Edexcel A Level Business Studies Paper 3: Investigating business in a competitive environment June 2025 question paper 9BS0/03

Using SWOT analysis, assess two threats to Universal Music Group (UMG).

Assess the reasons why Rough Trade Records may choose to stay small.

Using the data in Extract B, and profitability ratios, assess the ways in which Rough Trade Records could improve its profitability.

Universal Music Group has the business objective of profit maximisation. To achieve this, it is considering following either an ethnocentric or polycentric approach to its global marketing strategy.

Evaluate these two options and recommend which one is most likely to achieve profit maximisation for UMG.

Assess two entrepreneurial motives that Simon Taffe might have had when setting up the End of the Road festival.

Assess the likely importance of Corporate Social Responsibility to the organisers of the End of the Road festival.

Assess the likely impact of the competitive environment on the End of the Road festival.

In 2024, the End of the Road festival sold all available tickets. To improve the sales revenue of the festival in 2025, the organisers are considering either increasing ticket prices or increasing the capacity of the festival.

Using the data in Extract D, F and G, evaluate these two options and recommend which one is most likely to improve sales revenue.