rival firms may have similar chains, but they may also have very different ones.
竞争者也有相似的价值链,但是他们也拥有与众不同的部分。
but spirits appeared tepid, says this person, and the retention packages on offer were in some cases lower than what rival firms are promising.
不过,据此人透露,士气似乎仍然不振,而且有些人获得的留任奖励甚至比对手公司承诺的还要低。
this collapse is due to rising material costs, the expansion of rival firms and falling demand both overseas and in china.
这样的狂跌则是由于原材料价格上涨,对手公司的扩张,以及国内外需求的下降。
at about 7 p.m., when the wall street journal's web site broke the news of the $2 price, people at rival firms were stunned.
大约晚上7点,华尔街日报的网站上披露了交易价格,贝尔斯登的对手们都被惊呆了。
analysts say mr ricke should have expanded more rapidly into other countries, as rival firms did, in search of growth.
分析师们指出,里克先生本该跟随竞争对手,加速扩展国外业务,谋求发展。
his insistence on putting users first, and focusing on elegance and simplicity, has become deeply ingrained in his own company, and is spreading to rival firms too.
他坚持用户至上,保持雅致简洁,这些不但深深扎根公司的文化之中,更让行业对手们也亦步亦趋。
ofcom, britain’s telecoms regulator, is considering whether to allow bt to include the cost of pensions when calculating the fees it charges rival firms to rent bits of its network.
作为英国电信业的监管者,ofcom正在考虑是否允许bt在收取竞争对手租用其网络时的租金时,将退休金计算在成本内。
they run their rival firms close both in price and quality.
他们在价格和质量方面跟与之竞争的一些商行不相上下。
a better idea would have been to break coal india’s quasi-monopoly and let rival firms vie to deliver coal cheaply.
更明智的做法是打破印度煤炭公司的垄断,让竞争者提供更加廉价的煤炭。
rival firms scrambled to follow where he led.
而那些竞争对手只能勉强地跟着他引领的方向。
they battle daily and bravely against rival firms and consumers who foolishly prefer to save their hard-earned cash.
销售员商业里的无名英雄,他们每天同竞争对手英勇「斗争」,从那些「傻傻的」想存钱的潜在客户手里赚钱。
moreover, rival firms that had continued to trade with it in recent weeks—at the urging of regulators—had begun to pull away in the past few days.
此外,这几周被监管者促使与雷曼交易的竞争对手都在过去几天里抽身。