My presentation of UNILEVER

UNILEVER
Feel good, look good and get more out of life

Good afternoon. I am Isabel Cruz Jimenez. I am 20 years old. I am graduated with a degree in Commercial Relations in ESCA Santo Tomas.

At present I am working at Unilever company as adviser of business, I like very much this work because I am putting in practice everything that I learned in the university, my activities are: to give attention to the different channels of sales as self-services and shops of wholesale, also I must have a follow-up of the promotions that is making of the products and supervise the promoters, other one of the activities is to be informed about the constant change of the clients to satisfy your needs.

Unilever was created in 1930 by the merger of British soapmaker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie. The products that is offers is classified under the next categories: foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products.

Unilever is a multinational company that has presence in more than 150 countries for example Brazil, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Canada, United States, Mexico, and countries of Europe, Asia and Africa with near 500 brands and employs more than 247,000 persons in the whole world. In Mexico, Unilever has been present for more than 40 years; it has a labour force of more than 5000 employees; 3 centers of manufacture; 19 centers of distribution and 8 divisions of sales. Unilever's brands are in the first places of its category, commercializing brands as Maizena, Dove, Lipton, Holanda, Hellmann's, Knorr, Rexona, Snuggle, Ades, Pond's, Primavera, Sedal, Axe, Becel and others.

Unilever's major competitors include Procter&Gamble, Nestle, Kraft Foods and Henkel.

Unilever legal structure
By the merger of the two companies (Lever Brothers and Dutch Margarine), Unilever has two headquarters, the located one in Amsterdam that is Unilever NV and the other in London that is Unilever PLC, also it has a branch office in New York.

The Unilever's structure is classified in Executive directors who are directors of Unilever, the Group Chief Executive is Patrick Cescau who coordinates to the president of Foods, home and personal care and the presidents of Europe, America and Asia-Africa. Other members important are the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief HR Officer.

Recent trend
2007 was a good year for Unilever, the sales grew by 5.5% steadily - is the third consecutive year of accelerating sales growth. In Europe, the sales grew nearly 3%; in America was 4%, and in Asia-Africa the sales grew 11% suddenly where India and China were important contributors to this success.

The Foods category had a strong year in the sales, for example the brand Knorr came close to 4 billion of euros in sales to the same that Lipton tea and Holanda.

Future plan
Unilever will to begin a certification by part the Rainforest Alliance for starting to certify all Lipton Yellow Label and the tea bags for selling in Western Europe by 2010, followed by all Lipton tea bags globally by 2015.

Conclusion
Unilever works to satisfy the daily needs of every person in any place of the world. Our food products, as well as those of personal care and of the home, are chosen by the consumers of the whole world 150 millions of times a day. To be anticipated to your needs and aspirations is the principal task of our local companies, which are those who facilitate to your consumers both your better international brands and your knowledge and experience.

Thank you for your attention.

My Reflexions of the fourth week

In this week, we studied the unit 14 "Logistics", and I learned much vocabulary about this topic, we did exercises to understand the topic of this unit, but the topic of "passives" I did not understand very well, but I am going to study very much for my exam.

Also I learned to identify the difficult questions that it is present in situations of interviews, with clients, etc.

My Reflexions of the Third week

In this week, we studied the unit 13 "Communication" and I learned much vocabulary about this topic, for example: product recall, text messaging, overload, white-collar, and the difference with blue-collar and green-collar.

Also I learned to write an e-mail, the parts of the e-mail, and some tips for writing an e-mail. I understood to use of reported speech and the changes in tenses of he phrases, for example:

• Present simple -------- past simple
• Present continuous ------- past continuous
• Past simple ------- past perfect
• Present perfect ------- past perfect
• Future ------- canditional

I like much the explanation that you gave on the punctuation and when to use the commas, semi colon, colon, period. It is very important!!!

EMAIL

From: John

To: Bill

Sent: 2 April 2008 18:26

Subject: Urgent: Monday task list (Reply)



Hi Bill



I got your mail, thanks. The next meeting with the sales reps it will at the next Monday 7 at 10 am. I hope that you can to be there.



Thank you for you question about my assistant Miriam Anderson. I am very happy with her because she is responsible, intelligent and very efficient.



I consider that Jack Peterson could be awarded with an extra 5% bonus for his performance.



Best wishes


John

Reflexions of the last week!!!

Hi!! teacher it is my reflexions.

In the last week I learned many things and did which I never do to speak in English, jaja.

First, I learned the phrases for make a case and for give our opinion, is by this that I spoke for give my arguments about of a topic. Sincerely this I help myself very much and I am very happy.

Also I like much when we sing the song jaja It was entertained but difficult, too.

Why the board of trustees should not sell the company?

Isabel Cruz

100 Crystal Avenue

Hershey, PA 17033

Phone: (800) 468-1714

Standard-Journal
194 Eastern Avenue
Milton, Pennsylvania

Our ref: QSWA/DK/254
March 25th 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

Why should not sell the company?

We are very pleased in to with you our opinion and a possible solution with respect to our opposition to the board of trustees selling the chocolate factory of our town.

You have to remember that last July the board of trustees announced their plan to sell the chocolate factory to one of its competitors.

We all know that Mr Hershey built the school and that the interest generated by Hershey's $5.6bn gift is enough to finance the school. Another important point is that the tourists visit the town because of the 'magic' created by its image of "chocolate town".

It's important you understand that the buyers may cut jobs and this will be an economic disaster for the town because many people are not from the town and they don't understand that we the residents are protecting a "way of life".

Surely you can see our worry of this situation and we hope that you are in agreement.

Thank you for taking the time to read our reasons. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need further information.

Yours faithfully,
Isabel Cruz

Isabel Cruz
Resident of Hershey

My Reflections Of The Last Week

In the last week we studied the unit 12, I learned more important vocabulary for the business for example: charity, lobby, boycott, demostration, petition, subsidy and others words.

Also I learned to use the gerund (ing) and the infinitive (to + verb), besides with the explanation that you gave and the examples it was easy to understand.

Also I like when we did the dynamics of complete the phrases.

Reflections

Reflections

Since I initiate the semester always I had the uncertainty on the English teachers because it is something that worries me. I thought that the teachers were the same of always but my surprise was when I find out that we have U.S.A's teacher simultaneously was exciting but at the same time I was afraid because my English level is low and I thought that was going away to going very badly.

I analize the advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that help me in the pronunciation and to having more vocabulary and the disadvantage in which I am not good for English listens and speak and even more If it was a person of this country. But there do not becomes I very difficult because you help us to pronounce well, correct our mistakes, explain very well and I like much the class although sometimes it is difficult to me to understand it but it is not everyday.

As for the classes I have learned very much, in personal more that in past semesters. In the unit 9 I learned the use of the relative pronouns (who, that and which), also as it changes a word when it is in use as verb, noun or person and now as make my CV or Resume what must contain and what not. In the unit 10, I learned very much vocabulary that not know and I feel well, finally I understood the use of the conditionals (If present, result will; If past, result would or could; If had + past participle, result would have or could have) but that was difficult for me was to understand the expressions (is to, because, in order to, so that, due to,as, given, since) but with the explanation that you gave in the class and the exercises I learned. In the unit 11 I learned the use of the infinitive, it was easy.

I think that the use of the blog is very interesting and different from what we did in past semesters, it is a new way of realizing and put in practice our knowledge. I like much and entertain me to do it.

The activities that we realize in class are very interesting. I like very much when you teach the movements of the mouth for a better pronunciation besides the game that we make when to describe a word, it is very interesting because we put in practice our speaking but I like me it was the task of the comic because it is something totally different that other tasks that are in bored and I amuse doing this and I learn better.

In conclusion I feel well taking the class with you already I am not afraid as before, that for anything I am here and I am going to learn very much of this nice experience and because it is the first time that I have a conversation with someone of another country. I will follow taking advantage of everithing what you teach me for put it in practice and I am ready for all.

Thank you for everything and to be sincere to do this practice was difficult but I obtain good things of this.

Curriculum Vitae (CV) or Resume (AmE)

Isabel Cruz Agustin Melgar Street s/n
Nicolas Romero, 54460
Tel: 58 28 18 89
E-mail: chabis_161@hotmail.com

Objective: To obtein experience and a job to level head office or in the areas related with my career (administration of sales, marketing, promotion of sales, human resources, etc) for participate and to put into practice my knowledge acquired of the career as soon as my skills and experience no professional in the success of the objectives of the company and continue with my professional development.

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Employment History Qualifications
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I don't have professional experience because 2003-2005: Graduated from the CECyT
I don't have some paper that guarantee me but 14 "Luis Enrique Erro Soler" as Technician
I have worked as seller of products by catalogue. in Computer Science.
2005-2008: I study at the moment the
6th. semester of the degree in commercial
relations in ESCA Sto. Tomas.

Other skills Personal Interests
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Computers: Experience in Microsoft Office Word, Hobbies: Listen to music, sailling,
Excel, Power Point, Publisher, Access. Photoshop and travel.
Macromedia, too. Sports: Voleiboll.
Languages: English basic.

References
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Professor Alvaro Sanches Garcia