Branchenwerte

English translation: industry benchmarks

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German term or phrase:Branchenwerte
English translation:industry benchmarks
Entered by: Steffen Walter

09:34 Jan 9, 2008
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / Business plan
German term or phrase: Branchenwerte
From a business plan: "In dem folgenden Businessplan sind Kostennoten aus Branchen- und Erfahrungswerten enthalten. Es wurde mit ortsüblichen Lohn- und Personalkosten....gerechnet. Das spiegelt den Branchendurchschnitt der Lebensmittelindustrie wieder".
I found following explanation of term: "Die Kennzahlen vergleichbarer Unternehmen einer Branche werden in der Regel zu einem Branchenwert zusammengefasst. damit ensteht ein Mittelwert, der für eine Überprüfung der eigenen Situation und Position im Markt geeignet ist".
KenOldfield
(relevant) industry benchmarks
Explanation:
... would be my suggestion on the basis of the definition provided.

Examples of use:

http://business.library.emory.edu/info/operations_management...
"Most ***industry benchmarks*** and best practices are published by consulting firms and industry associations and are not available for free. Following are some free sources you can turn to as well as some tips on locating key data in articles."
"Check the Leadership & Strategy tab and select Benchmarking or Best Practices to read about the latest key metrics and articles. Be creative, dig through these articles to find metrics for your company or get ideas of metrics that you can use to compare your company to ***industry benchmarks***"

http://www.ato.gov.au/corporate/content.asp?doc=/content/299...
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Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 23:36
Grading comment
Many thanks - this fits in perfectly here.
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(relevant) industry benchmarks


Explanation:
... would be my suggestion on the basis of the definition provided.

Examples of use:

http://business.library.emory.edu/info/operations_management...
"Most ***industry benchmarks*** and best practices are published by consulting firms and industry associations and are not available for free. Following are some free sources you can turn to as well as some tips on locating key data in articles."
"Check the Leadership & Strategy tab and select Benchmarking or Best Practices to read about the latest key metrics and articles. Be creative, dig through these articles to find metrics for your company or get ideas of metrics that you can use to compare your company to ***industry benchmarks***"

http://www.ato.gov.au/corporate/content.asp?doc=/content/299...

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 23:36
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 542
Grading comment
Many thanks - this fits in perfectly here.

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agree  silvia glatzhofer
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agree  Daniela Gieseler-Higgs
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agree  milinad
1 hr

agree  Susan Zimmer
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