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Waitrose Stakeholders

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In this essay I will be writing about the stakeholders of both, The IPO and Waitrose. I will also be evaluating the impact of different types of stakeholders in one particular company, either The IPO or Waitrose. Stakeholders can be any person or organisation that has an interest in the activities, good and services of a business. Firstly with Waitrose. Waitrose is a national supermarket chain with over 305 stores across the UK and Channel Islands and 40 John Lewis stores. Waitrose is under the John Lewis Partnership and the whole company have over 91,000 employees. Waitrose’s aims and objectives is based upon their future expansion. From the about Waitrose webpage, it states that ‘Waitrose aims to extend its store presence whilst improving …show more content…

As stated the JLP have 91,000 employees (from the JLP annual report 2014) and all these employees have an impact on the organisation as a whole. The employee’s main interest for both John Lewis and Waitrose is to have a highly safe and efficient working environment, so that all the staff can work to the best of their level, this would therefore lead to good job satisfaction and the company delivering a great product and service to the public thus this would lead to good job retention for the HR departments in the UK …show more content…

The suppliers are an influential stakeholder for any supermarket chain. With Waitrose they get a vast amount of their supplies from organic farms and other Fairtrade suppliers. Furthermore they get a small amount of their produce from the small amount of farms which they own, one example is Leckford Farm. At this particular farm they would be able to supply a small amount of produce to a local Waitrose store in the surrounding area. The suppliers are an important stakeholder to any supermarket because if the supplier delivers stock for the supermarket late then Waitrose would not be able to continue with selling that particular item until the stock is delivered, furthermore if this item is bought regularly by customers then there would be a lot of complaints unless there would be stock reserved in case an issue such as this would occur. The

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