Guideline 3

Oswaldo A. Laverde

Universidad EAN
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English – IDIOMA V

Writing Exercise

The Bar Graph provides information about the amount of money obtained from different types of
companies selling the product A, the types are department stores, supermarkets, and small shops
from 2014 to 2016, this info was obtained using turnover a program focused on the amount of
money made by a company.

In general, what we can notify and stand out of this bar graph is sales of product A, whereas, in
supermarkets we got a rapidly increase of the sales at the end of the period, in the opposite way, in
small shops we got a decrease and a slowly increase at the end of the period. In Addition, we got
department stores with an increase and steady sales.

First of all, for 2014 we can notice, Department stores and supermarkets stayed the same level with
their sales with 50 million pounds, in comparison with the small shops that we can notice a low
performance with 40 £m; For the next year, there is an excellent performance from supermarkets
with more than 50 £m, having the best performance in compare with small shops and department
stores with 20 £ m and 35 £ m respectively. Finally, in 2016 there was a suddenly grew in
supermarkets with 84 £ m, Department stores with the same result as the previous year 35 £ m and
a slight increase from small shops with 30 million.

Secondly, from this chart we can notice that Supermarkets always had a significantly increase
between 2014 and 2016, especially the last year raising more than 30% of annual sales of product A;
On the other hand, small shops are bottomed out with the “low” performance for all the 3 years and
Department Stores start with the same sales than Supermarket but there was a drop followed by a
remained constant the last year.