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Lesson Five Business Meetings and Chart Illustration Part II. Exercises •For over 50 years, Stirling Cars has been making a classic English sports car. The car is mostly handmade, in the ’sfactory in northern England. •Stirling Cars produces approxima y 500 cars a year. If you want to buy a Stirling car, you must wait four to five years before it is delivered. In spite of this, demand for the car is strong. However, production costs are rising each year and the needs to increase its profits. The top managers disagree about how to increase profitability. At the next management meeting, they will consider the four options below. 1.automate production of the car to make about 4,000 cars a year. 2.subcontract the manufacture of the engine to another firm to increase production by 10% to 20%. 3.use more mechanized tools to make the body and increase production by around 10%. 4.Raise the price of the car by around 40% and move to a bigger factory so that production can be increased. J. Stirling, Managing Director L. Dickinson, B. Reilly, C. Bristol, Sales Director Production Finance Director Manager F. Densham, S. Dubois, Sales Manager Production Controller J. Stirling, Managing Director • I chair the meeting. • I want everyone to have their say. • I respect the Finance Director’sjudgment. However, the Sales Director often gets off the point in meetings. • I hope that the members of the meeting will not want to change the too much. • I don’twant to do anything to harm the firm’simage and reputation. L. Dickinson, Sales Director • I know it is not the topic