Business and work
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Rival company
An important job
A high-powered job
A person who co-operates well with other people
A good team player
A profit is amount of money that you gain
make a profit
Business is doing extremely well
Business is booming
to begin to work in a certain field of activity
Go into business
To start a career
To embark on a Career
Good rewards for work – not just salary
but also perhaps a company car, good holiday
entitlement…
Generous Benefits
The job must be offered to someone and accepted
Vacancy must be filled
Keeps the official record of a meeting
Takes the minutes
Resign, Stop working for someone
Hand in my notice
Failing financially
Businesses were going under
Very severe competition
Cut-throat competition
when a company undertakes its initial public offering
Going public
Closed their business
Ceased trading
converting a private company into a public company by issuing shares available for the public to purchase.
Float the company
A product launch is the process a company undertakes to bring its new or updated products to market.
Launching a new product
the collection and study of information about what people prefer to buy, how they react to advertising, and what other businesses in the same industry are doing
To carry out market research
Dealing with all the calls she can handle
herself and only putting the most urgent ones
through to her boss.
Fielding telephone calls
A career starts to become very successful
A career takes off