Video case study - biofuel farmers feel the pressure
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Print
Email
Tweet This!Save to Favorites
Recommend on Google+
When the price of diesel rocketed to well over £1.25 per litre, British farmers spotted an oppportunity to transform used materials into cheaper biofuels. However, the viability of this business idea has worsened significantly during 2009.
Download student worksheet (incl video link)
blog comments powered by Disqus
ResearchBuster: Acquisitions [3 Feb 2012]
Strategic choice: What should Apple do for its investors? [29 Jan 2012]
What’s gone wrong for Kodak? [19 Jan 2012]
Cut price cup cake deal goes wrong…... [22 Nov 2011]
PepsiCo: economies or diseconomies of scale? [2 Nov 2011]
The Business of Newcastle United [12 Oct 2011]
Where there’s muck there’s brass [6 Jul 2011]
Nestle and Diversification - Investing in Healthcare [25 May 2011]
Stay small and focused - business lessons from Adele [24 May 2011]
An end to outsourcing? [18 May 2011]
Strategy explained - Insights into Amazon [13 May 2011]
HMV Strategy - Death of a Billion Downloads [24 Apr 2011]
CSR - Corn: A Matter of Life or Death? [23 Mar 2011]
Superb Analysis of the UK Coffee Market [5 Mar 2011]
Revision games - Marketing Basics (True / False) [16 Feb 2011]
Q&A - Distinguish between price and cost [2 Jan 2011]
Q&A - Should a business use a “loss leader” as part of its pricing tactics? [31 Dec 2010]
Segmentation & Pricing - the Ice-Cream Price Pyramid [17 Nov 2010]
Cash flow Clue-doh! The Mystery is Revealed… [2 Nov 2010]
Making the FT Brand Sweat! [19 Oct 2010]
Google, Profits and Diversification [16 Oct 2010]
McDonalds to diversify into…weddings [14 Oct 2010]
Pricing Strategy - Mobile Data Networks [14 Sep 2010]
Lessons from the business model of King & Allen [13 Jul 2010]
AQA BUSS4 Section B Practice Question - Starbucks [15 Jun 2010]
Strategy Case Study - Diversification for the Bread Family [21 May 2010]
Cadburys diversification goes back to its roots [11 Apr 2010]
Taking Demand-based Pricing To Extremes [8 Feb 2010]
Video case study - substitute goods benefiting from the recession [1 Feb 2010]
What business students can learn from how businesses have handled the recession [1 Feb 2010]
Product, pricing and profitability in a changing market [20 Jan 2010]
Q&A - Explain Ansoff’s Matrix [14 Jan 2010]
Emerging Markets - Brazil - Jimmys Harvest [8 Jan 2010]
Revision Presentation - Marketing Mix: Introduction to Pricing [1 Jan 2010]
Revision Presentation - Revenues and Demand [30 Dec 2009]
Q&A - When is it appropriate for a firm to use penetration pricing? [21 Dec 2009]
Q&A - Explain price skimming [21 Dec 2009]
Q&A - What is the difference between pricing strategies & tactics? [21 Dec 2009]
Q&A - Explain what is meant by price positioning [21 Dec 2009]
Q&A - What factors should a business consider when setting its prices? [19 Dec 2009]
Q&A - How does pricing link to the objectives of a business? [19 Dec 2009]
Q&A - What is price and why is it so important in the marketing mix? [19 Dec 2009]
Is it my imagination or is this diversification? [5 Dec 2009]
Strategies for Diversification - Straight from the Horses Mouth [24 Nov 2009]
A tale of two bakers [16 Nov 2009]
Emerging markets drive demand for oil [16 Nov 2009]
Santa goes back to basics in attempt to reduce the cost of Christmas [29 Oct 2009]
Diversification strategy : Tesco opts for own-label banking [28 Oct 2009]
Q&A - How are businesses affected by unemployment? [27 Oct 2009]
HMV Diversifies into Cinema [26 Oct 2009]
Pricing strategies and tactics under investigation [15 Oct 2009]
Dyson launches a new premium product [14 Oct 2009]
Ukraine 1 England 0 - A match to remember? [12 Oct 2009]
Napster - Trying to compete, or getting desperate? [9 Oct 2009]
V-Water - from start up to exit [4 Oct 2009]
The lights go out for the nightclub market [26 Sep 2009]
WD-40 to diversify into…whatever customers want them to [1 Sep 2009]
Sony cuts the PS3 price to extend its life cycle [30 Aug 2009]
More trouble in the skies [27 Aug 2009]
Sainsbury’s and Diageo pitch in to battle [17 Aug 2009]
Own label brands profit from the recession [4 Aug 2009]
Demand and supply in action - tea prices surge [4 Aug 2009]
The Death of Newspapers - to be replaced by Nichepapers? [2 Aug 2009]
Instore Takes a Pounding [6 Jul 2009]
Swimsuit malfunction - a failure of quality or just the wrong size? [2 Jul 2009]
U2 on Tour - Investment appraisal and capacity utilisation rolled into one! [2 Jul 2009]
Q&A - Outline the main costs and benefits of inflation [1 Jul 2009]
Q&A - Explain the causes of inflation [1 Jul 2009]
Q&A - What is inflation and how is it measured? [1 Jul 2009]
East Coast Rail Line is Nationalised [1 Jul 2009]
Recession Bites - new food shopping habits [29 Jun 2009]
Budget Hotel Chain Now Feeling the Squeeze [17 Jun 2009]
Milk co-operative turns sour [4 Jun 2009]
How to improve a profit margin through a hidden price increase - the Snickers way [4 Jun 2009]
From crisps to vodka - what else can you make from potatoes? [31 May 2009]
Video case study - football shirt sponsorship under pressure [25 May 2009]
BA posts a record loss [22 May 2009]
Video case study - the effect of deflation on businesses [19 May 2009]
Motivating employees - the end of the mobile phone sales shark? [17 May 2009]
AQA AS Business Unit 1 - Possible Evaluation Questions [17 May 2009]
A booming rental market – for car parking spaces [12 May 2009]
Q&A - What is the link between product differentiation and a USP? [1 May 2009]
Q&A - How do changes in commodity prices affect businesses? [1 May 2009]
Q&A - What are commodities and how are their prices determined? [1 May 2009]
Q&A - What is market supply [1 May 2009]
Q&A - What is market demand? [1 May 2009]
Q&A - What are the implications for UK businesses if the pound strengthens? [1 May 2009]
Q&A - What causes an exchange rate to change? [1 May 2009]
Q&A - What is an exchange rate? [1 May 2009]
Q&A - How are businesses affected by changes in interest rates? [1 May 2009]
Q&A - What goes into the “marketing mix”? [1 May 2009]
Starbucks Strategy Video - Workshop Material [30 Apr 2009]
Video Case Study - Just Jenny’s Ice Cream Start-up [22 Apr 2009]
How can the same product be cheaper to buy new than second-hand? [16 Apr 2009]
OCR 2880 (ACE) - Charging for Cargo [12 Apr 2009]
Demand and supply in action - oil [11 Apr 2009]
Viability of wind farms poses a “sources of finance” challenge [9 Apr 2009]
Price war looms for music downloads [8 Apr 2009]
Are we motoring towards electric avenue? [5 Apr 2009]
Customer Service and Capacity Utilsation: Stenna Line versus Ryanair [3 Apr 2009]
BUSINESS TEACHER RESOURCE NEWSLETTER
Get first news of business teaching resources, ideas and other materials from tutor2u. Over 9,400 business teachers from the UK and around the world receive our regular teacher email newsletters. Sign up for free here!
Popular Topic Tags
recession, demand, prices, price, unemployment, profit, economics, costs, investment, inflation, supply, employment, trade, competition, gdp, risk, china, debt, euro, entrepreneur, capacity, production, downturn, tutor2u, innovation, revision, pay, exports, manufacturing, confidence, profits, food, incentives, banks, strategy, globalisation, aqa, expectations, oil, csr, usa, retailers, startup, housing, sterling, supermarkets, productivity, google, mortgage, economies of scale, cash flow, advertising, takeover, quiz, leadership, property, tesco, economic growth, buss4, video, efficiency, enterprise, motivation, stakeholders, ebea, deflation, apple, market share, corporate social responsibility, airlines, philip allan, pricing, taxation, slowdown, bank of england, market failure, philip allan updates, nelson thornes, acquisition, sustainability, credit crunch, borrowing, product life cycle, competitiveness, interest rates, aqa business, aqa business studies, budget deficit, merger, facebook, twitter, bbc, starbucks, buss1, organic growth, stocks, diversification, hodder education, monopoly, oligopoly, recruitment, starter activity, training, government failure, uk economy, dollar, emerging markets, time2resources, shareholders, poverty, branding, cpi, marketing mix, management, tim harford, suppliers, breakeven, government spending, opportunity cost, retailing, product, vat, customer service, ian marcouse, evaluation, eu, wages, losses, external growth, wealth, location, india, edexcel, environment, information failure, technology, promotion, sources of finance, business studies revision, aqa gce business, franchise, elasticity, spare capacity, welfare, economic cycle, regulation, marketing, jobs, strategic direction,View all tags for the Business Blog
