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M&A

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New scrutiny over state firms’ foreign purchases
Oct 4, 2013 (WiC 211)

Chinese enterprises have been going global for a decade. In terms of assets, they have a large harvest. But failures have been more common than successes, especially for investments in areas like mineral resources.” The view, offered by an ...

Continental drift

Media asks why Li Ka-shing prefers Europe
Aug 23, 2013 (WiC 205)

Last August, Li Ka-shing assured the Hong Kong press that he would never give up on business in the city. “I came to Hong Kong in 1940 and I have a very special attachment to the place. I definitely will never withdraw my investments in Hong ...

Getting shafted

Investigators to look at murky coal deal
Jul 26, 2013 (WiC 203)

"The pen is mightier than the sword” was a phrase first coined by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1839 play Cardinal Richelieu. The drama was a study in administrative power, but the maxim now tends to be regarded by newspaper reporters as a ...

One little piggy comes to market

A record bid for America’s top pork producer isn’t quite as it first appears
Jun 7, 2013 (WiC 196)

"What I do is kill pigs and sell meat,” Wan Long, chairman at Henan Shuanghui Development, told Century Weekly last year. It’s an admirably succinct job description for a man who has been lauded by China National Radio as the “Steve Jobs ...

Strings will be attached

International M&A deals now face a formidable hurdle: China
Apr 26, 2013 (WiC 190)

Long stretches of China’s commercial history have been about defending domestic monopolies rather than worrying about anti-competitive behaviour. The manufacture of silk was protected on pain of death, for instance, with the threat of a grisly ...

Deal faces dead end

Regulators drag their feet on funeral business acquisition
Apr 12, 2013 (WiC 188)

Death continues to be big business in China. As the locals lined up to pay their respects to the dead during last week’s Qingming festival, US radio programme Marketplace reported on the filial scenes as families burned money by the graves of ...

Zhu hopes for second time lucky, with Huiyuan on the block again
Apr 5, 2013 (WiC 187)

Zhu Xinli founded Huiyuan Juice in 1992. He says he got the inspiration after seeing a newspaper photo of a bitter-faced peasant biting into an apple. Behind him there was a cart full of rotten fruit. The caption read: “I can’t sell them, so ...

Didn’t dig enough?

Caterpillar’s Chinese acquisition mired in scandal
Jan 25, 2013 (WiC 179)

"We’re going to play offense [in China] and we’re going to win,” Doug Oberhelman, chief executive of Caterpillar, vowed to investors in 2010. So Caterpillar started looking for acquisition targets, and it soon found what it liked: ...

How I made it in China…

PPR acquires Qeelin, a Chinese luxury brand founded by a French expat
Dec 14, 2012 (WiC 176)

Not quite a unicorn, although said to resemble one in terms of longevity and prosperity, the qilin is a difficult beast to pin down. A gentle and benevolent creature, its depiction from the Qin Dynasty shows the head of a dragon, the antlers of a ...

Picking up pace

Shandong Heavy buys forklift firm in China’s largest German acquisition
Sep 14, 2012 (WiC 164)

Earlier this year Chinese heavy equipment manufacturer Sany Heavy Industries acquired German concrete pump maker Putzmeister. A day after the deal was signed, hundreds of Putzmeister employees protested outside company offices in Stuttgart, ...

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