Inverted Pyramid Organization

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This is an example of the inverted pyramid organization.

Fine Foods, Inc. has recently formed a partnership with Squire Frozen Dinners to produce a line of dinners containing gourmet French cuisine. Fine Foods intends to market the line of foods through grocery stores that have gourmet food sections. The first foods will be available in the first quarter of 2018.

For more than ten years, Fine Foods has produced high quality foods to the restaurant industry. The company uses a team of chefs led by Don Bennito, master chef at the Tres Chick corporate chain. It has specialized in French cuisine, but has not ventured into packaging its line of foods. Squire Frozen Dinners has marketed frozen foods for seven years under the brand names Quixote Frozen Foods and Squire Vegetables and has been interested in packaging a line of gourmet frozen dinners. "We see the partnership with Fine Foods as the best possible way to enter this market," Shirley Thompson, CEO of Squire stated.

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The inverted pyramid begins with a broad summary of the main point in the first paragraph, like the base of the pyramid. The report continues with a paragraph of detail about the arrangement, rather like the middle of the pyramid. The report then ends with an even more detailed explanation for the remainder of the report, like the point of the pyramid. This progression from the broad summary to an increasing level of detail creates the inverted pyramid effect.