main street the main business street of a calm but is business anyway business is everything we see a long mystery and much more it is any enterprise which is organized to satisfy our wants for goods and services businesses in the hope of making a profit that's they are in their livelihood by supplying goods and services which others these are the world is so full of these goods and services that we take them for granted yet without them we could have almost none of the things that we have come to consider necessary for our comfort and safety just think what it would mean if all this were taken away and we were suddenly required to produce our own food it would mean living like this each of us would have to work single handedly to create the bad assets that is of life for the business organizer of cooperative effort among people and creator of the lab machinery and equipment which is responsible for the comfortable life we live today business sets the stage for the scene of the harrison family at breakfast business built their comfortable home have come from it was bought in a box or the grocery store of course but long before them it started as growing graeme on a farm we saw them think of farming as a business yet i agree culture is one of the basic industries which make up one phase of business activity production farmers produce the food for our tables materials for our clothing hides for leather products and raw materials for many other things although less than a quarter of our population live on farms these people are able not only to supply our wants but also to produce a surplus for export thanks to improved farming methods and to modern machinery produced by other businesses this is one example of how our various types of business work together and assist each other not only within one country but throughout the world lumbering and fishing make up another of the basic industries would supply raw materials to our business system what pulp or paper lumber for our houses and furniture furnish for direct consumption and for cam still another basic in this great is mind the many things we use every day have some sort of metal in them but mineral laws cannot be used in their natural state in making the products we need and want they have to be refined them fabricated by the various heavy industries and even the one iron ore as been transformed into a sheet steel it still is not in the form of a product commonly used such as this toaster on the harrisons breakfast table what is needed is the work of another type of business the force of our major industries manufacturing this is the real heart of business activity mass production levels more people to obtain more of the things they want and in so doing provides jobs for thousands of workers the assembly line shows again the how business brings about the cooperation of many people to supply the wants of all the toaster is manufactured not only by the workers you see here but by men and women employed in the many widely separated factories that produce the various parts here assembled into a finished product  business concern is dependent upon many others some of which may be located in distant parts of the world each is a customer of the various concerns which produce the materials it needs and each in pern serves its own customers with the goods it makes we have examined the production phase of business activity which includes farming numbering them searching mining and manufacturing but it's not enough for business merely to produce that toasters manufactured here for instance let's reach the homes of the people who want them production but one phase of business activity the second is distribution sometimes distribution is a very simple matter john's egg for instance was delivered to the door directly by the farmer but in most cases as with the toaster goods must move long distances and pass through several hands and going from producer to consumer from the factory the toasters are shipped to wholesale houses in different sections of the country and then finding lamb wholesale house buyers various products in large quantities from producers and resell them in smaller quantities retailers for many of the products we use the wholesaler acts as an important link in the chain of distribution from the wholesale house the goods are distributed to various retailers merchants who deal directly with the ultimate consumers the people who use the products the retail store is the part of the distribution system with which we are most familiar  retail stores no matter what kind of merchandise they handle have a common purpose to sell goods directly to consumers it was a retail merchants who sold the harris to carry it to the store she may instead telephone or order communication by telephone telegraph and radio is one of the truly vital services provided by business the ability to communicate rapidly with people across the town embers across the world has helped bring about more widespread cooperation among different business organizations and consequently has made all business activities everywhere more interdependent one upon the others another essential business services transportation modern means of transport the label all of us to move a bob quickly whenever we wish and allow business to draw upon the resources of the world and to distribute the products of garment factory in great quantities to great numbers of people rapid transportation and communication have made the world of business pull a one world banking is another business service which is vital to all business a bank is a nerve center of the financial transactions by which goods and services are exchanged there are countless other types of service businesses providing lodging supplying food offering entertainment and a variety of other services many of which are essential to our modern motive living and all of which help to fulfill  for a higher standard of living and a fuller enjoyment of life service enterprises like those engaged in production and distribution are started by people who hope to make a profit by satisfying other people's needs and wants profit is the lifeblood of business owners of enterprises would be forced out of business if they operated up we have seen what the business is something of the part it plays in the life of the family now as mr harrison sets off for work where again reminder this list is also employment info telling to satisfy our needs and wants for goods and services business provides the means of livelihood for most of the working population to understand the business and its main phases of production distribution and service is to understand much of what goes on about us every day for the world we live in the world of business