初级公司英语会话Lession9:产品销售报告

初级公司英语会话Lession9:产品销售报告

Listen to the dialogue between company president (CP) and project manager (PM)

CP: So how have you broken the information down?
PM: Each individual product is listed twice-once in its product category and once alphabetically¹.
CP: I see. And how does the colour coding work?
PM: Red means that we have a stock overhang for that product.
CP: And blue presumably means that that product has sold well.
PM: Actually, blue means that we sold out of it at some profit.
CP: Right. And if it’s just in black?
PM: So how many product lines have suffered fro an overhang?
PM:94, which makes up about 8% of our product range.
CP: that’s clearly too high; really we should be looking to have that figure.
PM: The question is whether we discontinue all of the poor seller or just try to remarket them.
CP: Well since we still have a lot of stock sitting in the warehouse² we should try to remarketing them really.
PM: At the other end of the scale, we sold out of 114 product lines.
CP: Then we need to look at how quickly each one of those products sold out and up our repeat orders for them.
PM: OK. There’s also a section at the end of the report about how our promotional offers went.
CP: Yes, how did they go?
PM: Well of the five major promotions³ we’ve done so far, four went really well according to the sales figures.
CP: But the fifth one didn’t sell even with the promotional offer?
PM: No, I think we’d better cut our losses with that one and discontinue it.

 

1 alphabetically   

adv.照字母顺序排列地

参考例句：

• I've arranged the books alphabetically so don't muddle them up. 我已按字母顺序把这些书整理了，千万不要再弄乱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They are all filed alphabetically under author. 这些都是按照作者姓名的字母顺序归档的。 来自辞典例句

2 warehouse   

n.仓库；vt.存入仓库

参考例句：

• We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
• The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。

3 promotions   

促进( promotion的名词复数 )； 提升； 推广； 宣传

参考例句：

• All services or promotions must have an appeal and wide application. 所有服务或促销工作都必须具有吸引力和广泛的适用性。
• He promptly directed the highest promotions and decorations for General MacArthur. 他授予麦克阿瑟将军以最高的官阶和勋奖。