competitive weakness

Some of Europe's mightiest enterprises face significant competitive weaknesses.

Examine the market for voids, unusual trends that you can take advantage of and competitive weaknesses.

The problem was Japanese capital's competitive weakness.

Inherent competitive weakness in a state/local sector coalition may break down as some local firms seek advantage by alliance with foreigners.

Steffen moved on to concentrate on bicycle racing as she was not enjoying the swim training and felt that her running was a competitive weakness.

Sales rose 9.2 percent at Toyota and 20.7 percent at Honda, underlining the competitive weakness of the Big Three, which spend far more on incentives.

In this way it tries to highlight areas of competitive advantage as well as competitive weakness, by looking at a companies/nations suitability to the particular conditions of a particular market.

The emerging competitive weakness of the economy was demonstrated by the fact that while the deflationary measures pushed unemployment up sharply over the winter of 1962-63, the balance of payments remained in deficit.

Aside from the severe drain of merchandise created by Hooker's decision not to finance new merchandise so that goods could be delivered only when paid for in cash, Altman's suffered from a competitive weakness.

Serfdom survived in Russia, as in Rumania, chiefly in areas of grain production with a dense peasant population, where landlords could either compensate for their competitive weakness by raising labour services, or alternatively hope by the same method temporarily to cut themselves in cheaply on the grain export market.

The competitive weakness of the British economy was truly overdetermined: even if the financial institutions had been more disposed towards promoting industrial investment, even if managements had been more competent and imaginative, the restructuring of industry would still have run up against the formidable defensive conservatism of the organised working class.