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who can give the answer about this question????there are some company:BMW,Coca-Cola,Nike,Levi Strauss&Co.,Microsoft.and there are some questions: what each company produces or provides? where the company started? where the company operates? who its main competitors are?please give the answer quickly,i will use it .thank you very much !
参考答案:BMW---
1. what each company produces or provides?
BMW AG (an acronym for Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, or in English, Bavarian Motor Works), is an independent German company and manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. BMW is the world's largest premium carmaker[citation needed] and is the parent company of the MINI and Rolls-Royce car brands, and, formerly, Rover.
2.where the company started?
It starts in Germany.
3.where the company operates?
In Germany
4.who its main competitors are?
BMW's main competitors include Acura, Alfa Romeo, Audi, Cadillac, Infiniti, Jaguar, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Saab and Porsche.
Coca-Cola
1.what each company produces or provides?
Coca-Cola (often "Coke") is a carbonated cola and the world's most popular soft drink.
2.where the company started?
The Coca-Cola Company's headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia, where the drink was first concocted around 1886. Coke's inventor John Pemberton was not a shrewd marketer of his drink, but the ownership of Coke eventually passed to Asa Candler, whose company remains the producer of Coke today. Candler's successful marketing, continued by his successors such as Robert Woodruff, established Coke as a major soft drink first in the United States and later around the world.
3.where the company operates?
Atlanta, Gerorgia
4.who its main competitors are?
Its main rival is Pepsi-Cola.
Nike
1.what does it produce?
Nike, Inc. (Pronounced: NIGH-key) (NYSE: NKE) is a major American manufacturer of athletic shoes, apparel, and sports equipment.
where the company started?
1964
2.Phil Knight partners with University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman to form Blue Ribbon Sports, a US distributor for Japanese-made Tiger running shoes.
3.where the company operates?
its world headquarters in unincorporated Washington County, just west of Portland, on 74 acres (0.3 km²) of land.
4.who its main competitors are?
Nike has no direct competitors because there is no single brand which can compete directly with Nike's range of sports and non-sports oriented gear, except for Reebok/Adidas. This has helped make the brand popular in all areas of sport and sports fashion around the world.
Levi
1.what each company produces or provides?
Levi jeans
2.where the company started?
Levi Strauss started a tradition by crafting a tough work pant for the gold miners in California.
3.where the company operates?
San Francisco, California
4.who its main competitors are?
Microsoft
1.what each company produces or provides?
The Microsoft Corporation, commonly known as just Microsoft, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual sales of US$44.28 billion and 71,553 employees in 102 countries and regions as of July 2006. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.
2.where the company started?
The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled "ASCII Microsoft" (now called "Microsoft Japan"
3.where the company operates?
Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA,
4. who its main competitors are?
Apple's iWork has suddenly emerged as the primary competitor to Microsoft Office, taking the No. 2 spot in office suite retail sales during the 2005 calendar year.