A2 Business Studies

A ‘crossover’ blog here, since most Business students will be spending at least some of their time thinking about the external environment t...

The Porter's Five Forces tool is a simple but powerful tool for understanding where power lies in a business situation. This is useful, ...

Yesterday morning’s business news has been dominated by the proposed merger of Glencore and Xstrata. Glencore’s 34% holding of Xstrata sh...

Our ResearchBuster blog posts are designed to help students identify and integrate examples of business strategy for their synoptic essays a...

Students researching takeovers and mergers will come across some terminology which might not be familiar to them. Here are some key terms w...

Google’s biggest-ever takeover has been given approval by competition regulators in both the EU and USA, paving the way for the takeove...

The Tata takeover of Jaguar Land Rover (“JLR”) in 2008 is one of our five “must research” deals for the AQA BUSS4 research theme in 2012....