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Paper Reference 9BS0/02
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Paper 2: Business activities, decisions and strategy
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Read the following extracts (A to C) before answering Question 1.
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Tended Ltd
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Tended Ltd is a fast-growing technology start-up company based in Lincoln, UK founded
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by young entrepreneur Leo Scott Smith, who is the main shareholder. The company has
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created a personal safety device called the ‘Tended Protect’. Tended Ltd aims to increase
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its market share of the global wearable technology market. 5
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Tended Protect is a wrist-worn wearable safety device that monitors the movements
of the user through artificial intelligence and has the ability to learn and detect
‘abnormalities’, such as a fall or strong impact. If the user does not or cannot respond to
the device’s safety check, then an alert will be sent to the user’s nominated emergency
contact. It gives the GPS location, health and activity information and will open the 10
channel for live audio with the wearer.
Tended Ltd has gained £50 000 from Enterprise Loans*, to help further develop the
Tended Protect, create new jobs and marketing for the new product, as well as fulfil its
initial orders.
*A subsidiary of the UK government’s British Business Bank. 15
(Source: adapted from http://www.smeweb.com/2018/07/09/
qa-leo-scott-founder-ceo-tended-protect/
and https://cityx.co.uk/2018/07/tended-wearable-
safety-device-developed-lincolnshire/)
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The expansion of Tended Ltd
Tended Ltd has developed at a fast rate, from one member of staff to a team of 10 in
eight months. It encountered difficulties such as raising finance and it ran out of cash on
a few occasions. Tended Ltd also faced development issues, which took months to fix.
However, it overcame all of these issues. The staff pulled together as a team, worked into 5
the early hours of the morning and constantly innovated and took risks, enabling the
business to stay agile and continue to grow rapidly.
(Source: adapted from https://www.startupvalley.news/uk/
tended-personal-safety-wearables/)
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