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...hit home when Japanese convenience store chain Lawson increased the price of its karaage-kun chicken nuggets by 10 per cent to ¥238, the first price bump since the company’s best-selling product went on...
...There are three key triad societies operating in Hong Kong, the 14K, Sun Yee On, and also Wo Shing Wo. Their operations are fairly vast and quite geographically spread across Asia....
...Li Kun, a marketing manager based in the eastern city of Hangzhou and an avid consumer of Nongfu’s water, would agree....
...“From an operation point of view the sales and operational profits are there, and their product is well loved,” Mr Yuen said....
...It also said it had filed a missing persons report with the Hong Kong police regarding Ge Kun, a key executive who oversaw the company’s treasury operations....
...The FT has found more than 50 companies either registered under the names of Mr Yang and his business partner Ge Kun or controlled by the pair, from renewable energy to real estate and banking....
...Lee Kun-hee, chairman for the past 28 years, has been bedridden since a heart attack in May, leaving effective control in the hands of his son Lee Jae-yong....
...Last year net profit was S$21m (US$16.8m), from sales of modern, high-margin products....
...General Mills acquired Wanchai Ferry in 1997, nearly 20 years after Chong Kin-wo began selling her homemade dumplings from a wooden cart at the Wanchai ferry pier in Hong Kong....
...Qingdao’s Aeon shopping centre reopened last month, and is full of shoppers slurping noodles in the food court and browsing fashion outlets....
...The chaebol, which want to expand their empires into areas such as food, say it undermines the free market....
...Tai Kun-tsai, the owner of Long Diann, was the first in the world to reliably breed the huge fish for farming....
...China, which allows the import of Taiwanese food products, has agreed not to demand that Taipei further open up its doors to Chinese products and is even considering a request to further reduce its tariffs...
...Kun-Hee Lee, Samsung’s chairman, for example, welcomed the currency crisis that roiled Asian markets in the late 1990s....
...T wo dangerous prejudices are threatening the critical meeting of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation that starts on Monday in Geneva....
...But for most companies most of the time, it is obvious: Danone is a food company, Ford is a carmaker and so on. Specify geographic scope....
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