Market Shares and Chocolate - a Cool IWB Resource

And then there were three… Well, four if you include little Ferrero.  Now that Cadbury has been consumed by Kraft, there are loads of great resources out there to sustain business lessons over the next year or so.  And here is a cracker from the Guardian which would work a treat on the IWB.  An interactive guide to revenues and market share by confectionery group AND brand.  Some great potential here for IWB-based quizzes and for some follow-up calculations comparing and contrasting the revenues and market shares of particular brands.

Launch interactice guide to chocolate revenues and market shares

Revision Presentation - Revenues and Demand

In this revision presentation we look at the concept of revenue (sales) and customer demand. We look at the key factors affecting demand and provide some illustrations of how revenue is measured and calculated.
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East Coast Rail Line is Nationalised

The government is taking the East Coast rail line that runs from London to Edinburgh and which has been operated by National Express into public ownership. National Express has struggled with falling revenues and higher costs that have contributed to rising losses on the line. In a press release, National Express said that higher hedged fuel costs added £11 million of cost in the first half of 2009, while increased pension costs cost the business a further £3 million.

Q&A - Why do start-ups find it difficult to estimate revenues?

One of the hardest tasks an entrepreneur faces with a start-up business is coming up with a realistic estimate of revenues.

Q&A - What is revenue?

A business exists to provide products (goods and services). Those products are sold to customers.  When a customer buys a product, that transaction becomes a sale for the business.  That’s what businesses do – they make sales. The value of sales made is the revenue of the business.