Christie's opened an office in Shanghai in 1994 and has held auctions with local firm Forever.
When a local firm is acquired by a multinational, the quality of its management tends to rise.
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Mr O'Konek is a rarity, one of just a few western managers running a local firm in Asia.
Before we head over to check out the latest titles, we examine the cookware made by local firm Jia.
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Another local firm in Bodmin has already fitted more than 700 low energy LED (light emitting diode) lights at Eden.
The Carrier and Condura brands from local firm Concepcion Industries still dominate with more than 35% of the room airconditioner market.
Aspen Pharmacare is the local firm that is doing most to supply the market with the generic drugs South Africa will need.
The college, which will specialise in engineering and enterprise, is a joint project between Oxford Brookes University and local firm Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells.
Austin Ventures was the only local firm funding technology deals.
Earlier this year an Egyptian blogger, Tamer Mabrouk, posted material indicating that a local firm had been dumping chemicals into Manzallah Lake and the Suez Canal.
On the fifth of this month, the Wangcheng district government signed a contract with Broad Group, a local firm, which promised to put up the 838-meter tower in seven months.
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One local municipal government, Ms Huang says, recently bailed out a big local firm because it feared that a collapse would harm local jobs and its own reputation and this is hardly uncommon.
The police asked him to have the songs removed from his PC by a local firm and he took documentary evidence of this to court when he received a summons from Hadopi.
To extend its reach, the Japanese company, known for its high-definition televisions and camcorders but a minor player in the smartphone market, signed an agreement with a local firm, Jaina Mobile India Pvt.
In other news, Apple, the US electronics giant, appeared in court in Shanghai yesterday accused by a local firm of violating intellectual property rights in its software used on Siri, China Daily reports.
Its own report on its two main Indonesian suppliers was put together by an independent local firm, rather than a roving American, and its canny vice-president for human rights, Doug Cahn, visited Indonesia this week to check on how the changes were going.
It is not really eight months old it just looks that way because Mr Li bought a small local firm called Tricom Holdings last May and used it to list the Internet ventures of his existing property conglomerate, the Pacific Century Group, which until then was best-known for winning a sweetheart deal from Hong Kong's government to build an industrial park.
"You come here to see and be seen, " said Paul Polson, vice president of a local construction firm, before spotting a local politician and darting into the crowd.
As an owner of a small regional brokerage firm I can report from the front lines that a primary driver of the demise of the local brokerage firm is a lack of economies of scale to remain competitive.
One of the many central city businesses forced to relocate is local law firm Wynn Williams.
He has two servers and employs a local tech firm to do his network and support.
It was designed in an afternoon by a local architecture firm, and construction was quick and cheap.
The houses were built on Cumberland Avenue and Grayson Green in Wellingore by local building firm Taylor Pearson.
Ebay's PayPal unit has also teamed up with local payments firm Discover Financial Services to offer an alternative to NFC.
The Old Bailey heard that on 2 March McCluskie lugged a heavy suitcase to a local cab firm and was seen taking it towards the canal.
But now those firms are more broadly vulnerable to both regulation and litigation when any local member firm, now part of a large cross-border group, screws up an audit.
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"We're burning through our reserves right now, so it's nice to have extra help, " said Sable, who is talking to another local corporate firm this week about taking in subsidized attorneys.
Junior year, I worked part-time at a local PR firm, while simultaneously holding down two waitressing jobs to try to pay off my credit card debt from a semester spent in London.
Francis Collins was in the middle of his keynote speech last July at the International Congress of Genetics in Melbourne, Australia, when he arrested the audience with a rebuke singling out a local biotech firm.
Boies often works out of his hotel room, but he also goes over to a local law firm, where upwards of 20 lawyers for Gore have set up shop in a space designed for five.
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