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• Key websites are listed by chapter and topic for quick and easy reference
• Internet activities in the Course Notes book help focus your research
• Web links are monitored and updated to give you the information that you need

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Chapter 1 - What is business?

What do businesses do?

• Wikipedia - www.wikipedia.org
• Scottish Government (formerly Scottish Executive) – www.Scotland.gov.uk

Chapter 2 - How do businesses develop and perform?

How do businesses start?

• Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust - www.psybt.org.uk

How do businesses grow?

• Business Link - www.businesslink.gov.uk
• Unilever - www.unilever.co.uk

Chapter 3 - What resources do businesses use?

Why do businesses locate where they do?

• Business Link - www.businesslink.gov.uk

Websites for local governments:

• Aberdeen: www.aberdeencity.gov.uk
• Dundee: www.dundeecity.gov.uk
• Fife: www.fife.gov.uk
• Edinburgh: www.edinburgh.gov.uk
• Glasgow: www.glasgow.gov.uk
• Highlands: www.highland.gov.uk
• North Lanarkshire - www.northlan.gov.uk

The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and RSA Scotland also have helpful websites:

• www.berr.gov.uk
• www.rsascotland.gov.uk

How do people contribute to businesses?

• Learn Direct - www.learndirect-advice.co.uk

Chapter 4 - How are businesses managed?

What are the key decisions that businesses make?

• Tesco - www.tesco.com
• Unilever - www.unilever.co.uk
• Marks & Spencer - www.marksandspencer.com
• The Times 100 - www.thetimes100.co.uk