American retailers are heading east: They’re opening the doors to brick-and-mortar stores in China, while listing on China’s dueling marketplaces — Tencent and JD.com. Walmart, for example, brought a small-format supermarket to the city of…
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Wise Up: The Big Mistakes Luxury Brands Are Making With China’s Gen Z
But retailers are making a host of mistakes, China experts warn, from confusing Gen Z with millennials to missing the current mania for limited-edition luxury to picking the wrong celebrity endorsements. Too many brands are…
Top 100 Global Brands: China Continues Stellar Growth in Latest Rankings
Over the past 12 years, China’s overall brand value has grown 1,444%. Millward Brown has released its latest BrandZ ranking for 2018. And while Google and Apple hold on to the two top spots, Amazon…
In Portugal, trust in China is the art of the deal
LISBON (Reuters) – Utility company EDP may balk at the meager 5 percent premium offered for its shares by China Three Gorges (CT) but the battle for Portugal’s biggest business has largely played out already.…
Beijing’s liaison office free to do its own thing, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says after ownership of leading publisher revealed
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said on Tuesday that the work of Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong should not be interfered with as long as it is law-abiding, after a former head of…
The Big Mistakes Luxury Brands Are Making With China’s Gen Z
But retailers are making a host of mistakes, China experts warn, from confusing Gen Z with millennials to missing the current mania for limited-edition luxury to picking the wrong celebrity endorsements. Too many brands are…
In China’s booming tech scene, women battle sexism and conservative values
The owner of the news aggregator Jinri Toutiao, a tech darling valued at over $20 billion, this month co-hosted a beauty pageant for female business reporters that attracted little attention. The company did not respond…
China’s May manufacturing growth seen dipping only marginally
That would mark the 22 straight month of expansion for China’s manufacturing sector, and reinforce consensus views that the economy will slow only modestly this year, good news for policymakers as they try to navigate…
China anger over US ‘provocation’ in South China Sea
… what it called “provocation” after US warships sailed near South China Sea islands claimed by Beijing. US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Reuters news agency that two military vessels came within…
Earthquake shakes northeast China, but no apparent damage
The official Xinhua News Agency said the area’s power supply was unaffected, but some mobile phone communications were disrupted. A 1976 earthquake centred in the northeastern city of Tangshan killed at least 250,000 people. China’s…
The Big Mistakes Luxury Brands Are Making With China’s Z-lennials
But retailers are making a host of mistakes, China experts warn, from confusing Z-lennials with millennials to missing the current mania for limited-edition luxury to picking the wrong celebrity endorsements. Too many brands are also…
Two of the world’s biggest brands are now Chinese
LONDON (CNNMoney) – A new list of the world’s most valuable brands is out, and China has claimed two of the top spots for the first time. Alibaba has joined the top 10, alongside Chinese…
China’s embrace of Foxconn unit’s US$4.3 billion IPO has a tinge of desperation to it. Here’s why
Just look at that list of investors in Foxconn Industrial Internet’s IPO. Forget BAT. It was obvious that Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings would take minor stakes in the Foxconn Technology Group affiliate’s…
