Question:
You are the vice president of marketing for Excelsior, a mid-sized; U.S. consulting firm that specializes in strategic planning services. The CEO of your firm, Victor Trillingham, has asked you to prepare an extensive report on the feasibility of Excelsiors entering the international market.
One strategy youre considering is marketing to large multinational companies. As part of your research, you have data on the worlds 25 largest public companies (see Figure 16). Youre interested in the non-U.S. firms in this group that have the largest sales.
Plan to create a text-based report. At this point, compose only the section that presents and discusses this data. Include a table of the largest, non-U.S. firms (in terms of sales). Discuss the data in terms of the largest companies, their countries of origin, and similar factors. Format the section in appropriate report format (beginning with page 5 of your report); provide an effective heading for this section, topic sentences, a summary, and a transition to the next section, which discusses the largest companies in terms of their major products and services.
In Figure 16
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ales $115.5 B $103.3 B $150.2 B $341.6 B $369.1 B $222.3B $69.2B $136.2 B $121.3 $111.5B $130.4 B $93.28 $109.7 B $124.3 B $98.7 B $189.6 B $58.2 B $421.8 B $188.18 $142.9 B Profits $17.4 B $13.3 B $11.6B $30.5 B $20.1 B $21.2B $18.8 B $13 B $21.2 B $10.6B $10.5 B $12.4 В $12.8 B $19.9 B $25.7B $19 B $15.6 В $16.4 В $14.2 В $6.7 B Rank Company Sa Assets Market Value Country United States United Kingdom United States United States Netherlands China China United States Brazil United States France United States Spai United States $2,117.6 B $182.2 B $2,467.9 B S1865 B $751.2B $216.2 B $302.5 B $407.2 B $212.9 B $251.3 B $320.8 B $1,723.5 B $239.5 B $372.2 B $211B $313.2B$2388 B $1,913.9 B$132.8 B $2,680.7 B $88 B $1,2581 В $170.6 B $1,570.6 B $947 B $268.5 B $168.2 B $275.9 B $172.9 B $184.8 B $200.6 B $1,408 B $224.8 B $180.7 B $187.3 B $192.8 В $138 В $838.4 B $62.7 B JPMorgan Chase HSBC Holdings General Electric ExxonMobil Royal Dutch Shell PetroChina ICBC 2 4 $317.2 B 8 Berkshire Hathaway Petrobras-Petróleo Brasil Citigroup BNP Paribas 12 Wells Fargo 13 14 AT&T 15 Banco Santander Gazprom Chevron China Construction Bank Wal-Mart Stores Total Allianz United States China United States France Germany 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Bank of China ConocoPhillips Sinopec-China Petroleum Volkswagen Group Agricultural Bank of China China United States China Germany China $49.4 В $1758 B $284.8 B $168.3 B $49.4 В $11.9 B $11.4 B $109 В $9.1 B $9.5 B $1,277.8 В $156.3 B $1487 В $267.5 B $1,2982 В $143 В $109.1 B $107.7 B $70.3 В $134 В