).
 Identify the organisational and legal structure (P.1).
 Explore and explain the role of stakeholders for the chosen company (P.1).
 Explain the size and scope of the organisation that you have chosen (P.2).
 Analyse how the structure, size and scope of different organisations link to
the business objectives and product and services offered by the
organisation (P.2 & M.1).

3. AN ANALYSIS FOR ONE OF THE CHOSEN ORGANISATIONS, USING

VISUAL MAPPING.
For business modelling purposes, you will also need to examine the various
business functions in one organisation and create an organisational chart to
explore the interrelationships between the different functions.
In addition to the ‘insights’ factsheets, you will present an organisational
flow chart that shows:
How internal departments, for example, sales, finance, marketing, work together to
meet business objectives and how interrelationships are defined by the structure of
the organisation; present the advantages and disadvantages?
 Create organisational visual mapping (organisational flow chart) of chosen
highest-performing food retailer company (P.3).
 Explain the relationship between different organisational functions and
demonstrate how they link to organisational objectives and structure (P.3).
 Analyse the interrelationships between organisational functions and the
impact that can have upon organisational structure (M.2).
 Critically discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen
organisational structure (M.2).

4. CONCLUSIONS BASED ON CRITICAL IMPACT ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT

BUSINESS STRUCTURES AND THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN
INTERNAL DEPARTMENTS IN SUCCESSFULLY FULFILLING OVERALL
BUSINESS OBJECTIVES. 
 Produce a critical analysis of the complexities of different organisations and
structures (D.1).

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  Evaluate different business organisations by including interrelationships
between internal department in successfully fulfilling overall business
objectives (D.1).
Recommended Resources

Please note that the resources listed are examples for you to use as a
starting point in your research – the list is not definitive.

Weblinks:
Walmart (2021) Official website. Available at: www.walmart.com

HN Global

HN Global (2021) Reading Lists. Available at:

https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/learning- zone/reading-lists

HN Global (2021) Student Resource Library. Available at:

https://hnglobal.highernationals. com/subjects/resource-libraries

HN Global (2021) Textbooks. Available at:

https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/textbooks

Textbooks

Burns, J. and Needle, D. (2019) Business in Context: An Introduction to Business

and its
Environment. 7th Ed. Cengage Learning

Worthington, I. and Britton. C. (2018) The Business Environment. 8th Ed.

Harlow: Pearson.

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Pass Merit Distinction

LO1 Explain the different types, size and scope of organisations LO1 and LO2

P1 Explain different types M1 Analyse how the structure, size D1 Provide critical
and purposes of and scope of different organisations analysis of the
organisations; public, private link to the business objectives and complexities
and voluntary sectors and product and services offered by the of different
legal structures. organisation. organisations and
structures.
P2 Explain the size and
scope of a range of different
types of organisations.

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LO2 Demonstrate the interrelationship of the various functions
within an organisation and how they link to organisational structure

P3 Explain the relationship M2 Analyse the interrelationships

between different between organisational functions and
organisational functions and the impact that can have upon
how they link to organisational structure.
organisational objectives and
structure.

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