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Is Liverpool FC cannibalising its own market?
For the big football clubs in the Premier League, China presents a massive opportunity. The fast-growing aspirant middle class in China, with disposable income to spare, are on the lookout for...
“If you own a car in India, you’ve arrived in life,” says Arun Malhotra, country head for Nissan. This is a great article from the FT for analysing this international market. First, looking at...
Ex-Waitrose boss on how to improve productivity
The productivity gap is one of the big issues in business and economics at the moment. Mark Price, the former managing director of Waitrose discusses in this interview his ideas for how to get a...
Fancy a glass of gloop for lunch?
Is this a new market opportunity, feeding time-poor young professionals with a liquid lunch? Huel is a powder which is made up into a meal-replacement drink. It is a blend of vegan protein made...
M&S Food - a model strategic move into online delivery?
It is easy to see why M&S is focusing its strategy on food, rather than clothing. Although their clothing and homeware sales did well over Christmas 2016, they have been in steady decline for...
Which is the bigger business - Ford or Tesla?
There are a number of ways to measure the size of a business and most of them agree that Ford is a much larger business. But recently, Tesla overtook Ford in the measure that perhaps matters most...
Tough times for retail sales
TheBritish Retail Consortium posted figures last week for retail spending in the first quarter of the year, which show the effect of the rising cost of essentials. Spending on food rose by 1.2%,...
Social media storms hit United Airlines
The response of United Airlines to the video showing a passsenger being forcibly dragged off one of their planesin Chicago was too slow, and too defensive. Dr Dan Dao had not caused any problem on...
McLaren and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here - the McLaren F1 team are going to take a 3D-printer with them to the Bahrain Grand Prix to enable them to print parts trackside and modify their car,...
Has Pepsi acted fast enough to keep its fizz?
Pepsi have gained a very high profile in the last day or so, but for all the wrong reasons as they have pulled an advert they had put out featuring Kendall Jenner. The ad shows her leaving a photo...
The aforementioned businesses were all in the news today to show business studies students that the stuff they learn about in class is really quite important! First up in this Hustle article, Apple...
Industrial Relations dispute at Mini over pension schemes
How much of a risk are the employees of BMW taking at the Mini plant at Cowley, Oxford? They have voted overwhelmingly to go on strike over BMW's plans to close the final salary pension scheme that...
Brexit means - low-cost long-haul strategy?
You may be depressed by the triggering of Article 50 today, or you may be celebrating. One thing is clear; businesses now need to look at wider alternatives than easy access to the free market of...
Divorce of ownership and control???
Here’s a hotel chain with an unusual USP - The Countryside Hotels group is so sure that couples who spend time together and work on their relationship at their hotels will make a success of their...
Tesco face the power of Shareholders over Booker deal
Tesco's are facing a shareholders' revolt. Schroders, their third biggest shareholder, have written to the Chairman and urged other shareholders to join them in opposing the deal to buy food...
Top tier recruitment policy for Amazon
If you want to work for Amazon (or Google, or Apple) in the tier of managing the business's strategy, don't think that you can be a high tech drop-out entrepreneur - you had better stay at...
Getting the right person for the job
Here is a short radio clip which could make a nice interactive lesson starter.
Wearables at Work - A Nudge to Improve Productivity?
Many businesses are giving their employees wearable devices as a way of nudging workers to become more active and ultimately lower the cost of absenteeism and raise productivity. But how much of...
More disruption at Uber
Uber might be seen as the 21st century poster-child of Schumpeter's idea of creative destruction, which is defined as the process of how capitalism leads to a constantly changing structure of the...
Lord Stuart Rose on rising costs
This brief clip of an interview with Lord Stuart RoseThis brief clip of an interview with Lord Stuart Rose, chair of Ocado and former CEO of M&S, is firmly in the Business Gold category. In 47...