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.…
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…
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…
Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE
But more broadly, they said, Ms. Trump’s growing portfolio of trademarks in China and the family’s business interests there raises questions about whether Chinese officials are giving the Trump family extra consideration that they otherwise…
140 firms withdraw A-share IPO applications this year, balking at stricter scrutiny by the regulator
China’s securities regulator appears to have poured cold water over expectations initial public offerings (IPOs) by cash-hungry businesses could be fast tracked, by tightening its review procedures instead, in an effort to favour the best-performing…
Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu to hold big stakes in Foxconn unit after US$4.3 billion IPO
It would be the most valuable listing in mainland China since financial services firm Guotai Junan’s US$4.8 billion flotation in June 2015. The date of the listing has yet to be set. The biggest allocation…
China has a $43,000 wealth gap problem
China is no monolith. While residents in Shanghai and Beijing are almost as well off as those in Switzerland by some income measures, parts of the country live more like they were in Guatemala. The…
China rejects U.S. charge of ‘forced technology transfer’ at WTO
GENEVA (Reuters) – China told the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement body on Monday that U.S. accusations that Beijing forced companies to hand over technology as a cost of doing business in China were groundless.…
