Betekenis van:
price war
price war
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- langdurige concurrentiestrijd; langdurige concurrentiestrijd; het telkens opvoeren van tarieven
- intense competition in which competitors cut retail prices to gain business
Synoniemen
Hyperoniemen
Werkwoord
Voorbeeldzinnen
- You wanted to avoid war at the price of dishonour.
- The war was over at the price of many lives.
- Company A is trying to play us off against Company B in a severe price-war.
- However, an agreement designed to bring wholesaler acquisition costs under control in the short term by putting an end to an acquisition war cannot be regarded as a clear infringement on a par with a price-fixing agreement.
- The Commission must nevertheless lay down the conditions attached to this decision, that is to say first of all the signature of an unconditional formal commitment by Deutsche Bank and any other financial institutions with the exception of the usual conditions concerning cases of force majeure, acts of war, terrorism and other similar cases, following due diligence checks and an agreement on the price.
- Although France approves as a whole of the content of the letter of the president of the Region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, it is nonetheless anxious to state that, contrary to what is asserted in point 2 of that letter, the supply of services between mainland France and Corsica is not ‘in excess of demand’ and SNCM’s fares policy complies with commitments which it made not to start a fares war and not to be a ‘price leader’.
- This would involve (i) restricting France Télécom's investment to that of an indebted company, e.g. by limiting its overall investment policy to investments the return on investment period of which is less than 12 months in the case of retail activities; (ii) introducing transparent structures between each business within the group; and (iii) preventing the state aid from being used to fuel a price war, for example through the systematic publication of its tailor-made retail offerings.
- Lastly, the Commission takes the view that recapitalisation of the airline AZ Fly and the further analysis of the company's financial prospects that potential investors will inevitably carry out should, together, prompt the company scrupulously to respect the industrial plan thus presented; the Commission would point out in this connection that the plan makes provision for a recovery phase in 2005-2006 entailing guaranteed continued operation and a rapid return to balance from 2006, rather than expansion which would run counter to these objectives by, for example, resulting in a price war.