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Business Growth
Business growth refers to the expansion of a business measured by total revenue, profits, employment, investment and other metrics.
There are several ways in which businesses can grow, including:
- Internal growth: This refers to the process of expanding a business by increasing its sales and profits through existing products, markets, and channels. This can be achieved by increasing marketing efforts, improving efficiency and productivity, and innovating new products or services.
- Market expansion: This involves entering new markets either domestically or internationally, either by selling existing products in these markets or by developing new products specifically for these markets.
- Diversification: This involves expanding the business into new product lines or industries that are unrelated to the company's existing operations. This can help to spread risk and provide new sources of revenue.
- Mergers and acquisitions: This involves combining two or more businesses, either by merging them together or by one company acquiring another. This can allow the combined company to achieve economies of scale, access new markets or technologies, and achieve other strategic benefits.
- Franchising: This involves granting the right to use the company's brand, products, and processes to other businesses in exchange for a fee. This can allow the company to expand quickly without incurring the costs of setting up new locations.
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What are franchises as a business model?
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Business Diversification
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BioNTech acquires UK AI business InstaDeep
11th January 2023
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Business Growth - Acquisitions made by Facebook
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Business Growth - Acquisitions made by Amazon
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Joint Ventures
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Business Growth - Acquisitions made by Samsung
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Business Growth - Businesses Bought by Google
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Industry Profile: UK Cinema Industry
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Business Growth: Lidl's UK Profits Quadruple
17th November 2022
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Business Growth - Foxconn invest in electric truck manufacturer
8th November 2022
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Musk buys Twitter - will he suffer the winners' curse?
28th October 2022
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Business Economics - Can Body Shop Thrive in a Recession?
23rd October 2022
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Contestable Markets - Amazon launches Amazon Insurance Store
19th October 2022
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Recession Watch: More UK Companies Going Bust
7th October 2022
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Horizontal Integration - Vodafone and Three in Merger Talks
3rd October 2022
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Business Growth (Quizlet Revision Activity)
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Business Growth - National Express takeover of Stagecoach (Revision Essay Plan)
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Horizontal Integration - Unilever pursues £50bn-plus mega-merger
18th January 2022
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Rapid organic growth - Lidl to open another 220 stores by 2025
26th November 2021
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Business De-mergers
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Internal Growth - Asda to open more shops at Issa brothers' petrol stations
6th September 2021
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Business growth - Lloyds Bank aiming to become giant UK landlord
20th August 2021
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Explaining Business Objectives
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Key Constraints on Business Growth
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£24 billion takeover bid for technology firm ARM
22nd July 2016
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Tyrrells sold for £300m to US firm Amplify Snacks
9th August 2016
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Spotify in talks to acquire SoundCloud
30th September 2016
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Ten Charts on Business Economics
6th November 2016
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Airbnb looks to become a travel experience business
19th November 2016
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Will free air tickets become the norm?
27th November 2016
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Mega Merger: 21st Century Fox and Sky agree a deal
10th December 2016
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Tesco Goes for External Growth with Booker Takeover
27th January 2017
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BA launches Level to take on Norwegian Airlines
27th March 2017
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Privatisation of the Royal Mail
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Revision Presentation on Business Growth
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Digital Conglomerates - What does Google Do?
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Conglomerate Businesses
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How do Firms Grow?
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The Survival of Small Firms
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Why many takeovers and mergers fail
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Business Objectives and Pricing Strategies
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Recent Examples of Horizontal Integration
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Leveraged buy-outs - How to buy a £6.8bn supermarket for £780m
16th February 2021
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Is K the new U? How economic recovery may be K-shaped
27th January 2021
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Why Long-Haul Low-Cost Airlines Go Bankrupt
6th December 2020
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Conglomerate Integration
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Is Uber's business model doomed?
25th August 2020
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Just Eat buys US rival GrubHub
11th June 2020
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Virgin and O2 plan merger
3rd May 2020
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Responsible capitalism: Greggs has been doing it for decades
15th January 2020
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What the company of the future might look like
24th September 2019
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The Fall of Thomas Cook
24th September 2019
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Aldi plans to open one new store a week
17th September 2019
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Will Uber ever make a profit?
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Evaluating Mergers and Takeovers
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Small businesses
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Business economics: Can Uber ever be profitable?
9th August 2019
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Satisficing behaviour by businesses
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Constraints on Business Growth
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Business Growth - Introductory Concepts
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Business Growth: Spotify acquires Gimlet Media
6th February 2019
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Unilever snaps up snack brand Graze
5th February 2019
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Why do businesses grow?
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Watersones buys Foyles in bid to counter Amazon threat
7th September 2018
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Focus on Business Revenues
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Game Theory - First Mover Advantage
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Sales maximisation as a business objective
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Factors that Affect Business Profitability
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Benefits and Drawbacks of Organic Growth
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Contestable markets: Amazon buys online pharmacy PillPack
29th June 2018
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Vertical integration: BP buys Chargemaster
29th June 2018
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Companies and the year they were founded (Quizlet Activity)
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Business Objectives and Economic Efficiency (Quizlet Activity)
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Tesco Turnaround Gathers Momentum
14th April 2018
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Test 3: A Level Economics: MCQ Revision on Business Economics
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Corporate Acquisitions - Who Owns Who?
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Contestable Markets: Norwegian Airlines takes on the Transatlantic Carriers
14th February 2018
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Byron in financial trouble seeks cuts in rents
9th January 2018
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Craft brewers: do they stay or do they grow?
3rd October 2017
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Apple acquires Shazam
11th December 2017
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Cinema Takeover: Cineworld buys Regal
5th December 2017
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Tencent reaches $500bn market capitalisation
27th November 2017
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Co-op buys Nisa for £143m
13th November 2017
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Can Brewdog sustain their breakneck growth?
31st August 2017
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A Game-Changer in Retail? Amazon buys Whole Foods
17th June 2017
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The Changing Economics of the Book Industry
27th April 2017
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Industry Evolution - Why Most Businesses Fail
19th April 2017
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Bayer bids $65bn to win control of Monsanto
6th September 2016
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Twitter's growth continues to slow
2nd May 2016
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Contrasting the growth of Twitter and Facebook
23rd March 2016
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Business Growth: Hotel Chocolat Plans a Floatation
10th March 2016
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Lego targets Asia and Africa to sustain rapid growth
1st March 2016
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Beer Mergers: Asahi buys Peroni and Grolsch
10th February 2016
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FT Video: Takeovers Explained
10th February 2016
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Sainsburys agrees a deal with Home Retail (Argos)
3rd February 2016
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Beyond the Bike lesson resource - analysing the impact of Uber
22nd January 2016
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Asda cuts costs to counter the onslaught from Lidl and Aldi
21st January 2016
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Funding for Lending Scheme
19th July 2012
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Business Economics Glossary
3rd January 2013
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Group think and the troubles at Tesco
1st October 2014
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Lessons on managing a fast growing business
22nd October 2014
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Google buys two UK artificial intelligence startups
24th October 2014
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Sky sells majority stake in Sky Bet
5th December 2014
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Über raises fresh funds and is valued close to $40bn
5th December 2014
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Uber and Surge Pricing
24th December 2014
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Hyundai profits hit by falling Yen
22nd January 2015
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Apple makes the highest ever quarterly profit
29th January 2015
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Micromax overtakes Samsung in India smartphone sales
4th February 2015
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Poundland agrees a takeover of 99p Stores
8th February 2015
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Tesla invests in battery banks
13th February 2015
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Recent examples of corporate takeovers and mergers
17th February 2015
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Competitiveness - a crispmaker's ideal ingredients
21st March 2015
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Amazon's Dash Button - Dynamic Efficiency at Work?
1st April 2015
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FedEx agrees a merger with TNT Express
7th April 2015
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Shell to buy BG in a mega deal
8th April 2015
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LinkedIn buy Lynda
10th April 2015
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Wine Industry Merger - Majestic Merges with Naked Wines
10th April 2015
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The Relentless Organic Growth of Aldi
10th April 2015
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Whistl Suspends Deliveries
13th May 2015
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Horizontal Integration - Pure Gym buys LA Fitness
30th May 2015
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Microsoft and Nokia - A Merger Made in Hell
11th July 2015
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Amazon - A Business Built to Make Losses?
16th July 2015
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65 Million Subscribers for Netflix
16th July 2015
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Revenue growth as an objective for Twitter
29th July 2015
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Google Inc becomes Alphabet Inc
12th August 2015
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Government Failure: Growth Voucher Scheme Branded a Failure
18th August 2015
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Poundland and 99p Stores Set to Merge
27th August 2015
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Subscription Video-on-Demand and threats to Broadcasters
29th August 2015
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Market Capitalisation of a Business
1st September 2015
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Divestment - Tesco off loads South Korean stores for £4.2 billion
8th September 2015
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Can Apple Continue to Grow Like a Start-Up?
9th September 2015
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IKEA's Staggering Revenue Growth Continues
10th September 2015
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Mergers and Acquisitions in the UK Gambling Industry
22nd September 2015
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Dell agrees $67bn EMC Takeover
12th October 2015
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Timpson's Upside School of Management Model!
18th October 2015
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Pfizer and Allergan's $150bn merger
23rd November 2015