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Companies

  1. Vocabulary

  1. asset

  2. board

  • Board of Directors

  • Board of Management

  1. buy out

  2. CEO – Chief Executive Officer

  3. client

  4. company

  5. compete

  • competition

  • competitor

  • competitive

  1. consumer

  2. customer

  3. customer care

  4. chain

  5. creed

  6. debt

  7. department

  8. ensure

  9. expand

  • expansion

  1. go bankrupt

  2. head office

  3. headquarters

  4. implement

  5. keep ahead (of)

  6. launch

  7. maintain

  8. Managing Director

  9. manufacture

  • manufacturer

  1. merge (with)

  2. multinational

  3. outsource

  4. parent company

  5. outlet

  6. patent

  7. performance

  8. profit

  9. produce

  • producer

  • product

  • production

  1. product range

  2. quality

  3. reduce

  • reduction

  1. retailing

  • retailer

  1. respond (to the needs of smb.)

  2. reliable

  • reliability

  1. run (a company, a business)

  2. sales

  3. set up (a company, a business)

  4. share

  5. share price

  6. stock exchange

  7. subsidiary

  8. take over

  9. turnover

  10. warehouse

  11. workforce

LEAD-IN

  1. Which of these companies would you like to work for? Why?

1. a family owned company

2. a multinational company

your own company ( be self-employed)

  1. Which of the business sectors would you like to work in? Can you name a company in each sector?

Telecomminications / Media Transport

Engineering IT / Electronics

Retailing Food and drink

Construction Pharmaceutical

Tourism Other

Banking and Finance

BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY

  1. Complete with the verbs from the list (some verbs are used more than once).

advertise be become export go have import

make manufacture market merge set up take over

  1. ........ a company ( start )

........ a product

........ on TV / in the press

........ a product ( sell using advertising )

  1. ........ successful

........ a profit

........ to another country

........ from another country

........ the market leader

........ another company

........ with another company

  1. ........a loss (lose money )

........ debts (owe money )

........ bankrupt

........ out of business

  1. Match the words from the list and their corresponding definitions.

a business / company a chain a client a colleague a customer

a competitor the ( Managing ) Director an executive

the manager a multinational the owner the staff

  1. ........ an organisation which produces or sells goods or provides a service

  2. ........ a company that has offices or factories in many countries

  3. ........ a group of shops, hotels, etc. owned by the same person or company

  4. ........ the person who owns a business

  5. ........ the group of people who work for a particular organisation

  6. ........ smb. who receives a service from a professional person ( e.g. a lawyer )

  7. ........ a person who buys goods or services, e.g. from a shop or a restaurant

  8. ........ a person, company or product that is trying to do better than the others

  9. ........ a person who works with you

  10. ....... a person who has an important position in a company

  11. ....... the person who manages or controls a company or an organisation

  12. ....... the person who is in charge of part of an organisation

  1. Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the list.

subsidiary turnover warehouse profit staff share price

head office outlet market share

1. The amount of money a company receives from sales in a particular period is

called its ........ .

2. The money a company makes after taking away its costs is its ........ .

3. A company which is more than 50 % owned by a parent company is called

its ........ .

4. A ........ is a building for storing goods before distribution to retailers.

5.The employees in a particular country or business are called the ........ .

6. The main building or location of a large organisation is its ........ .

7. An ........ is a shop where a company sells its goods.

8. The cost of company’s shares is its ........ .

9.The percentage of sales a company has in a particular market is its ........ .

  1. Complete the extract from a company report with some appropriate

words or phrases from task III.

I am pleased to say the company has continued its excellent performance.

We are changing, growing and doing well at a difficult time for the industry.

........(1) was million euro, an increase of 15 % on last year, and ........ (2)rose by

5 % to 6.4 million euro.

We are a highly competitive business. We have increased our ........(3) to 20 %.

Consequently our ........(4 )has risen and is now at an all-time high of 9.6 million

euro.

Increased production and strong demand have had a positive effect on our

cash flow, so we are able to finance a number of new projects. We have

successfully moved to our new ........(5) in central London. We are now

planning to start full production at the recently opened Spanish ........ (6) in

October.

Finally, thanks once again to our loyal and dedicated ........(7) . Our employees

will always be our most valuable asset.