If China is where the future happens, that’s bad news for media agencies. In China, big brands are increasingly moving their advertising budgets from agency trading desks to Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (known as the…
Monthly Archives For September 2017
Why General Motors is outpacing Ford in China
and China-only Baojun brands. Continue Reading Below GM’s gain came as rival Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) posted a 1% decline in its sales in China for the month. Domestic Chinese automakers have made great…
China And Aramco IPO: Win, Wins From A Closer Relationship
NO SMOKE without fire? Perhaps, as there more and more reports that China will buy into next year’s Saudi Aramco IPO.. This would further cement already strong economic and geopolitical ties between China and Saudi…
Goldman-Backed Chinese Fast-Fashion Label La Chapelle Launches $702 Million IPO
La Chapelle, a Chinese fast-fashion label that is known as “China’s Zara,” launched an initial public offering (IPO) on September 13 with the aim of raising about 4.6 billion yuan ($702 million) to fund an…
Iconic Canadian retailer Roots seeks IPO with $700 million valuation
Roots is also eyeing international markets, hoping to grow by up to 25 new locations between Taiwan and China, and build a presence in Singapore … then it makes sense to go forward with an…
IPO reforms will channel capital into real economy
Since the establishment of China’s stock market, there has been a controversy over the IPO system. After 20 years of continuous study and research, especially since the deepening reform undertaken by the 18th National Congress…
The Key To Success For Luxury Brands In China
I don’t normally write about this specific topic: luxury brands in China. But when you’re talking about the amount of money at play here, that caused me to sit up and take notice. There are…
China bank loans rebound in August
Chinese bank loans rebounded in August to hit 1.09 trillion yuan ($166 billion), beating analysts’ expectations as demand was buoyed by home buyers. The figure was up from 825.5 billion yuan in July according to…
China to further open financial, new energy vehicle sectors
China will further open industries including the financial and new energy vehicle sectors to foreign investment in the second half of this year, the country’s top economic planner said Friday. Meng Wei, spokesperson with the…
Volkswagen, China Mobile, and Other Far-Flung Bargain Stocks
For more than 15 years, Causeway Capital Management has reliably provided investors with disciplined exposure to out-of-favor foreign large-cap stocks. Co-founded by Sarah Ketterer and Harry Hartford, the Los Angeles–based firm has an excellent long-term…
China punishes 31 for deadly construction accident
China has ordered 31 people to be placed under “coercive measures” for a collapse last year at a construction site that killed 73 people, the state news agency reported Saturday. Coercive measures are a form…
US should ‘do its duty’ to resolve North Korea nuclear crisis, China says
The core of it is the conflict between the US and North Korea,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a daily news briefing … who singled out China and Russia as the two nations best…
China to deliver two pandas to Indonesia
Sept. 15 (UPI) –China is wooing Indonesia with “panda diplomacy” and is expected to deliver a gift of two of the animals next week. Indonesian news service Kompas reported Friday the pandas will be taken…
