Terwijl Alfred Dunhill de gespecialiseerde dienst wenst om zijn hoogwaardige producten te behandelen, specialiseren de grote fabrikanten zich zoals de behoefte van de Groep Haier strategieën om hun leveranciers te behandelen.

Volgens een studie van het Onderzoek Gartner ongeveer waarom het beheer van de leveranciersverhouding van belang is, vertegenwoordigen de verwervingskosten ongeveer 50% van uitgaven. Aangezien de winstmarges in productie slank neigen te zijn, is de aansporing op het kopen kosten te bewaren zeer hoog.

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Subprimedebacle heeft detailhandel in de V.S. gerammeld, die vele bedrijven dwingt om verkoopramingen als gooi van de consument vanaf controletellers te degraderen. De detailhandelaars van de luxe en krediet-kaart bedrijven in de V.S. onlangs projecties à la baisse voor de komende kwarten hebben gemeld.

China, echter, is een kleinhandelsmarkt op de stijging. In 2007 postte China 17% de groei in het kleinhandels besteden.

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MICROSOFT IN CHINA 

Door Ernie Tadla

It took Bill Gates twelve years and billions of missed revenue, profit and market share opportunities to learn how to do business in China … the Chinese Way.

Microsoft came to China in 1992. Eleven years later, with global revenues of $35 billion US, in China the second largest PC market in the world, Microsoft-China revenue was $300 million, and it was operating at a loss.

Source: Newsweek, Asia edition. June 21/04

Several quotes from the article:
• “….. struggling to turn a profit, the brash American software giant is no longer trying to change China. Instead, China is changing the company.”

• “Microsoft started to heed the critics and to embrace China more fully. It is now broadly co-operating, even flying Chinese engineers to Redmond for training.”

• “CEO Steve Ballmer has credited his ‘very well-connected’ China CEO (pirated from Nortel) with Read the rest of “Microsoft and Wal-Mart in China” or post a comment

The Bora launch was the most successful new car launch in China’s automotive history. FAW/VW couldn’t make them fast enough.

The Germans, still hurting over not getting their advertising agency, were really smarting because DMG was not following their global policy for advertising and marketing style and format. Yet, sales were phenomenal…

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As UK companies seek to take advantage of China’s growing commercial prominence, recruiting and keeping employees is becoming more of an issue; particularly with the increase in forged CVs and Diplomas.

Stories in the press make fairly frightening reading. The China Daily did a test and discovered that out of 3,000 diplomas, 800 had been forged. It also revealed that a Harvard PhD can be bought for as little as $100.

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