Still, Oedo is stepping up efforts to boost revenue from Chinese tourism, sending marketing officers to major Chinese cities and stuffing its gift shops with items popular with Chinese tourists.
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group acquisition of Volvo is an early step in building the image of Chinese automobiles and marketing to foreign buyers.
The Chinese manufacturer is marketing HiPerforma for all types of power generation projects, from rooftop systems for homes and businesses to utility-scale power plants.
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Chinese companies are terrible at marketing and so they obviously will be buying American companies that are good at it.
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Focused management and marketing flair (Chinese people put fridges in the living room to impress visitors, so Kelon made the smartest models) led to a Hong Kong listing and global awards.
For the newcomers, there would be many potential benefits including, above all, in marketing themselves to the Chinese.
Lauren Rosenstadt was working at home as a marketing executive for a Chinese herbal company, but she wanted to be her own boss.
His company is one of a growing number of Chinese corporations using Hollywood's marketing machine to promote their products to a global audience.
But, a joint venture provides the foreign partner with the ability to leverage the management, manufacturing and marketing infrastructure of its Chinese partner, an advantage that should not be overlooked.
As a result of growing investor appetite from Europe, Chinese companies are starting to ramp up marketing efforts in London.
This reality is reflected in a survey conducted by Fortune, in which 50 percent of young Chinese consumers (the pioneers in the marketing literature) confirmed that they would love an iPhone, but cannot really afford one.
To reach the Chinese consumer, go after influencers versus broad marketing campaigns.
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Rumours went around earlier this week that the fruity firm was getting a cheap mobile ready for market, but marketing chief Phil Schiller told a Chinese newspaper that Apple was doing no such thing.
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The simplest and most straightforward way in which to enter the China market is to establish a sales, marketing or distribution agreement with a Chinese company, or a foreign company with a distribution organization in China.
In the Chinese economy today, entrepreneurship is about producing, marketing and merchandising standard products invented and innovated elsewhere.
This is a neat reversal of how most Western products are adapted for Chinese tastes and may be a harbinger of future marketing trends.
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"I'm just so happy that I signed for another two years, " said the 29-year-old American marketing manager, who moved to the Chinese capital four years ago.
Similar to the confusion and indecision caused by the most baroque Chinese takeout menu, the constant emergence of new marketing technologies is a source of perplexity for brand marketers.
Chinese companies tend to want American companies with really good marketing people.
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Marketing is still a nascent notion for many Chinese executives, so some outfits turn to U.S.-trained countrymen to build a presence here.
And last year, HTC snapped up non-Chinese divisions of Dopod, aiming to bulk up the marketing and distribution of HTC-branded phones in Australia and Southeast Asia.
Marketing is still a nascent notion for many Chinese executives, so some outfits turn to their countrymen who were trained in the U.S. to build a presence there.
The accord was for 1 million tons and was signed by Canpotex, a marketing compay for Saskatchewan potash producers, and the Chinese agency Sinofert.
Thus, even if Venus never makes a big impact on China's Internet market, simply embedding Windows CE in millions of Chinese consumer products will create momentum that can only help the marketing of Windows CE elsewhere.
"Shaq is a larger-than-life hero with Chinese basketball fans, " says Terry Rhoads, founder of Zou Marketing, a sports consultancy in Shanghai.
Indeed, even while Chrysler was being repulsed in the magazine world, a marketing man seemed to be driving a bulldozer through the Chinese wall in newspapers.
However, heightened competition in Chinese skin care market in such an event would warrant increased spending on marketing and advertising by all players, which could erode away the EBITDA margins in the short-term (2011-13), but a significant upside is almost unquestionable.
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Further appreciation will cut into a rising real estate asset bubble, and give Chinese consumers more buying power by encouraging Chinese manufacturers to shift production away from the export markets, to making and marketing goods and services for the domestic market.
"It is no longer just about doing business in China... brands need to therefore align their branding and marketing strategies both in China, and for those rising number of travelling Chinese consumers, " Debnam said in the report.
For Carlson it's about proving it can handle a major event on Chinese soil, which will help it win the more lucrative business of product launches and marketing campaigns.
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