Posts tagged "companies"

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Mar 2012

Iliana Torres

Logistics, Opportunities

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Competitive China Drives US Exports

Key challenges persist - rising costs and competition for talent rank as top challenges while companies report little improvement in China’s regulatory environment. “US companies are realizing gains after years of investment in China. That’s the good news. But China is a tough place to do business, it always has been, and this year’s China Business Climate Indices quantify that” said Kent Kedl, Managing Director, Greater China and North Asia, Control Risks. Th...

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Jul 2011

Iliana Torres

Global Sourcing, Logistics

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Inside View on China’s Logistics

China's expenditures on logistical services totaled 3.7 trillion yuan ($570 billion) in the first half of 2011, an increase of 18.5 percent year-on-year, statistics showed. The spending accounted for 18 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing and the China Logistics Information Center said in a report published on their websites. The report attributed the growing spending to rising costs for raw m...