Hints and tips:
...“A wholesale bailout is not likely,” predicted Larry Hu, chief China economist at Macquarie. “Shareholders and lenders might take a big loss....
...Yan Pu, head of portfolio review in Asia at Vanguard, suspects the Asian product mix may be holding things back....
...Where watches are predominantly wholesale driven, jewellery is retail-based — with brands distributing within their own stores, including “concept stores” with radically new designs....
...“Regulations play a very important role,” said May Yan, an analyst at Barclays....
...Additional reporting by Yan Zhang...
...“Urbanisation has been too fast,” says Shi Yan, who runs two organic farms outside Beijing in co-operation with local villagers....
...Additional reporting by Yan Zhang in Shanghai...
...Pomellato, which makes 60 per cent of its sales through wholesale, recently opened its first London store on Sloane Square of its younger Dodo line. It already has stores in Beijing....
...Successful investors could see a return of about 20 per cent, says private-equity investor Yan Zhang, who together with Chinese partners is seeking $60-$100m in funding to invest in a hospital....
...But non-banking lenders are often first to suffer when credit becomes scarce, because they cannot take deposits and depend on banks or wholesale capital markets for funds....
...Cheung Yan (Nine Dragons Paper) 10. Patricia A. Woertz (ADM) 11. Chanda Kochhar (ICICI Bank) 12. Cynthia Carroll (Anglo American) 13. Angela Ahrendts (Burberry) 14....
...RBS is also selling its Indian and Malaysian retail and commercial banking assets to HSBC, although it is retaining wholesale operations across Asia....
...Marcel Achterberg, an analyst at ING Wholesale Banking, said Philips was doing the right thing by withdrawing from the fiercely competitive North American TV market, even ahead of a big sports event....
...If Mr Abe’s government pushes for a wholesale revision of what kind of history is taught to Japanese children, the Chinese leadership might feel obliged to react....
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