By Haitao Qi

Following the great global transfer of manufacturing started in seventies of last century, the global transfer of the service industry has taken the first place as a new tide. And offshore outsourcing, as the keystone of the new-round global integration, brought Chinese companies both opportunities and challenges.
 
2007 Top 50 Service Outsourcing Providers in China by Chinasourcing is the first company list in China that faces the whole service outsourcing industry aiming at present the best Chinese outsourcing companies to the global outsourcing market so as to strengthen their international competence and get more business opportunities in the offshore outsourcing market. Read the rest of “Top50 Service Outsourcing Providers in China Unveiled” or post a comment

By Greg Bissky

We introduced Greg Bissky to you in some earlier posts (if you missed those, you can find them here: ‘Western and Chinese business-More Than 1 Way To Communicate‘ and ‘Communication in Chinese Offices‘). This time Greg talks about Chinese meetings. According to Greg, there are three times to a Chinese meeting, before the meeting, after the meeting and during the meeting. And the one time Chinese do not decide things, is during the actual meeting. Meetings are for maintaining harmony and relationships, decisions and arguments are made before and after. Read the rest of “Western-Chinese Business: What Are Chinese Meetings For?” or post a comment

Just before Chinese New Year, I was in a Shanghai sales meeting where the owner of a European company was discussing post-holiday sales projections. The talk was all “new, innovative, out of the box”, but the walk was all about doing the same old thing only bigger and/or cheaper. I’ve been to this rodeo before. Some of the expensive new marketing initiatives put into place 6 months ago were about to whither and die.

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By Ting Zhang

“Going out. Going global” has long been the rally cry for the China government’s encouragement of developing competitive positions. It’s a key express policy.

No, we’re not talking about the Olympics here; “Going Global” means economics and enterprise.

And China means business for the UK.

The lesson is that the key to success in these business Olympics is not a winter-takes-all attitude, but that partnership and co-operation can make winners of us all.

The signs are clear that the UK is picking up the pace of the challenge set by China.

This month in Beijing, UK Prime Minster Gordon Brown extended the welcome on China’s growing overseas direct investment (ODI) in the UK.

“I want Britain to be the Read the rest of “China is expanding its global economic Empire” or post a comment

By Dylan Blankenship

“Private label products or services are typically those manufactured or provided by one company for offer under another company’s brand.” –Wikipedia. This is the name of the game for China and for the most part, the products you buy here in the United States are not really manufactured by the name on the label. In some instances most of the big box or clothing stores you frequent have an inventory almost entirely made up of their own products under their own brand or multiple unaffiliated brands. This is not just a game for the big boys, this can be accomplished with the same everyday products under your own company’s label. Welcome to the club, we are about to pull back the curtain to reveal what you need to know in developing your own private labeled line of products.

Take notice that every manufacturer has its own guidelines, requirements and procedures for producing a private label product. Not all manufacturers offer this service or have the capability to laser-etch/carve logos etc. The first step is to source the product you like and then follow-up with the manufacturer opening a dialog about private label opportunities.

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