Unit 3

COMPANIES
Company Profiles

 Company Profiles
“Business details such as company
name, address, age, business
structure, officers, and industry”.
 Company Profiles of
Coca Cola, Microsoft, P&G
Companies Profile

Founders;
Headquarters;
When it was launched?
Products

How did it become

popular?

Company’s income

Competitors; What does

make it different ?

Criticism
 Company Profiles of
Coca Cola, Microsoft, P&G
Companies Profile

Founders; John Pemberton,

Headquarters; Atlanta,, 1884
When it was launched?
Products Non-alcoholic syrup

How did it become During WW 2 by

popular? supplying CC to US army

Company’s income Provides 1,3 billions CC

products
Competitors; What does Pepsi Cola, CC focused
make it different ? only on the beverage

Criticism HR violations,
monopolistic and
discrimination, etc
 Company Profiles of
Coca Cola, Microsoft, P&G
Companies Profile
Founders; John Pemberton, Bill Gates,
Headquarters; Atlanta,, 1884 Redmond, 1978
When it was launched?
Products Non-alcoholic syrup DOS, Microsoft
Office and
Windows
How did it become During WW 2 by Supplying OS for
popular? supplying CC to US army offices
Company’s income Provides 1,3 billions CC Over 50 billion
products dollars
Competitors; What does Pepsi Cola, CC focused Nintendo, Sony,
make it different ? only on the beverage Apple, SanDisk,
Yahoo, AOL
Criticism HR violations, Rarely invented
monopolistic and much
discrimination, etc
 Company Profiles of
Coca Cola, Microsoft, P&G
Companies Profile
Founders; John Pemberton, Bill Gates, Willian Procter
Headquarters; Atlanta,, 1884 Redmond, 1978 and James
When it was launched? Gamble, 1837
Products Non-alcoholic syrup DOS, Microsoft Candle, soap
Office and detergent,
Windows shampoo, diaper
How did it become During WW 2 by Supplying OS for Supply soap and
popular? supplying CC to US army offices candles for
Union Army
Company’s income Provides 1,3 billions CC Over 50 billion Profit sharing
products dollars
Competitors; What does Pepsi Cola, CC focused Nintendo, Sony,
make it different ? only on the beverage Apple, SanDisk,
Yahoo, AOL
Criticism HR violations, Rarely invented relationship with
monopolistic and much employees
discrimination, etc
Expressions in asking the
company profile
A: How many employees has Philips got?
B: It’s got 250,000
A: Has it got any factories in Slovenia?
B: No, it hasn’t

A: How many subsidiaries does Philips have?

B: It has over 120
A: Does it have a subsidiary in the UK?
B: Yes, it does
 Vocabularies
 Sales ;  transfer of the possession and ownership (title) of a good in 
exchange for money or value
 Turnover ; replacement
 Employees ; workers
 Subsidiary ; Firm controlled by another firm (call the parent) through
the ownership of greater than 50 percent of its voting stock.
 Headquarter ; Main office
 Purchase ; payment
 Manufactures; produce
 Invoice ; bill of sale or contract of sale
 Dispatches ; payment  by a vessel operator to a shipper
 Branch Office; located somewhere other than main office
 Stakes ; An ownership position in a business
 Stocks ; Equity capital raised through sale of shares
 Shares ; Evidence of ownership that represents an equal proportion of a 
firm's capital
 The
office’s
facilities

Make sentences about the office. Begin:

It’s a ….
There’s a…..
There are some ….

It isn’t a…
There isn’t a ….
There aren’t any…
Department’s Organizations
 Present Continuous (PC) vs.
Present Simple (PS) tense

 We use the PC to talk about actions that are going

on at the moment or temporary activities

The rupiahs is falling against US dollars

Philips are expanding their activities in China

 We use the PS to talk about regular activities

The maintenance department services the equipment

 Company Strengths
 A company's strengths are the things it does
well. It may have a dominant market share or
have a low turnover rate, etc. Strengths are also
part of a SWOT analysis, the abbreviation for
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and
threats.
http://management.about.com/cs/generalmanagement/g/strengths.htm
 Take- Home Assignment #2
Oct, 7th 2010
Create a short presentation about a
company to the class. Apply the
form on p.37

30th Sept 2010 is Holiday

 A short presentation

I’d like to tell you about our company product. It is a mineral water
which contains a Oxygen that could improve the costumers’
healthiness.
I’ll begin with the main costumers, most of them are aged between 45-
50 , who realize that they need to maintain their body especially by
consuming water.
Now, I’ll move on to the location, total employee. Our branch office is at
Thamrin, Jakarta Pusat, and have the size of 150 employees.
Our main strength is that we provide healthiness and under the good
habit which is consuming mineral water. And our current projects is to
expand this good habit by involving our customers to sell the products
therefore, they can get more benefits.
Thank you very much for your attention.