STR581Week6compassgroupsummary.docx
Compass Group USA just like many organizations in the Food service industry, provide various essentials that are necessary to run a reliable and stable environment. The operational areas of the company include the provision of food service and support service to corporate cafeterias, arenas, museums, award winning restaurants and other related organizational needs ("Who We Are", 2017). Compass Group opened its USA branch in 1994 and now the company operates internationally with over 50 client countries and over 50,000 locations within those client countries to expand its operations. The company started with a mere canteen and has achieved extensive growth so far. The company has been on operation for over 75 years ("Who We Are", 2017). One of reasons for the major success of the company is the thorough conduct of environmental analysis, the company conducts a thorough environmental analysis and consider the necessary strategies in order to remain competitive and profitable for the sake of its shareholders. The company considers unique marketing strategies since there is high competition in the industry. The industry is full of companies that provide similar services as Compass Group. Due to this, Compass Group must use various unique marketing strategies to attract new customers and to retain the existing customers. To ensure this, the company creates plans to run their daily operations that would allow them to center their business level strategies in a well-rounded environment. For the company to ensure that the various deadlines are met, the company’s implementation department reviews the company’s objectives, finds functional tactics, plans and performs action items along with the possible milestones. Compass Group aims at delivering superior service in the most responsible and efficient way, for the shared benefit of all stakeholders (customers, employees, shareholders among others). The company is very essential to the community since it is one of the largest job providers in the society and it also provide critical services such as food and support services management. To ensure efficient work at the company at large, the company’s every department work efficiently with the allocated resources.