1)

1. c. a person who establishes an organisation

2. f. the amount of business that a company does in one year

3. b. a part of a company that is owned by a person or by other

Company

4. d. a smaller company that is owned by another bigger company

5. e. one of the sectors or groups in a business or organization

6. a. a large company that does business in several different

Countries

2) TOYOTA

Headquarters: Japan

Year founded: 1937

Year of expansion to US: 1957

Employees: 3,70,000

Subsidiaries: 608

Turnover (2018): 270 billion dollars

INDITEX

Year founded: 1975

Employees: 1,74,000

Number of stores: 7420

Profit (2018): 3.4 billion euro’s

3) Study the following expressions used for describing a company. Listen to the recordings again and
tick the ones that you hear:

Headquarters
A) ...is headquartered in...

History
A) ...was founded in/by...

Employees
A) ... has a workforce of ... people ... employs ... people
... operates ... subsidiaries
...has shareholdings in ...
...runs ... stores worldwide

Market position
A)
...is the biggest ... in the world
Financial results
A) ...achieved an annual turnover of..
. ...made a profit of...

4)

Anthony Smart

Position: Chief Accountant

Responsibilities: Responsible for cash flow, credit control, preparing financial statements and reports.

Enjoys: On whole he enjoys his job as he likes the company culture and the people are very friendly and
supportive work environment.

Doesn’t enjoy: chasing money from late payers.

Daniel Goldman

Position: Managing director

Responsibilities: Day to day running of business, managing projects, dealing with suppliers and customers.
Also developing the companies long term strategies.

Enjoys: He enjoys his job as he likes the responsibility, challenge and salary. Also, he likes inspiring others to
achieve their goal.

Doesn’t enjoy: long hours of work as he has no time for the family. It is quite stressful when have problems
with suppliers.

Susan Clarke

Position: Human resources manager

Responsibilities: recruiting new employees and organizing training for company’s staff, improving company’s
working condition.

Enjoys: enjoys working with people, satisfying to see employees improve because of the initiatives that she has
put into practise.

Doesn’t enjoy: dealing with difficult employees who takes too many day offs and doesn’t meet deadlines.

5)

1. responsible

2. charge

3. responsibilities

4. job

5. enjoy

6. most

7. find

8. quite

9. part

10. what