The basics of corporate english : Company presentation

to harvest (to gather crops from the fields)

récolter / moissonner

raw materials (substances such as coal or iron that are in their naturalstate before being changed by chemicalprocesses)

matières premières

basic foods

aliments de base

packaging (the container or material that a product is sold in)

emballage / conditionnement

processing (transforming raw materials into goods)

traitement

goods (things that are produced in order to be sold)

biens de consommation

developed countries (a rich industrial country with a lot of business activity)

pays développés

developing country (a country that is changing its economy from one based mainly on farming to one based on industry)

le pays en voie de développement

emerging country

pays émergent

to be involved in a field/ an area of expertise/ a sector of activity / to be engaged in

travailler dans un domaine

labour force / workforce / manpower

main d'oeuvre

to manufacture / to produce

fabriquer

finished goods

produits finis

to be associated with

être associé à

to provide something to someone / to provide someone with something

fournir qqch à qq

retail (relating to the sale of goods directly to the public for their own use)

vente au détail

wholesale (relating to the business of selling large quantities of goods / especially to people who are going to sell them in a shop)

vente en gros

the entertainment business

l'industrie du divertissement

library

bibliothèque

research

recherche

patent (an official document that gives someone who has invented sthg the legal right to make or sell that invention for a particular period of time and prevents anyone else from doing so)

brevet

to apply for a patent

déposer un brevet

corporation / (business) venture / enterprise / company

entreprise

corporate

lié à l'entreprise / d'entreprise

leading company

leader sur le marché

in-company

en entreprise

to set up a company

to create

subsidiary

filliale

to break into a market

pénétrer un marché

to launch a product

lancer un produit

line of business / area of expertise / sector of activity

secteur d'activité

product range

gamme de produit

output

production

growth rate

taux de croissance

(fierce) competition

concurrence (féroce)

board of Directors

comité de direction

to be in charge of / to be responsible for / to run

être responsable de

headquarters ( a company's main office)

siège social

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

PDG

CFO (Chief Financial Officer)

directeur financier

personnel

le personnel / les ressources humaines

staff

le personnel

blue-collar worker

travailleur manuel

white-collar worker / clerk

employé de bureau

unions

syndicats

to downsize

réduire les effectifs

downsizing

contraction du personnel

to make redundant / to lay off

licencier (raisons externes ou manque de travail)

R&D (department)

Recherche et Développement

to fire / to dismiss (to lose your job because you did sthg wrong)

virer

to take on / to recruit

recruter

turnover / global annual revenue / bottom line

chiffre d'affaire

turnover

rotation du personnel

to amount to

se chiffrer à

to go out of business / to go bankrupt / to go bust

faire faillite

bankruptcy

faillite

to close down

fermer définitivement

to break-even

atteindre le seuil de rentabilité

the break-even point

le seuil de rentabilité

to trade

faire des affaires

benefit (advantage for a company of a product or service)

avantage

profit

bénéfice / profit

to turn a profit

faire des bénéfices

overdraft

découvert bancaire

to be overdrawn

être dans le rouge

to report to someone

être sous les ordres de qq

the company is made up 4 departments

l'entreprise est divisée en 4 départements

shareholder (both a person who owns parts of a business or who has bought shares of a company)

actionnaire

to be publically traded

être coté en bourse

to go public

faire son entrée en bourse

share / stocks

actions

the stock exchange

la bourse (l'endroit et le marché)

the stock market

la bourse (le marché)

takeover (the fact for a company to purchase another one)

acquisition d'entrepise

to take over

racheter une entreprise

a merger (when two companies merge / they become one)

une fusion

on the market (make a product available for people to buy)

sur le marché / disponible à la vente

in the market (in the position of being a potential buyer)

sur le marché

to outline

exposer les grandes lignes

growth

croissance

goal / target / purpose

objectif / but

target market

marché cible

selling point

point de vente

balance sheet

bilan comptable détaillant actifs / passifs et fonds propres

accounts

comptes

assests

actif

liabilities

passif

equity

fonds propres

start-up (a brand new business / typically in its first few months or years)

start-up

forecast

prévision basée sur la situation actuelle et les facteurs externes

brand (a company's name and unique identity)

marque

joint venture (business arrangement to pool resources for a specific task)

co-entreprise

non-profit association/ organisation

asbl

sole trader / sole proprietorship (business owned and run by one individual)

entreprise individuelle

private limited company (ltd) (shareholders with limited liability / not for general public)

société à responsabilité limitée

limited company (plc) (shares freely sold and traded to the public)

société anonyme

to dish out

distribuer généreusement

membership / subscription

abonnement

it's a winner

C'est une bonne idée

the top spot

la première place