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Moving Out

July 24, 2020 By Kevin Livingston

Trade tariffs, rising labor costs, COVID-19 and other factors have caused manufacturers in China to consider diversifying their supply chains. To what extent will Southeast Asia benefit from this shift?

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Tagged With: South East Asia

Meat Market

June 17, 2020 By Colin Peebles Christensen

China is the world’s top consumer of pork. What has the impact of African swine flu been on the meat industry and food security in the country?

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, China, Resources, Supply Chain Tagged With: China's Meat Market, Meat Supply, Pork Supply

How Online Platform Yiyaowang is Reshaping China’s Health Sector

September 25, 2017 By Liu Sha and Deng Yuanyuan

Medical spending in China is increasing every year, and people have started to buy medicine online, with nearly 3 million people buying medicine through mobile apps, among which the largest one is Yiyaowang–the”No.1 pharmacy.” Set up by Yu Gang and his partner, the founder of China’s first large online supermarket, Yihaodian, Yiyaowang is also a key part of a healthcare ecosystem that combines an online hospital, a drugstore and patients. Yu, an experienced businessman and a scholar, tells how he built the ecosystem, how it simplifies the medical process and gives patients access to cheaper drugs.

Filed Under: All Articles, Conversations, eCommerce, Entrepreneurship, Q&A, Supply Chain Tagged With: B2B2C, Online healthcare, online pharmac, Yihaodian, Yiyaowang

Fairphone Takes a Crack at Fair Trade in Mobile Phones

October 13, 2015 By Li Hui

Are you among those who worry about where their products come from? So you prefer to shell out an extra buck for fair trade coffee instead of a regular cup of joe. You look for the Fairtrade certification when you buy clothes. But what about your phone? Fairphone, an Amsterdam-headquartered company, is selling phones on the premise that they are made from conflict-free minerals. Is that a compelling proposition for customers? Will they pick an ethically produced phone over an iPhone which has greater functionality, more aspiration value and a style quotient?

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Conversations, Q&A, Social Good, Supply Chain, Sustainability Tagged With: Fair Trade, Fairphone, Labor, Smartphone, Sustainability

Creating Customer Value is Not Enough

April 1, 2015 By Brian Viard

The price you are able to command for your services doesn’t just depend on how much customer value you create.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Employment, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China, Supply Chain Tagged With: Brian Viard, Employment, Labor, Slider, Taxi App, Value Chain

China Plus One: Does it Add Up?

February 2, 2015 By Chris Russell

As China changes, companies are being forced to adopt China Plus One strategies and look at other countries for manufacturing.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Connections, Demographics, Economy, Know China, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Tagged With: ASEAN, Chinese Economy, Foreign Direct Investment, Foxconn, Government Control, Labor, Reform and Opening Up, Slider

China Roundup: Apple inches ahead of Samsung in China; China’s Staggering Debt; and a New Food Scandal

July 25, 2014 By Neelima Mahajan and Major Tian

The week that was: Apple is making a comeback and beating Samsung in China; China has a debt-to-GDP ratio of a whopping 251%; and fast food giants find themselves battling a new food scandal. Will Apple eat Samsung’s pie?  Although the earnings report of Apple’s third fiscal quarter of 2014 (Apple’s fiscal quarter runs from end […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, China Round-up, Chinese Economy, Digital Economy, Economics, Finance, Know China, Supply Chain, Technology Tagged With: Apple, Bank of China, Chinese Economy, Debt, Fast Food, Food Security, GDP, KFC, Lenovo, Pizza Hut, Samsung, Slider, Technology, Xiaomi, Yum!

The Age of Micro-Multinational Companies

May 22, 2014 By Bennett Voyles

Low communication costs and improved access to global markets for talent, supply chain requirements and customers is paving the way for micro-multinational companies. In the old days, startups were usually formed by people who’d known each other for a long time–relatives, professional colleagues, or old school chums–a small team that got together and created something […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Supply Chain, Talent Tagged With: eBay, eCommerce, Google, Hal Varian, IT, labor market, Micro-multinational, MNCs, Multinational Company, Skype, Slider, Telecommunications

Rolls-Royce in China: Riding on China’s Growth

April 10, 2014 By Neelima Mahajan and Major Tian

Patrick Horgan, Regional Director, North-East Asia, on how Rolls-Royce diversified in China. Unknown to many, China’s engage­ment with Rolls-Royce, the iconic British multinational company, goes back nearly a century. In 1919 the first air­mail service between Beijing and Tianjin was powered by Rolls-Royce engines on a Handley Page aircraft. In 1963, Rolls-Royce sold Dart engines […]

Filed Under: Airline Industry, All Articles, Best Practice, C-Suite Interview, Connections, Conversations, Know China, Multinationals in China, Strategy, Supply Chain, Videos Tagged With: Air China, Airlines, Aviation, China Eastern Airlines, Competition, Made in China, Private Airlines, Rolls Royce, Slider

3D Printing: Life in 3D

February 12, 2014 By Colin Shek

Prophets of doom say 3D printing will overturn manufacturing in China. They are both right and wrong. Wisps of smoke rise from nowhere as an invisible beam silently traces a path inside one of the three-dimensional (3D) printers at Beijing Longyuan Automated Fabrication System (AFS). The printer is in the early stages of making a […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, China, Innovation, Know China, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Technology Tagged With: 3D Printing, Beijing, Foxconn, IBM, Innovation, Manufacturing, Slider, Technology

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