J Sainsbury - Financial Performance Of Last 5 Years
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
J Sainsbury plc is a UK based company, into grocery, related retailing an financial services business. The study is primarily to do financial assessment of this company and its performance relative to its peers and industry. Seeing the last 5 years report, it is evident that company was in a bad share 3 years ago, and now its in the stage of recovery.
Starting 2004, there has been a major change in the board, as well as management. Since then company has taken several large and aggressive approach. This can be summarised as renovating/ ex-panding retail space, re-engineering of supply chain, and improvement in IT system. Also there has been focus on brand repositioning through quality improvement, cost reduction through increasing volume, etc. This has resulted into good numbers for its sales and profit margin. The first thing the new CEO Justin King did was to reduce price by 5% in most of the items, so that they re-gain custom-ers confidence.
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