News on Companies in China

A long way to Guo?

Investigating Shanghai tycoon just the start, says China risk consultant
Jan 8, 2016 (WiC 308)

Beijing-born and US-educated, Albert Louie set up investigation specialist Kroll’s first representative office in Beijing in 1996 and was responsible for its China operations. He later established his own consultancy, A. Louie International, ...

Back to Blighty

Why a yak-wear brand is now making its apparel in the UK instead of China
Nov 13, 2015 (WiC 303)

Back in WiC50 we published an article about an unusual Sino-British startup. We termed it “Tibet’s first fashion” brand and asked whether the high-end sweaters and scarves it was making from yak’s wool could find their way into the ...

Vintage performance?

Sotheby’s boss discusses wine auction business in Hong Kong and China
Oct 9, 2015 (WiC 299)

More than $6.8 million of fine wine went under the Sotheby’s hammer at two single-owner auctions and a multiple-owner sale in Hong Kong last weekend, with hundreds of lots of top-class Burgundy and Bordeaux available to ...

China’s Mittelstand man

Why have German firms been so successful in China? Jürgen Kracht explains
Feb 8, 2013 (WiC 181)

Jürgen Kracht’s first visit to China was in 1972, when he attended the Canton Fair. He recalls it was like “entering another world”. It was a time when the red songs and Maoist movies still dominated and the word capitalism only entered ...

From Sheffield to Shanghai

He built a Chinese property business; and then bought a local football club
Jun 11, 2010 (WiC 64)

There aren’t many people who would claim that “football” was the reason for their first trip to China. Kevin McCabe can. The British entrepreneur and founder of the Scarborough Group has since built a Chinese business with interests in ...

Looking north

Airline boss talks of big opportunities in China
Nov 13, 2009 (WiC 38)

From peering through the barbed wire on the border thirty years ago through to his now regular trips to meetings in Beijing, Cathay Pacific chief executive Tony Tyler has seen more of the Chinese aviation world than most. Last week, Tyler ...

Manning the ores

Without China we’d be suicidal, says shipping boss
Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 24)

There’s a chart that keeps Tim Huxley awake at night. It shows the global order book for new bulk carriers (ships carrying dry cargo like iron ore or coal). What it highlights is a scary spike this year and in 2010. With abnormally high ...

Lap of luxury

“Domestic tourism’s going to take off like crazy”
Apr 3, 2009 (WiC 9)

Banyan Tree, the internationally famous luxury hotel group, has one of the most expansive plans for China’s burgeoning tourism sector. Its founder and executive chairman, Ho Kwon Ping talked to WiC: What are the key tourism trends ...

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