China Business Blog and Podcast
Is China a threat or an opportunity for your company? Are there real growth opportunities for you in the world's fastest growing market? Expertise and insight from Technomic Asia China, a market strategy consulting firm with more than 20 years in China.
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New China auto aftermarket research report
Technomic Asia has released a new version of its Strategic Assessment of Chinas Light Passenger Vehicle Aftermarket report. The fourth edition of the report, described in detail here, was released in partnership with the Automative Aftermarket Industry Association. You also can watch an audio-video …
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Things that go around again
Question: Can you pull out of the biggest financial freefall in modern history by encouraging your people to go shopping? The recent Republican administration in the U.S. tried to do this with their rebate checks of 2008, encouraging people to go spend on feel-good stuff to wipe away the icky sensat …
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News: Don’t let China’s lower GDP numbers be a distraction, say strategists at Technomic Asia
Despite slower growth than previous years, Chinas economy is still expected to provide half of the world’s economic growth in 2009 NEWS STATEMENT FROM TECHNOMIC ASIA: Chinas government has just announced its fourth-quarter GDP at a paltry 6.8 percent, leading to a full-year GDP growth in 2008 of 9 p …
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Numbers, Schmumbers
Its getting ugly out there. A pile of raw meat, in the form of new China GDP data, has been thrown into the cage of global economists who are ripping into it and each other with reckless abandon. Bloomberg meets Animal Planet. It seems that China’s GDP grew 6.8% in the fourth quarter of last yea …
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Who dat?
The office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) just released their report on the state of trade with China. Based on the way journalists, lawyers, consultants and others in the China Geeks Without Real Lives club have been effusing about the release of the report, you’d think this was …
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Making China “palletable”
Tom Andel, editor in chief at Modern Materials Handling, writes, My first full week back from ProMat 2009, the showcase of state of the art materials handling technology, and what’s on my mind? Pallets. He talks about the importance of MH 101, referring to the fundamentals of materials handling. And …
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Curiosity and the China Experts
The world is ga-ga over Barack Obama ascending the presidency of the United States this week. Well, at least America is ga-ga and, given our myopic tendency to think our business the world’s only business, that means the rest of you are ga-ga too. While Mr. Obama’s governing abilities are, as yet …
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Out with old, in with the … ???
I woke up this morning thinking about capitalism. I knowheady stuff for a Monday morning. First thoughts Monday morning should be limited to pondering which texture of socks to wear that day (the color, black, is a given). Wednesday or Thursday is when the brain has fully recovered from Weekend Mode …
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Back to the future
This just in: China is NOT the 4th largest economy in the world as we have all been thinking, reporting and generally drooling over. The only three bigger economies, so we thought, were Germany, Japan and the U.S., in ascending order. But that seems to be no longer the caseChina is, in fact, the …
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It’s tough to grow up
As I was trolling through the New York Times Online news site’s litany of stories the other day, I skipped over the one about Oprah’s new bulge (is it a baby? post-holiday revelry? a missing pot roast?) and the U.S. President’s slide off into the sunset. However, my eye quickly landed on Nicholas K …
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In the mood…
I just returned from three weeks in the Motherland. For those of you unfamiliar with global geography – most likely my fellow Americans – the Motherland would be “Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA”. Minnesota is the land of Scandinavians and Germans exported from their European homelands generations ago …
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China’s economic challenge: AmCham Shanghai reports
In its January issue, Insight magazine from the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai carries a cover story that looks at Chinas economic challenge. The article examines how the Middle Kingdom has fared so far in this global downturn and what the road out of it might look like. One analyst quoted …
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Top 20 reasons to love China
For two decades, the good folks back in the USA have asked me: What is so great about China? Its a fair question, I suppose, coming, as it does, from a people who struggle to locate Seattle on the map. Still, I am a little tired of their pestering me. The time has come to provide a definitive reply …
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On the Frontlines: Doing Business in China
Technomic Asias Steve Ganster and Kent Kedl have spent part of the past two years contributing insights and resources to an important business tool for anyone interested in China: the On the Frontlines: Doing Business in China documentary DVD series. James Fallows, China correspondent for the Atlant …
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Why China now, and how
A new article from DC Velocity magazine, which covers logistics and distribution news, asks, Fleeing China? Look before you leap. The article looks back at the trouble facing China and the rest of the world during 2008 and analyzes how those challenges might affect 2009. Some suspect China to see a …
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Why China matters, part 2
Why China Matters - Part 2 Todays podcast features Steve Ganster, managing director of Technomic Asia. Kents not gone just sharing the spotlight. Download this podcast Download audio file (20081215_china_matters_2.mp3) A full transcript: I wanted to take a few minutes to lift our thinking out of th …
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With a little help for our friends
Because theyre a bit too polite to flack too much for votes, well do it for them: Please vote for the China Law Blog in the ABA Journals best blog competition. You can legitimately vote once per computer per day, so get to it. Dan and Steve do great work, and were happy to support them. Good luck, g …
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How solid is your “buying” relationship?
Tompkins Associates newest podcast, The Buy Component of the Global Supply Chain, suggests that a buying relationship built only on commercial terms is like a personal relationship based only on sexual attraction. That is, there needs to be something more, such as commitment and communication, for b …
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Talking monkey
Talking monkey Download this podcast Download audio file (20081204_talking_monkey.mp3) A common question among the foreign community in China is Do you speak Chinese? Well, my answer is yes, but with a somewhat metaphysical qualification. Yes, I speak Chinese, however Im unsure that when I do that I …
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China, GM and Chrysler: Hate to say I told you so…
Its not often in this China business that we get to say I told you so and actually have the proof that we did tell you so. Before I get to what I told you check out this posting on a possible solution to GM and Chryslers troubles. In short, one of the leading business publications in China is runni …
China Business Blog and Podcast
