P1 Describe the type of business, purpose and ownership of two contrasting organisations.
RSPCA
http://www.rspca.org.uk/home http://www.media.rspca.org.uk/media The RSPCA is a charity. The RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is an organisation that prevents cruelty to animals. It was founded in a London coffee shop 1824. It was originally called the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) until in 1837, when Queen Victoria allowed permission for the organisation to add the ‘R’ for the symbol of Royal patronage to be displayed in 1840. The RSPCA is a PLC (Public Limited Company).
Two years before the RSPCA was founded, the ‘Martin’s Act’ was created in 1822; this was the first animal welfare law that forbade ‘the cruel and improper treatment of cattle’. In 1835, the ‘Pease’s Act’ was created; this allowed the prohibition of cruelty to cattle to be extended to dogs and other domestic animals. This act also saw that ‘Bear-Baiting’ and ‘Cock-fighting’ were forbidden and also insisted on better standards for slaughter houses.
Since being founded the RSPCA has made sure that; laws have been made for lab animals, fur farming in the UK has been abolished and the ban of fox hunting with dogs as well as the Animal Welfare Act.
The RSPCA is a founded company that is improving the welfare of animals. ‘It’s our vision to work for a world in which all humans respect and live in harmony with all other members of the animal kingdom.’- RSPCA Website.
The RSPCA’s first focus when it was first founded was to try and stop the abuse of ‘working animals’ such as ‘pit-ponies’, who would be sent down the mines. The RSPCA also formed and improved the animal welfare laws in order to protect animals.
On average every 30 seconds, a person in England and Wales rings the RSPCA’s24- hour cruelty line for help. In 2013 the RSPCA received 1,327,849 phone calls.
The RSPCA has approximately 267 full time inspectors and 46 part time inspectors, 18 trainee inspectors, 55 full time and 3 part time animal welfare officers (AWOs) and 77 full time and 6 part time, animal collection officers (ACOs).
The RSPCA deals with more than 150,000 complaints of cruelty and neglect every year. The RSPCA also has 166 RSPCA branches around England and Wales and have an international team. There are four animal hospitals and five clinics which are cheaper than private veterinary clinics. However, there are also 37 clinics and 3 mobile clinics run by the RSPCA branches. The 16 regional animal centres across England and Wales help adopt pets and rehome animals and there is also 40 animal centres run by the branches. The RSPCA has four specialist wildlife centres in England.
During 2013, the RSPCA; rescued and collected 245,590 animals; found new homes for 55,323 animals; micro chipped, neutered and treated 320, 404 animals; investigated 153,770 cruelty complaints and secured 3,961 convictions by private prosecution to protect animals against those who break the laws.

BP
P1
http://www.bp.com/global/corporate/about-bp.html
BP is a Private Limited Company (Ltd). BP (British Petroleum) is an oil company. It supplies customers with amounts of fuel to power transport, create energy for light and heat as well as oils to keep engines working and to create and produce everyday products.
BP supplies the whole world with energy products and services. The ‘Upstream Segment’ in charge of activities in oil and finding natural gas production. ‘Downstream Segment’ is the product which is focussed on fuels, oils and chemicals to make everyday items.
There are around 60 countries of operation for BP with 83,900 employees. The economic value generated by BP is $403.3 billion with the replacement cost profit being $23.6 billion and the operating cash flow of BP is £21.1 billion. The number of barrels oil produced per day is 3.2 million with proved reserves at 17,996 million barrels of oil equivalent. Globally there are 17 drilled exploration wells and 43,000km2 of new exploration access. There are 14 refineries that wholly and partly owned as well as 1,791 thousand barrels of refineries throughputs per day. There also approximately 17,800 retail sites and 13.9 million tonnes of petrochemicals produced.
The brands that work with BP includes; BP, ARAL, Castrol, ampm and the Wild Bean Café.
BP is the main global brand and is the name that appears on production platforms, refineries, ships and corporate offices as well as having the name on wind farms, research facilities and at retail service stations. Castrol is the company that makes lubricants for BP since BP acquired the company in 2002 and Castrol products are sold in more than 150 countries. ARAL is one of the most rusted brands in Germany. It’s been associated with quality automotive fuels since the 1920s and is also associated with good food and excellent service on the go. ampm, when it first opened in Southern California, created a value-add-on to select gas stations, providing from packaged drinks to ‘grab-n-go’ sandwiches. ampm has grown to have approximately 950 stations covering California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona as part of BP fuelling stations.