The phrase "avoid competing on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing strategies to differentiate oneself or a business from competitors in a specific area or market.
Example: "To succeed in this industry, we must avoid competing on price and instead focus on quality and customer service."
Alternatives: "steer clear of competition in" or "refrain from competing in".
Stock market regulators censured and fined Prudential Securities Inc. $100,000 yesterday over allegations the company tried to avoid competing on price to manage a 1996 initial public offering.
C10 Prudential Securities Fined Stock market regulators censured Prudential Securities and fined it $100,000 over allegations that the company had tried to avoid competing on price for the right to manage a 1996 initial public offering of a California mortgage lender.
By contrast many businesses avoid competing on value where possible.
They cling to a separate U.N. group only to avoid competing for seats on U.N. bodies with more electorally appealing western countries.
Third, fundraising efforts are being co-ordinated to focus on joint capital projects and to avoid competing for the same donors.
It will avoid competing for land against other cultures that are used for food production [ 4].
In 2007 Sabanci launched Enerjisa, at the time a joint venture with Verbund of Austria, to bid for electricity generation and distribution concessions that were about to be privatised.The two family-owned groups have tended to avoid competing head-on, except in banking and insurance.
Tucci was careful to avoid competing head-on with IBM or EDS in the more complex applications, such as installing enterprise software from SAP. Wang prefers to install and maintain relatively simple systems, such as Arco's, that can be handled with servers running Microsoft's Windows NT.
If so, these animals should have been adapted in such a way as to avoid competing with one another, perhaps varying in morphology so as to specialize on different plant types [ 7, 8, 33- 42].
This finding has been little publicised, until now, partly because the Ethiopian government wants to avoid competing claims on the resource from nearby groups, including the extremist al-Shabaab.
It is likely, analysts say, that T-Mobile froze any negotiations with Apple and other hardware vendors over new phones to avoid competing with AT&T on pricing and release dates.
