Geoffrey Dicks of Royal Bank of Scotland said that retailers had refrained from cutting prices in the pre-Christmas rush.
With only two months to meet the Christmas rush, Ms Xu had to find extra capacity somewhere in China.
The extra workers will deal with the backlog caused by the strikes as well as helping with the Christmas rush.
Mr Sim was in London for the launch of the Creative Zen Vision: M in time for the seasonal Christmas rush.
The documentary by state broadcaster ARD showed the conditions of employees at the warehouse in Bad Hersfeld, in the state of Hesse, brought in to help with the Christmas rush.
"After the Christmas rush, the ski season starts in earnest on Boxing Day (26 December) so we have flights to Salzburg, Innsbruck, Geneva, Verona, Andorra, and other destinations, " she said.
Well by January of next year, after what HMV hopes will be a traditional Christmas rush rather madder than last year's, it should be clear whether it will swim or sink.
The film showed the living and working conditions of agency workers brought in to help with the Christmas rush, principally at an Amazon warehouse in Bad Hersfeld, in the state of Hesse.
Craig Carruthers, who has worked at the local branch of Currys Digital electrical store for 13 years, said he had not experienced such a rush outside the Christmas period.
There's usually a slow build up to Christmas from October but we just had a rush at the very end last year.
BBC: 'Green shoots' for traders reporting Christmas sales up
Although this report is focusing on Q3, which is before the big consumer electronics push for Christmas TV sales (and before the Super Bowl rush in the U.S.), it does paint a picture of growth potential for 3D TVs.
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