Recently, China's Haier Group made a run at established appliance maker Maytag, which in August ended up in the hands of Whirlpool.

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Closely held Ruba Group of Pakistan and Haier Group, its Chinese joint-venture partner in the plant, have made air conditioners, washing machines and refrigerators there for seven years.

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Companies like U.K. firm Vodafone, U.S.-based Lockheed Martin and China's Haier Group landed toward the bottom of the list, with scores under 65--but they aren't losers by many means.

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Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier Has Changed the Way Big Companies Transform (Wiley, 2013) by Bill Fischer, Umberto Lago and Fang Liu, explains how CEO Zhang Ruimin moved the Haier Group from the Traditional Economy to the Creative Economy.

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Faisal's China connections have grown from Haier and a venture with the Shanghai-headquartered electronics group SVA to include projects in Pakistan with Chinese companies in housing, infrastructure, power and mining.

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