Mientras que la vida del trabajo duro y del llano ha sido virtudes veneradas de la gente china para las generaciones, ha habido un crecimiento en la demanda para las mercancías extranjero-calificadas o importadas. Pero el funcionamiento opuestamente al hábito cada vez mayor de la consumición en China es la propensión tradicional de ahorrar. Aunque la consumición de lujo está creciendo, porque la mayoría la idea social dominante sigue siendo consumición prudente y empresa no más que usted puede realizarse.

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Las compañías extranjeras comparten un interés cada vez mayor en golpear ligeramente en el mercado de lujo de China. La estadística demuestra no sólo que el número de la gente rica está creciendo rápidamente en China, pero que su buena voluntad de pasar en artículos del grande-boleto está también en la subida, conducida por un apetito para el estado así como las comodidades y las atavíos de productos de lujo.

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Por Andrew Hupert 

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.

If you are a straight-arrow manager trying some “out of the box” thinking in China you are going to need a strategy for gauging and recognizing success in the early stages. Most of all you need to avoid squandering your investment by pulling the plug too early.

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To Jim van Drunen Littel the Netherlands were always going to be too small. Bilingually raised and working for one of the best known consumer goods companies in the world, he goes international in 1986. Successfully managing a territory stretching from India to Japan for a large tobacco company, it is then time to realise other personal ambitions. Starting his own enterprise and learning Chinese, those are his goals. Van Drunen Littel goes back to university and lives with a Chinese family for several months to get a good understanding of the Chinese culture. In the meantime he’s working on getting One2Call started: Interpretation, City Directions, Yellow Pages, Lonely Planet and lots more. All in one phone based service. In between calls he gives us a few golden tips.

“First of all it’s useful for every foreign businessman in China to have insight into Read the rest of “Advanced Golden China tips” or post a comment