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191 months ago

ITT Translation Service  See profile asked this question:

Language pair:

German > English

Subject:

Business / Marketing / Financial

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

Konkurrenzgaenge

Context:

economic/trading

Keywords:

retail business

 

 

The answer of Rupert Kindermann  See profile was rated best

inquiry / inspection / review / information / investigation / spying on/of competitors

My comment:

What term you chose depends very much on what IMPRESSION you want to give - i.e. a legal "finding out" or a secretive "spying" on the competitor. It COULD mean the entire spectrum but most generally is simply "finding out what the competition is doing" by entirely legal (and often "open") means.

My references:

Definition of Konkurrenzgang: Hierzu kann auch der “Konkurrenz-Gang” des Handel gezählt werden, bei dem aktuelle Angebote, Preise, Aufmachung der Geschäftsräume usw. der Mitbewerber gesichtet werden. Auf Grund der Regionalität der Anbieter kennen sich deren Mitarbeiter meistens gegenseitig. Ein Konkurrenz-Gang ist deshalb schnell als solcher identifiziert, jedoch lässt man sich im Normalfall gewähren.

http://www.ci-handbuch.de/beitraege/operative-beschaffung.htm