Business vocabulary

an organisation which produces or sells goods or provides services

• owner

• a business

• export

• manager

when the people who run a business are replaced by new people

• under new management

• expand

• grow

• import

the most successful in a competition for the right to take on a project

• expand

• merge

• win a contract

• grow

having control of, or responsibility for, something or someone

• manager

• owner

• CEO

• in charge of

careful study of a subject to discover new information about it

• colleague

• expand

• research

• merge

people paid to work for someone

• staff

• employees

• colleague

• owner

to move upwards

• rise

• expand

• grow

• merge

to (make something) become larger in amount or size

• grow

• rise

• increase

• expand

a period of sudden economic growth, especially one that results in a lot of money being made

• grow

• expand

• boom

• merge

the act or process of ending the operations of a business, system, industry, etc. either temporarily or permanently

• close-down

• merge

• take-over

• under new management