A tale of two bakers
Tom White’s excellent piece on the rapid growth and success of Greggs could be used to compare and contrast with a piece of bad news for those of us here in Yorkshire used to getting our lunchtime nibbles from Ainsley’s…
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Innocent Drinks - Teaching Accounts Exercise
Innocent Drinks has just published its 2008 accounts (they are required to submit them within 9 months of their financial year-end). They make interesting reading!
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Q&A - What are the main causes of unemployment?
The causes of unemployment can be described under four main categories:
- Seasonal unemployment
- Frictional unemployment
- Structural unemployment
- Cyclical unemployment
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Dyson launches a new premium product
James Dyson is at it again - launching a desktop fan at a price that is almost ten times the average price of a standard blade-based fan…
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Here is a great way to allow students to consider two often separate elements of the business curriculum - the product life cycle and business startups…
read more...»Todd Stitzer’s Strategic Test
A short, but terrific piece in the Times today outlines the strategic challenge for the CEO of Cadbury - Todd Stitzer. Highly recommended for A2 students looking at business strategy…
read more...»Beat the Teacher - Introduction to Costs
There are five errors in this short article - can your students spot them all, including giving a good explanation as to why they think something is wrong?
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Patent Theft threatens enterprising inventors
An item covered by BBC news on TV and radio yesterday morning may be useful when covering protections of ideas and inventions for start-up businesses and entrepreneurs. Trevor Baylis, who invented the wind-up radio among other things and often features as a classic entrepreneur-inventor in business text books, is calling for Government action to help British inventors defend their ideas from rivals who try to steal them.
More trouble in the skies
The ongoing turmoil in the airline industry continues, with the Irish national airline Aer Lingus announcing worse losses in this BBC news article
read more...»Demand and supply in action - tea prices surge
The new Edexcel GCSE Business Unit 1 specification encourages students to look at commodity markets to develop their understanding of how demand supply interact to determine market prices.
Here is an excellent example of how two significant shifts in the demand and supply curves can affect the global price of a commodity. Failing crops and surging demand for tea is pushing prices higher.
As a leading exporter of tea, Keyna is benefitting from the surge in prices, after suffering from higher production costs in recent years.
