France Dylan Young, Aaron Menges, Mike Reeves, Mason Stevens

France's flag
  • 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

A photo of Lyon, France
  • 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"

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