China transformou-se um synonym para o crescimento futuro do negócio. É o nirvana do negócio do século XXI. É o lugar a ser. As companhias scrambling para começar uma parte da ação. Não um dia passa sem alguma companhia que faz um anúncio de um investimento em seu futuro que envolve China.

Sua razão para este scramble é a expectativa de ganhar aumentos vastos no valor do accionista. O desempenho relatado sugeriria que estas expectativas são difíceis realizam.

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O luxo que vende a varejo em China apresenta claramente oportunidades tremendas, mas também riscos e desafios. Além a heightening a competição como é comum entre mercados emergir, o mais significativos e o relevantes dos desafios para tipos luxuosos concernem regulamentos das direitas de propriedade intelectual (IPR), o frame de tempo para um retorno no investimento, a consciência de tipo luxuosa baixa, o tourism chinês crescendo e infrastructure de varejo limitado.

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Sourcing from China has evolved from a straight-forward, cost-driven approach to more elaborate and strategic varieties. While the recent product recalls did not seem to have impacted Chinese exports based on overall figures, however we have come across anecdotal evidence suggesting the otherwise.

Undoubtedly the initial sourcing interest was triggered by China’s notorious low costs, both direct (such as those for labor and land or rent) and indirect …

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The mistake many people make when engaging manufacturers or buying products in China is to think cheap. Lowest cost-lowest price, discount discount discount. There is a much better alternative and one that traders are not currently exploiting.

For example lets take a pair of shoes. Almost 50% of all the shoes sold in the UK originate in China. Now the costs involved in manufacturing a pair of shoes include the cost of materials, ie. leather, the cost of packaging, the cost of …

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Every now and again the real truth comes out. Once while I was in grad school (at the now infamous NIU) writing my thesis on Thai/Chinese Corporate Culture my thesis advisor broke her academic façade and turned to me and said, “It’s all just B.S. isn’t it? I mean, it’s all just bribery, no matter what we call it, right?” She then went back into her academic mode and continued talking about “gift giving” and we never talked about “bribery” again.

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