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Other references used were Business in Context author David Needle. ... According to the 2001 Census, 70,697 people living in the District have a limiting long-term illness, which covers any long-term illness such as health problem or disability, which limits daily activities or work. ... A good manager will look at the level of economic activity in the area before considering whether to start a business there, because a business needs to consider aiming products at their target market. ... With the exception of the public sector, the principle job generators were in the retail, transportation; communication; food manufacture; computing and related activities; publishing/printing and other business activities. ... 2 Employment in the Wakefield District covers a wide range of business sectors:
· Distribution, Hotels and restaurants is the largest broad industrial group and accounts for 26% of employment in the Wakefield District (32,800employees).
The distribution element of this sector comprises retail and wholesale activities. ...
· There are 6,700 people employed in the Construction sector
· 5,300 employed in Other Services, which includes, recreational, cultural, sporting, hairdressing and physical well-being activities. ... 2 Wakefield Council has adopted a business plan and the main areas of which they see improvement are as follows:
1. ... Existing Members can expect to see a tailing off of available grant aid after 2006, which will inevitably impact, on support to business and communities. ... 1 New Europe-Implications for business
· EU is largest market in world
· EU is a major force in international trade
· EU has some of the richest and most competitive in the world
· EU common market provides opportunities to establish EU-wide operations
· Euro allows for lower costs of currency exchanges
· Euro may become competitor to the US dollar as international currency
· Eastern Europe has some emerging economies with strong growth potential
· Eastern Europe presents greater economic and political risks than the EU
· Expansion of EU may allow businesses to enter the new markets from base of operations in Western Europe. ... A business could be concentrating on expanding and leave the home market weak. ... The benefit of a fixed exchange rate is that it provides companies with the ability to plan and budget for future activity and expansion because:
· It becomes possible for business to accurately predict the future costs of producing goods in the UK for European markets by removing the fact that there is an extremely volatile exchange rate between the pound and the Euro. ... 1 Another benefit to a UK business in joining the Euro would be the fact that because of the removal of separate national currencies it will encourage cross-border investment, as potential investors in the Euro zone will be looking to invest in a business based on its competitiveness and not on its nationality. ... A strategy should be produced by a business to make sure that don’t make a loss on expansion.
Approximate Word count = 5835 Approximate Pages = 23.3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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