Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Fake malaria drugs, handbags, and wine

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/14/business/la-fi-china-counterfeit-wine-20120115:
China's resourceful knock-off artists have uncorked a lucrative business: phony high-end wines. Bootleggers douse the market with fakes, refilling bottles from famous chateaux with inferior vintages.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16588153:
Fake and poor quality anti-malarial drugs are threatening efforts to control the disease in Africa and could put millions of lives at risk, scientists say.
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP206f7e30ce9e4458a37d0ad7fcc94963.html:
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Authorities say a routine commercial vehicle inspection in Wyoming has turned up about $5.7 million worth of counterfeit handbags, jackets and shoes.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

The most popular American companies in China

The primary reason, it is often argued, that China is an important market for many large U.S. companies is that its population has doubled since the early 1960s. But the whole picture is actually more complex than that. China’s real appeal to American corporations is that the huge population growth has been coupled with a sharp expansion of the middle class. As a result, the Chinese market probably will become more important to consumer goods and technology companies in the next few decades than the U.S. is today.
 http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/03/9927101-the-most-popular-american-companies-in-china?ocid=twitter