What if a competitor company proposes to do business with them in a "traditional" way?

如果一个竞争对手公司提出和他们用“传统”的方式做生意呢？

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Smith sold that business to a competitor to focus on his next company, an online baby product retailer in Brazil called Baby.com.br -- modeled largely on diapers.com.

后来他把这家店卖给了竞争对手以集中精力做好下一家公司：一家巴西的婴儿用品零售店baby.com.br，很大程度上采用了daiper.com的模式。

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Desperate to goose business, Hagan fell into the diversification trap in 2004, spending $2 million to buy Slim &Tone, a competitor to the ubiquitous express workout chain Curves.

对这笔金鹅生意心灰意冷的Hagan在2004年又陷入了多样化的陷阱，耗资200万美元收购了Slim &Tone公司，这家公司是随处可见的快递训练连锁Curves公司的对手。

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However, this version of the Xperia might finally be the one to make Sony a legitimate competitor in the smartphone business.

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In late April, Lear's chief competitor in the seating business, Johnson Controls of Milwaukee, snapped up the Becker Group, another company that manufactures car interiors.

ECONOMIST: Too many pieces

The first is that the paper industry is in many ways a commodity business, and in a commodity business any more than one serious competitor is enough to produce a price war.

ECONOMIST: The paper industry