CALLER: My name is Henry Chow, thats H-E-N-R-Y C-H-O-W. I work for Chow Insurance and our address is 400 Orchard Road, thats O-R-C-H-A-R-D Road, Singapore, thats S-I-N-G-A-P-O-R-E. My telephone number is a 657322324 For your information, we are an insurance company, so please tick that box under services. I'm the general Manager, and we are a small company, employing only 54 people 12f 3 d 2 1 Our headquarters are in Toronto, Canada. 2 Our turnover is US$2. 6 billion 3 Our competitors are American Business Information, Pitney Bowes and United Stationers 4 We produce business forms, computer-based information systems and document processing 5 We employ 20,000 people 6 We have 47 subsidiaries Dentsu Incorporated Headquarters: Tokyo Sales: USS1.987. 8 million Competitors: Abbott Mead Vickers, Corinthian ommunications, Omnicom Group Products/Services: advertisi Subsidiaries: Offices in 35 countries MAN: Today we're going to hear about the worlds largest advertising agency, Dentsu. Helen, I had never heard of this company- what can you tell us about it? HELEN: Well, you might not have heard of the company, but you ve certainly heard of their clients. Dentsu represents some of the most famous brands in the world MAN: They must be a big company-tell me more HELEN: The companys headquarters are in Tokyo, but they have subsidiaries and offices in 35countries around the world. They are a very big company, with turnover last year of USS1.987. 8 million MAN: Thats an enormous amount of money-they must have a huge number of employees HELEN: In fact they have quite a small workforce, only around 6,000. Advertising is a very expensive business, which partly explains the very high turnover MAN: Who are their competitors? HELEN: They have competitors all over the world. There's Abbott Mead Vickers, Corinthian Communications, Omnicorn Group-it's quite a long list! But there are no companies as big or as powerful as Dentsu MAN: Thats been very interesting. Thank you, HelenCALLER: My name is Henry Chow, that’s H-E-N-R-Y C-H-O-W. I work for Chow Insurance, and our address is 400 Orchard Road, that’s O-R-C-H-A-R-D Road, Singapore, that’s S-I-N-G-A-P-O-R-E. My telephone number is a 657322324. For your information, we are an insurance company, so please tick that box under ‘services’. I’m the General Manager, and we are a small company, employing only 54 people. 3.3 1 2 f 3 d 4 a 5 e 6c 2 1 Our headquarters are in Toronto, Canada. 2 Our turnover is US$2.6 billion. 3 Our competitors are American Business Information, Pitney Bowes and United Stationers. 4 We produce business forms, computer-based information systems and document processing. 5 We employ 20,000 people. 6 We have 47 subsidiaries. 3 MAN: Today we’re going to hear about the world’s largest advertising agency, Dentsu. Helen, I had never heard of this company- what can you tell us about it? HELEN: Well, you might not have heard of the company, but you’ve certainly heard of their clients. Dentsu represents some of the most famous brands in the world. MAN: They must be a big company-tell me more. HELEN: The company’s headquarters are in Tokyo, but they have subsidiaries and offices in 35countries around the world. They are a very big company, with turnover last year of US$1,987.8 million. MAN: That’s an enormous amount of money-they must have a huge number of employees! HELEN: In fact, they have quite a small workforce, only around 6,000. Advertising is a very expensive business, which partly explains the very high turnover! MAN: Who are their competitors? HELEN: They have competitors all over the world. There’s Abbott Mead Vickers, Corinthian Communications, Omnicorn Group-it’s quite a long list! But there are no companies as big or as powerful as Dentsu. MAN: That’s been very interesting. Thank you, Helen. Dentsu Incorporated Headquarters: Tokyo Sales: US$1,987.8 million Competitors: Abbott Mead Vickers, Corinthian Communications, Omnicorn Group Products/Services: Advertising Employees: 6,000 Subsidiaries: Offices in 35 countries