As their professional life develops, China´s Young Urban Professionals, are looking for food products that make their lives easier, says retail analyst Ben Cavender in the China Daily. Products like Barilla´s Italian pasta´s are one of them, when they play their cards right.Read More →
Premier Li Keqiang will visit Germany this week with the largest business delegation ever. Business analyst Shaun Rein explains why China has a rather weak economy, and needs Europe for support. With some advise on German business how to treat Chinese competitors.Read More →
VC William Bao Bean started as managing director of ChinaAccelerator, one of China´s most active breeding place for startups. ChinaAccelerator offers an international bridge for those mostly overlooked starting, smaller tech firms, he tells TechinAsia.Read More →
China is fast becoming an innovative economy, and one of the key changes is the improved climate for start-ups, tells author Shaun Rein of The End of Copycat China: The Rise of Creativity, Innovation, and Individualism in Asia. Especially in mobile, China is leading, he tells Knowledge CKGSB.Read More →
Two years after author Shaun Rein published his book The End of Cheap China, the country´s manufacturers start feeling the pain from export moving to cheaper countries. This painful adjustment might take another 3-5 years, he tells Bloomberg.Read More →
Both KFC and McDonald’s have been struggling to keep market share in China by expanding fast. Localizing has become a key word, but sometimes at the expense of quality, says business analyst Ben Cavender in AdAge.Read More →
Most attention has gone to the chances of the financial industry at the new Shanghai Free Trade Zone, but while those opportunities might occur in the long term, niche markets like gaming companies can already win today, argues lawyer Mark Schaub, Partner at King&Wood and Mallesons, in a legal note. Read More →
When Japanese ways to organize business like Just-In-Time hit the world, it changed how companies work profoundly. China has not yet produced such a disruptive model, but white-good producer Haier might just be on the way, says IMD-professor Bill Fischer in Business Week, by replacing middle management by internal competition.Read More →
The bird flu and food scandals did not help KFC to continue their success story in China, their largest market. But also in terms of their offerings KFC is losing grip on the market, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in Business Week.Read More →
Gambling enclave Macau faces some stagnation and looks with envy how its US counterpart Las Vegas is doing. Business analyst Ben Cavender tells the Macau Business Daily how Macau can follow in the footsteps of America’s iconic gambling city.Read More →
Battling a slowdown in Apple’s China sales by doubling the number of outlets might just not be enough, tells retail analyst Shaun Rein in Bloomberg. Apple is facing “serious political headwinds”.Read More →
Starbucks is doing a stellar job in the China market. But not by selling coffee, says retail analyst Paul French. They are selling a lifestyle, no beans, he tells in The Province.Read More →