A winner?via Wikipedia Yes, there is nowadays too much in China anyway, says retail investigator Access Asia Director Paul French. No, says market researcher Shaun Rein of CMR, it is all a matter of having a smart strategy.Beijing has faced a flood of high-end shopping malls with countless high-end retailers,Read More →

via Wikipedia One of our key targets at the China Speakers Bureau is getting the debate on China rolling. One reason to ask speakers for our service is because we feel they are important participants in some of the key debates on China. Is the real estate falling apart? IsRead More →

via Wikipedia Former Vice President of Business Development for Greater China of Tricon Global Restaurants, KFC’s parent company (now known as YUM! Brands) and author of the new book ‘KFC in China: Secret Recipe for Success’ Warren Liu will hold a book presentation on Wednesday 17 September for the ForeignRead More →

Shaun Rein The license China’s largest video hosting firm Tudou received today was paramount for getting seriously into the advertising business, Shaun Rein says today. After a two-month wait Tudou got its license from the regulatory body SARFT, two months after everybody else got their permission. Brand Republic Asia: AccordingRead More →

We are preparing to adopt a few more new media tools at the China Speakers Bureau. As a first move we have set up a YouTube channel with clips of our speakers doing their excellent job. The channel – not surprisingly called ‘China Speakers Bureau’ – can be found here.Read More →

At the China Speakers Bureau we are planning to start a new feature that will allow our speakers to comment directly on the news. At our speakers’ corner and our weblog we give already an overview of what our speakers are doing in both online and offline media. With anRead More →

Zhang Lijia Jeremy Goldkorn interviews Zhang Lijia for Danwei-tv about her autobiography Socialism is great!, about her life as a worker in a missile factory. Lijia explains she wanted to make another book, compared with the flood of bitter and suffering tales from the time of the Cultural revolution (1966-1976).SheRead More →

Paul Denlinger Our speaker Paul Denlinger adds to one of his favorite stories as MySpace loses out in China, following a trend by a larger number of IT-companies from the US, he writes on his weblog.The China CEO of MySpace Luo Chuan leaves for a domestic video hosting company, showingRead More →

Shaun Rein As the number of internet users in China is exploding, more intelligent online marketing is needed, says Shaun Rein, president of the market research company CMR, in RedOrbit. “The increase in the number of internet users in China shows once again that companies need to spend more timeRead More →

the Foxconn girl I have mostly ignored the hype of the so-called iPhone girl, a girl from the Foxconn factories in Shenzhen that became famous, because some of her pictures were left on an iPhone that emerged abroad. The Chinese internet has many of those hypes and I have onlyRead More →

cross-cultural dilemma’sWikipedia Today I was asked by a potential client to give a few possibilities from our stable of speakers who are able to discuss with US-based senior executives cross-cultural dilemma’s for working in China. That was a tough pick, since we have a decent group of speakers who couldRead More →

A German-German deal got in placeGetty Images via Daylife Officially global expansion might be high on China’s agenda, but financially disastrous purchases in the past have made the central authorities rather careful. China’s Development Bank (CDB), a financial institution controlled by that central government, failed to buy the German DresdnerRead More →