Baring Private Equity Asia Group (Baring Asia), the Hong Kong-based Asian private equity group with $1 billion under management, recently announced a joint investment with the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The two will invest $47.2 million in Dongyue Group Ltd, a refrigerants producer in China. It's Baring's 20th investment in China since 1999. The company has set up three Asian private equity funds, raising a total of $1.05 billion.
Pierre E Cohade was impressed by how clean the city was and how his "green factory" in Dalian did well since he made more business trips there after being named chairman of Goodyear in Asia.
Dalian, a leading example of China's emerging cities, is undergoing a high rate of economic growth (16.5 percent in 2006), creating strong demand for public facilities and services.
In little more than two years since the first stock warrant was issued, the Chinese mainland has overtaken Hong Kong as the largest warrant market in the world by turnover.
It's time for Chinese pharmaceutical chains to learn from international retailing behemoths like Wal-Mart.
Mainland companies are seeing huge demand from retail and institutional investors in Hong Kong, despite the recent stock crisis triggered by the US subprime mortgage crunch.
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