BUSINESS REPORT
UNIT 1 PASS 1

TO: Mrs Burn
FROM: Chantelle Trim
DATE: 26/02/14
Terms of references:
Describe the type of business, purpose and ownership two contrasting businesses.
FINDINGS;
The first business I’ll be investigating is RSPCA;
Type of business, they’re purpose and what they want to achieve;
RSPCA is a non-profit organisation; this is because there are a charity. Meaning all goes money goes towards to organisation. RSPCA specialises in the welfare off pet animals since 1824. However there purpose and main goal is to provide a service to all animals and their welfare. By specialising in animals there mission and the way they’re going to improve the welfare of animals is by ensuring that every pet is cared for properly and has a good home, ending cruelty to pet animals, raising standards for pet animals worldwide and stopping pet overpopulation. Another purpose of the RSPCA is to improve the lives and reduce the suffering of all farm animals. The RSPCA aims to do this by having all UK farmed animals kept to the RSPCA higher welfare standards. Improving farm animal welfare legislation and ensuring it is enforced, ensuring animal products are properly labelled so consumers can make higher welfare choices. They also specialize in improving welfare of wild animals, they aim to do this by stopping the use of wild animals in circuses making it socially unacceptable to hunt and kill any wild animals in the name of sport, ensuring any use of performing animals in the UK follows appropriate guidelines and stopping the keeping of exotic animals as pets in unsuitable conditions.

The RSPCA is a registered charity (no. 219099) that receives no lottery or state aid. Its £82 million annual running costs are funded exclusively by voluntary donations and legacies. The RSPCA states that its mission as a charity is, by all lawful means, to prevent cruelty, promote kindness to and alleviate suffering of animals. RSPCA inspectors respond to calls from the public to investigate alleged mistreatment of animals. They offer advice and assistance to improve animal welfare, and in some cases prosecute under laws such as the Animal Welfare Act 2006. Animals rescued by the RSPCA are treated, rehabilitated and rehomed or released wherever possible. The RSPCA brings private prosecution (a right available to any civilian) against those it believes, based on independent veterinary opinion, have caused neglect to an animal under laws such as the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The Society has its own legal department and veterinary surgeons amongst the resources which facilitate such private prosecutions. All prosecutions are brought via independent solicitors acting for the RSPCA, as the Association has no legal enforcement powers or authority in its own right.

What is the ownership of the RSPCA?
The ownership of RSPCA is a charity trust, which is over seen by a group of trustees who aim to raise funds to support other people or animals for a good cause. RSPCA is rregistered a non-profit corporations. There is no owner because there is no stock, but the charity is run by a board of directors, who typically appoint one of their own as ceo/coo (CEO- chief executive office r, COO- chief operating officer).

The type of ownership RSPCA fit into is charitable trust; this is set up to raise funds and support other people and animals for good cause. All of these organisations would be run by a Board of Trustees who are responsible for ensuring that the charity's objects are carried out and that the money and assets are only used for the purpose for which they were given.
No one actually 'owns' a charity. They cannot distribute their assets for the benefit of any individual. RSPCA inspectors respond to calls from the public to investigate alleged mistreatment of animals. They offer advice and assistance to improve animal welfare, and in some cases prosecute under laws such as the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

The RSPCA Council members are the charity’s trustees and volunteers do not get any profit from their roles. They are responsible for providing leadership and direction, and also ensure the effective use of our resources to maximise the benefit to animal welfare.
What is the business sector of the RSPCA.
RSPCA is currently is the tertiary sector this is because RSPCA provides services to help the animals that need care or special treatments. The tertiary sector of industry involves the provision of services to other businesses as well as final consumers. Services may involve the transport, distribution and sale of goods from producer to a consumer. The RSPCA is also a private sector. This is because they are private company’s registered with the UK charity commission and have to follow the rules set by the commission. There are many not for profit companies that are not charities such as trade associations that have a not for profit memorandum and articles of incorporation.

What is the business activity of the RSPCA?
The business activity of the RSPCA is regional . They serve within the areas of England and Wales. This development created the nucleus of a national network of 172 branches in England and Wales that exists today. These branches run a further 38 clinics and 33 animal centres. In addition to the branch run establishments there is one other animal centre run by a trust and another run by a charitable company. The RSPCA is also a medium to large scale charitable business.

Who are the key stakeholders to the RSPCA?
The RSPCA has many different stakeholders within the business these are; Trustees, Employees, Volunteers, The Charity Commission, Donators and the Media. The employees and volunteers will need to be happy to be working on a voluntary basis and also need to be caring for the animals that are suffering.
My second contrasting business is Burger King;
Type of business,they’re purpose and what they want to achieve;
Burger King is a franchise business. This means that a person has brought into the business and rented for the length of operation. The owner of the business will get back some of profits made from each of the restaurant. The company started in 1953 called Insta- Burger King, by two franchisees Matthew Burns and Keith J. Kramer in Jacksonville, Florida. After running into money troubles, two people named David Edgeton and James Mclamore purchased the company and rename it burger king. Burger King has more than 12,600 restaurants and serves over 11 million guests in 83 countries and territories every day. Nearly 95 percent of Burger King Restaurants globally are owned and operated by independent franchisees.

The purpose of Burger King is to make money by providing a service and goods at a cost to make a profit. They do this by selling flamed grill burgers as well as other goods and burger to satisfy their customer. Burger King is dedicated into supporting and investing into the stakeholders. This is because they’re cornerstone of Burger King which they like to treat employees, guess and customer alike with the same respect. Burger King want to achieve all their goals, aim and objectives, some of these being to sell high quality food and a high quality, quick service to their customers. They want to maintain brand recognition, brand loyalty and customer loyalty. Burger King also want to achieve here objectives by creating the restraint experience and innovative food to all their customer.

What is the ownership of Burger King;
The ownership of Burger King is a franchise business. A franchise business is where an individual or a group of franchisees that buys into a business like Burger King. However, a percentage of the profit that the owners make from the business goes back to the originally owner which is David Edgerton and James McLamor. The majority of the locations of international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King are privately owned franchises. While the majority of franchisees are smaller operations, several have grown into major corporations in their own right. Burger King has reported it had 12,667 outlets in 73 countries; of these, 66 percent are in the United States and 95 percent are privately owned and operated.

What is the sector and business activity of Burger King?
The sector of Burger King is private business but has recently changed into this sector from being in public sector. The private sector of this business brought it of the public stakeholder for 3.3 billion and debuted the company back on the exchange at a $4.8 billion valuation. Burger king needs a serious traction on its turnaround efforts, it wouldn’t be surprising to see it spend an equally short time publicly traded on this go-round before the private-equity sharks begin to circle again. Burger King is tertiary business because it involves distribution and sale of goods from Burger King to their customers, an example of this is selling burgers and giving a service to there customers to make a profit. The business activity of Burger King of global because they have over 12,000 in 72 countries worldwide. Due to the business activity being a global business, they have over 30,000 employees working for Burger King, making the size and scale of the business large.
Who are the key stakeholder of Burger King?
The key stakeholder of Burger King is; Customers, Employers, Employees, Suppliers, Owners, Governments, Investors and Trade union. These are important to the business as it help Burger King be successful. They all have an interest in the business as they are the purchasers, users and consumers of Burger King.
Pass 2; Describe the different stakeholders who influence the purpose of two contrasting organisations.

The RSPCA has many different stakeholders these are; Trustees, Employees/Volunteers and donators.

Trustees influence the RSPCA because they covers the whole range of animal protection, involving practical welfare, law enforcement as well as high-profile campaigning & education. Charity trustees are entitled to be reimbursed from the charity’s funds for expenses properly incurred by them in the performance of their duties.

Employees/Volunteers influence the RSPCA by happily volunteering to work for the RSPCA. They influence the business by working and volunteering without getting wage and making a difference to an animal or pet life by taking care of them and looking after there needs.

Donators influence the RSPCA because they give and donate their unwanted items to charity shops and centres to help the RSPCA raise money to help animals and wildlife. Donators is one of the key stake holders to the RSPCA because if the donators didn’t donate items, they wouldn’t be able to sell the items to raise to make the welfare of animals.

The key stakeholders of Burger King are Customers, Employers, Employees, Suppliers and Owners.

Customers influence the purpose of the business because they are the buyers, users and consumers of Burger King. Customers are vital for Burger King as a business because they provide the cash flow. The cash flow comes from customers wanting a product enough to purchase it. Without customers Burger wouldn’t be able to survive in marketing business which would then affect Burger King profit. The customers want products with good variety, quality, convenience and low cost.

The employers influence Burger King by providing jobs to public, which will make high quality product, as well as creating a high quality restaurant, which will be a enjoyable place for all employees to work, creating a best restaurant experience to all the different stakeholders that helps makes Burger King a success.

Employees influence on Burger King is by having a job, salary, job security, chance of promotion, job satisfaction and training. The influence they have on the business is that they affect the turnover of the business and level of customer service for example if certain employees didn’t do everything they are employed to do and do things to a good standard.

The suppliers of Burger King influence the business by providing the business with the goods that they needs to make products to sell to there customers. Without having supplies they wouldn’t be able to make and sell the product to customers. Changing supplier may effective the business due to the supplier food being different to the old suppliers; this may effective the business because the customer may prefer the old supply of food. Suppliers make money by providing business with supplies for a profit.

Owners of Burger King has a huge influence on Burger King because each individual owner of each Burger King restaurant make money and profits and give people jobs such as; mangers and employees. Each of these owners keeps Burger King a successful fast food outlet worldwide. Owners of the business own and run business, making sure everything is running ok, that there making profits and making enough money each month.

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