IGCSE Business Studies

1. Unit 1.2
The Different Sectors Of
Business Activity

2. The PRIMARY sector
Mining
Farming
Fishing
Drilling
Forestry
BASICALLY ANY
EXTRACTIVE
BUSINESS

3. The SECONDARY sector
 Manufacturing
 Construction
 Ship
building
 Processing
Basically any business
that CHANGES a
product in any way.

4. The TERTIARY sector
 Banking
 Retailing
 Insurance
 Travel
 Hotels
 Entertainment
Basically any business
which offers a
SERVICE

5. The CHAIN of PRODUCTION
This is the way a product moves through each
of the business sectors.
For example, this would be the journey that oil
takes.

6. Student activity
Choose 5 of the following items and work
out the chain of production. Try to list the
types of business involved in each of the
sectors.
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A book
Electricity
A car
A wooden door
An apple pie
A ship
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A cardboard box
A leather football
A hockey stick
A brick
A loaf of bread
A joint of beef

7. INTERDEPENDENCE
This is when one type of
businesses from other
A travel agent offers a
holiday booking service.
They don’t make or grow
anything.
However, it’s dependant
However, they are also
on businesses is the
business in dependent on
dependent on other tertiary
secondary sector to
sector businesses such as
sectors. like PC’s,
make things For example:
solicitors, banks, window
paper, planes, pens,
cleaners, electricians, etc.
desks, hotels, etc.
They also need power for
electricity etc. The raw
materials for this are
obtained in the primary
sector.

8. Student activity
For each of these businesses, list other types of
business that they depend on (think PRIMARY,
SECONDARY & TERTIARY).
 Capital
One
 HSBC
 Shell
 Toyota
 Asda