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Otázky a procvičení k 9. lekci
ACTIVE EXERCISE – A VERY INCOMPLETE PRESENTATION
Look at the text of the presentation from a chemical company executive below. It contains language from the whole of the unit so far. There are many gaps which you have to fill in. Many of them have one or more letter given to help you.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
thank you for coming today. We are here to ………………………. ………………………. the market situations of three of our quiet similar products - Rencon, Betcon, and Alfcon. First of all I would like to ………………………. the nature of the products. You will ………………………. from the pie chart above that Alfcon has most of the high-end features, while Rencon has the least. All the products were launched during the same period in the early nineties. What you can ………………………. from the graph beside it is that at launch, Rencon was in a ………………………. better market position than the others. Moreover it was gaining ………………………., ………………………. ………………………. by 19% in the years '91 and '92. Meanwhile Betcon experienced a ………………………. ………………………. and Alfcon was ………………………. basically flat.
When we ………………………. this at the time we realised two things: Alfcon was seen as a luxury product, and Rencon was so far ahead that Betcon could not compete.
So we changed a number of things, including price and special offers. I would like to ………………………. that these were mainly minor changes, but quickly we found sales of the two lesser products ………………………. ………………………. From 92-97 they…
