...Analysis of the grocery industry Coles Supermarkets Australia October 2012 Analysis of the grocery industry Contents Glossary ..................................................................................................................................... i Executive Summary.................................................................................................................. iii 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 1.2 Project approach and objectives........................................................................................ 1 Report structure ............................................................................................................... 2 2 3 Coles – an overview ........................................................................................................ 3 Economic contribution of Coles ....................................................................................... 5 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Modelling approach .......................................................................................................... 5 Direct economic contribution ............................................................................................ 6 Indirect economic contribution ......................................................................................... 6 Total economic contribution .......
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...about 2011 Contents About us .........................................................................................1 The Coles story .......................................................................... 2 About Wesfarmers ...................................................................4 Our year ........................................................................................5 Our new format stores ...........................................................8 Our team ......................................................................................9 Responsible sourcing ............................................................10 Australia first ............................................................................ 12 Our sustainability ................................................................... 13 Our community ....................................................................... 14 Our 3 year performance summary ..................................17 Cover image: supplier to Coles for over 20 years, apple grower Harvey Giblett of Newton Brothers Orchards, located in Manjimup, Western Australia. About us Coles is a leading national food, liquor and convenience retailer in Australia. We employ more than 102,000 team members across our brands, which include Coles and Bi-Lo supermarkets, Coles Express, 1st Choice Liquor Superstore, Liquorland, Vintage Cellars and Spirit Hotels. Our goal What we want to achieve ...
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...ase SAILAJA BODEPUDI USS COLE BOMBING (2000) On October 12, 2000, suicide terrorists exploded a small boat alongside the USS Cole—a Navy Destroyer—as it was refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden. Yemen plays a key part in the ability for U.S. and coalition maritime forces to operate in the region. The blast ripped a 40-foot-wide hole near the waterline of the Cole, killing 17 American sailors and injuring many more. This boat bombing was a new methodology, which was used by the terrorists to attacks on their counterparts. As a consequence of the attack, concentrated on executing approaches to enhance U.S strategies and practices for mitigating terrorist attacks on U.S. was used by the terrorists to attacks on their counterparts. Three groups claimed responsibility for the Aden attack – the Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan previously unknown in Yemen, the Army of Mohammed, and the Islamic Deterrence Forces (IDF). A suspected al Qaeda terrorist wanted in connection with the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole exploded himself with a grenade late Wednesday as Yemeni security strengths surrounded him in Yemen's capital city, security sources said. Authorities had gone to a suspected al Qaeda fort, a house in a poor area of Sana's downtown, and a firefight resulted. The suspect bounced into a taxi, and as authorities attempted to stop the vehicle, the man hauled out an explosive and was clearly attempting to toss it when it blasted in his grasp, sources said. A police identified the...
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...Recommendations to be followed 1. Following own way to do job rather than coping the competitors: - One of the most successful retailers in Britain, Charles Clore, was once asked the secret of good retailing. He said three things had to be considered — the site, the site and the site. In branding, the most important thing is to differentiate products — if your product is the same as everyone else's, why should anyone buy it? (Murphy, 1988). So Coles need to differentiate itself from the other competitors. In these days it is very hard to differentiate Woolworths and Coles from each other as both of them are assumed as a low price stores, so there is need to make the store “Coles” different from the competitor. For this there is need to make the way to do the job in different way so that brand becomes more popular with the people instead of the competitor. 2. Target effectively: - The first need for any business is to find which sector of the consumer they want to sell their product i.e. to see what the target audience of the business is. If the business find the right target group then the business is able to find the right track where they need to differentiate themselves from others to target more and more number of consumers. Differing cultures, economic development stages, resources, politics, and consumption behaviours require multiple emphasis on different things in different markets (Melewar and Saunders, 1998). There are so many places in the world which...
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...Cole suggests that the American government should reduce certain services provided only to American citizens and not to the immigrants that are considered illegitimate. For instance, aliens should only be provided some type of healthcare and education for school age children. He claims that these services should be provided in order to protect the United States from issues further in the future. If healthcare was declined to those who live in the U.S undocumented, then America could eventually be at risk for certain diseases that may not have been treated because they were not able to receive treatment. We have to be considerate of the fact that immigrants may not be here in a legal bind but they are still here physically and we make contact with them on frequent basis. In my opinion, I believe that that the state of California should be responsible for enforcing immigrant laws but not for the financial burden of having illegal immigrants. The federal government should be responsible for the funding of the immigrant who have made America their new home. Ultimately immigration is not just California’s issue, granted that they may have more than a state that doesn’t surround other countries, but it is America’s problem. Therefore, the Federal government should handle all of the costs of hosting immigrants no matter the cost. Cole, Question 7 In the fifteenth paragraph Cole argues that “culture separatism rarely survives a generation.” He supports his argument by saying that...
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...shopping experience of their customers ood progress in the second quarter and customers rewarded Coles for its continued investment in lower prices as part of its “Down, Down” campaign. reflected in improvements in perception and increasing customer numbers. good old-fashioned share of mind; a consideration that is frequently neglected in the search for ‘engagement’ and originality The problem for Coles is that Woolworths as the larger and more profitable player has deeper pockets. According to Nielsen Ad Ex figures Woolworths’ adspend in January to November 2010 was $89.4 million to Coles’ $71.6 million, and $76.9 million to $62.6 million respectively for 2011. So outspending Woolworths hasn’t been an option. ‘out shout’ Woolworths with its smaller budget. Coles has seen a “massive jump in brand awareness” over the past two years that has helped it “eat away at Woolworth’s leadership”. Not about brand awareness. Brand salience - comes to mind first. Coles’ almost constant stream of new initiatives over the past two years has managed to achieve (apart from keeping Woolworths in mainly a reactive mode) is to give it a sense of momentum. people tend to gravitate to brands that are seen to be setting the pace in their categories. reconfirming a successful brand positioning is the default defensive strategy for a market leader being attacked by a challenger approach. However in the face of Coles forward looking onslaught the use of its old commercials probably just made Woolworths look...
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...apparel, equipment and accessories for a wide variety of sports and fitness activities. Virtually all Nike products are manufactured by independent contract manufacturers, many of which produce for other globally recognized brands. Most Nike products are made outside of the United States. Nike, Inc. also includes six U.S.-based wholly owned subsidiaries. This report covers activities of the Nike brand, as well as Brand Jordan and Nike Golf, which together represent about 90 percent of company revenues, unless where otherwise noted. Nike has a long-term goal of incorporating subsidiary companies into its corporate responsibility efforts and reporting. Nike, Inc Subsidiaries Cole Haan Holdings Inc., based in Maine, sells dress and casual footwear and accessories for men and women under the brand names of Cole Haan, g Series and Bragano. Nike Bauer Hockey Inc., based in New Hampshire, manufactures and distributes hockey ice skates, apparel and equipment, as well as equipment for in-line skating and street and roller hockey. Hurley International LLC, based in California, designs and distributes action sports apparel for surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding, and youth lifestyle apparel and footwear. Nike IHM Inc., based in Oregon, makes AIR-SOLE cushioning components used in Nike footwear products and sells small amounts of various plastic products to other manufacturers. Converse Inc., based in Massachusetts, designs and distributes athletic and casual footwear, apparel and accessories...
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...1. How does the organization achieve “compliance” from its members? As our organisation is unionised, it is harder for managers to receive positive compliance from it’s employees as the reward power is minimized. Due to the unionization, decisions about promotions and giving raises are not allowed to be made by supervisors and managers. This restricts the amount of control the managers have over the compliance of its employees. However, I believe that my organization still exploits some power over the interest of my team members. One attempt of my supervisor’s to keep compliance amongst our ‘team’ is to reward hard work with a ‘party halfa’ once every month. This included half an hour out of one shift every month dedicated to “pigging out” on party food including lollies, chips, cake and coke etc. We did not receive the “party halfa” if we do not meet the packing standards. Everyone knew each individual had to perform to the standard and not have any one team member let the rest down and therefore increasing productivity and establishing compliance. As shown above, my fellow employees are referred to by our supervisors and managers not as employees or staff, but a ‘team’ which symbolises this reality that we should operate not only for our own individual gain, but also the gain of the individuals in that team. Another act of compliance can be implemented by coercive power. This example is a more subtle version of coercive power; the threat from the supervisor to stay back...
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...Wesfarmers restructured centralized Coles functions by reducing store employee numbers at Coles, changing new management teams and development of five year plans and budget. The repositioning efforts have added Coles future growth. Thus, Coles create more customer focused, value driven operation and improved business performance. • Strong Market Position - Coles considered as one of the largest full line retailers in Australia. The company have more than 2,400 Supermarkets ,liquor and convenience stores in Australia and New Zealand. Coles have 450 Kmart, Target and Officeworks stores that sells apparel and general merchandise. Coles operates 750 stores across Australia with over 11 million transaction a week. • Strong Brand Name - In the Australian retailing business Coles is recognized as a strong brand name. Their housebrand product offering have increased 14% of sales year on year. For several years Coles has been a leader of private brand it also operates stores under popular brand names like Target, Kmart and officeworks. Coles brand potential attract more customers therefore strengthening its bargaining...
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...Research plan * Objectives * Scope * Research methods * Type of data * Sources of data * Data gathering methods * Sampling * Processing methods * Feasibility Introduction: Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741 stores nationally, including 45 BI-LO Supermarkets that also stock Coles private label brands, and more than 100,000 employees. Coles was founded by George James (G.J.) Coles when what was called the "Coles Variety Store" opened on 9 April 1914 in Smith Street in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood. Expansion to more stores occurred and the chain was regarded as leaders in providing value to Australian shoppers (G. J. Coles learned the retail trade working for his father's "Coles Store" business at Wilmot, Tasmania between 1910 and 1913). Coles' interest in food retailing was spurred in 1958 when it acquired 54 John Connell Dickins grocery stores. It then acquired the Beilby's chain in South Australia in 1959 and 265 Matthews Thompson grocery stores in New South Wales in 1960. The exterior of a Coles supermarket in Springvale, Victoria. A Coles supermarket in Adelaide. An entrance to a Coles supermarket in Dee Why, New South Wales. Inside a Coles supermarket in Berwick, Victoria. An aisle in a...
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...To Delineate Painting from Poem: Asher B. Durand’s Landscape—A Scene from “Thanatopsis” American cultural movements intertwine all aspects of the nation’s society: art, literature and architecture, philosophy and music—particularly the former two. Art and literature are constantly entwined, exemplifying one another and their own fields. Regarding American cultural movements, such as American Romanticism, significant individuals become familiar with one another’s work, resulting in inspiration that leads to creative works that pay homage to another artist’s work. Asher B. Durand’s Landscape—A Scene from “Thanatopsis,” inspired by Romantic poet William Cullen Bryant, exemplifies artist familiarity that results in multifaceted cultural creations. Both Bryant and Durand hail from the American Romantic movement, which emphasized nature as a source of refuge and rest, knowledge, and religious revelation. The painting has yet to be investigated beyond a visualization of Bryant’s work, illustrated by many reviews contemporary of 1850 as well as current scholarship. A deeper exploration of Durand’s work provides insight regarding prevalent creative themes of the current world of arts, as well as a look into Durand’s most honest inspiration as an artist. Though creating separate works—that must remain distinguishable for proper analysis of either work—Bryant and Durand investigated the themes of man and nature, individualism and the inner and after lives. Through detailing natural...
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...Era Introduction During the Romanticism era, emotional expression motivated European artists from about 1820 to 1850. In this era, various artists, such as painters, photographers, musicians, and writers, held the belief that imagination and emotion had more value than reason, civilization was more corrupt than nature, and that ultimately human beings were good (Frank, 2011). As a way to move away from the Neoclassicism fixation classical forms, Romantic artists sought to celebrate nature, rural life, common people and other exotic ideas in their work. Romanticism is demonstrated in such works of art as The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons by Joseph Mallard William Turner (Frank, 2011, p. 328), in The Oxbow by Thomas Cole (Frank, 2011, p. 329), and also in Blue Hole, Little Miami River by Robert S. Duncanson (Frank, 2011, p. 330). These three landscape themed paintings represent the Romanticism era by the celebration of nature through great emotion and imagination. The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons The Burning of the...
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...WoolWorths Supermarket, Safeway Stores and Thomas Dux Groser. All these supermarkets can be found mainly across Australia with Safeway Stores and Thomas Groser being mostly found in Victoria, Melbourne and New South Wales. The company reaches gives its customers a wide range of flexibility in shopping with ATM machine places in nearly every stores and also a very convenient online shopping website. WoolWorths Limited is continuously looking for ways to satisfy its customers demand with more effective and efficient techniques. Wesfarmers, being one of the largest public companies in Australia has two major supermarket subsidiaries compromising of, Coles Supermarket and BI-LO Supermarket. With the Wesfarmer’s turnover of more than $2.2 million dollars, Bula Coffee are willing to introduce their product to the ever growing Supermarket chain. The Coles...
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...Case Study #2 Like every company Initech has a matrix organization starting with the CEO, regional managers, and according to peter 8 managers. When the workers like Peter work their butts off they do not get any of reward for it but the company gets to sell more units. There is no motivation so he just doesn’t care about. Peter feels his only “motivation is not to be hassled” by the eight bosses when he makes a mistake. In another situation, Bill Lumbergh the manager did not tell his employee Milton Waddams that he got laid off five years ago but still got a paycheck. The consultants hired by the company, which no employee knew about, to layoff people just went and fixed the glitch in accounting that allowed him to get his paychecks. Based on these issues, the core issue in the communication that Lumbergh has with his employees. His inability to be clear with Waddams causes the company a five-year salary cost and fails to communicate with the employee, demonstration a lack of importance to their well being. Communication in organizations is the way information is passed on and understood between groups of people. Messages are formed, encoded and sent. Noise makes the message sent questionable it the receiver was actually listening. The lack of motivation affects how good the responses are between two or more people. Legitimate Power can be used for either good or bad, just like any other power. Legitimate power entitles the person to give others orders as the person has...
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