- •А кадемия управления при Президенте Республики Беларусь
- •Система открытого образования
- •Business english Курс лекций
- •Is she talking? 8
- •1. Starting to trade 151
- •2. The marketing mix 166
- •The Future: will
- •I/you/he/she/it/we/they will go (I’ll. He’ll, they’ll go)
- •Past Simple Tense
- •Positive (regular verbs)
- •Present Perfect Tense
- •Question Have you done it yet? Where have you been?
- •Review of time expressions
- •Word study Putting Nouns Together
- •Summary
- •The president
- •For discussion
- •The future perfect
- •More about auxiliary verbs
- •Word study
- •Two More Ways to Put Nouns Together
- •Company structure
- •Application for a job
- •74 Dockside Manchester m15 7bj 8 March 2000
- •Utility chiefs top executive pay increases
- •Unit II
- •Types of companies
- •Text № 1
- •Types of companies
- •Investing in a limited company
- •Summary of modal verbs
- •Modals with more than one meaning
- •You mustn’t vs. You don’t have to
- •Other uses of “will” and “would”
- •Degrees of probability
- •Exercise 15. Which is the closest in meaning?
- •The passive with modals
- •The indirect passive
- •Share capital
- •Companies
- •Must have and might have
- •Present Past
- •Could have and should have
- •Present
- •Types of business units
- •Unit III starting a business
- •Participles
- •A real estate purchase
- •Another use for participles
- •Participles
- •The problem of cash flow
- •Exchange rates cause budgeting problems
- •The flow of funds
- •Read and give the summary of the newspaper articles.
- •1. Greenalls refocuses spending By Dominic Walsh
- •2. Mandelson wants uk "digital leader" By Raymond Snoddy, Media Editor
- •3. Paget departs from telspec By Chris Ayres
- •4. Tlg succumbs to 353 million pounds wassall bid By Paul Durman
- •5. Progress hope at pilkington By Paul Durman
- •Unit IV management
- •What is management?
- •1.1. Read and translate the text.
- •1.2. Put 5 questions to part 1 of the text the answers to which are marked by •
- •1.3.. Answer the following questions:
- •1.4. Try to remember 5 main duties of managers.
- •2.1.. Read the notes of the lecture about management. Write out new words. Translate the text.
- •2.2.. Discuss:
- •3.1. Read text ¹ 3. Complete the sentences, finding them in the text:
- •3.2. Discuss:
- •4.1. Read text ¹ 4 about managers’ skills. There are 9 of them mentioned. Make the list of them and discuss the following:
- •Gerunds
- •The infinitive Positive Infinitive Negative Infinitive
- •Conditionals First conditional
- •Second conditional
- •Third conditional
- •The conditional
- •Texts for reading Holding Meetings
- •1. Put a tick or a cross in the box after each statement to show whether you think it is correct or not:
- •London borough Spring Personnel. Legal pa £25,000
- •Relative clauses
- •Miss Johnson is a secretary I work with.*
- •More examples of relative clauses
- •Of which vs. Whose
- •Past participles used as adjectives
- •Relative clauses with prepositions
- •Relative clauses with deletions
- •Conjunctions and related phrases
- •Agreement of tenses
- •Reported speech: agreement of tenses
- •Direct Reported
- •Reported questions
- •Interrogative noun clauses Who’s That Man?
- •Didn’t he apologize for _______?
- •Do you know _______?
- •Text ¹ 2 Market Study
- •Questions about the story
- •For discussion
- •Texts for reading and discussion
- •1. Starting to trade
- •Marketing Defining marketing
- •2. The centrality of marketing
- •1D Comprehension
- •Product policy
- •1A Discussion
- •1A Reading
- •3. Products and brands
- •4. It pays to advertise
- •It pays to advertise
- •2. The marketing mix
- •The role of advertising
- •Does the fact that it pays to advertise seem obvious to you? Explain your answer.
- •Figure 1.1.: gross margin
- •Paragraph 3: aura
- •3. Users of both competitive brands and of our product.
- •Born in 1946, we offer 52 years of experience
- •Unit VI business communication
- •Higher management
- •Rules of Writing
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •Means of communication
- •4 Abilities
- •5 Experience
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •Writing
- •Text 6 designing a sales letter
- •Manufactures of Quality Office Equipment since 1940
- •The layout of a business letter
- •23 Nelson Square
- •Velkotex Ltd
- •Prefixes of negation
- •Indicative Subjunctive
- •Verbs used with the subjunctive
- •Indicative vs subjunctive
- •Indicative Subjunctive
- •Infinitives with “seem” and “appear”
- •By Russsell Hotten
- •Sources
- •Козлова Любовь Константиновна Business English
- •220007, Г. Минск, ул. Московская, 17.
4. Tlg succumbs to 353 million pounds wassall bid By Paul Durman
TGL, the lighting group, looked set to fall to the 353 million pounds takeover bid from Wassall yesterday after Cooper Industries of the US allowed its lower offer to lapse.
TGL, part of Thorn EMI until a management buyout five years ago, promptly recommended shareholders should accept Wassall's offer of 175p a share and said it would be sending out a circular shortly to shareholders recommending acceptance of the Wassall bid.
Cooper opened the bidding for TGL early this month with a 160p a share offer that valued the company at 321 million pounds.
Despite the benefits Cooper might have derived by combining TGL with its other electrical and lighting businesses, the US company decided it could not justify paying more than Wassall.
John Riley, Cooper's president and chief executive officer, said: "While we believe TGL fits strategically with Cooper, we have decided that a higher bid would not provide the return we expect for our shareholders."
Wassall, a conglomerate that is turning itself into more of a financial investor, already owned 25.5 per cent of TLG, which it started acquiring at prices around 100p early last year. It is believed to have added another 1 per cent or so yesterday as TLG' share price fell back from 183p to 171½p.
Because Wassal bought a large number of shares at prices below 140p, its actual acquisition cost will be about 336.3 million pounds. Wassall also owns an American DIY seal-ants business and a bottle tops maker.
Last year Cooper bought Menvier-Swain, the UK emergency lighting company. It said it remained "committed to acquisitions as a vehicle for growth but only if they meet our criteria for increasing shareholder value."
Cooper is a diversified electrical groups based in Houston, Texas. If it had pressed ahead with the TLG bid it could have become the world's largest global lighting company.
5. Progress hope at pilkington By Paul Durman
PILKINTON, the glassmaker whose share price has collapsed in three months, is hopeful that it can increase underlying profits this year despite trading problems in many of its markets.
The group has shed 1,200 jobs since the start of April, which means that it has cut its payroll by 4,750 in the past 18 months. The substantial cost savings from this lead Paulo Scaroni, chief executive, to believe Pilkington "will report progress in this current year ".
However, he said: "Many of the markets in which we operate are experiencing increasing economic uncertainty, volatility and deteriorating trading conditions, which make forecasting difficult."
In the year to last March Pilkington made 125 million pounds, although this was before 225 million pounds of redundancy costs, disposal losses and asset write-downs. Pilkington shares were steady at 60½p, having traded above 140p at the start of June.
The group's US automotive business experienced a sharp fall in profits in the first five months of the current year. The General Motors strike cost it 7 million pounds, one of its plants was shut down for much of the period, and the fall in glass exports to Japan cost another 4 million pounds.
Pilkington is also suffering because of the slowdown in the economies of South America, which represent 10 per cent of both its building product sales and of its automotive sales to manufacturers.