1. Task 1 : Identify 5 PLC businesses that operate in the Evesham Area.
Name of the business
What does the business do?
Who are its competitors
How large is the business (number of shops/ Sales Revenue and profit

2. Task 2: What are the advantages of being a PLC?(detailed explanations)

3. What are the disadvantages of being a PLC? (detailed explanations)

4. Task 4: Name 3 PLC’s that have been taken over by other companies.
Top tip : use internet and explain why the business might have been taken over.

5. Task 5 : Identify 5 business that became plc’S
Name of the business
Year did they become PLC’s?
Why might the business have chosen to become a PLC at that time

6. Investigation into Virgin
The Virgin Group became a plc in In 1988, however, Richard Branson announced a management buy-out of the group, making it a private limited company again.
Why did Richard Branson change Virgin from a PLC to an LTD (unusual to? do this)