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Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) | | French term or phrase: Code NAF / Code APE | | Company description. is it best to leave the French denomination or is there an exact English equivalent ? |
| | | English translation:trade sector code | Explanation:
As victorhugo says, one option is to leave them as they are. Another is to explain them. They are the coding system for "trade sectors" (some people prefer other terms, I prefer this one) - basically a code describing what a company does - what business it is in, what it makes/manufactures, what service it provides, etc.
The UK and US equivalent is SIC (Standard Industrial Classification)
The EU now has a standard called NACE - I forget what it stands for off the top of my head.
What you put will depend on your context.
You could look in the kudoz glossary for other options - this question gets asked about once a month, it seems to me !!
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Note added at 27 mins (2003-12-15 09:32:45 GMT)
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(NB It\'s not important, but altho the UK and the US both call their code systems SIC, the coding itself is different) |
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Charlie Bavington
Local time: 00:54
| Grading comment Thanks to both of you. I finally decided on a mixture, i.e. NAF then english "trade sector code" in brackets & italics, so both answers were helpful, but I can only give points to one on this system !
Cheers Dianne
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18 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 Leave it as is
Explanation:
I think it's too typically french. Maybe you can just explain these acronyms :
NAF : Nomenclature des Activités Françaises
APE : Activité Principale Exercée
Bye, Jean-Marie
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25 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 trade sector code
Explanation:
As victorhugo says, one option is to leave them as they are. Another is to explain them. They are the coding system for "trade sectors" (some people prefer other terms, I prefer this one) - basically a code describing what a company does - what business it is in, what it makes/manufactures, what service it provides, etc.
The UK and US equivalent is SIC (Standard Industrial Classification)
The EU now has a standard called NACE - I forget what it stands for off the top of my head.
What you put will depend on your context.
You could look in the kudoz glossary for other options - this question gets asked about once a month, it seems to me !!
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Note added at 27 mins (2003-12-15 09:32:45 GMT)
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(NB It\'s not important, but altho the UK and the US both call their code systems SIC, the coding itself is different)
| Charlie Bavington
Local time: 00:54
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| | Grading comment Thanks to both of you. I finally decided on a mixture, i.e. NAF then english "trade sector code" in brackets & italics, so both answers were helpful, but I can only give points to one on this system !
Cheers Dianne |
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