Poor and smart. Those are more or less the two qualities that online shopping mall magnate Liu Qiangdong looks for when he takes on graduates to join his management team. Liu is the founder of JD.com ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-10
I don't usually pay too much attention to the domestic Chinese IPO market, largely because most companies that list on the main boards in Shanghai and Shenzhen are stodgy state-run firms that aren't o ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-22
From his planned sale of supermarket business ParknShop to a series of property selloffs in China, tycoon Li Ka-shing has stirred up confusion and conjecture across Hong Kong and the mainland in the l ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-06
Leading silver refiner China Silver Group (00815.HK) is optimistic its online and offline shift into retail will generate profit as early as next year as demand for jewelry using the precious metal gr ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-18
In 1996, when most Chinese consumers used to buying things from mom-and-pop stores were only beginning to grasp the supermarket concept, Walmart offered a radical alternative. The world's largest disc ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-04
With China’s tightening housing policies, property developers are looking to invest in places where the growth potential is higher. Guangzhou R&F Properties (02777.HK) is the latest developer to g ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-03
Beverage king Zong Qinghou {宗慶後}, once China’s richest man, is not quite finished making money from yoghurt but he has already put together an enterprise that looks nothing like his core business -- s ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-03
No set price and time of delivery plus an advance deposit of at least 250,000 yuan (US$41,035). Most vendors would be hard-pressed to sell anything on such demanding terms. But not Tesla Motors (TSLA. ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-29
If one were to be asked to name the major listed commercial property investors in the mainland market, entities like SOHO China (00410.HK) and Hang Lung Properties (00101.HK) would readily come to peo ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-29
Consumer goods manufacturer Procter & Gamble (P&G) has reportedly signed a deal to rent 14 floors of a brand-new grade A office tower in Guangzhou’s Zhujiang New Town {珠江新城}. One would be hard ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-21
Property income has become a key pillar of support for many Chinese state-owned enterprises. One such case is food giant China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp. (COFCO), which has never been ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-15
Singles Day sales at Alibaba Group's online mall has broken the previous full-day record of 19.1 billion yuan (US$3.13 billion) in just 13 hours after the annual promotion began at Sunday midnight, a ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-11
Just as Alibaba Group boss Jack Ma {馬雲} was regaling Premier Li Keqiang {李克強} last Thursday with examples of his e-commerce platforms' achievements, the brick-and-mortar malls hit back. The China Nati ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-06
The Blackstone Group L.P.’s property unit has bought a 40 percent stake in SZITIC Commercial Property (GROUP) Co. Ltd. (SCP) for more than US$4 million yuan, Financial Times reported Monday, citing pe ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-04
Electric car manufacturer BYD Co. Ltd. aims to grab a 5 percent share of Hong Kong's 18,000-unit taxi market in two years, according to its dealer Sime Darby New Energy Motors. “Many of the vehicles i ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-25
