1 Look through the whole article and find the names of: Over to you 1

Is it acceptable for an executive to leave a company and immediately

a) a big Swiss food company.
start competing with it by marketing similar products? Why? / Why
b) a coffee machine that the company makes.
not?
c) someone who used to work for the company.
d) a tea-making machine that he has launched. Over to you 2
e) a tea-making machine that the company in a) above has Coffee machines like Nespresso mean that Nestle can continue to
launched. make money from sales of coffee capsules for each machine it sells.
Make a list of other products where the manufacturer can continue to
f) a retailer that sells at low prices,
sell things after it sells the main product.
g) a coffee-making machine that another company has launched,
and the name of the company.
2 Match the two parts to make expressions from
paragraph 1.
1 hot drinks action
2 boiling battle
3 tea making business
4 legal market
5 court product

6 rival system

7 profitable point

3 Now match the expressions in Exercise 2 to their

meanings, as they are used in the article.
a) when someone tries to solve a disagreement by using the
legal system
b) an example of item a) where the disagreement is very big
c) an extreme stage
d) a product that competes with another product
e) an activity that makes money
0 selling tea and coffee machines
g) a machine to make one of the drinks in item f)
4 Read paragraphs 2,3 and 4 and decide if these
statements are true or false.
a) Tpresso machines will be assembled in France.
b) The parts will be made in China.
c) Special T is designed to be a success for tea in the same way
that Nespresso has been a success for coffee.
d) Special T was launched all over Europe at the same time.
e) Special T costs less than €130 and the capsules cost €0.35
each.
0 Denner has also launched a tea-making machine, g) Other
companies are free to copy the technology used in Nespresso.
5 Answer these questions about paragraph 4.
a) Who won the court case between Nestis and Denner?
b) Why did Nestle take legal action against Denner?
c) Which two other things show that Nestle wants to protect its
Nespresso machine?
6 Choose the best summary of the whole article.
a) The market for tea- and coffee-making machines is very
competitive.
b) Company executives can always leave in order to start their
own business.
c) Chinese companies are entering the market for tea- and
coffee-making machines.