Posted in Brands, Business-to-business, China, China marketing, Consumer, Culture, Employee loyalty, Podcast, Retention, Starbucks, Strategy, Workplace on Mar 21st, 2007
Jocelyn: Good morning, this is Jocelyn, we’re at the Wu Way, this is January 29, and I’m here at the BP Building and I have the pleasure of meeting with Gary Wells, who is the Senior Managing Director for Media Relations and Global Communications for Dix & Eaton. I might add that Gary is a [...]
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Seems like Shanghai, Beijing and other major cities in China are the current darlings of the international business world. Who can blame them? The breakneck pace of development has produced a dizzying array of buildings, shopping malls — and accompanying stats — to make any marketer swoon. Meanwhile, one has to wonder about the 70 [...]
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Posted in Brands, Business-to-business, China, China marketing, Chinese executives, Chinese New Year, Consumer, Culture, Holidays, Marketing on Dec 23rd, 2006
Ginseng. Vitamin supplements. Top-shelf liquor. Fancy snack foods. These might be a few of the things gracing my shopping list as gifts for Chinese New Year. Ginseng a gift? You bet. Ginseng, one of many treasured remedies in Chinese medicine, is a welcome gift for more senior folks. As are any number of nutritional and [...]
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Love is in the air…the lighted streets are decked with couples unabashedly linking arms and eyes…ah, romance… [Insert sound of record scratching] Wait a minute! Aren’t we getting ahead of our holidays here? Valentine’s Day isn’t for another two months. Au contrair, zui aide. This isn’t Valentine’s Day I’m talking about…it’s Christmas…in China. Here’s what [...]
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Jocelyn: Good morning, this is the Wu Way Update for December the first, and we’re having a conversation with Chip Coakley, who is the chairman and CEO of PGL Global, which is a firm that helps mid-size companies with their outsourcing as well as offshoring. And we’re talking this morning about the challenges involved with [...]
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Posted in Brands, Business-to-business, China, China marketing, Consumer, Culture, Marketing, Retail stores, Strategy, Workplace on Nov 29th, 2006
You’ll find live frogs and turtles at Wal-Mart. “refreshing tea” toothpaste from Crest, and a whole line of whitening products from Avon…in China. Frogs and turtles may not be on your menu; heck, tea might not be the first thing that comes to mind as “refreshing”. But it’s another story for the Chinese — and [...]
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Here in my home country the US, nepotism is unanimously scorned upon. A workplace romance has almost as much notoreity among coworkers — if not more — than the local celeb gossip. Employers caught hiring their relatives risk expulsion from their jobs — or worse. Instead, we bow to the American ideal of workers garnering [...]
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Recently I ran across a company that went to the inner provinces of China…they were hoping to sell a B2B concept to executives and managers in their field. The sight was disconcerting to them: an infrastructure that appeared underdeveloped compared to the US; austere buildings and facilities. So they made an assumption — maybe these [...]
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