English Homework
English Homework
Task 5
Step 1. Answer the following question: Do you buy store brands (ones owned by the chain
store selling them) when food shopping? Why? Why not?
I don’t really buy store brands because they are popular just for some months and after that
people feel the insane need to change theor clothes collection over and over again
Step 2. Translate the ‘brand vocabulary’ from the text you are going to read into your mother
tongue.
1 an in-house brand
2 a retailer
3 a name brand
4 a profit margin
5 perfect timing
6 to push true
7 an economic downturn
8 a shopping habit
9 economic woes [wəuz]
10 distinctive lines
11 a powerful discounter
12 food retail market
13 to corner
14 low-cost
15 to internationalize
16 to compete against smb/smth
17 to build a presence
18 to hold back
19 second-in-command
20 an own-brand product
21 a store-brand product
Aldi Real Carrefour S.A. Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
2._______ is an American multinational retail corporation that runs chains of large discount
department stores and warehouse stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, the
company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. It has over 11,000 stores in 27 countries, under
a total 55 different names. (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.)
3. _______ is a European hypermarket, member of the German trade and retail giant
Metro AG. It was formed in 1992, from the merger of chains divi, Basar, Continent, Esbella and
real-kauf. (Real)
4. _______ is a leading global discount supermarket chain with over 9,000 stores in over
18 countries, and an estimated turnover of more than €50bn. Based in Germany, the chain was
founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946. (Aldi)
Step 4. Read the article below and be ready to translate it into your mother tongue.
Real Chief says own brand is the way ahead
Joel Saveuse walks across the Real hypermarket in northern Germany in search of ‘those little
biscuits’. Moving from toys to the freezers section, the 55-year-old, who runs the country’s
biggest food retailer, finds what he is looking for in aisle 45. This is my favourite product,’ Mr
Saveuse says, holding a packet of chocolatefilled Mini Double Biscuits. ‘Look, here’s a simple
picture of the contents.’ He says as his finger moves across the packaging, ‘and top left is the
“Real Quality’’ logo.’
Together with a handful of rivals, the Frenchman is starting a small revolution in Germany by
replacing its different in-house brands with a single own brand that links the retailer with a
product range. The aim is to raise in-house brand sales from 15 per cent up to 25 per cent of
food sales in two to three years’ time. Mr Saveuse says that customers get top quality for at
least 15 per cent less than they would pay for a name brand – and Real gets a better profit
margin.
Such logic has seen Real’s foreign rivals push true own-brand lines for decades. Real reckons
up to 60 per cent off Tesco’s UK sales come from its three Tesco brands, and Carrefour is
aiming for a 30-per-cent quota, up from 25 per cent now.
After working on the concept for the last year, Real introduced 850 Real Quality items this
September - coincidental but ‘absolutely perfect timing’ for the economic downturn that
followed the banking crisis, the Real head says. Although Mr Saveuse says that shopping habits
at Real have not yet been affected by economic woes, he stresses that next year could see
shoppers buying more own brands as they look for more value for money. ‘Crisis doesn’t just
bring disadvantages.’ He says.
Given the power of own brands in good times and bad, it is surprising that German retailers
only launched distinctive lines last year. The cause lies with Germany’s powerful discounters.
Aldi and Lidl have in the past generation helped corner 40 per cent of the food retail market –
as against 6 per cent in the UK - by selling little else than a small range of own brands, a move
copied by Real, with, say, its low-cost ‘Tip’ range (a discount label).
‘But we’re internationalising now,’ Mr Saveuse says. ‘In Poland and Turkey, we’re competing
against Carrefour and Tesco, in Russia and Romania against Carrefour – that has forced us to
focus on true own-brand as a way of building our presence.’ Strengthening the Real brand is
key to reviving the chain. A format held back by discounters. Mr Saveuse reckons the German
hypermarket has a future. He should know. Until 2005, he was second-in-command at
hypermarket pioneer Carrefour.
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После работы над концепцией в прошлом году Real представила в сентябре 850
предметов качества Real. Это совпадение, но «абсолютно идеальное время» для
экономического спада, последовавшего за банковским кризисом, сказал директор Real.
Хотя Савьюз говорит, что на покупательские привычки в Real еще не повлияли
финансовые проблемы, он отмечает, что в следующем году покупатели могут покупать
больше торговых марок, так как ищут более выгодную цену. «Кризис приносит не только
неудобства», - сказал он.
6 powerful discounters
7 a retailer (a)
a. Retail organisations that sell cheap products and have a lot of influence on the
market
b. where, when, how, etc. People usually buy things
c. when financial institutions were in extreme difficulty
d. when the time to do something is just right
e. when sales, profits, etc. Go down
f. The difference between how much money you get when you sell something and
how much it costs you to buy or make it
g. something for sale in a store, especially a supermarket, that has the store’s own
label on it and not the label of the company that produced it.
h. when the economy is in difficulties
i. A person or company that sells goods directly to the public for their own use
Page 9
Sydney Toledano (CEO) is one of the oldest executives in the luxury industry. He regularly
speaks with many creative personalities, including Christian Dior’s wise boss Bernard Arnault,
who is a major shareholder, as well as Dior clothing designer John Galliano and jewelry
designer Victoire de Castellane.According to Toledano When things are going well, we can
take time to organize ourselves, Toledanowho visits one of the 224 Dior stores around the
world almost every week. For example, after spending time in China while working for the
French leather goods company Lancel in the 1980s, Toledano realized for the first time that
China would one day become the home country of luxury. Mr. Arnault used haute couture
clothing purchased by Dior to form LVMH (the world’s largest luxury group, Louis Vuitton Moët
Hennessy). The next wave of luxury buyers can now be found in new regions: the Middle East,
Russia, Hong Kong and South Korea.
Toledano says that the brand needs to reach its customers without anticipating their needs
and investing prematurely in markets that may not show real growth in six years.
UNIT 2
Task 1
1. a low-cost airline
2. flight service
3. to go bust
4. a low-cost carrier
5. deregulation
6. liberalisation
7. competition laws
8. to bail out
9. to watch one’s costs
10. a business traveller
11. a long-hautravelle
12. a full-service airline
13. ground staff
14. a ticket office
15. fixed costs
16. revenue = yield
17. fragility
18. an alliance
19. to opt for
20. a full merger
21. a hub
22. an onward journey
23. cost basTas
24. an economic downturn
25. laws on bankruptcy protection
26. to go out of business
27. fuel costs
28. to an extent
29. a supplier
30. a hotel chain
31. to questchain
32. purpose-built
33. video-conferencing
34. A suit
35. internal company communication
1. бюджетная авиакомпания
2. обслуживание полета
3. банкротство
4. недорогой перевозчик
5. дерегулирование
6. либерализация
7. законы о конкуренции
8. спасение
9. следите за своими расходами
10. деловой путешественник
11. долгое путешествие
12. авиакомпания полного цикла.
13. Наземный персонал
14. Шкафчик
15. Постоянные расходы
16. Доход = производительность
17. Хрупкость
18. Союз
19. Выбрать
20. Полное слияние
21. Центр
22. Путешествие вперед
23. Грубые сборы
24. Экономический спад
25. Законы о защите от банкротства.
26. Обанкротиться
27. Расходы на топливо
28. До определенного момента
29. Поставщик
30. Сеть отелей
31. Цепные миссии
32. Специально разработанный
33. Видеоконференцсвязь
34. Костюм.
35. Внутренняя коммуникация компании
Task 2
Другой аспект путешествий – это, конечно же, индустрия гостеприимства. Здесь есть
аналогичные проблемы высоких постоянных затрат, которые привели к развитию
гостиничных сетей, способных их разделять. Каждая сеть – это бренд, и куда бы вы ни
пошли, вам нужно точно знать, что вы найдете, когда приедете.