Task 3 – Thorpe Park

Thorpe Park is owned by Nick Leslau, leased to Merlin Entertainments and this type of business want to attract public and want more people coming and knowing about Thorpe Park and its organisation. Their aim is to make the most profit from the public.

The employees that Thorpe have depend on the time of year, any special occasions, opening hours, day of the week, part time, full time.

The rides team are about 200 people on payroll during the season and goes down to 20 in the winter, and there are only 20 people in the retail department and 100 in the winter, there are 30 engineers and 10 directors and they are there all year round. The food and beverages have 100 staff during the season. There are 200 cleaners 40 per day.

Their turnover is to evaluate the products and services of Thorpe Park, they are known to be the best in Europe but the best in England and they can make a profit turnover of nearly £500,000.

Thorpe Park can make profit by having special occasion nights at the park suck as fright night, Halloween this way they can charge more money for tickets and other products this way they can make a lot of profit.

  

There are 3 main branches nearest to us and they are in reading, Weybridge and Winsor and Eaton riverside.

I think Thorpe Park are classified as a medium business as they have competition from other entertainment leisure company’s such as Alton towers, chessington, heide park resort.

Thorpe Park are a regional company as they are located all around Europe, because when you go to the Thorpe park website they show you how many parks they have.

Thorpe Park belongs to the tertiary as they are providing a service for their customers.