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сегмент по направлению

English translation: construction materials segment

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Russian term or phrase:сегмент по направлению
English translation:construction materials segment
Entered by: Vitaliy Plinto

15:30 Feb 14, 2012
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Marketing / Market Research
Russian term or phrase: сегмент по направлению
There is a term "сегмент по направлению" that I came across in the "Product Specifications" section of the company's business plan. The context is market research (market segment analysis).

The complete sentence is: "По мнению участников строительного рынка, во многих сегментах по направлению "строительные материалы" имеется существенный дефицит."

My variant: "According to players of the construction market, many market segments directed toward the construction materials sector experience sginificant deficit".

Can this term be translated as "the market segment directed toward" given the current context, or would there be a better variant?

Thank you in advance for your help!
Vitaliy Plinto
United States
Local time: 23:01
construction materials segment
Explanation:
In my opinion, "по направлению" doesn't add any significant meaning to the sentence; in English, it is simply too wordy. I would omit it - to a native English reader, it is just clutter that makes the text harder to read.
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Amy Lesiewicz
United States
Local time: 23:01
Grading comment
Thanks, Amy and everyone else!
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construction materials segment


Explanation:
In my opinion, "по направлению" doesn't add any significant meaning to the sentence; in English, it is simply too wordy. I would omit it - to a native English reader, it is just clutter that makes the text harder to read.

Amy Lesiewicz
United States
Local time: 23:01
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
Thanks, Amy and everyone else!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Oleg Osipov: Absolutely. Some stuff is sure redundant.
21 mins
  -> Thanks... Since I translate from RU into EN, I encounter a lot of those Russian phrases that, when translated into English, seem to be nothing but fluff. I'm sure there are similar English phrases!
agree  Tetyana Balayeva
51 mins
agree  Igor Blinov
56 mins
agree  nngan: many ~ segmentS maybe...
1 hr
agree  Angela Greenfield
3 hrs
agree  cyhul
8 days
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