A company profile
| Introduction Starting your own business career or/and choosing a job from various job advertisements the future graduate has to know very well the company's profile, for which he will probably work. We are sure that the information put on this page by us can facilitate the importance and solve problems related to this activity. When you have finished doing the exercises you can check how well you did in our Answers to exercises. If some words or phrases are too tough for you, you can always check the meaning in our dictionary . A company profile often includes: 1.General information like: years founded legal status location number of employees 2.The business of the company: positioning on the market (why it is different - the main strength products market : customers competition size share of the company 3.Financial status: initial capital loans shareholders turnover profit current projects An example of company's profile The MoDo Group is an international company. Its headquarters are in Stockholm. The President and Chief Executive Officer in Bernt Lof. Its main areas of business are fine paper, newsprint and magazine paper and other wood products. Most of MoDo's production is carried out in Sweden, but the company is present in many European countries and in the United States. More than 80% of the Group's total sales of 18.4 million Swedish kronor in 1990 came from countries outside Sweden, primarily the European Community. The company has about 12,961 employees. Exercise 1 If you have read the text above try to fill in the gaps. If not read it (even twice) and then do the exercise. Name of company ........................................................ Headquarters .............................................................. Chairman .................................................................. Business activities ......................................................... Main markets .............................................................. Sales in 1990 ............................................................... No. of employees ........................................................... Exercise 2 Read the text below and find the answer on this question: "What is EDF's position in the French market?". A law passed on April 8th 1946 created Electricité de France (EDF) as a state company. Most of the electricity production and distribution companies that existed in France at that time were nationalised. The same law gave EDF a monopoly over the transmission, distribution, import and export of electricity. However, the law allowed other companies to own and exploit production units to cover their own electricity needs, provided they sold excess production exclusively to EDF. Thus, EDF buys in some of its production from other electricity producers. In 1991, EDF production accounted for 94% of the electricity produced in France, whereas sales accounted for 97% of French electricity consumption. Today, EDF is the world's largest producer of cheap electricity. Exercise 3 Find phrases in the text (in exercise 2) which have a similar meaning to the following: a.brought into state ownership ................................. b.make use of ................................. c.facilities ................................. d.represented ................................. Answers to exercises |