Starting Business English

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Starting Business English

• Lily 2007

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Unit 5 Describing your Companys Products
market share
sales strategy
product range
agenda
niche market
product presentation
background
high volume low volume
best seller
high margin low margin
high-tech computerized
accessories add-ons
margin the difference between the cost and the
selling price of commodities niche a special
area of demand for a product niche market ???????
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Unit 5 Describing your Companys Products
dotted line
represent
increase
product presentation
decrease
show
total
Net income
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Unit 5 Agenda

• Project teams meeting
• Central Office Boardroom
• 15 January 0900 for 915

Chair Michael Roberts Secretary Sue
Robinson Members DE, JK, NM, AWC, CA

• 1. 0915 Matters arising from last meeting
• 2. 0930 Report from Dan Evans on Monaco project
• 3. 0950 Discussion of Monao project
• 4. 1000 Presentation on new San Marino products
  ( Julie King )
• 5. 1030 Presentation on changes to export
  procedures ( Cario Marinelli)
• 1100 Coffee break
• 6. 1130 Teams meet in Meeting Rooms 2 and 4 (
  separate agendas)
• 1300 Reports from teams
• 1415 Details of next meeting
• 1420 Lunch in canteen ( 10 people)

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Unit 5 Describing your Companys Products

• Starting a meeting
• Good morning everyone. Welcome.
• If you have a mobile phone, could you please turn
  it off? Shall we begin?
• Has everyone got a copy of the agenda?
• All right. Now, the first item on the agenda is
• Managing the meeting
• Does anyone have any questions before we move on?

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• Managing the meeting
• Does anyone have any questions before we move on?
• Could you answer that for us?
• Thank you everyone. Now, shall we move on to the
  next point?
• Suggesting/ asking
• Could I make a suggestion?
• Could I ask a question, please?

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• Interrupting
• Sorry, could I interrupt for a moment?
• Could I just say something?
• Ending
• Well, were nearly out of time. Can we come to a
  conclusion?
• So what we have decided is
• So do we all agree that?
• Well, thank you very much, everyone.
• Well meet again on the5th of next month at 2
  oclock.

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Unit 5 Describing your Companys Products

• Starting a product presentation
• We are very honored to have the opportunity of
  making this presentation to you, Mr. Sakai.
• In the next hour and a half we hope to show you
  that
• One, Two, , Three,And lastly, four,
• But first of all, some background on Bibury
  Systems.
• If you have any questions, please feel free to
  interrupt at any time.

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Unit 5 Describing your Companys Products

• Background to the company
• Our company (we) specialize in electronic games.
  
• Product range
• We have the right product range for todays
  market place.
• We have some high volume products and some low
  volume products.
• Most of our products are for children, but some
  are for adults.

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Unit 5 Describing your Companys Products

• Market share
• We have a large market share in the Far East.
• One Product
• Now Im going to talk about one of our products.
  This is Big Boss. It is a high-tech executive
  toy. It can talk
• Diagrams
• This diagram shows total net income.
• As you can see, there was an increase last year.