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empresa de carácter social

English translation: socially responsible business


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Spanish term or phrase:empresa de carácter social
English translation:socially responsible business
Entered by: Susana Galilea
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23:04 Apr 17, 2004
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Bus/Financial - Finance (general)
Spanish term or phrase: empresa de carácter social
XXXXX es una empresa de carácter social que elabora leche de elevada calidad y la distribuye a precio subsidiado en apoyo a la alimentación de los sectores más desprotegidos...etc.

Muchas gracias por su ayuda
Luis Rey Ballesteros (Luiroi)
Local time: 21:20
socially-responsible business
Explanation:
HTH

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Issues : Info... Clinton, Michigan – Eden Foods was honored with the Socially Responsible Business Award on 13 October 2001. Eden Chairman and ...
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REVISED: Not For Profit & Socially Responsible Business Career ...__REVISED: Not For Profit & Socially Responsible Business Career Event Created by Nicole Beckerton. This announcement is intended for All Years | ...
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Note added at 6 mins (2004-04-17 23:11:23 GMT)
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Not sure the hyphen is needed...
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Susana Galilea
United States
Local time: 21:20
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3socially-responsible businessSusana Galilea
4social enterprise
has
4socially concerned/socially aware corporation
Claudia Hoepelman
2 +1corporation
Muriel Vasconcellos
3social services corporationxxxKirstyMacC


Discussion entries: 2





  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
empresa de carácter social
socially-responsible business


Explanation:
HTH

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Note added at 6 mins (2004-04-17 23:11:01 GMT)
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Issues : Info... Clinton, Michigan – Eden Foods was honored with the Socially Responsible Business Award on 13 October 2001. Eden Chairman and ...
www.edenfoods.com/issues_whatsnew_103001.html - 11k - Cached - Similar pages


REVISED: Not For Profit & Socially Responsible Business Career ...__REVISED: Not For Profit & Socially Responsible Business Career Event Created by Nicole Beckerton. This announcement is intended for All Years | ...
commerce.queensu.ca/.../ commerce.nsf/0/ad01331cde4214a685256e3d0058b313?OpenDocument&Click= - 7k - Cached - Similar pages


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Note added at 6 mins (2004-04-17 23:11:23 GMT)
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Not sure the hyphen is needed...

Susana Galilea
United States
Local time: 21:20
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 40
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Valentini Mellas
6 mins
agree  Wenjer Leuschel
24 mins
disagree  Muriel Vasconcellos: This is simply a legal term for "corporation."
32 mins
  -> from the context of the sentence, I am assuming this is what they are referring to in this case...otherwise there would be no need to specify, don't you think?
agree  Iulia Manescu
52 mins
agree  Claudia Hoepelman: http://www.kld.com/benchmarks/starbucks.html>[...] It holds that either because the social investment community has identified Starbucks as a "socially responsible" company or because Starbucks has identified itself as such
1 hr
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
social services corporation


Explanation:
Quaere: Charitable corp.?

'... Grand Central Neighborhood *Social Services Corporation* Hunger and Homelessness Last updated on March 5, 2004. The mission of the ...'


'... LICONSA SA de CV - *Empresa de carácter social* cuya misión es proporcionar leche de alta calidad ya precio subsidiado a los niños mexicanos menores de 12 ...'



    Reference: http://www.volunteersolutions.org/uwnyc/org/959315.html
    Reference: http://www.precisa.gob.mx/www.php?categoria=124
xxxKirstyMacC
Local time: 03:20
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 27

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Muriel Vasconcellos: I'm surprised that you didn't consider that this might be simply a reference to the legal structure of the enterprise.
20 mins
  -> As the asker confirms, this is Mexico. It's risky extrapolating the concept, even from other Lat. Am. countries.
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44 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
corporation


Explanation:
The legal experts should help us here, but I'm not entirely sure that this isn't a reference to the legal status of the enterprise, which in Robb's "Diccionario de Términos Legales" would make it simply a corporation or a partnership.

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I\'m wondering if some of the answerers aren\'t taking\"carácater social\" to mean \"interés social.\"

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 19:20
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Paulina Gómez: Social, in a legal context, also refers to corporate. It applies to different sector enterprises, besides "social services". e.g. http://www.bordadosinternacionales.com/vision.htm , or, www.imagenzac.com.mx/anteriores/i09-06-1998/Economia3.htm
3 hrs
  -> Thanks!
neutral  xxxKirstyMacC: This is specific to Mexico and refers to a socially engaged co.
7 hrs
  -> How can you tell? "Sociedad" can also mean "corporation" in Mexico.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
socially concerned/socially aware corporation


Explanation:
Otra posibilidad.
Ver hits en Yahoo

Claudia Hoepelman
United States
Local time: 22:20
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 12
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21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
empresa de carácter social
social enterprise


Explanation:
I have seen this term used in US books.

has
Local time: 23:20
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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