Unit 1. General description of a company

           On studying this part you will be able to talk about the organization you work in. Reflect upon the main components of your company profile (brief description). In other words, what information about company could provoke some interest from the direction of your potential partners? Your potential partners may be interested in:

- main activity (in what the company specializes)

- the annual sales (sales within a year)

- location (where the company is situated), head office and warehouses (places of keeping any production for further use or for sale)

- quantity of branches (parts of a larger organization)

- the annual growth or profit (sum of money the company earns)

- the number of the employees (your colleagues in the company)

- the degree of the company’s independence

- motto of the company (a short sentence or phrase that expresses a philosophy of a person’s or an organization’s activity or behavior)

 

Task 1. Give the Russian equivalents for the following words:

Quantity, branch, profit, independent company, to specialize, warehouse, the main activity, annual growth, dependent company, annual sales, to be situated, employee, motto.

 

Task 2. Translate the following words and expressions from Russian into English:

Деятельность, годовые продажи, расположение, склад, филиал, главный офис, доход, рост, наемный служащий, зарабатывать, производство, степень независимости компании, клиент, специализироваться.

 

Task 3. Read the following presentation and fill in the table below:

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Let me introduce myself. My name is Edward Green. I am a sales manager of the “Aqua” company. Welcome to our company that produces and sells delightful soft drinks. Wherever you go, you have an opportunity to buy our blue and yellow bottles or tins. Our company is independent. Speaking of our head office, it is situated in Toronto, because it’s one of the Canadian business centers. But don’t think my colleagues work within one office. We have two plants, fifteen branches and two hundred warehouses in the country. It allows buying our product without waiting. Fifteen thousand employees are taking care of our potential clients at the moment. Our main clients are usual people. What do they need? They want next to nothing – a healthy and refreshing drink of the best quality. It’s our general task. Our Director General, Mr. Smith, is permanently anxious about it. According to the statistics, we have achieved impressive results. Our annual sales are nine hundred million dollars and the profit for this year is four hundred and eighty-two million dollars. Constant development is our feature. The annual growth is thirty per cent and we are pleased at it. What’s everything based on? I’m sure on our philosophy, clear for anyone who is employed by “Aqua”. You know our motto is ‘Never stop at what has been achieved”.

 

1	Activity
2	Degree of independence
3	Location of the Head Office
4	Branches
5	Warehouses
6	Employees
7	Annual sales
8	Annual profit
9	Annual growth
10	Motto

 

Task 4. Try to describe the company of Edward Green on behalf of him:

 

1. I work in -------------------------- as a---------------------.

2. It is an independent company. It is a branch of--------------.

3. The company was founded in -------------------.

4. We employ----------------.

5. Its main activity is----------------.

6. Our customers are------------------.

7. The head office is situated in-------------------.

8. It has--------------branches in--------------------.

9. The company has--------------warehouses.

10. Our annual growth is------------------------.

11. Our annual turnover is------------------------.

12. Our motto is-------------------------------------.

 

Task 5. Put the words in the right order to make questions and translate them into Russian:

 

1. the company/ name/ what/ of/ is/ the?

2. do/ what/ does / the company?

3. situated/ is/ where/ the company?

4. many/ how/ people/ employ/ does/ the company?

5. turnover/ what/ is/ annual/ the company/ of/ the?

 

Task 6. Work in pairs. You are taking part in a business conference. You represent companies, situated in different countries. You are interested in the company of your potential business partner. Ask each other questions to have all the information. Questions in the previous task will help you.

Person A

Company	“Makfa”
Activity	Specializes in grain production
Location	Russia, Chelyabinsk
Employees	1500 employees
Turnover	EUR 17300000

 

Person B

Company	“TTS Riesen”
Activity	Specializes in transporting people and goods
Location	Berlin, Germany
Employees	5000 employees
Turnover	EUR 45000000

 

Task 7. Make a short presentation of Exon Mobil Company, using the information below:

«ЭксонМобил» является крупнейшей в мире нефтегазовой компанией, акции которой свободно обращаются на открытом рынке ценных бумаг. Мы поставляем энергетические ресурсы, способствуя укреплению экономики развивающихся стран и повышению уровня жизни во всем мире. Являясь лидером практически во всех аспектах нефтяной и нефтехимической промышленности, мы используем производственные мощности и продаем нашу продукцию практически во всех странах мира и добываем нефть и природный газ на всех шести континентах. Компания «ЭксонМобил» использует инновации и современные технологии, чтобы удовлетворить растущие мировые потребности в энергии. Наша компания занимается разведкой, добычей и продажей нефти, природного газа и нефтепродуктов. Корпорация «Эксон Мобил» демонстрирует свою безоговорочную приверженность соблюдению высоких моральных принципов, надежности операций и безупречности исполнения.

 

 

Task 9. Make a presentation of Aeroflot company, using the information from the following table:

 

Aeroflot—Russian Airlines Аэрофлот—Российские авиалинии

IATA SU ICAO AFL Callsign AEROFLOT Founded 9 February 1923 Commenced operations 15 July 1923 Hubs Sheremetyevo International Airport Frequent-flyer program Aeroflot Bonus Alliance SkyTeam · Aeroflot-Cargo · Aeroflot-Finance   Subsidiaries Donavia (100%) Jetallians Vostok Fleet size 126 Destinations 116 Company slogan Sincerely Yours. Aeroflot (Russian: Искренне ваш, Аэрофлот – Iskrenne vash, Aeroflot) Parent company Government of Russia (51%) Headquarters Moscow, Russia Key people Vitaly Gennadyevich Savelyev (General Director), Viktor Petrovich Ivanov (Chairman), Aleksandr Yuryevich Zurabov (First Deputy General Director) Website www.aeroflot.ru