Blog and updates
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14 Jun 2018
World Cup Winners and Losers "Share Price" Student Activity
Here is an idea for a World Cup-related activity to help students to get to grips with the stock market and share prices, and to practise some calculation skills as well.
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12 Jun 2018
SWOT analysis for the future of Toyota and Uber
Kaizen was the principle that drove manufacturing industry over the last few decades. Continuous improvement and relentless elimination of waste, through cutting costs and controlling quality, were...
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12 Jun 2018
Poundworld's problems - how many can you spot?
It is possible that Christopher Edwards, the founder of discount retailer Poundworld, will be able to buy back and save some of its stores, after it collapsed into administration yesterday....
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6 Jun 2018
15 Key Topics For Extra Revision (Once You've Revised The Entire Spec...) for AQA A Level Business in 2018
The three AQA A Level Business exam papers are distinctive in that they can each cover a wide range of the specification. Anything from the specification can be examined in one or more papers - and...
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4 Jun 2018
25 Specialist Terms You Might Encounter in AQA A Level Business 2018
In 2017 it was "debt factoring" which threw some students as they took on the challenge of the first three linear papers. A source of finance listed on the AQA specification, but not a well-known...
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4 Jun 2018
AQA A Level Business: Practice 25 Mark Questions for Paper 1
Here are some practice 25 mark questions for Section C and Section D of AQA A Level Business Paper 1.
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1 Jun 2018
Quality in Business - Key Topic Revision for 2018
QUALITY was one of the key topic areas that didn't feature in the 2017 papers. We've grouped some essential revision materials on quality together here - make sure you cover them just in case it...
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31 May 2018
Location issues - offshoring out of China?
Toys could become a victim of the US-China trade war. China is the world biggest toy-exporting nation. The US is the world's biggest importer of toys, and 82% of them came from China last year....
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29 May 2018
Pret employees reap benefit from sale to Krispy Kreme owner
A £1,000 bonus for everyone who is working for Pret when the business is formally sold in a few weeks time! Financial methods of motivation. Pret now joins a privately-owned portfolio of well-known...
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29 May 2018
'Unconscious bias' training day at Starbucks
This is the day when Starbucks will close 8,000 stores in the US in order to give all its staff a four-hour anti-bias training seminar. This follows the scandal when the firm had to apologise over...
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29 May 2018
Have we reached peak prosecco?
This could be a great example of a brand becoming overexposed and overstocked. The growth in demand for prosecco has been phenomenal, as it became the inexpensive way of celebrating, an affordable...
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24 May 2018
Dairy Crest to invest £85m to help meet overseas demand
Crumbs – this is almost the perfect A Level Business news story – it has it all!
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24 May 2018
How All You Can Eat Restaurants Make Money
How do all-you-can eat restaurants make profits? The secret is in the layout + some other behavioural tricks customers are almost certainly not aware of!
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22 May 2018
Tesco Direct to close!
This has everything. Economies of scale; competitive advantage; Porter (both theories), marketing mix...and more. Not even Tesco had the buying power and scale to compete with Amazon in the sale of...
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22 May 2018
Revising all those business models!
There are business models aplenty to revise for A level. Handily, the Tutor2u business blog brings them all together in this cluster of useful tweets! Just follow the links!
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21 May 2018
A New MCQ Question Format from AQA - Watch out!
Watch out all students taking AQA A Level Business in June 2018. A new MCQ question format has appeared on the AS Paper 1 which looks like it might become an examiner favourite.
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16 May 2018
Global issues - measuring life expectancy
It can be very hard to measure the impact of government spending on healthcare, and the effect that it has on the living standards in a country. New data from the Institute of Health Metrics and...
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15 May 2018
Production and Operations: one-off production of a wedding suit
With weddings very much in the news this week, here is a video 'How to dress a royal groom', showing the one-off or job production of a military uniform - featuring the tailors who produced the...
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8 May 2018
The Biz Quiz - 8 May 2018
The Biz Quiz returns for the summer term with 10 questions on recent business stories.
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7 May 2018
Inside iPhone City
A hat tip to Jon Inge who spotted this Business Insider report on a visit to the FoxConn complex 20 miles outside downtown Zhengzhou where more than half of the world's iPhones are assembled by a...
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