Market report: Sofitel in China
Established in 1964 in Strasbourg, France, Sofitel is now one of the world’s most renown luxury hotels. It conducts business in 40 countries and districts, and has 192 locations. It joined the Accor Group in 1997. Other hotel brands of Accor include: Hotel F1, Suite Novotel, Ibis(宜必思), Mercure(美居), Novotel(诺富特), Sofitel(索菲特), Pullman(铂尔曼), among others. Sofitel in […]
China research: EMBAs in China
EMBA (Executive MBAs) education is a relatively new term for most Chinese people. Since CEIBS (China Europe International Business School) had its first class of students in Shanghai(上海) in 1995, the EMBA education in China has experienced a period of rapid development. In 2002, The Ministry of Education of China formally approved about 30 universities […]
Retail for Cars in China
Early in year 2006, it has been predicted by the world’s leading market research company, AC Nielson, that the rising level of consumption tax and fuel surcharges would not lower people’s desire to buy cars. Instead, the car retailing industry in China showed strong and vigorous development tendency. According to Nielson, in May, 2006, over […]
Market research: Sports in China
Currently, the sports industry contributes about 2% to a country’s GDP in western world, but in China, it is the other way around. In China, the sports industry GDP accounts for less than 5% of gross GDP. In America, for example, sports events are almost all industrialized into professional leagues such as the NBA, NFL, […]
Chinese Products
Chinese products in all industries are going into the world market with an irresistible power. Since China is a country that can provide huge amount of cheap and high quality labor, it has unparalleled advantage in producing labor intensive products, for example, TV sets, or little toys. Also China now is switching the mode of […]
Market research: Sourcing in China
There are multiple ways to classify sourcing. It can be classified as government sourcing, firm sourcing, and resident sourcing, online sourcing, or face to face sourcing, or open tender sourcing. In fact, nearly all daily life transactions can be called sourcing. It precedes any production process or consumption process. The level of purchasing will influence […]
China Research: Exporters
China has always been one of the biggest product exporters in the world, and in 2009, China surpassed Germany to become the biggest exporting country with an annual exporting rate of 1.12 trillion dollars. According to a professor in Georg August University of Gottingen, China exports many cheap services and products to Western countries, especially […]
Market research: Technology in China
Centuries ago, China was once the most technologically advanced civilization in the world. However, after the mid-Ming Dynasty, due to the isolation policy of feudal rulers, the development of technology in China came to a sudden stop. Without exposure for foreign technology, the Ming Dynasty lagged behind the rest of the world. The decline of […]
Market research: China agribusiness
In the 21th century, with the rapid development of China’s economy, Chinese agribusiness has also achieved remarkable growth. The government issued a series of industry-supporting policies for the development of Chinese agriculture that made good use of China’s technology, human resource, product and administration advantages. Ever since joining the World Trade Organization(WTO), China has increased […]
China research: Where to find business news in China
In such a big and volatile business market like China, changes can happen anywhere at any time. In this information era, people expect to receive business news the moment that it happens. The quality of the information is also very important. So what are the major sources that Chinese business people and consumers rely on […]
China research: Business schools
The Fortune magazine and the Forbes both released a rank of business schools in China in 2005. This is the first time that Forbes conducted a survey independently on business schools in China. It listed the most valuable business schools and the MBA programs with the highest return rate of investment. The standard of ranking […]
Market research: FDI in China
FDI is defined as the direct investment into production in a country by a company located in another country, either by buying a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country. FDI in China: features The distribution of sources where FDI in China comes from is influenced […]