With better quality products, improved supply chains and rising demand, Chinese and Asian corporations are increasingly making their way onto the global corporate stage. But they are unlikely to become true international players if they do not focus on getting their brand strategy right.
The community of Dalang, which literally means "big wave", has been in the spotlight since it began to cooperate with Elite World to stage a fashion modeling contest in Shenzhen.
When Chinese automaker Geely paid $1.8 billion for Swedish automobile giant Volvo in 2010, it represented another successful step-up by an Asian company onto the global corporate stage.
In the time that you take to read this, people around the world will have snapped up a Lenovo computer, tablet or smartphone - about one of these electronic devices every four seconds or so.
The two companies that comprise Jaguar and Land Rover have together poured more than a century of effort into building their reputations, so there is little surprise that maintaining standards is one of the joint company's top priorities as it expands into China.
When Anant Agarwal taught circuits and electronics in the hallowed halls of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the complicated and intricate nature of lectures often gave students headaches or sent them to sleep.
If a global strategic realignment is taking shape and a new global order emerging, one element links Beijing and Riyadh. International relations have become more complex - "multi-polar" as some say - and emerging nations, particularly China and India in terms of size, and Saudi Arabia in terms of energy, are playing larger roles.
After taking the helm 11 months ago as president and CEO of Beijing Mercedes-Benz Sales Service Co, Nicholas Speeks said he is certain he made the right decision.
Mercedes-Benz ended the year with a bang at the Guangzhou Auto Show, the industry's final major event of 2013.
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