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4 Model answer 7 Date and time of next significantly hotter than usual,
meeting leading to a rise in demand for
Full circulated meeting notes
The next meeting will be on 20 cold drinks. Secondly, our new
Meeting: Review at growth
August at 10 a.m. in meeting flavour combinations and,
stage
room four. If you are unable in particular, our new range
Product: FitWat
to attend, please inform JF of low-sugar drinks, were
Date: 08 August
promptly. considerably better received
Time: 11.00
than expected.
Present: MW, SP, HT, LD, KB
In chair: JF
Unit 3 This increase in gross profit
was slightly offset by a small
Apologies: AR Vocabulary
increase in operating costs
1 Matters arising 1 1 floor 2 currency for one specific reason. On a
The Chief Executive Officer 3 field 4 investment positive note, salaries were
would like to receive detailed
feedback from the focus group
2 1 investment 2 backers flat because our workforce
3 ballpark 4 profit remained unchanged, and
as soon as possible. This was
5 rewards 6 yield our marketing costs were
agreed.
2 Scope
3 1 b 2 a 3 a 4 b 5 b slightly lower than anticipated
because of a billboard
It was noted that a younger Grammar campaign scrapped in favour
demographic is missing from
1 1 d 2 e 3 g 4 c 5 b 6 h of product placement at
our target market. To address events. However, general
7 a 8 i 9 f
this, a new technical feature expenses went up due
has been developed by LD’s 2 1 anticipate 2 likelihood
to unexpected repairs to
team which, it is believed, will 3 plan on 4 strong
equipment, resulting in
help to grow market share. 5 bound to 6 expected
a slight increase in total
Furthermore, new distribution 3 1 at on operating costs.
channels are being explored 2 possible possibility
Overall, operating profit was
by SP. Her findings will be 3 in of
up by £5,000, a considerable
emailed to the team. 4 slightly slight
increase on the forecast
3 Schedule 5 cutting cut
figure. This is expected to
(see Exercise 3) 6 anticipation anticipate
have a positive impact on
7 likely likelihood
4 Cost our investment plans. Extra
8 as to
While MW’s report shows that revenue will be required for
all costs are currently within Reading our planned CapEx investment
in more environmentally
budget, he did point out that a 1 c
friendly packaging. We also
cost overrun is to be expected
in December. This is because 2 a 5 b 7 c 1 d 3 e 2 have OpEx investments
the marketing campaign will f 6 g 4 planned for increased rent
be ramped up ahead of the 3 1 T 2 F 3 T 4 T 5 T 6 F and the anticipated rise in
holiday season. 7 F 8 F the minimum wage to be
5 Overall progress 4 a introduced next quarter.
Although sales figures have
come in almost four percent
Writing Unit 4
above projections, KB would 1 1 c 2 b 3 c 4 a 5 b 6 a
Vocabulary
rather not reduce the price 2 1 Budget 2 Actual
1 1 c 2 a 3 c 4 b 5 a
point until next year. We are 3 Favourable 4 REVENUES
confident about our next 5 sales 6 EXPENSES 2 1 mainstay 2 dedicated
sales milestone in November, 7 Marketing 8 PROFIT 3 agile 4 lifespan
at which point HT’s holiday 3 Model answer
5 fragmented
campaign will be launched.
Executive summary
3 1 innovation 2 approach
6 AOB 3 venture 4 changer
In the third quarter, ending
A competing product called 5 established
30th September, gross profit
FirstFit is expected to launch 6 transformation
was up by £6,000 on the
in mid-September. More 7 landscape
budgeted figure, representing
information can be found in a ten percent increase on the
SP’s document, attached. From Grammar
forecast £60,000. This is in
initial research, it appears spite of sales costs going up
1 1 Let us just imagine that all
to be of inferior quality and companies operated in the
due to our weakened currency
with limited features. A full same way.
making the price of fruit from
analysis will be circulated by 2 Had they dropped the price,
overseas higher. The increase
SP tomorrow. the product might have
in revenue is the result of two
succeeded.
factors. Firstly, the summer
3 If only I had invested in this
months in the UK were
sooner!
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Unit 4
4.1
1 1 T
2 F (retailers are selling less)
3 F (They don’t sell samples.)
4 T
5 F (not necessarily positive)
Unit 5
5.2
1 1 a 2 a 3 a 4 b 5 a
Unit 6
6.4
1 a 4 b 3 c 1 d 2
Unit 7
7.1
1 1 systematic
2 concentrating on
3 knows their responsibilities
4 single-colour
5 responsibility
Unit 8
8.1
1 a 4 b 3 c 1 d 2
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