Unit 33: The Impact of Communications Technology on Businesses
P3: Use the internet for different types of business activities
P4: Describe the actions taken to reduce risks to security whilst using the internet for
different types of business activities
M1: Demonstrate how to solve problems in internet use for four different types of business
activity
Introduction
This assignment focuses on the different uses of the internet with a business on a daily
basis. Along with using the internet comes many risks and specific actions and cautions
must be taken in order to keep customers safe, which will be listed. Furthermore, problem
solving in terms of the internet with be demonstrated relating to four business activities.
Uses of the Internet at Marks & Spencer
Research- this is the action of investigating something in order to come to a conclusion or
create results which can help determine a fact.
About Marks and Spencer
Marks and Spencer is a multinational retailer, headquartered in Westminster,
London. It is a public limited company with 1463 locations 959 stores across the U.K.
including 615 that only sell food products. M&S was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks
(Marks was born into a Polish-Jewish family, a Polish refugee living in the Russian Empire,
now in Belarus) and Thomas Spencer (a cashier from the English market town of Skipton in
North Yorkshire) in Leeds. The largest shop is at Marble Arch, on Oxford Street in London,
which has around 16,000 square metres.
In 1998, the company became the first British retailer to make a pre-tax profit of over
£1 billion. Marks and Spencer, known as "Marks and Sparks" or "M&S", made its reputation
in the early 20th century with a policy of only selling British-made goods until it entered into
long-term relationships with British manufacturers, and sold clothes and food under the "St
Michael" brand, which was introduced in 1928. M&S opened its first Asian store in Kabul,
Afghanistan in 1960. The company expanded into Canada in 1973, and at one point had
forty-seven stores across Canada. On 22 May 2018, it was confirmed that over 100 stores will
have closed by 2022 in a "radical" plan. Whether more stores will close is yet to be
confirmed.
Researching Marks and Spencer on Google.
P3: Use the internet for different types of business activities
P4: Describe the actions taken to reduce risks to security whilst using the internet for
different types of business activities
M1: Demonstrate how to solve problems in internet use for four different types of business
activity
Introduction
This assignment focuses on the different uses of the internet with a business on a daily
basis. Along with using the internet comes many risks and specific actions and cautions
must be taken in order to keep customers safe, which will be listed. Furthermore, problem
solving in terms of the internet with be demonstrated relating to four business activities.
Uses of the Internet at Marks & Spencer
Research- this is the action of investigating something in order to come to a conclusion or
create results which can help determine a fact.
About Marks and Spencer
Marks and Spencer is a multinational retailer, headquartered in Westminster,
London. It is a public limited company with 1463 locations 959 stores across the U.K.
including 615 that only sell food products. M&S was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks
(Marks was born into a Polish-Jewish family, a Polish refugee living in the Russian Empire,
now in Belarus) and Thomas Spencer (a cashier from the English market town of Skipton in
North Yorkshire) in Leeds. The largest shop is at Marble Arch, on Oxford Street in London,
which has around 16,000 square metres.
In 1998, the company became the first British retailer to make a pre-tax profit of over
£1 billion. Marks and Spencer, known as "Marks and Sparks" or "M&S", made its reputation
in the early 20th century with a policy of only selling British-made goods until it entered into
long-term relationships with British manufacturers, and sold clothes and food under the "St
Michael" brand, which was introduced in 1928. M&S opened its first Asian store in Kabul,
Afghanistan in 1960. The company expanded into Canada in 1973, and at one point had
forty-seven stores across Canada. On 22 May 2018, it was confirmed that over 100 stores will
have closed by 2022 in a "radical" plan. Whether more stores will close is yet to be
confirmed.
Researching Marks and Spencer on Google.
