Business $601$: Business Analysis $>$ Stakeholders, Ethics, and CSR

Assignment: A$.2$ Ethics, Stakeholder, EDII, & CSR Project Memorandum $-$ Individual

Length: $2000$ words$/8$ pages $(12$ pt$.$ font; double line spacing, standard margins per APA Style Guide$)$; MSWord document; Cover page & List of References page required but not counted as part of the word count. Citation required including in$-$text citation $($APA$).$

Value: $,35\%$ of Final Grade, Penalty for Late Memos apply, Penalty for exceeding the word limit applies $(1/100$ per additional $100$ words$).$

Due Date: $,$ Sunday, February $18,$ at $2300$ Hours Pacific Time

Janet Peters is the majority owner and CEO of Sitka Home Equities Inc $($SHE$).$ Ms$.$ Peters is wellknown in the British Columbia business community. For over three generations her family owned and operated several fast$-$food restaurants, including all the A&W franchises on Vancouver Island. She started out flipping burgers but rose rapidly through the ranks to become CEO. When Janet inherited the family businesses, she realized that most of the businesses the family operated had reached the mature stage of the business cycle and that meant that opportunities for growth were constrained. She immediately set out to diversify the group of companies. She witnessed tremendous growth on Vancouver Island during the past $10$ years and sought to take advantage of the ever$-$expanding commercial real estate market. And thus, SHE Inc was born. She soon discovered that when she developed parcels of land and constructed commercial buildings that were anchored by one of her many successful franchises the commercial value of the property increased and sold well above average commercial real estate prices in the Central Vancouver Island area. By taking advantage of the opportunity this presented Janet Peters had become one of the richest persons in British Columbia. Another interesting fact is that Janet is an Indigenous person whose family had migrated from the Alberta three generations earlier.

Now that Ms$.$ Peters is nearing retirement, she wishes to leave a legacy for the next generation of her family by building a high$-$tech state of the art light industrial park in a profitable location on Vancouver Island. She hired a consulting firm to conduct a feasibility study and decided the most profitable place to locate the industrial park was midway between Duncan and Nanaimo, on the site of a former dairy farm, along the only major highway that ran along the Island. The location is also close to the airport and major ports in and out of the Island, and near other feeder highways allowing access up and down the supply chain. Logistically, this was an ideal location for the industrial park. Construction costs would be minimal as much of the off$-$site