Friday, February 20, 2009

Business Letter

35 Marieville Street

Rougemont, Québec J0L 1M0

(450) 775-9851

Born2bparanoid@hotmail.com February, 20th, 2009

Ms.Natalie Larivière

President

Transcontinental Media

1100 Rene-Levesque Blvd. West

Montreal, Québec H3B 4X9

Dear Ms.Larivière:

Candidacy for the post of creation assistant


I am writing to you to submit my candidacy for the post of creation assistant. I saw your job offering advertisement posted in The Gazette of February 15th, 2009. I am a dynamic young highly creative person with a strong tendency for the arts. I am also very committed to my work which ever it may be.


I am interested by the opportunity to work for the leader in this field. Your high standards and quality towards your customers make me feel that I would be able to contribute to your continued success. I helped to create the advertising for the new Yoplait product: Yoptimal. This aloud me to work with an advertising creation team that helped me to familiarize myself with the process of creating. For more information, please read the attached résumé.

In the hopes, I will meet you soon for an interview. You can contact me monday to friday in the morning by phone or via email at your convenience. Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Myriam Turgeon

Enclosure: résumé.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Company Website

COMPANY: Transcontinental

Web-site address: www.transcontinental.com

Site description: This site is devoting to Transcontinental company a printing company. They are the largest printing company in Canada.

Aesthetics: The composition of this site is really simple. The colors are not really attractive they are in tons of blue and grey little bit of red.

Usefulness: The objective of their site is to promote their company. We can see their products and services. They also have a news center and a section for investors. They also have sections for media, career and more.

User-friendliness: The good point of this website is the user-friendliness. It is very clear and very easy to use. Each part has their section with the description of each of them. A good thing is the investors section that permits to shareholder to see the progress of the company.

Overall evaluation: For a company like Transcontinental their website is very clean and usefulness. It is not necessarily a good thing to put a lot of color for a printing company, their reputation is done. According to me is little bit too erasing.

Portfolio Project First Composition

Portfolio Project

My company is Transcontinental, this company is specializes in printing, publishing and marketing services. They also possess an advertising service. Transcontinental is considering like the largest printer in Canada and he is in the top ten in North America. They publish consumer’s magazine, educational resources and newspapers. They also have knowledge in websites construction. Their values are respect, innovation and integrity. They has developed a unique business model based on making theirs clients inform and anticipating their needs. This company is socially and environmentally responsible. The three pillars of this company are their employees, their customers and their shareholders.

Their principal competitors are Quebecor and Québec Amérique.

First of all Quebecor is an international communications company, they operate subsidiaries specializes in commercial printing, cable services, newspapers, broadcasting and more. This company has been founded in 1950 by Pierre Péladeau. Today this company is one of the largest in Canada.They are the proud owner of Groupe Vidéotron Limitée .

Next is Québec Amérique a division of QA International. This company has been founded in Québec in 1974. This company is considering like a pioneer in designing and producing publications entirely by computer. Québec Amérique is also a major French publishing house in Canada.

Myriam Turgeon