The phrase "a local competitor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a business or entity that competes within a specific geographic area.
Example: "Our marketing strategy needs to consider the impact of a local competitor who has recently opened a new store in the neighborhood."
Alternatives: "a regional rival" or "a nearby competitor".
A local competitor, The Children's Channel, packed up earlier this year.
Bancroft, it seemed clear, would not want a local competitor in the Green Zone.
During which our protagonist challenges a local competitor to a shaving competition.
Profit warnings have come thick and fast.The latest surprise was a plan to merge Carrefour's Brazilian business with Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição (CBD), a local competitor.
Barely two weeks after the coffee hit the shelves, a local competitor was already selling an imitation.Many management techniques that work elsewhere can still fail in South Korea.
In late March, the company agreed to sell its business in Southeast Asia to Grab, a local competitor, in order to free up resources for Uber's other divisions.
Frozen yogurt is back, and Pinkberry, the Los Angeles company that put it in focus, has a new local competitor that serves a different type of treat.
But knowingly opening a national franchise across from a minuscule local competitor?
As many will recall, Uber backed out of the country roughly a year ago, after losing $1 billion a year in China and battling a profitable local competitor in Didi Chuxing for market share.
Ever since Sotheby's International Realty announced in late January that it was coming to Westchester -- acquiring Julia B. Fee, a highly regarded local agency, and phasing out its name -- other firms have expressed elation at the thought that a significant local competitor will in some sense be disappearing from the landscape.
Nevertheless, Tencent is a formidable local competitor to social-network sites like MySpace in China, which is already the largest Internet market in the world and still growing rapidly.
