DuPont Titanium Technologies [DTT] is the world’s largest manufacturer of Titanium Dioxide (TiO2), a key ingredient in products from plastics to paper to coatings and paints. DTT has been in business serving these core markets with their branded product, Ti-Pure*, for over 80 years.
Over a decade ago, DTT anticipated the shift in market focus from North America to emerging markets…
On July 8, 2008, when China’s Supreme Court addressed the question raised by the Liao Ning High People’s Court arising from a patent infringement dispute, it stated, “If a patentee participates in the formulation of the Standard or agrees to incorporate its patented technology into the National Standard…
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The Chinese are particularly firm and patient during negotiations. A Chinese business partner approaches a situation or contract in a diffuse manner. Contrastingly, in the West, the custom is to consider negotiation points in a concrete and systematic manner.
Travelling around China for two years is not as easy as it sounds. In January this year, for example, much of the country was paralysed by freezing winds, snow and ice – millions and millions of people stranded without transport as they desperately tried to get home for Chinese New Year; almost one million of them camped outside Guangzhou Railway Station alone.
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My first job out of university was based in San Francisco, and one of the largest things I managed was the APAC accounts receivable. It was in the beginning a frustrating process as I was essentially making collection calls to get people to send their checks, and I felt a little bit like a repo man.
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