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- SMEs grow under pressure - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2012 from James DongSMEs may obtain fewer orders from overseas buyers because of the intensifying sovereign debt crisis in Europe and the weak outlook for the global economy. SMEs can find out some business information on the internet, for example, international buyers’ requirements. B2B business platforms ...
Views: 441 - SMEs have more chances - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2012 from James DongChanges that will allow the mainland's small to medium-sized companies to issue high-yield bonds to raise money could be agreed next month. China's securities regulator is taking a step closer to launching a high-yield bond market after drawing up a draft rule governing debt issuance by ...
Views: 452 - Lifestyle bullish after 34pc jump in profit - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2012 from James DongLifestyle International, the operator of Hong Kong's Sogo and Shanghai's Jiuguang department stores, expects the retailing sector in Hong Kong to outpace that of the mainland this year with a strong growth in consumption sales. The largest operator of department stores in Hong Kong said ...
Views: 438 - HSBC Holdings plc posts 27% net profit rise - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2012 from James DongGlobal banking giant HSBC Holdings plc said it is on a “clear trajectory” to meeting its profitability target for the current fiscal year, when it reported a 27 percent rise in net profit in 2011 to $16.2 billion, beating market expectations of between $15.6 billion to $17.1 billion. The ...
Views: 430 - European debt crisis - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2012 from James DongThe low interest rate environment and the US and European debt crisis hurt the investment market worldwide, which reduced the bonds and equities holdings of HKEx in HK. But the outlook is not as bad as in January. The stock market bounced back substantially. We have also seen more IPO activity. ...
Views: 756 - E-business companies go public - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2012 from James DongHong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx), the operator of the stock and futures markets, is expected to report flat or modestly higher earnings on Wednesday. Forecasting earnings in a HK$4.9 billion to HK$5.3 billion range, brokers cited flat turnover on the stock market, reduced new listings ...
Views: 360 - Beijing tipped to further ease monetary policy - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongChina mainland government rolled out policies to further ease its monetary policy and loosen the funding tap for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The People's Bank of China was likely to lower the level of reserves it requires lenders to maintain by another two to three rounds in ...
Views: 420 - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s bid to privatize its HK –listed B2B sector - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongAlibaba Group Holding Ltd’s bid to privatize its Hong Kong-listed business-to-business arm. Alibaba.com Ltd, could help the company readjust its operating strategy and add flexibility to ongoing negotiations with Yahoo Inc, according to analysts. Privatizing Alibaba Group’s B2B sector is ...
Views: 565 - SMEs face challenges and opportunities - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongIt is said that the mainland would overtake the United States as the world's largest consumer market by 2039. Hong Kong had been a window for the mainland to look outward during China's 30-year reform period to 2009. In the next 30 years, Hong Kong will be the window looking inward. ...
Views: 374 - SMEs may benefit from policies - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongThe mainland will further ease its monetary policy and loosen the funding tap for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The People's Bank of China was likely to lower the level of reserves it requires lenders to maintain by another two to three rounds in coming months. Last Friday, ...
Views: 390 - Logistic talents are deficient - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongOver the past 30 years as China recorded unprecedented economic growth, the country also witnessed a huge boom in the supply chain-and-logistics sector which resulted in demand for talents in the sector outstripping the available pool of experienced professionals. Getting the right person with ...
Views: 471 - Foreign trade business is becoming more and more intensified - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongBoosting domestic demand is the fundamental measure to effectively deal with the international financial crisis, which also influenced foreign trade business. Currently, the international financial crisis continues to have a deep impact on the world economy and China’s export growth is ...
Views: 579 - Market still remained uncertain - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongAs confidence continues to rise that a Greek bailout will be approved on February 20 at a euro-zone meeting in Brussels, risk appetite has also been growing. The Greek Cabinet at the weekend approved the budget cuts demanded. The European Central Bank may exchange its Greek debt to avoid ...
Views: 444 - Love detectives on Valentine's Day duty - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongFinding a lifelong partner should not be left to chance. When we are seeking partners, we must believe that several minds are better than one when it comes to formulating strategies to attract your desired partner. Quick dating and matchmaking services are nothing new thanks to Hong Kong's ...
Views: 733 - Micro blogs spread information positively and scandals negatively - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongStatistics from the China Internet Network Information Center showed there were more than 250 million micro-bloggers in China by December 2011, a 297 percent increase from 2010. A report was submitted that micro blogs can spread information to help companies to promote products but it also ...
Views: 550 - SMEs can find out more business opportunities on B2B platforms - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongThe potential threat of the spiralling euro-zone debt crisis and the wobbly economic outlook for the United States has prompted mainland central government, and the Guangdong and Hong Kong authorities, to introduce measures to help SMEs. Hang Seng Bank economists yesterday forecast the ...
Views: 491 - 15b yuan fund to stop small firms going bust - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongMove by Beijing part of package of measures to ease financing difficulties and reduce costs for SMEs as global economic uncertainty worsens. HK central government will set up a 15 billion yuan (HK$18.45 billion) fund as part of a package of measures to avoid widespread closures of small and ...
Views: 436 - Actions to make SMEs competitive - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongThe Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corp unveiled four new measures to help SMEs to improve competitiveness. Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation (ECIC) would offer 5 to 10 per cent discounts on premiums to companies earning HK$10 million in revenue annually. Such companies ...
Views: 435 - SMEs get credit lifeline to help weather the storm - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongThe Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corp unveiled four new measures to help local exporters to tide over the bleak outlook faced by the sector due to the global economic uncertainty. The global trade market is being affected by bleak outlook of European and US economies which incessantly ...
Views: 425 - SMEs get credit lifeline to help weather the storm - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from James DongThe Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corp unveiled four new measures to help local exporters to tide over the bleak outlook faced by the sector due to the global economic uncertainty. The global trade market is being affected by bleak outlook of European and US economies which incessantly ...
Views: 430 - Today world economic situation - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2011 from James DongThe unsolved European debt crisis is the biggest investor concern this year, and gloomy sentiment in the market has led investors to rush to perceived safe havens, driving government bond yields to the lowest levels for a generation, according to the report. While taking inflation into ...
Views: 464 - Hong Kong is No1 financial centre, boosting Shenzhen economy - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2011 from James DongIn the past, Hong Kong's status as a financial centre always fell behind New York, London or Tokyo, but now it ranked top thanks to the geographic advantage of being close to mainland China. City leapfrogs US and Britain to head the World Economic Forum rankings Hong Kong has leapfrogged ...
Views: 566 - Weak euro and home price drops - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2011 from James DongInvestors may continue facing market uncertainties in 2012, when the global economy is expected to slow down and the European debt crisis is worsening. Unless the debt crisis in Europe turns into an unexpected economic crisis, property prices in Hong Kong will not dip more than 20 per cent. ...
Views: 446 - E-business industry needs more talents - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2011 from James DongWe can see nowadays that more and more e-business companies emerged and some e-business companies have gone bankrupt. It is known that talent is a great fortune for a company and the company development; the company leaders are always trying to employ good talents to help business ...
Views: 417 - Headhunters from Shanghai, shortage of e-commerce talents - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2011 from James DongAs news report says, Shanghai leaders are worried about the shortage of financial talent is hobbling the city’s bid to become an international center for investment and banking. To overcome this problem, the municipal government has launched an ambitious scheme to increase the number of ...
Views: 583 - US dollar likely to rise - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2011 from James DongThe US dollar would likely rise next year as the European debt crisis prompted investors to flee the euro since the euro debt crisis is deteriorating. Credit Agricole last week revised down its forecast for yuan appreciation to 3 per cent next year, from 5 per cent earlier, on the assumption ...
Views: 693 - Yuan slowdown no blow to Hong Kong's ambitions - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2011 from James DongIt is not bad to slowdown the strengthening of the yuan against the US dollar when a government official says currencies are not a one-way street. It’s normal that some participants who think the yuan will rise, while others think it goes the other way. Some bankers are now forecasting ...
Views: 438 - Buyer controls e-business market strategy - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2011 from James DongThere is one market strategy called buyer’ controlling e-business market. The platform is organized by one or more buyers and the platform can shift market advantages and value to the buyers’ side. Usually such marketing involves intermediaries and some large buyers may have set up their ...
Views: 411 - Seller controls e-business market strategy - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2011 from James DongThere are some e-business strategies for e-business platform providers. One is a strategy that sellers control the market. It means the e-business platform is provided by a single seller party to seek more and more buyers. The purpose is to establish or maintain market strategy generated in ...
Views: 582 - IBUonline will make its first debut of “Easy Order” on the 13th China Hi-tech Fair - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2011 from James DongEnterprises in China face more and more challenges and problems, euro debt crisis, China currency exchange rate hike, hardship in export and import, and heavy inflation pressure. Facing capricious global economic conditions, IBUonline gathered foreign trade experts and elites to put much ...
Views: 541 - IBUonline attends the 13th China hi-tech fair presenting “Easy Order” software - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2011 from James DongThe 13th China hi-tech fair has invited many magnate enterprises in different industries such as electric and computers. All the participants in the fair are qualified enterprises, who expect to expand the market with the help of the fair. The 13th China hi-tech fair will be held in ...
Views: 585 - IBUonline attends the 13th China hi-tech fair presenting “Easy Order” software - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2011 from James DongThe 13th China hi-tech fair has invited many magnate enterprises in different industries such as electric and computers. All the participants in the fair are qualified enterprises, who expect to expand the market with the help of the fair. The 13th China hi-tech fair will be held in ...
Views: 498 - B2B has 4 commercial modes according to transaction system - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2011 from James DongB2B platforms have many commercial modes and it can be divided into four modes according to transaction system, Catalogue, Auction, Transaction, and Community. Catalogue B2B websites have outstanding searching function so the customers can search out products, suppliers or buyers easily on ...
Views: 543 - How to plan a successful B2B e-business mode - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2011 from James DongTwo years ago, global e-commerce put highlight on B2B and venture capital is also concentrated on B2B. It is not an incident; the trend meets the mega-trend of economy. At present，many enterprises hold highly of B2B flags while the enterprises may not know the market opportunities of ...
Views: 558 - Some e-business enterprises rely on venture capital - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2011 from James DongAt present, many e-commerce enterprises are running at losses so they need more funds. E-commerce competition is the competition of burning money; it is very hard to make profit. All the e-commerce enterprises are competing against each other for higher rankings in the industry. National ...
Views: 732 - E-commerce war begins, 30% of e-commerce enterprises go bankrupt - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2011 from James DongThere are more and more e-commerce enterprises seeking funds to run e-business at present, on the contrary, more and more small and medium sized enterprises go bankrupt. According to Shenzhen e-commerce industry association statistics, nearly 30 percent of e-commerce enterprises were phased ...
Views: 1072 - Foreign media claims B2C will occupy the market shares of C2C - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2011 from James DongDBA China President said, B2C market competition was more intensified, but B2C is more positive than C2C market in the long term view. He estimated that B2C may grasp more market shares of C2C, especially in large cities. Foreign media claimed that as B2C e-commerce websites products are ...
Views: 718 - E-business era, modern logistics face new opportunities - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2011 from James DongThe emergence and booming of e-business has a far-reaching influence on modern logistics industry. Under the background of e-business, suppliers’business coverage may expand to a wider range and commodities sales mode and consumers’purchase mode have changed. Logistics has become a very ...
Views: 798 - Retail and e-commerce cross-industry round table forum - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2011 from James DongA commercial magazine organized a retail and e-commerce cross-industry round table forum in Guangzhou in July. Experts in the two industries attended the forum and voiced their opinions. The biggest challenge is to set a clear goal with strategic significance. But there is not goal and the ...
Views: 569 - SMEs say business runs on the brink - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2011 from James DongDespite Central government has rolled out special measures to support SMEs development, but many SME owners still complain business is now worse than that in the global financial crisis in 2008. A recent survey on 3,000 SMEs in Guangdong's manufacturing heartland, conducted by an e-commerce ...
Views: 430 - Online first market riot - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2011 from James DongTens of thousands of online shoppers place orders on the goods sold in Taotao mall and protested against Taobao since Taobao raised guarantee fees and management fees. Taobao is a monopoly e-business operator in online market industry; the fees were set by Taotao without any negotiations or ...
Views: 420 - Hamimelon can be sold online and agriculture welcomes e-business era - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2011 from James Dong20 tons of Hamimelon picked from the land and sold to the consumers, which only took 3 days thanks to e-business group buying mode. In the past, such fruit is not sold well. The market and sells channels are restricted by traditional sells mode, distributors and unhealthy market competition. ...
Views: 498 - Online market riots - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2011 from James DongOn October 11th and 12th, Taobao, as the tycoon in e-business industry, suffered the largest protest. Nearly 50,000 netizens has been gathered and intended to give bad comments for some online sellers in Taobao mall, such as Uniqlo flagship stores, Oasa stores, or place orders in these online ...
Views: 438 - E-business helps SMEs upgrade - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2011 from James DongUnder the background that e-business is constantly innovated, logistic systems is becoming more and more completed, payment security and credit has been enhanced greatly, more and more SMEs applied e-business to develop domestic and overseas market. According to statistics, up to June, 2011, ...
Views: 433 - Maintaining good customers’ relationship is very important - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2011 from James DongIn e-business running, customer’s fidelity means netizens are favored to visit your websites and are willing to use the product or services provided by the website. When the customers have the same demand next time, they could think of your website at the first thought. It involved some ...
Views: 463 - 3G E-business era comes - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2011 from James Dong3G mobile e-business summit forum has ended, while a new round of Europe debt crisis will come soon. SMEs are facing industry development bottleneck and cutthroat competition, how can SMEs stage on 3G mobile e-business platforms based on the traditional internet? 3G has more advantages over ...
Views: 462 - Cloth art enterprise： E-business is the mega trend - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2011 from James DongSome cloth art enterprises complained: “now the competition is more and more intensified, business is not easy to settle; the shop rental fees have increased and the cost has tripled now, while the sales volume is not increasing; cloth art businessman like me must hand over 60% of the profit to ...
Views: 440 - Online marketing process is easy and becomes simple - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2011 from James DongIf you take a close look at the traditional options available for selling your product to the masses, you will quickly find that the process is generally not a short one. It is a process that cost time and financial resources. Internet is one of the inexpensive avenues for reaching the mass ...
Views: 492 - How to create or search out hot products - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2011 from James DongProducts should be explored in every possible venue. For example, you may have many questions on products, how can I make the products better? Is the product more expensive? Can the product be sold at a lower price? Can we ask for a change of the product color or outlook so the product looks ...
Views: 470 - Online and offline marketing integration, differs from information collection - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2011 from James DongNetwork marketing is just one part of marketing, which is an important tool of fulfilling sales and profiting and it could achieve reasonable effect when online marketing and offline marketing integrates well. Many enterprises think that internet is just a media, enterprises could promote the ...
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