Congratulations to Troup County Comprehensive High School

State of the Company
F .C. Johnson, IV Chief Executive Officer
Tiger International Marketing Exchange

After nearly ten weeks in operation, Tiger International Marketing Exchange, (T.I.M.E.) has had to overcome problems that plague large, multinational corporations over the course of a year or so. We have had to deal with the fact that our counterparts "across the pond" are not as able to do as much company related work as we are, due to the setup of their educational system. Also our company has experienced some labor pains as well, what with the dockworkers strike on the West coast. This meant that not all of our order got shipped to us from China, and that our customers also did not get their order either. Then there was the issue of unrest in the company due to not being clear on what certain jobs entailed. Also there was the incident concerning the "disappearance" of some of our imported Canadian goods. But we have really pulled together as of late thanks to our own perseverance, a few outside factors, and a little bit of luck. We were able to work around the schedule conflicts in Northern Ireland, President George W. Bush sent the striking workers back to the docks, conflicts were resolved internally, and our shipments arrived. Now as I type this article I am witnessing our company function. Paul Ogle and Sam Steele, Vice Presidents of Operations and Marketing, respectively, are mapping out what we need to do this week. Will Mallory, our Export Manager is working out the intricacies of overseas shipping. Jamarquez Lovelace is taking inventory of our shipment and is repackaging it for our Northern Irish friends. The Financial Team of Steven Flournoy, and Ross Frazier is dealing with the discrepancies between a regular exchange rate and the wire transfer rate while preparing shipping quotes with Mr. Mallory to send to St. Michael's Traders (our partners). The Advertising Team (Jessicas White and Ford, as well as Ashley Cornwell) is hard at work on a marketing campaign to sell Kindereggs, the German chocolate egg with a surprise inside. The Capital Funds Team (Jessica Buckingham, Casey Bailey, and Tekia Stargell) is racking their brains to develop our next fundraising idea, while Tyler Jones and Tameka Truitt (the Domestics Team) are collaborating with Company Photographer Zack Blalock to produce the catalogue of T .I.M.E.' s products. Their link between the teams is the Office Manager, Nikki Smith, who is in a constant state of motion, checking things and delivering messages and objects like the disks containing digital photos that T.J. Mote and Ricky Fuller (Tech Team) will need to prepare T .1.M.E.'s online catalogue. It is a mass of corporate commotion there is a sort of methodical rhythm to as is to say there is a method in this madness, a madness that will serve to show my fellow high school students what the real corporate world is like. I would like to expound more on the progression of this class from nineteen students in a class to a fully functional corporation that is looking to be a full-fledged financial success, but as C.E.O. I must check on the progress of things and see that everyone is on task, though it certainly looks so from my view from this computer. Take care and God bless.