Building Relationships

In order to gain market share in China, we are building up/cutting off relationships with local agents.

By merging with a US company, we greatly strengthened/maintained our sales force.

Sales staff who are impolite to customers disrupt/damage the reputation of a company.

A strike at our factory last year resumed/disrupted production for several weeks.

We could not agree on several points, so we broke off/cut off talks regarding a joint venture.

Thanks to a new comm unications system, we are souring/improving relations with suppliers.

We are planning to promote/establish branch offices in Spain next year.

Business relations between the two countries have been severed/fostered by official visits and trade delegations.

Relations with customers have been fostered/undermined recently by poor after-sales service.

The success of our new product launch was cemented/jeopardised by an unimaginative advertising campaign.