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...“We realised that you were only seeing a third of it”, says Clare Wright, co-founder of Wright & Wright....
...The vast majority of revenue last year – HK$148m, or 81.5 per cent – came from the unit’s Dongguan Hillview golf club and hotel business located northwest of Shenzhen, down from HK$162m in 2015....
...HNA owns and operates a golf club and resort in Dongguan city in China’s Guangdong Province....
...Opens November. 67 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5ES, 020 3000 6767, 67pallmall.co.uk Photographs: Niall McDiarmid...
...Last month Samsung said it had suspended all business with Shinyang Electronic, which assembled Samsung phone cases in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan, after finding evidence of underage workers....
...on Samsung and its suppliers’ factories, the New York-based group China Labor Watch (CLW) on Thursday claimed to have found evidence of five child workers at Shinyang Electronic, a Samsung supplier in Dongguan...
...Last week, China Labor Watch, a rights group, published an investigative report claiming to have found five underage workers in the factory of Shinyang Electronics, a Samsung supplier in Dongguan, southern...
...He says some of his co-workers have recently found similar problems, but are unwilling to start a strike out of fears that they would be fired....
...According to Bain & Co’s research, online retail sales in China could overtake the US by next year....
...www.mosobamboosurfaces.co.uk www.slimliteglass.co.uk www.urbnrok.com www.vphase.co.uk...
...“We no longer have any advantage here in Dongguan,” says an executive at Shunchang....
...Women came to comprise 70 per cent of the workforce in Dongguan, one of the Pearl River cities....
...“Some of us were not competitive to begin with,” complained the owner of a Taiwanese toy factory in nearby Dongguan....
...and Finishing Fty Co., Ltd....
...He is also non-executive chairman of Trinity Mirror and was chairman at BPB when the plasterboard maker was taken over by Saint-Gobain of France in 2005....
...He was also chairman at BPB when the plasterboard maker was taken over by Saint-Gobain of France in 2005....
...The same year saw BPB , the plasterboard group, being bought by France’s Saint-Gobain. The French building materials group paid £3.9bn for the business....
...“The plasterboard market in Europe is split between BPB, France’s Lafarge and German group Knauf. They’ve all got too much market share to combine in any other way....
...Some of the flows were said to be related to Saint-Gobain’s offer for plasterboard maker BPB....
...BPB, the world’s largest maker of plasterboard, gained 3.8 per cent to 769½p after it confirmed it had agreed a 775p a share takeover by Saint-Gobain, the French owner of the Jewson chain of builders’ merchants...
...It employs 1,400 people in Dongguan, mainland China, and at two locations in Hong Kong....
...News that French rival Lafarge was planning to up plasterboard production knocked BPB down 0.4 per cent at 528p although initial fears eased as analysts said there was little overlap to BPB....
...The glass industry probe follows cartel investigations against other building materials sectors such as cement and plasterboards....
...Hanson added 8.6 per cent to 499.75p, Marshalls firmed 7 per cent to 323p, plasterboard-maker BPB added 4.8 per cent to 491.25p and minnow Ennstone was up 7.4 per cent at 40p....
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