The General Trading Company at present has three ares of operations : importing and exporting, marketing and retailing, and the manufacture of plasticware. The impoting and exporting and the marketing and retailing operations are the responsibility of the Head Office; the manufacturing of plasticware is carried out by a factory which is owned by GTC but which is a separate company in its own right. The retail shops owned by GTC are, on the other hand, administered directly from the Head Office.