Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Class Lesson for Oct. 21st, 2009

Introduction to Agricultural Sales Unit/Farm Business Unit

Business Project
Research 3 companies and see how they are related to Agriculture
Find the following information
  1. Number of people employed
  2. How products produced by the company are Ag related
  3. Example of products produced by the company
  4. Annual Gross Income (Total Sales)
  5. Location of Corporate Headquarters
  6. Where products are shipped to....exports
  7. What farm products are used to produce their products - exp. mountian dew = corn (high fructrose corn syrup)
  8. What type of sales methods does the company use - exp. retail chain stores, dealer lots, door to door salesman, internet, ect.
  9. Find an ad for one of the companies products and insert into your document.

Please use a word document to put this information into. Make sure you do three companies - list each one seperately and clearly state what company the information goes to. (Make a heading for each one)

Email to Mr. Straube when completed.

If you get done, make sure you get all of your make up work done.