BEIJING Profits at China’s industrial companies surged 16.7 percent in May from a year earlier, accelerating from April and defying expectations of a slowdown in the face of rising borrowing costs and a cooling property…
Monthly Archives For June 2017
Spin Master takes toy brands to China
Toronto, Canada-based toy and entertainment company Spin Master is launching its popular Hatchimals and PAW Patrol brands in China. China’s multi-billion-dollar toys and games market is the second-largest in the world, and this expansion is…
How China’s E-Commerce Giants Are Battling to Attract Luxury Retailers
Recommended ReadingA Timeline of JD.com’s Long March into Luxury and FashionBy Yiling Pan Luxury brands everywhere have been slow to adopt e-commerce, but this trepidation has been especially strong in China. Online retail giants like…
SAIC Thoroughly Implements Trademark & Brand Strategy
According to the recent released Opinions on Deeply Implementing Trademark & Brand Strategy and Promoting Chinese Brands Building, China will take measures to build a more favorable domestic and international environment for China brands to…
Nike / Nike’s Brand-Aid
The plasters were given away at selected Nike stores across China. Brand ambassadors posted pictures of themselves wearing the bandages on social media and shared links to animations that Nike created. These animations expanded on…
Treasury Wine to sell French wine in China
Australia’s Treasury Wine Estates is set to start selling French wine to China as it seeks to gain a wider share of the world’s fastest growing wine market. Treasury Wine already sells some of its…
China’s Best Logistics Files for U.S. IPO
A Chinese logistics company backed by technology giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Foxconn Technology Group filed for an initial public offering in the U.S., according to securities filings. Best Logistics Technologies Ltd., based in…
Johnson Controls CEO expects double digit growth in China business in spite of slowdown worries
Johnson Controls International expects double digit growth rates for its China operations within the next one to three years despite concerns over a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy. Alex Molinaroli, chairman and CEO of…
Canada and China sign no-hacking agreement to protect trade secrets
Canada and China have agreed not to engage in state-sponsored hacking of each other’s trade secrets and business information. The two countries reached the agreement during a meeting last week that was part of their…
China’s jailed Nobel Peace laureate given medical parole
Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, said Monday he was not aware of the latest development in Liu’s case. The news of Liu’s diagnosis shocked and saddened fellow human rights activists in China.…
BRIEF-China Overseas Property Holdings enters licence agreement with COHL
June 26 China Overseas Property Holdings Ltd : * Entered into licence agreement with COHL * COHL agreed to license to company licensed premises for a term of three years from 1 October 2017 until…
China gives Ghana $2bn to finance one-district, one-factory – Veep
China has committed to support Ghana’s one-district, one factory (ODOF) policy with $2 billion. The China National Building Material Equipment Import and Export Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Association of Ghana…
Coal on the rise in China, US, India after major 2016 drop
China and the U.S. accounted for almost all the decline … everyone else is irrelevant in the scheme of things,” said Tim Buckley, energy finance director for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.…
