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French: axes de création

English translation: Creative approach







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French term or phrase:axes de création
English translation:Creative approach
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Marketing - Marketing / Market Research
French term or phrase: axes de création
in a presentation for boosting the image of a retail chain:

"Axes de création" is the title followed only by: En 2005 la création doit intégrer la possibilité de moduler l'expression publicitaire de la promesse.
TesCor -
Canada
Creative approach
Explanation:
or approaches (but I prefer the singular).
This is ample for a title
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xxxCMJ_Trans
France
Note from asker to answerer
Well what ya know. Thanks again.
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3creative development areas
suezen
4 +1Creative avenues
Johanne Bouthillier
5Focus of creativity
Jane Lamb-Ruiz
4Creative approachxxxCMJ_Trans
3 +1axis of imaginationbigedsenior
4creative thrustsFrench Foodie
3axis of imaginationbigedsenior


  


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axes de création axis of imagination

Explanation:
I think it is something along this line (axis?).
There is a video game, "Axis of Creation"



bigedsenior
United States
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Assimina Vavoula
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
axes de création axis of imagination

Explanation:
I think it is something along this line (axis?).
There is a video game, "Axis of Creation"



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... What these clothes provide is an axis of imagination. When you wear vintage clothes well you simply look like no one ...
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Exquisite Corpse
... We decide that it is the axis of imagination around which turns the wheel of fate ...
www.corpse.org/issue_1/cafard2.html


bigedsenior
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
axes de création creative thrusts

Explanation:
One possibility.
You find this used in a lot of marketing texts.

www.directmag.com/mag/marketing_learn_past/ - 37k
Companies have found that by using age, marital status, income and presence of children they can create segments that are reasonably different from one another, and yet large enough to warrant targeting of special offers, customized pricing and positioning of products, and different creative thrusts.

http://www.expressindia.com/fe/daily/19990422/fle22071.html
Hasbro has assimilated what "most toy companies don't understand or have been slow to accept," says Richard Chase, a psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a toy consultant. "The greatest creative thrusts in toys today have come from outside their own talentpools -- namely, the video-game electronics, television and film industries."

French Foodie
France
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
axes de création creative development areas

Explanation:
could also refer to design

suezen
France
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree mportal: unless it definitely also refers to the video game, you might want to avoid that connotation. This sounds good to me.
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agree VRN
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agree GILLES MEUNIER
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Creative approach

Explanation:
or approaches (but I prefer the singular).
This is ample for a title

xxxCMJ_Trans
France
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 255
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Well what ya know. Thanks again.
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
axes de création Creative avenues

Explanation:
another suggestion

Johanne Bouthillier
Canada
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

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agree French Foodie: ooo, I like this
57 mins
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
axes de création Focus of creativity

Explanation:
The axes thing is used in a lot of business French. It often means the focus..where lines come together.....

This seems to make the most sense in this context.

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it means lines are drawn around 360 degress and at the center is what is in play...the focus in English ..they are talking about where they are going to focus their creative efforts...

Jane Lamb-Ruiz
United States
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