corporate workouts

German translation: Umstrukturierung

16:20 Sep 11, 2000
English to German translations [PRO]
English term or phrase: corporate workouts
they go out of their way to stop radical cures through aggressive mergers or tough corporate workouts.

"Training" und "Ausarbeitung" für "workouts" ergeben doch irgendwie keinen Sinn. Es handelt sich übrigens um eine (erz-konservative)Kritik an Schröder-Regierung.
G�nter Lobmeyer
German translation:Umstrukturierung
Explanation:
A search on "corporate workout" will yield about 140 or so hits; most of them from South East Asia.

From the contents of those websites, it would seem that Kristina is right - this has to do with restructuring.
See, for instance, the following:
Framework for corporate restructuring. Corporate and financial restructuring takes time. In order to avoid an unnecessarily long period of uncertainty and slow growth, however, a country's government needs to enhance efforts to resolve these systemic problems. A comprehensive approach requires an active government that will eliminate obstacles to restructuring; facilitate both formal and informal debt workouts; and establish an effective new legal, regulatory, accounting, and institutional framework.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/1999/03/iskander.h...

Or look at these URLs:
http://www.kois.go.kr/government/issue/press-kit/1999/econom...
http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/9811/0623.html
Umstrukturierung would be the most "generic" translation that still conveys the meaning of the original.
HTH!
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2 hrs
Umstrukturierung (?)


Explanation:
This sounds almost like a euphemism for "shakeout" to me. If that hunch is correct, then it would be Umstrukturierung, or Gesundschrumpfung or Verschlankung (less formally put), or even Personalabbau (but make sure I interpreted this correctly before using any of these suggestions.

Kristina


Kristina M (X)
Local time: 09:09
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5 hrs
Umstrukturierung


Explanation:
A search on "corporate workout" will yield about 140 or so hits; most of them from South East Asia.

From the contents of those websites, it would seem that Kristina is right - this has to do with restructuring.
See, for instance, the following:
Framework for corporate restructuring. Corporate and financial restructuring takes time. In order to avoid an unnecessarily long period of uncertainty and slow growth, however, a country's government needs to enhance efforts to resolve these systemic problems. A comprehensive approach requires an active government that will eliminate obstacles to restructuring; facilitate both formal and informal debt workouts; and establish an effective new legal, regulatory, accounting, and institutional framework.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/1999/03/iskander.h...

Or look at these URLs:
http://www.kois.go.kr/government/issue/press-kit/1999/econom...
http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/9811/0623.html
Umstrukturierung would be the most "generic" translation that still conveys the meaning of the original.
HTH!

Ulrike Lieder (X)
Local time: 06:09
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in pair: 1505
Grading comment
Merci!!!
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