The company _________________(relocate) last year but no one likes the new office.

There ________________________(be) a boom in office rents in the last six months.

A product was re-launched at the beginning of this month but its sales _______________________________________ (be) even worse since then.

Your company ________________________________________________________ (redevelop) land that it owns just five years ago, but since then all the surrounding land has been filled with much more modern developments.

The CEO _________________________________________________________ (decide) at the end of last year to slowly decentralise power to local branches but a new CEO has joined this month and wants to bring power back to the head office.

The market share of one of your competitors _____________________________ (expand) by more than 300% in the last twelve months.

The sales staff were retrained in November. Since then half of the staff ______________________________ (leave) to get better jobs with other companies.

Sales of the new product _______________________________________________ (make great strides = improve) in the last two months, but it is still losing money.

The company updated its software on Monday, but it ________________________________________ (crash) seven times since then.

The company ________________________ (not upgrade) the computers since 2008.

The company ______________________________________________ (downsize) the workforce six months ago and now there aren’t enough staff to do all the work.

Smoking was permitted inside the office until January this year but then it was banned. Since then, the only local café ________________________ (close) its smoking area.

The government ____________________________________(deregulate) the insurance industry in the middle of last year and your company is the only one which hasn’t reformed its business because of that yet.