Select a company. Answer each of the following questions with one to two paragraphs. Finance.yahoo.com, hoovers.com, and Googling the company itself are good sources of information (you may use a local company, one for which you work, or simply one that interests you). Again, remember to cite your source(s).

1. Describe the company: e.g., its product, location (where it is headquartered), revenues, age, number of employees, number of sites, and its administration.

2. In what type of market structure does this company operate? Why? Who, if any, are its competitors?

3. Discuss a current external issue the company (and its competitors) is facing, and how it is dealing with this issue. Current means ongoing not something from the past unless it still affects the company today.

4. Discuss an internal issue with which the company is dealing downsizing, expanding, new products, new competition, for example and what they are doing about it.