Reginald Esangbedo

Global Public Relations

Instructor: Donald Dunnington
April 21, 2010
Assignment 2

US company: Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/)

 The website offers 76 language options.

 The languages are mainly European, Asian and Middle Eastern. The only African

language it has is Afrikaans, which is a sister language to Dutch.

 The homepages for the different languages are identical.

 The interior pages for the different languages are identical.

 There is no news room, but there is a blog section. The blogs are only posted in whatever

language the blogger posted them in. I only see blogs posted in English.

 The website does not have an investor relations page.

Asian company: Sanyo (http://www.sanyo.com/)

 The website offers four language options: English, French, Mandarin and Japanese.

 The languages are European and Asian. The website offers French as an option only

when you select Canada as your country. The European countries are lumped together as

the European Union; selecting Italy or France as your country will take you back to an

English-only homepage.

 There are slight differences between the homepages for the different languages.

 The interior pages are generally the same for each language.

 The website has a news room; the news is available in all the language options.

 The website has an investor relations page in English and Japanese only.
European company: Audemars Piguet (http://www.audemarspiguet.com/)

 The website offers four language options: English, French, Spanish and Japanese.

 The languages are European and Asian.

 The homepage is identical for each of the European languages; the Japanese homepage is

decidedly different.

 The interior pages are identical for each of the European languages; like the homepage,

the Japanese interior pages are very different.

 There is a news room for every language.

 There is no investor relations page.