Across
- 2. the prices of a company's products or services in relation to each other and in relation to those of their competitors, and the activity of setting them.
- 4. someone who flies with a particular airline a lot and is often offered special advantages, such as free flights or a better seat
- 6. including and considering all the parts of a situation together, rather than the individual parts separately
- 8. union an o organization representing people working in a particular industry or profession that protects their rights.
- 9. to be more than a particular number or amount.
- 11. a relationship between two people, organizations or countries that work together.
- 12. the money that a person receives for the work they do in a particular period of time.
- 15. connected with principles of what is right and wrong.
- 16. a legal document giving a person or company the right to make or sell a new invention, product or method of doing something and stating that no other person or company is allowed to do this.
- 17. Emerging nations/countries/economies are countries, especially those in Asia, Africa and South America, that are just starting to have influence or power in trade, finance, etc.
- 19. money that you earn from your job or that you receive from investments
- 21. If a well-known person endorses a product, they say in an advertisement how good they think it is. People will buy the product because they like or trust the person.
- 23. an offer to buy something, for example a company in a takeover; the price offered.
- 27. the head office or main building of an organization
- 28. a product that can be sold to make a profit, especially one in its basic form before it has been used or changed in an industrial process. Examples of commodities are farm products and metals.
Down
- 1. the act or process of bringing goods, letters, etc. to a particular place or person.
- 3. an amount paid to someone because they have been hurt or harmed.
- 5. go/move down-market to start buying or selling cheaper goods or services.
- 6. to increase in amount, size or degree.
- 7. informal a situation in which different companies, countries, etc. can all compete fairly with each other because no one has special advantages.
- 10. a method of illegally getting money from a person or organization, often using clever and complicated methods
- 13. to design and develop new and original products
- 14. something such as option (= the right to buy o r sell something at a particular price within a particular period) o r a future (= a fixed price that you pay now for delivery of something in the future) based on underlying assets such as shares, bonds and currencies.
- 17. the formal rules for polite behavior.
- 18. a design or way of writing its name that a company or organization uses as its official sign on its products, advertising, etc.
- 20. involving or having a lot of complicated and unnecessary official rules.
- 22. to sell products cheaply in an export market, perhaps in order to increase your share of the market there
- 24. to send something or someone to a place.
- 25. to produce energy or power.
- 26. buying and selling futures contracts contract for a fixed amount of a commodity or security to be delivered at a fixed price on a fixed date in the future; futures are traded on financial markets)