créateurs/repreneurs - création/rprise

11:03 Jul 7, 2014 

It really is simple : the term unqualified, describes the situation where someone comes along a buys an existing business. It may be alive and kicking, even thriving; it may also be in difficulty. Your original does not qualify the state of the business, so you simply don't need to worry about it.

16:23 Jul 6, 2014 

probably your initial suggestion is fine

09:16 Jul 6, 2014 

I apologize, because I should have specified that we are dealing mainly with self-employed entreprentuers in the context of microcredit to help the unemployed start their own businesses.
Virginia: I think "recovery" would apply in a case such as "reprise économique".
Fred

00:09 Jul 6, 2014 

Like founder and takoverer then? But I takeoverer isn't a word.

23:50 Jul 5, 2014 

Not *necessarily* a business "in difficulty": for that you'd need to add the qualifier 'en difficulté' -- which you will see, because it is not redundant when it does apply. See this regarding the legal definition: http://www.dictionnaire-juridique.com/definition/repreneur-d...
It is about assuming liabilities and saving jobs at a business that would otherwise close -- perhaps only because, say, the owner is retiring and other potential buyers see no attractive growth prospects.

19:43 Jul 5, 2014 

Does this not refer to case a) person who starts a business, and case b) person who buys a business, and more specifically who buys a business which was in difficulty.

They would be a turnaround specialist of sorts. There are lots of ways to say it clearly, and I think none of them carry lyrical merit in the flow of this passage.

15:42 Jul 5, 2014 

Try "revive" -- business reviver, revival. After all, if you aren't creating a business from scratch, you are taking one that exists and reviving it in some fashion, presumably by taking it in a new direction.
Not that "business reviver" is all that common in English, but then neither is "business creator". (The word usually seen is "founder" -- or "originator" for the idea behind it.)

12:44 Jul 5, 2014 

I agree with Nikki that 'create and purchase a business' would be clear in the context maybe even 'create or purchase a business'.

11:13 Jul 5, 2014 

"Reprise" and "reprendre" are the soruce of the problem. Is that correct? If so, then "take-over" is generally reserved for national and multinationals, you know, the mergers, acquisitions and take-overs on that sort of scale, although not necessarily. "Buyout" is another possibility and necessarily reserved for employee or management buyout. It is all a matter of phrasing though. After all, it simply describes a situation where someone buys an exisitng business so a number of solutions are possible.
"Create and purchase a business" may be quite sufficient.