In particular, this potential exists for higher-cost operations in China, Europe and North America, analysts said.
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Its successful operations in China should continue to grow rapidly with the market there.
Wipro already has set up operations in China, which has one of the world's largest software industries.
Last year, Amazon's head of operations in China, Wang Hanhua, stepped down after seven years with the company.
Instead of shuttering its operations in China, Google plans to continue operating there.
The January 5 Nihon Keizai Shimbun carries an analysis of earnings of Japanese companies coming from subsidiary operations in China.
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Another factor that can discourage foreign companies from setting up sophisticated operations in China is the dramatic rate of employee turnover.
Chinese authorities collaborating with the collective raided three dozen counterfeiting operations in China last year, seizing more than one million fake clubs.
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It says Volvo will be run as an autonomous entity, headquartered in Sweden, at arm's length from Geely's manufacturing operations in China.
In the last 18 months Samsung has transformed its operations in China and now employs substantially more native Chinese managers than Koreans there.
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With Song at the helm, Goodbaby is now staffed by veteran Chinese managers plucked from multinational operations in China, or by managers from outside China.
Executives of the San Francisco retailer recently announced plans to expand their operations in China, adding 35 new Gap branded stores to their existing 47.
The fact is that economic activity is fuelling the growth of local private firms and SOEs simultaneously with foreign multinationals expanding their operations in China.
The company also expects to open about 40 new stores in 2010 and anticipates better earnings during the year out of its business operations in China.
Aside from tiny operations in China (to make gaming electronics for Macau casinos) and Canada (mainly scoreboards), this is the first big manufacturing expansion outside of Brookings.
"After a thorough review of our operations in China conducted by outside lawyers and auditors, we have not found any evidence of impropriety at Dow Jones, " spokeswoman Paula Keve said in a statement.
"We are hopeful we can reach a positive conclusion soon and launch a new service that complements our already substantial operations in China, " James Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of Hong-Kong based Star said.
Meanwhile the Chinese industry is growing, and big foreign suppliers feel that they need to establish their own operations in China now in order to remain competitive, rather than wait for a political settlement.
Back in Asia, Tuchman has big plans and new help: Richard Bledsoe, whom he lured from PeopleSupport (now part of India's Aegis) in January, oversees the region, which includes operations in China and Malaysia.
Rather than allowing international companies to list the shares of their parent companies, I would have thought that a better first step would be to allow international companies to list the shares of their China operations in China.
"They must have started to realize that the Chinese market is so huge, and it is not the same as other markets, " said an industry insider who declined to be identified due to his company's ongoing operations in China.
Judge James Russell found the defendants to have orchestrated large-scale and sophisticated counterfeit manufacturing operations in China and to have imported vast amounts of counterfeit products into Canada with the intent of selling them nationwide in stores, at gift shows and online.
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Substantially all of our assets and operations are in China or Hong Kong.
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Kersten Zhang in the Journal's Beijing bureau says one company making clothes for Ralph Lauren is Hong Kong-based Luen Thai, which has operations in southern China.
As noted for Toyota in a post, transfer to advanced technologies to local market operations, as in China and India, will be inevitable.
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Kikkoman is the biggest wholesaler of Asian foodstuffs in America, with similar operations in Europe, China and Australia.
Based on my own experience of managing sales and manufacturing operations in virtually every corner of China, here are five reasons why companies should consider setting up operations in less travelled parts of the country.
He notes that to help offset rising labor costs in India and China, the company is expanding operations in Eastern Europe, in particular in Poland and the Czech Republic, where the company already has about 1, 700 employees.
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Under Agassi, Better Place launched operations in Australia, Canada, China, Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The company has set up large scale manufacturing operations for diapers in countries like China and is scaling up its sales channels in other South Asian regions.
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