2014(e)ko urtarrilaren 26(a), igandea

Transnational companies

As we all know there are lots of transnational companies all over the world. I've been looking for products at home, and making a list of them.

Food products:
- Chocolate: Lindt
- Yogurts: Danone
- Coffe: Nescafé
- Drink: Coca Cola

Lindt & Sprüngli AG, commonly referred to as Lindt, is a Swiss chocolate company known for their luxurious chocolates and confectionery. The company began in 1845 in Zurich, and today boasts 6 factories across the globe. In fact, the Lindt family now includes such companies as Ghirardelli and Caffarel.Lindt is most famous for the truffle balls, each individually wrapped and coming in several flavours and colours. Each ball is recognizable by the wrapper, and comes in such variations as white chocolate, dark chocolate, peanut butter, peppermint, orange, raspberry, and even Irish Cream. Seasonal favourites of the company include chocolate bunnies, each wrapper in an easily recognizable gold wrapper and wearing a red ribbon around the neck. Typically, these are purchased for the Easter season. Lindt also offers chocolate bars, coming in a range of flavours and dark chocolate percentages. There are also 12 Lindt Cafes, all in Australia and New Zealand.


Technology:
-Iphone: Apple
- Ipad: Apple
- Computer: Mocrosoft
- Kitchen: Balay

Apple is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Macline of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. It was founded by Steve Jobs.




Clothes:                                                            
- Trainers: Nike                                                
- Sport clothes: Addidas                                 
- Zara: Inditex                                                  
- Stradivarius: Inditex




















Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (Inditex)  is a Spanish multinationalclothing company headquartered in Arteixo, Galicia, Spain. It is made up of almost a hundred companies dealing in activities related to textile design, production and distribution. Amancio Ortega, Spain's richest man, and the world's third richest man, is the founder and current largest shareholder. The current chairman of Inditex is Pablo Isla. Inditex operates over 6,200 stores worldwide  and owns brands like Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho, Pull and Bear, StradivariusZara, Tempe and Uterqüe, and also a low-cost brand Lefties.

Globalization

Last day, in the eleanitza class we did an activity which consisted in saying the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the world GLOBALIZATION. They were a lot the words which were written in the blackboard: USA, nike, global warming, China... It was a fun activity, and then our teacher asked us to take some pictures about those things.