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dirigeants de TPME

English translation: TPME = MSMEs

14:48 Mar 24, 2017
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / In A Book About Collective Intelligence
French term or phrase: dirigeants de TPME
Contexte:

Olivier CHRISTOL est coach formateur certifié en intelligence collective par le Dilts Strategy Group. Après plus de 20 ans en tant qu’ingénieur et manager dans des groupes internationaux, il accompagne aujourd’hui les entreprises pour développer l'engagement des collaborateurs, optimiser la performance des équipes, développer les compétences et libérer les énergies, faire émerger une vision commune, mettre en route des projets de transformation et éveiller à l’innovation. Passionné par l’intelligence collective, il facilite des groupes Mastermind d’entrepreneurs et de dirigeants de TPME.

I think it refers to "small business management", but I'm not completely sure because another, very similar acronym seems to be the one that is used the most often to designate that.

Merci,

Barbara
Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 09:09
English translation:TPME = MSMEs
Explanation:
TPME (Très Petites et Moyennes Entreprises) =
MSMEs (Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises)

In the UK,
Micro Business = less than 10 employees & turnover under £2 million
Small Business = less than 50 employees & turnover under £10 million
Medium Business = Less than 250 employees & turnover under £50 million
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Hamida Bouazza
Morocco
Local time: 14:09
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3TPME = MSMEs
Hamida Bouazza
4 +1directors of very small and micro enterprises
philgoddard
3 +1Trè Petites et Moyennes Entreprises
Marco Solinas


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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Trè Petites et Moyennes Entreprises


Explanation:
See: http://www.huffpostmaghreb.com/2017/02/20/tpme-ccg-credits_n... mong Others.
Very small and medium businesses Could be a translation

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Note added at 8 mins (2017-03-24 14:56:53 GMT)
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Make that Très

Marco Solinas
Local time: 06:09
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 56

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Pauline Teale: Was just busy giving the same answer
2 mins
neutral  philgoddard: This doesn't make logical sense when you think about it, because it jumps from very small to medium sized, without including small.
27 mins
neutral  Tony M: I agree with Phil — though it could of course be 'très petites à moyennes...'; however, the EN translation might have been nice ;-)
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
directors of very small and micro enterprises


Explanation:
You could abbreviate it to VSME, though this is not nearly so common and well known as SME. Wikipedia defines a microbusiness as having fewer than ten employees, though I'm sure this is not set in stone.

Example sentence(s):
  • Professionnalisation et financement des très petites et micro entreprises (TPME)
  • Training in the very small and micro enterprise (VSME) sector

    Reference: http://agritrop.cirad.fr/477230/
    Reference: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/research-data/view/1633
philgoddard
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 295

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: Yes, though this is slighlty unfortunate, as 'micro-entreprise' has a different, quite specific meaning in FR nowadays, which could lead to confusion!
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
TPME = MSMEs


Explanation:
TPME (Très Petites et Moyennes Entreprises) =
MSMEs (Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises)

In the UK,
Micro Business = less than 10 employees & turnover under £2 million
Small Business = less than 50 employees & turnover under £10 million
Medium Business = Less than 250 employees & turnover under £50 million


    Reference: http://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2013/04/05/msme-finance-...
Hamida Bouazza
Morocco
Local time: 14:09
Works in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans
7 hrs
agree  Yolanda Broad
1 day 5 hrs
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
2 days 6 hrs
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