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| How to Ensure Food Safety |
It seems that consumers in China now attach unprecedented importance to food safety. Innumerous reports concerning food safety can be found in various media, especially the Internet, exposing certain kinds of food or food additives with hidden threat to human health. However, some of them are apparently hypothesis only, and sometimes, even out of thin air.... |
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| China beauty care market: a luring market but risky |
China is a booming market for nearly everything, no exception for beauty care products. Many well known international beauty brands had entered China market, and more is coming. You can find the prestige brands are full of those well decorated department stores and fancy ads are occupying the best pages of various fashion magazines. In past 5 years, according to HBC Consulting’s research, China beauty care market has shown some very positive uptrend for international players:... |
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China is so hot for the global leading retailers to seek international development. Most of the big names, like WalMart, Carrefour, Metro have come for years, are producing satisfactory results, some are staring at China, preparing to give a pitch, like Home Depot, Best Buy.
Both for the early movers and the ready comers, how to expand fast in China to catch up the heating-up consumer market is always a CEO level topic. In many cases, it can be done by a grand acquisition deal like Tesco took HappyMart, WalMart or Carrefour targeting HaoYouDuo. However, the chance of a beauty of acquisition... |
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| Prepare for a hiding wave in China |
Globally, PE (private equity) is hot. The retired gurus, like Jack Welch, Lou Gerstener, have come to sit at the board of PE firms. Many of the big names, such as Warburg Pincus, Carlyle Group, have come to China, are actively making big deals. Hundreds or more of smaller funds are coming to set up offices, searching for deals.
Still not big enough, but for sure, it is a hiding wave for global capital resource’s influence in Chinese economy. For PE investors and fund managers, Shanghai can be an attractive city for life and for business exploration. There are so many pitching targets existe... |
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