Companies to Observe
Domestic Innovation to Meet the Needs of China’s Rural Consumers
Is China capable of producing global brands? Will Chinese companies ever be able to foster domestic innovation without technology transfer from western MNCs? These two questions are at the forefront of mainstream analysis on China’s next stage of economic development. Both the Economist and Washington Post recently published detailed articles addressing these issues, and I [...]
Connecting Chinese Businesses with Global Consumers | Interview with Alan Tien, GM of PayPal China
China’s e-commerce market represents a $38.5 billion dollar opportunity. In particular, the B2C market is experiencing tremendous growth. Online shops that may have began as a single person operation on Taobao.com, are incorporating into formal online businesses – while at the same time traditional businesses in China are stepping into the e-commerce arena as well.
In [...]
What are China’s consumers eating? Yum! Brands - One Company, Three Pillars of Success (Part II)
This is the second article in a series of posts on Yum! Brands’ success in China. For part one please click on “What are China’s consumers eating? Yum! Brands - One Company, Three Pillars of Success (Part I).”
Pillar III: East Dawning & Little Sheep Hot Pot - Trusted Local Chinese Dining
In 2005 [...]
What are China’s consumers eating? Yum! Brands - One Company, Three Pillars of Success (Part I)
Creating a company is hard, but creating a market is harder. The China Observer recently looked at how companies such as Proctor & Gamble and Campbell’s Soup were doing just that in China. KFC, now part of Yum! Brands, had to do the same thing in China, creating a market for Western fast food that [...]
Which Chinese cities spend the most online? Here are the top 10
Alibaba Group’s Taobao.com just released a report outlining the varying levels of e-commerce spend in China’s cities. I translated one of the graphs into English above, but for my Chinese reading audience, you can find the full version here.
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Introduction to E-Commerce in China | ReadWriteWeb
Last September, China’s most successful consumer-to-consumer online marketplace, Taobao.com launched a massive online promotion. By offering exorbitantly low prices on a series of brand name consumer electronics by Lenovo, HP, Philips and others, the site attracted 1.8 billion visitors (non-unique) - the equivalent of every single person in China visiting the site at least once.
With 145 [...]
ReadWriteWeb.com | China’s Social Gaming Landscape
I recently wrote an article for ReadWriteWeb.com introducing the current state and future trajectory of Social Gaming in China. The article examines:
What makes a ‘winning’ Social Game in China?
Which Social Game developers in China should you know about?
What are the challenges facing Social Game developers in China?
How are Social Games likely to develop in the [...]
Some Thoughts on Foreign Internet Companies in China
I read a fantastic article last week on the Advertising Age website entitled, “The Internet Does Not Rise Above Nations and Cultures.” The article, by @wolfgroupasia of the Silicon Hutong blog, takes a closer look at why foreign Internet companies in China fail. Wolf writes that through observing past examples (such as: eBay, Yahoo! & [...]
Keep an Eye on E-Commerce in China During The Year of the Tiger
In this recent post on The China Observer about where I see the most potential growth for businesses in China’s Internet space I wrote:
“Companies who wish to succeed in China’s Internet space would best stick to areas that focus on job creation and economic gain that do not overlap with broader social & societal challenges. [...]
Smart Cities - A $30 Billion Opportunity For Cisco, But Will Local Citizens Be Ready?
The following post is about two former colleagues – Asa from New York City and Lifen from Changsha, China. They have never met one another, but their lives are bizarrely linked together because of an emerging trend that’s being spearheaded by a US-based real estate development firm and technology giants like Cisco Systems.
About five years [...]
