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Ex.4. Read descriptions of different companies. Choose one of the nouns below to describe each company




Law firm, retailer, wholesaler, importer, finance company, website designer, manufacturer, travel company, bank, exporter, transport company

 

a) Multimedia Solutions Incorporated has been designing and managing state-of-the-art commercial websites since 1993. The company provides e-commerce solutions for large and small companies in a number of sectors. At present, the company employs 200 full-time Internet consultants and web designers on their permanent staff. They provide consultancy and other services in the following sectors: financial services, insurance brokering and underwriting, travel services, computer retailing, vehicle leasing. The company’s head office is in Guilford, near London. They also have offices in Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh, as well as agencies in Dublin, Paris, Rome and Madrid.

b) Established in 1967, Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus has delivered over 5,000 aircraft to 180 customers world-wide. Airbus is a global company with its central office in Toulouse and design and manufacturing facilities in France, Germany, the UK, and Spain as well as subsidiaries in the US, China and Japan.

c) Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) regards both Austria, where it is a leading corporate and investment bank, and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as its home market. In CEE, RBI operates an extensive network of subsidiary banks, leasing companies and a range of other specialised financial service providers in 17 markets. As of end-2010, around 55,000 employees served more than 14 million customers via roughly 3,000 branch offices, the great majority of which are located in CEE. The headquarters of the central institution of the Raiffeisen Banking Group, established in 1927, is in Vienna, Austria.

d) Allen & Overy is a global law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

A member of the UK's Magic Circle of leading law firms, Allen & Overy is widely considered to be one of the world's elite law firms, advising national and multinational corporations, financial institutions, and governments. Since its founding in 1930, Allen & Overy has grown to become one of the largest law firms in the world, both by number of lawyers and revenue. With approximately 5,000 staff and 38 offices worldwide, the firm provides legal advice in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.

e) Marks and Spencer plc (also known as M&S or Your M&S; colloquially known as Marks and Sparks) is a British retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London. It has over 700 stores in the United Kingdom and over 300 stores spread across more than 40 countries with 76,250 employees. It specialises in the selling of clothing and luxury food products. M&S was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in Leeds. In 1998, it became the first British retailer to make a pre-tax profit of over £1 billion.

 




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