Stakeholders and Profit maximisation

Stakeholders are people or groups who are interested in the performance of a business. A business activity has a number of stakeholders associated with it. These might be Owners, management, managers, workers/employees, creditors, suppliers, government and community.
Each of these stakeholders have some interest on the business. An owner might be interested in maximum profit, whereas employees may be looking for stability of job and better salaries/wages.
Every business decides it objectives keeping in mind these possible interest. One of the prime objectives of a business is to maximize profit.
Profits are vital for a business to sustain itself and to give returns to owners on their investments. Returns on investment made by shareholders in companies is known as dividend.

Eurotunnel, a European company, for the first time paid dividend to its shareholders and this simple case study lets the students investigate into this concept.

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Business Studies Case Study - Quality at Dalepak

In today's competitive business environment product quality hold a very important place. Businesses used quality to differentiate their products from others while others may uses it as a means of adding value to their services.

Here is a case study on Dalepak a warehousing, packaging and distribution company based in Northamptonshire. They pride themselves on their quality control.

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