Blog and updates
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29 Dec 2016
Impressive Numbers for the Amazon Echo
One of the hottest battles for market dominance in consumer tech products this festive season has been between Amazon Echo and Google Home. The Echo is emerging as a winner and the product is sold...
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29 Dec 2016
Inside a factory that makes 350 iPhones a minute
Nearly all iPhones are made in a facility in China that can churn out 500,000 devices a day (or 350 a minute) with the help of over 300,000 employees many of whom earn only around $1.90 an hour....
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27 Dec 2016
Marginal gains: Nutritional revolution at Liverpool FC
This article from the New York Times is brilliant on nutrition as a marginal gain. A fantastic read.
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23 Dec 2016
Lego's Logistical Challenge at Xmas
Seasonal demand is a common feature for many businesses and for Lego it is huge! This short video from the FT is superb in highlighting how Lego has located their factories in Mexico, China and the...
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21 Dec 2016
SWOTting Staycations
If the falling value of the pound since the Brexit vote in June has an effect on the tourism market, it is likely to make more people stay in the UK for their holiday as the cost of travel abroad...
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21 Dec 2016
Dynamic Pricing for Restaurants - An Anti-Uber Approach
CityMunch is a fast-growing app that provides real time discounts for people wanting to use restaurants at off-peak times when outlets have spare capacity but still have overhead costs to pay.
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21 Dec 2016
Nike's Profits Bounce Back
The world's largest sports footwear-maker has announced a rebound in profits.
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17 Dec 2016
Christmas cheer for gin distillers
Sipsmith was one of the first artisan gins to become well known, and has led a growing market. As reported in this week's Deloitte Monday Briefing, annual gin sales rose 16% in the UK in 2016, with...
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16 Dec 2016
Nestle loses trademark protection for KitKat
The battle between confectionery giants Mondelez (which owns Cadbury) and Nestle has taken a fresh twist with news that Nestle's trademark protection for their four-fingered chocolate bars has been...
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11 Dec 2016
How to grow a business idea
British inventors are renowned for having good ideas, and many of these come out of the research departments of British universities. There is a rich seam of potential new, dynamic businesses,...
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11 Dec 2016
Technology at Amazon
Amazon is yet again disrupting another industry with the announcement of Amazon Go, the “just walk out” supermarket with no checkouts. Whilst many are saying that in time, this will inevitably lead...
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8 Dec 2016
Are you loyal to your loyalty cards?
How many loyalty cards to you carry? And how many do you actually use?Sainsbury's Nectar, Tesco's Clubcard, Boots' Advantage card, M&S's Sparks, Morrison's Match and More, and Avios Air Miles...
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4 Dec 2016
Offensive money, and social media
A business's marketing mix should be carefully matched to its vision, aims and objectives. So, if the business is a vegetarian cafe with a clientele who rely on it to live up to that claim, taking...
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2 Dec 2016
Free-range egg market comes to the boil
There is a cracking article in this week's Economist about the changing demand and supply in the market for the 100 billion eggs produced by British hens over the last decade.
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30 Nov 2016
Edexcel A Level Business Research Context for June 2017
Edexcel has released details of the context for Paper 3 June 2017.
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29 Nov 2016
How production went global
This week's Deloitte Monday Briefing looks at the history of globalisation, and why it may be causing a backlash amongst voters in the UK (Brexit) and the US (Presidential election), while it is...
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29 Nov 2016
Exchange rates, and passing on the costs
An item on the BBC website neatly combines topics of global trade, exchange rates, business costs, price elasticity of demand and breakeven analysis. In 'Brexit, the pound and the cost of fish',...
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28 Nov 2016
The Biz Quiz - 28 November 2016
The latest version of the Biz Quiz is now ready to attempt!
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27 Nov 2016
Judge, Jury & Evaluator - Should E-cigarettes be banned?
A differentiated, student-centred and ready-to-go lesson in which students analyse many types of information to decide if e-cigarettes should be banned in public and heavily taxed.
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