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Whole new ball game

Wanda’s latest buy could help China host football’s World Cup
Feb 20, 2015 (WiC 271)

From Japanese electronics giants to cash-rich state airlines from the Gulf: the shirt sponsorship deals of Europe’s leading football teams offer a potted history of the spread of global businesses. And while it isn’t unheard to see Chinese ...

Can Chinese owner recharge Nanfu Battery?
Jan 30, 2015 (WiC 268)

The first order of business for Procter & Gamble’s chief executive AG Lafley – who came out of retirement last year for a second stint at the company’s helm – was to sell the pet food brands acquired by his predecessors. After years ...

First of its kind

Whirlpool closes landmark takeover of Shanghai-listed firm
Dec 5, 2014 (WiC 263)

David Whitwam always asked the same question at the beginning of a mentoring relationship: “How often do you look out the window and dream?” Whitwam was Whirlpool’s boss for almost two decades and when he asked that question his goal was ...

Holiday spending

Fosun steps up its bid for Club Med, making a higher offer
Sep 19, 2014 (WiC 253)

Fosun’s chairman Guo Guangchang has never hidden his admiration for Warren Buffett. Copying the Berkshire Hathaway model, Guo has invested in stable financial assets, helping Fosun expand into China’s largest privately-run conglomerate. But ...

Bringing home the bacon

KKR and other private equity investors in new pork powerplay
Jun 20, 2014 (WiC 242)

"Man is the only animal which consumes without producing,” Old Major tells his fellow pigs as they plot to overthrow the tyrannical Farmer Jones in George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm.
But the allegory could apply to the world’s ...

Bright Food wants to buy an Israeli food giant
Jun 6, 2014 (WiC 240)

The first kibbutz opened in Degania in 1909. The farms started out as utopian communities, with a heavy tinge of socialist values. So it is perhaps appropriate that a state-owned firm from Communist China now wants to get its hands on their ...

Enter the big guns

Minsheng Bank’s shareholders want to create a new financial giant
May 16, 2014 (WiC 237)

In 1799 the controversial US politician Aaron Burr obtained a state charter for a water company called the Manhattan Company. It included a provision allowing the waterworks to employ excess capital in any activity “not inconsistent with the ...

The heavyweights bulk up

Yet more acquisitions from Alibaba and Tencent as they add punch
Mar 21, 2014 (WiC 230)

Tencent’s chairman Ma Huateng had to take two weeks off this month to recuperate from a bad back. First, it meant that the 42 year-old skipped the National People’s Congress, the annual legislative session to which he had just been elected as ...

Is Tianjin firm really bidding for Dunkin Donuts?
Jan 17, 2014 (WiC 222)

In 1969 shares of the New York Times Company were listed on the New York Stock Exchange. To keep control of the newspaper, the Sulzberger family relied on a dual-class stock structure. It gave Class A shares some voting rights. But Class B shares ...

The delivery man

SF Express brings in state firms to boost growth
Nov 1, 2013 (WiC 214)

SF Express is often hailed as China’s answer to Fedex. But the courier has been very low profile – most people got their first glimpse of its chairman Wang Wei in late 2011, after interviews in three Party-run newspapers. In this rare media ...

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