EXPORT OPINION: World Expo country rankings makes for ...
By the time this newsletter hits your mailbox, it will be 41 more sleeps and counting to the World Expo 2010. For in-depth coverage of all things Expo I highly recommend World Expo Blog. This is in fact where I came across a ranking of the most anticipated country pavilions at the Expo. In early 2009 Millward Brown...
FEATURE: Ten Highlights of China's Commercial Sector 2009 ...
Each year Li & Fung Research Centre publish the authoritative and insightful "Ten Highlights" research report. 2009 was a testing year for China. Hit by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the country’s macroeconomic outlook has turned cloudier. We have witnessed more difficult...
LEGAL: How to start a business in China - WFOE
As a new year refresher course or for those of you unfamiliar with the process of setting up a company in China, we offer the following guide kindly provided by Dan Harris of www.ChinaLawBlog.com. This post focuses on the forming of a Wholly Foreign Owned Entity (WFOE) in China. I am starting with this type of entity...
SOURCING: Four simple steps for starting to do quality ...
Renaud Anjoran of Sofeast, China-based quality control consultants, offers some practical advice for implementing and succeeding at quality control when dealing with Chinese suppliers. Some importers have been buying from China for many years, and yet they have never done quality control in a professional manner. The...
NZCTA: We need you!
We need you! Or your China business questions to be more precise. NZCTA is a network of active and experience China business people and consultants, both in New Zealand and on the ground in China. Tap into this network by sending your Legal, Strategy, Marketing, Sourcing or Exporting question to us today. We'll...
MARKETING: Branding in China ~ The challenge of selling ...
In 2009, Columbia Business School hosted a conference exploring branding in China and India. With a population of 1.3 billion, China presents an attractive market opportunity for many multinational companies, as well as some unique challenges in building and expanding a brand. Columbia Business School MBA student Daniel Spear...
Law school: Practical advice for protecting your NZ brand ...
In China, good brand protection is vital for business protection. If you use your brand in China without registering it as a trade mark somebody else might use your brand with relative impunity. Worse, they could register it and potentially prevent you continuing to use your own brand. They could export product under the...
Catch 22: IP protection in China vs. boosting economic growth
Jordan Calinoff & Hayleigh Davies of the Shanghai Business Review explain why the Chinese government finds itself walking a tightrope between IP enforcement and boosting its domestic economy. BRAND BEIJING OLYMPICS: the must-have items of Summer 2008. From Shanghai hipsters to rural farmers, everyone wanted a t-shirt,...
Tax toolkit: New Zealand-China tax update
The tax status of New Zealand companies investing offshore is about to be turned upside down following the recent changes to the CFC rules. The CFC rules are not those nasty things that impact on our environment but are the controlled foreign company rules. Under the previous rules New Zealand tax residents were taxed in...
From the Edge: Hand on Till
From the Edge is the collected memories and experiences of an old China hand and will run in an irregular series of articles on www.China-Briefing.com over the next couple of months. By I.B. Bogard Nov. 10 – Due diligence. These were the two most important words that I was advised to use about the China business...
NZCTA Commentary: Shanghai Expo 2010 as a catalyst for ...
World Expos like the Olympic Games strive to outdo their predecessors in scale and opulence and just as Beijing set a new benchmark for the Olympics last year, so we’re quite sure Shanghai will next year for Expo. In the midst of the FTA negotiations, the Government two years ago committed us to its biggest effort...
NZCTA Commentary: Making it in China by being smarter
“The last 200 years were an aberration...the Chinese were selling silk to Cleopatra!” So commenced a highly detailed, not to say, trenchant assessment of China as a world player and as an export market by former Prime Minister Rt Hon Dame Jenny Shipley. She set the pace and indeed a benchmark at the recent...