- Company name: Larry's Laptops
- Product: Laptops of different speeds, sizes, colors, and functions
- The USA has a trade deficit with France; in 2016 we had an almost 16 billion dollar deficit with them.
- France's top export is machinery (like computers)
Exports:
- Machinery
- Aircraft
- Vehicles
- Pharmecueticals
- Plastics
Imports:
- Machinery
- Vehicles
- Crude Oil
- Chemicals
- Plastics
Capital, Famous Cities, and Infrastructure
- Paris, France is the capital
- The three largest cities are Paris, Marseille, and Lyon in France
- Advanced infrastructure
- 1,000,000 km of paved roadways
- 56 million internet users or about 84.7% of population
- 464 airports
- 29,640 km of rail for transportation
Demographics and Employment
- As of July 2016, roughly 62,814,233 people
- French is the primary language, English speakers may be there, but is a limited amount
- Most occupations are in services, about 75%, and about 21% work in industry
- 9.7% unemployment as of 2016
Culture
- Traditional greeting is to say "Bonjour" or to "Faire la Bise"
- Kids/ Teens wear outgoing type clothes while adults wear business casual type clothes to work and relaxed clothes during weekends
- Prefer meat, vegetables, cheese, bread, and desert’s
- Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame de Paris, Palace of Versailles
- Popular piece is Mona Lisa, french like pop music
- Majority are Roman Catholic
Culture and Business Today
- Take fashion, cuisine, art, architecture more serious than in the united states
- Women get paid close to 12% less than men
- No just a handshake but their handshakes are loose rather than having a firm grip
- Usually straightforward, questioning, and probing with meetings, more intellectual
Major corporations
Groupe Bull
- Founded in 1981
- Frenched owner computer company
- Capitalize on punch hard technology
- Can be found in Norway and Germany
Credits:
Created with images by skeeze - "eiffel tower long exposure lights" • jackmac34 - "flag french flag france" • thrivingmom - "Netbook" • Ylliab Photo - "Gruissan - France" • donald judge - "18.4.17 Lyon 080" • Thomas Depenbusch - "Paris, France" • Unsplash - "paris france french" • allabhamid - "paris eiffel tower france" • Otto Gelderman - "Oracle HQ" • Leonid Mamchenkov - "IBM dot"