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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: growing numbers of super rich

The number of super rich on China’s mainland is expected to rise 16 percent in 2010 thanks to the booming capital and property markets […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Designer labels bank on China

A study from American consultancy Bain & Co says that China remains the fastest-growing luxury goods market in the world, with a sales volume of 68.4 billion yuan ($10.27 billion) and an expected increase of 30 percent this year over last year’s takings […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: 10 Things Every Luxury Marketer in China Should Know

Chinese researcher Patricia Pao, who specializes in luxury marketing trends in China, offers ten tips to help advertisers reach affluent customers in the mainland […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Grey Consumers Are a Golden Opportunity

JWT’s Tom Doctoroff Offers 5 Ways brands can win over China’s 300 million senior citizens, a market that will reach 500 million by 2025 […]

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Watch Dan Cobley’s “What physics taught me about marketing” talk at TED

Physics and marketing don’t seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton’s second law, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, the scientific method and the second law of thermodynamics to explain the fundamental theories of branding […]

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Advertising in China: Ad Spend Soars 15% to $47.4 Billion

China’s economy maintained its fast pace of growth as GDP soared by 11.2% during the first half of 2010 to an estimated RMB 17.28 trillion ($2.6 trillion), according to Nielsen Company […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: China’s richest people are getting even richer

The average wealth of the Chinese mainland’s top 1,000 richest people jumped 26 percent to US$722 million this year from a year earlier despite the sluggish stock market and the tightening measures meant to cool the sizzling economy, according to the latest Hurun Rich List […]

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Chinese People & their Mobile Phones: use of Mobile apps in the rise

Enterprises in China are expected to use more mobile applications to ride the growth in various mobile services and features as well the high speed of 3G networks because these represent the future […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Apple to double stores

Apple will double its store numbers on the Chinese mainland when it opens two stores in Beijing and Shanghai […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Coke targets China drinkers as its major market by 2020

Coca-cola expects China to become the US soft drink company’s biggest market by 2020 on the back of consistently strong double-digit growth. It believes that the partnership with Shanghai World Expo 2010 can help the company reach out to more clients, a senior manager said recentl […]