Category Archives: Business

Nielsen to monitor rural Chinese TV habits

Posted on 2006-05-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

P&G and Coke want to know: What are they watching? – image from Hubble Bubble Mure Dickie of the Financial Times is the journalist to watch for stories about media business in China. He always seems to be quickest to … Continue reading →

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Sex and the Financial Times

Posted on 2006-05-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Bank of China seems to be one of the very few companies that can make the writer of the Financial Times‘ Lex column hot under the collar: Initial public offerings do not come much sexier than this. Bank of … Continue reading →

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Foreign exchange czar: China to take “faster steps” to capital account covertability

Posted on 2006-05-08 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Hu Xiaolian on Caijing’s Workers’ Day cover Caijing‘s May 1 issue features Hu Xiaolian, the central bank’s foreign exchange chief, on the cover. The article is an interview with Hu. The below is Caijing‘s own English summary of the story: … Continue reading →

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China’s retail market “saturated”

Posted on 2006-04-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

From the Financial Times, an article titled China market ‘becoming saturated’ (subscription required): The window of opportunity for international retailers in China is continuing to close, as the market becomes saturated, according to an annual study of emerging retail markets … Continue reading →

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China’s talent shortage

Posted on 2006-04-27 by Dror Poleg

The International Herlad Tribune published an interesting piece about the recruitment struggles of foreign companies in China. Selected quotes: …A recent McKinsey report, titled “Addressing China’s Looming Talent Shortage,” said surveys had shown that fewer than 10 percent of Chinese … Continue reading →

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The Chinese media market is “absolutely open”

Posted on 2006-04-19 by Jeremy Goldkorn

GAPP sets the record straight From a Reuters story on the Washington Post, China defends latest controls on media freedom: The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television reissued notices restricting local broadcasters’ use of foreign news footage and the … Continue reading →

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Wheeling and dealing: Hai’er, CNOOC and Bank of China

Posted on 2005-06-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Financial Times reports on three big deals that might be in the making: Hai’er wants to Hoover up MaytagExcerpt: A special committee of board members at Maytag, the US white goods maker, on Monday accepted an indication of interest … Continue reading →

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Make Money Fast! Buy a state-owned mine!

Posted on 2005-06-17 by Joel Martinsen

There’s coal in them thar hills.

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Andy Xie: demand for oil decreasing; oil price to collapse soon

Posted on 2005-06-16 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Andy Xie, the Hong Kong-based chief economist for Morgan Stanley in Asia, is the Western media’s main dial-a-quote guy for economic and financial forecasts about China. From CNN.com: World oil prices are in a “final frenzy” ahead of a possible … Continue reading →

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Cialis officially launched

Posted on 2005-06-03 by Joel Martinsen

Cialis hits stores across the country in June according to an announcement on 31 May by Eli Lilly. It competes for the erectile dysfunction yuan with Viagra and Levitra, which entered China in 2000 and 2004, respectively. When Viagra was … Continue reading →

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