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Not Just Another Day in the Park

December 1, 2016 By Brian Viard

Theme parks are normally a place to enjoy a nice day out with your friends or family. However, in mainland China, theme parks may soon turn into a battleground. Wanda Group, a conglomerate that has opened several amusement parks across China over the last few years, has warned Disney about its theme park operations in China. It’s certainly not easy, if possible at all, for Wanda to make Disney unprofitable. Will lowering price at the cost of lowering its own profit help, or improve the quality and service is more practical? Maybe the best solution is to get along with the competitor.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Invisible Hand Revealed, Marketing, Strategy Tagged With: Competition, Disneyland, Invisible Hand Revealed, strategy, Wanda Theme Park

Uber China Faces a Massive Challenge in the China Market

July 12, 2016 By Claire van den Heever

Uber China, a massive expansion challenge

Doing business in China has never been easy for foreign-owned companies, but Uber has largely managed to avoid conflict by operating as a separate Chinese subsidiary, Uber China, on the mainland. However, Uber China still faces many challenges: competing with Didi, not being profitable, and even worse, its business has always been riding on a government regulation fence. In a market that is as challenging, and competitive as China’s, the answer to winning over China’s smartphone users lies deeper than just competitive pricing or partnerships.

Filed Under: All Articles, Automobile Industry, Consumers, Multinationals in China, O2O, Policy and Law Tagged With: Competition, Didi Dache, O2O, Uber

Market Entry: To Boldly Go Where Others Have Gone Before

December 22, 2015 By Brian Viard

The opening of the 1960s television show Star Trek which followed the voyages of the Starship Enterprise explained that its crew’s mission was “to boldly go where no man has gone before.” For firms the mission can be quite different as they often have to go where others have already gone. Unless a firm is the first to enter a market, it will face one or more incumbents upon entry. In such cases, how should a firm decide whether and where to enter? A look at how this worked out in the case of Uber and Didi Kuaidi in China’s competitive taxi hailing app market.

Filed Under: All Articles, Consumers, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China Tagged With: Competition, Didi Dache, Invisible Hand Revealed, Taxi App, Uber

The Future of Retail in China is Both Online and Offline

August 21, 2015 By Xinlei Chen

Alibaba’s investment in Suning is a signal that companies in retail in China need a multichannel strategy: embracing both the online as well as offline worlds.

Filed Under: All Articles, Digital Economy, eCommerce, ExpertSpeak, Know China, Opinion, Retail Tagged With: Alibaba, Competition, E-Commerce in China, JD.com, Retail, Slider, Wal-Mart

Ctrip Goes on a Round the World Trip

July 29, 2015 By Nicole Sy

Leading Chinese online travel company Ctrip now faces the dual challenges of overseas expansion and stronger competitors

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Consumers, Know China, Tourism Tagged With: Chinese Consumers, Competition, Ctrip, Online Shopping, Outbound Market, Qunar, Slider, Tourism

Red Star Rising: A Q&A With Steve Blank

July 27, 2015 By Bennett Voyles

Steve Blank, entrepreneur and founder of the Lean Startup movement, on how Beijing taught him the world no longer revolves around Silicon Valley.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Conversations, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Q&A, Talent Tagged With: Competition, Innovation, Internet Companies, Silicon Valley, Slider, Start-ups

Digital Monopolies: Too Many Big Fish in the Sea

July 22, 2015 By Xinlei Chen

The government should step in and regulate digital monopolies because at the end of the day, healthy competition benefits all.

Filed Under: All Articles, Digital Economy, ExpertSpeak, Mergers and Acquisitions, Opinion, Technology, Winning in China Tagged With: Antimonopoly, Competition, Google, Internet Companies, Jack Ma, Slider, Taobao, Tencent, Youku

OnePlus and its Global-First Strategy

June 23, 2015 By Major Tian

Chinese smartphone company OnePlus has received many accolades in the global market. Can it recreate the same magic in China?

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, C-Suite Interview, Conversations, Digital Economy, Strategy, Technology, The Chinapreneurs Tagged With: Competition, Huawei, Marketing Strategy, OnePlus, Slider, Smartphone, Social Media, The Chinapreneurs, Xiaomi

Why Lenovo (Really) Needs to Keep ZUK at Arm’s Length

June 15, 2015 By Major Tian

Lenovo is trying to crack the Chinese smartphone market with ZUK, the erstwhile ShenQi. But has it really figured things out?

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Branding, Digital Economy, Technology, The Chinapreneurs Tagged With: Competition, Lenovo, Slider, Smartphone, Technology, Xiaomi

China’s Robam Bets Big on the Smart Appliances Market

May 25, 2015 By Major Tian

Zhao Jihong, President of the Hangzhou-based high-end kitchen appliance maker Robam, believes that the future belongs to smart appliances.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Consumers, Know China, Marketing Tagged With: Competition, Consumers, Interviews, Smart Home, Suning, Tmall

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