This DB requires an original post and a response to a classmate's post. Please label the subject of your post with the company's name. Do not include your name in the subject.

A company can only be discussed once, so be sure to review your classmates' posts before making your original post.

Choose a company that you're familiar with or that you're interested in learning more about. Research the company and the industry in which it operates.

Discuss two factors in the general and/or specific external environments have recently affected or are currently affecting their company.

Include (1) the name and brief description of the company, (2) description of the two factors in the general and/or specific environment and (3) their impact on the company.

Start a new thread and on one of your classmate's posts to discuss a third external environmental factor that has recently affected or is currently affecting the company.