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Galeries Lafayette to Hong Kong in 2013/2014 Background After having the valuable experience of working the last in-class assignment about Harvey Nichols (HN), as I felt I should have known more about Harvey Nichols, I visited their store in Pacific Place to see & feel what it is & I spent several times in checking their website for more details. Now I feel I understand more about why HN open its 2nd & bigger flagship store in Hong Kong & why HN is at Pacific Place, after I have seen that so

Introduction Adidas is a company that manufactures shoes and sport apparel. The founder is Adolf Dassler who is German. The name created by combination of the name and surname Adi Dassler, who started producing shoes in 1920s with the help of his brother Rudolf Dassler. That make costumer, to recognize Adidas is three parallel stripes of the same color. Slogan: “IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING” 1. History 1949-2005 Due to the death of Adolf’s son (Horst Dassler), the Company was bought in 1990 by Bernard

Behind the deception created by Apple’s claim, “We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives,” their employees lack the basic rights their consumers, unlike them, receive. The Chinese government, the host of the largest labor force globally, is distinguished for their unwillingness to protect the civil liberties of their people. Corporations flock to China, most notably Apple and Walt Disney, in order to abuse the loose enforcement of their laws, cutting costs by infringing

Dunning (1977) states that the decisions on entry mode decisions are determined by the composition of three sets of advantages - ownership advantages, internalization advantages and location advantages. If a firm possesses the more OLI advantages, the greater the propensity of adopting an entry mode with a high control level such as wholly owned ventures, the outcomes shown in the figure below. Stopford, John M.; Susan Strange; John S. Henley (1991) state that the eclectic paradigm contrasts

Daoism and the phenomena of nature in general were both crucial components of the art in China; the concept of Daoism that mankind, nature, and the universe are manifestations of the same entity has deeply influenced Chinese art and culture. Daoist ideas, including the idea of yin and yang were persistent in art theory and practice, especially in landscape paintings, garden form and calligraphy. In these works, nature represented the human life span and other significant things in society and the

With the one of the fastest growing economies in the world, China’s increased consumer spending, rising incomes, with unique demographics and an increasingly open business huge population of 1.3 billion not only creates a massive internal consumer market environment that have all helped to make the Chinese market increasingly attractive to international businesses across a variety of industries. China is distinct from other developing markets in a number of important ways, all of which have strong

Best Buy’s failure in China is another example of a slow, arrogant major international player that didn’t understand China. Their own explanation of why they failed: “China’s demand for low prices without regard for service,” is clearly a lame excuse. By Fang Yu, China Entrepreneur magazine Best Buy shut down their nine stores in China on February 22nd, and within 48 hours fell into an unprecedented credibility crisis. Customers rushed to Best Buy stores on hearing the news and were locked

Midterm Case Analysis Problem Statement 1.Situation Canadian Solar which is a traded solar cell and module manufacturer has experienced recent strong growth. Despite 2009 fluctuations in the solar industry namely for PV technology, the growth has been fuelled by Government incentives programs to encourage solar PV technology. The Solar industry is now highly competitive and companies follow an industrial organizational model. This is because they all compete mainly in PV technology, and this

As the well known and revered Chinese-American historian remarked, "When the Chinese arrived in America, they brought their language along as cultural baggage as well as mores and customs that had evolved in one of the world's great civilizations" (Louie, 1). The history of the Cantonese, or Yue, language is more than 2,000 years old, making it older than Mandarin, the official language of China, which only has 700 to 800 years of history. Around the time of the Qin Dynasty, Cantonese became more

HKU570 ZHIGANG TAO L’ORÉAL: EXPANSION IN CHINA After acquiring Mininurse at the end of 2003, this new Chinese acquisition of Yue-Sai only serves to confirm our determination to step up the pace of growth in China. - Lindsay Owen-Jones, CEO, L’Oréal1 On January 26th 2004, French cosmetics giant L’Oréal signed an agreement to acquire a famous Chinese cosmetics brand Yue-Sai. 2 The acquisition came shortly after L’Oréal made another successful bid for Raystar Cosmetics (Shenzhen) Co.