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Business Case Study : Safeway
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The name of my business that I have chosen for my case study is called Safeway. Safeway is one of the leading grocery retailers in the UK, with annual sales of around £9 billion, 90,000 employees and nearly 480 stores nationwide. Their stores attract around 8 million shoppers every week. The type of my business is a public limited company. Safeway is in the tertiary sector because it purchases wholesale goods and sells them as a retail store. Originally Safeway was a US owned company called Safeway Food Stores Ltd. The parent company was Safeway Inc of California. Their first UK store was opened in Bedford in 1962. Over the next two decades the company's portfolio of stores rose to 133, establishing it as a serious player in the booming UK food retailing market. The business achieved steady growth until 1986 - when it ranked as the 6th largest UK food retailer. Today (23rd...
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