I visited several places throughout southern China on and off over a 5 year period at the beginning of the new millennium while working as an export manager for a manufacturing company. We were engaged in manufacturing gas appliances and I was responsible for their $20 million European sales and marketing division. What James McGregor [...]
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Doubts about China …
February 6th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Asia · China · culture · doubting china · export hints · foreign markets · GFC · International Business · James McGregor · mindset
Now is the time to lay the foundations for export success
July 10th, 2009 No Comments
Potential exporters may feel intimidated at the moment with all the hype about the GFC, swine flu, and impacts of China on global trade, and in particular the Asian region.
However, there are many choices available to would-be exporters to help offset the prevailing business sentiment. For instance, looking for a new market overseas to sell [...]
Tags: Asia · connecting overseas · Export · GFC · International Business · kellogg · planning · post · Recovery · swine flu
BBC Video news from Japan
June 21st, 2009 No Comments
Matt Frei is a BBC reporter working in Japan. He has produced some excellent snippets of life in Japan.
So far the series includes:
Decline of Japan’s family-run factories
Adapting to survive: Lettuce factory
Riding Japan’s bullet train
Meeting Japan’s cyber homeless
Tags: adapting inJapan · Asia · bullet train · culture · cyber · factories in Japan · GFC in Japan · Japan · society
Asian region glasshouses !
June 16th, 2009 No Comments
Ponder for a moment the Asian region and its inter-dependencies among neighbouring nations. In the aftermath of the current global economic crisis, China is poised to severely impact the entire region unless demand for its outputs eventuates again. If not the US, where else in the world will demand from the worlds engine room before [...]
Tags: Asia · China · GFC · Morgan Stanley · Recovery · Stephen Roach