Monthly Archives: September 2009

One Year with The China Observer

It was just about this time last year when I first began writing The China Observer blog. Let’s look back at a few favorite posts: Chinese Consumer: Making the Sale – Importance of Salespeople at Point of Sale in China … Continue reading

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Unilever Sees China as Long Haul

Anglo-Dutch consumer-products giant Unilever was one of the first multinationals to enter China, nearly a quarter-century ago. But even today, top executives said Tuesday, the market remains too big and untapped to regard profitability as the main me

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Leaving Google, Executive to Back Chinese Start-Ups

SHANGHAI — Three days after announcing that he was resigning as the head of Google’s Chinese operations, Kai-Fu Lee said on Monday that he had raised $115 million to create a company that would finance high-tech start-ups in China. The … Continue reading

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China closes doors to European businesses

Telegraph.co.uk Doing business in China is getting harder, not easier, according to European businesses, as they laid out almost 600 pages of complaints in a new report. The report, from the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, covers the … Continue reading

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Unicom Will Bring iPhone to China…Isn’t It Already There?

  The big news last week was China Unicom’s announcement that it will officially launch the iPhone in China in Q4 2009.  Is

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