Question

Think of the everyday business transactions that you engage in as a consumer or an employee of your organization or both. Think also in terms of the value chain that is needed to create the product or service that you buy or sell to the end user. In other words, identify the end-to-end cycle of products from manufacturing to finished goods to market and what value is added in the process.

Select one publicly traded company that has been in existence for at least five years and discuss its value chain. Also, answer the following questions: What industry is it in? What do they sell? Finally, provide a link to its financial data online from the Yahoo! Finance website.

Answer 1

Hindustan Uniliver Limited is a publicly traded company that I choose. I am discussing value chain of only a single product. i.e. Kissan Catchup. The value chain starts from purchse as tomatoo as raw material and then the final step of value chain is finished product. i.e. CatchupItis in Consumer Goods Industry and they sell almost each and every items that is being sold in the sector. The link is https://in.finance.yahoo.com/quote/HINDUNILVR.NS/?guccounter=1.

if you are an employee of HUL and you work in the production department that converts raw tomato into mashed tomato, you are a part of value chain of converting the raw material into Semi finished product.