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Une compagnie à vocation polyvalente

English translation: A company with multiple/a wide range of activities


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20:56 Feb 13, 2012
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)
French term or phrase: Une compagnie à vocation polyvalente
Vocation polyvalente.

a multi-purpose company?

Merci.
weaving words
Local time: 09:30
English translation:A company with multiple/a wide range of activities
Explanation:
Depending on your context, it might be best to explain this idea rather than translate the words directly. Something like 'a company with a wide range of activities' or 'serving different industries' could work. There is very little context so you would need to judge this depending on your situation and adapt as required.
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JMcKechnie
Local time: 08:30
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Summary of answers provided
5a multi-line companyrkillings
4 +1A Multi-service(s) company
Aimee Grimes
2 +1A company with multiple/a wide range of activities
JMcKechnie


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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
a multi-line company


Explanation:
I don't usually claim confidence level 5, but you happen to have the very example used by the eminent professor of management who put this term into circulation:

"Here let me suggest a difference between a full-line and a multi-line. By the first I am thinking of companies like the meatpackers that had their major products and their byproducts. The executives of such companies concentrated on the primary products and their structures were built to further the efficient production and distribution of the main line. By-products received relatively little attention and their development and exploitation were sacrificed to the needs of the major line. A multi-line company has, on the other hand, several major lines, often in quite different industries and each is given the same amount of attention."

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr, "Integration and Diversification as Business
Strategies - An Historical Analysis", MIT, 1959 (via Google Books)

rkillings
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Local time: 00:30
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Asker: Thank you, rkillings

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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
A company with multiple/a wide range of activities


Explanation:
Depending on your context, it might be best to explain this idea rather than translate the words directly. Something like 'a company with a wide range of activities' or 'serving different industries' could work. There is very little context so you would need to judge this depending on your situation and adapt as required.

JMcKechnie
Local time: 08:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you, JMcKechnie.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  B D Finch
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
A Multi-service(s) company


Explanation:
Lots of companies nowadays have 'Multi-Services Companies' or Multi-Service Companies'

Please see the examples below;


    Reference: http://www.fujitsu.com/ph/casestudies/lbc.html
    Reference: http://www.falconmsl.com/
Aimee Grimes
Local time: 09:30
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Asker: Thank you, Aimee


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Agnes Grand Fay
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