kwamen opzetten

English translation: were entering the market

07:31 Aug 9, 2006

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Dutch term or phrase: kwamen opzetten

Could this be interpreted as "the big supermarkets were grabbing an increasing share of the market" (i.e. with their own-brand coffee)?? Or am I way off the mark? Text is a profile of a major coffee-roasting company X.

Een andere belangrijke evolutie situeert zich in de jaren 1970. De internationale koffiehandel verkeerde een poos lang in een crisissituatie na een – wegens vrieskou – mislukte oogst in Brazilië, nog steeds de voornaamste koffieproducent. De koffieprijzen stegen op een bepaald moment tot het tienvoudige van voordien. In België **kwamen de grote supermarkten opzetten**, en concurrent Douwe Egberts blies met een overweldigende reclamecampagne vele kleine koffiebranders van de markt. X bleef overeind dankzij een weldoordachte strategische beslissing. "We concentreerden ons niet langer op de verkoop van koffie als massaproduct maar op de 'buitenhuismarkt', namelijk de levering van koffieproducten aan bedrijven, horeca en allerlei instellingen."

MoiraB KudoZ activity Questions: 725 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (21 closed without grading) Answers: 545 France
Local time: 22:10

English translation:were entering the market

Explanation:

Selected response from:

CI95
Local time: 22:10

Grading comment

Thanks to everyone for all the useful suggestions.
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +3

were entering the market

CI95

were on the increase

Maria Danielson

started appearing

Anna Maria Biezen

In Belgium, the onward march of the large supermarkets ...

jarry (X)

Answers

7 mins confidence:

started appearing

Explanation:
you are quite right - basically it means that more and more of them started appearing...

Anna Maria Biezen
Australia
Local time: 06:10
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Dutch

23 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

were entering the market

Explanation:

CI95
Local time: 22:10
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 3

Grading comment

Thanks to everyone for all the useful suggestions.

1 hr confidence:

In Belgium, the onward march of the large supermarkets ...

Explanation:
PDF] Agricultural Trade and Poverty Reduction:File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
not safe from the onward march of the supermarkets and their standards. Supermarket. penetration in developing countries is expanding rapidly, ...
dfid-agriculture-consultation.nri.org/summaries/wp11.pdf

You will need to rephrase the English sentence a little, but I believe this is the idiom to use in your context.

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SWCF: Publications - Radical News 3Between 1991 and 1997, villages and market towns in the UK lost half their small shops, driven to extinction by the onward march of the supermarkets. ...
www.simonwolff.org.uk/radicalnews3.htm - 42k

jarry (X)
South Africa
Local time: 22:10
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 46

10 hrs confidence:

were on the increase

Explanation:
big supermarkets were on the increase

Maria Danielson
United States
Local time: 16:10
Native speaker of: English

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