Tag Archives: China

DRIVING FUEL ECONOMY

May 13, 2013 – 7:03 am

by Sumaa Tekur Car buyers around the world are revving up on the road to better fuel efficiency. Responding to this ever-increasing need for more mileage from less fuel, automakers are steering toward advanced technologies and research. A survey by KPMG found that in big emerging markets around the world, the motor industry is pumping […]

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CLICKS IN THE BRICS

March 27, 2013 – 6:38 am

by Sumaa Tekur When Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg visited India in the second week of March, he said that everywhere he turned, he saw people looking down at their phones or tablets (IndianExpress.com, 19 March 2013). The digital revolution in emerging countries has upped the ante for brands and marketers — much of the PC […]

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CEB Iconoculture’s Big Ideas 2013 Series: Meet 5 of 5

February 4, 2013 – 1:42 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis Since about the turn of the Millennium, the developed nations of the world noticed that outsourcing to places like China and India was having an interesting effect: It was creating tens of millions of jobs in those countries, raising the standard of living there, and helping convert traditional, rural economies into modern […]

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China’s online malls hope shoppers pick up on package pickup option

January 30, 2013 – 7:29 am

by Si Chen WHAT’S HAPPENING Chinese consumers are enthusiastic about the ease of online shopping, but dealing with packages has not been so simple. Two large online malls are helping to solve that inconvenience problem by offering package pickups at — where else? — convenience stores. Tencent’s Buy QQ started an O2O (online to offline) […]

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A “BIG” ALERT

January 9, 2013 – 2:15 pm

by Charlotte Beal The food trends that need to die. The home design trends we’re sick of. The top beauty picks of 2012. Media and future-casting companies are swirling with their picks for year-end content, but Iconoculture is different. Our Big Ideas 2013 series, rolling out now, dives deep into five influential market shifts that […]

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Waiting for a table at HaiDiLao hotpot restaurants in China is fun

November 20, 2012 – 2:37 pm

by Si Chen WHAT’S HAPPENING It’s lucrative to wait for a table at some of the HaiDiLao restaurants in Sichuan province, China. The longer the wait, the bigger the cash discount a customer can get on the final food bill. Only requirement: The customer must be willing to fold paper into cranes while standing in queue. […]

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Asian Americans speed past Latinos in US growth

July 11, 2012 – 7:55 am

by Amber Davis WHAT’S HAPPENING Asian immigrants account for the largest number of new arrivals to the States, helping Asian Americans surpass Latinos as the country’s fastest growing racial/ethnic group. According to a Pew Research Center report, about 36% of US immigrants arrived from Asian countries in 2010, compared to 31% from Latin America (PewSocialTrends.org, […]

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MOMMY (AND DADDY) WARS

July 10, 2012 – 3:10 pm

By Becky Sun In case you didn’t notice, there’s another “mommy war” in the blogosphere. In an Atlantic article titled “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” (accompanied by the obligatory photo of a toddler in Mom’s briefcase), Anne-Marie Slaughter revisits the well-worn grooves of the “mommy track,” parental leave and the meaning of modern […]

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From Delhi to Beijing, by Way of Miami

May 24, 2012 – 8:47 am

by Josh Kimball Every year, Iconoculture throws a marketing and consumer insights extravaganza called Iconosphere. This year’s conference takes place in Miami, but as always, its insights are global. The wide-ranging agenda is stuffed with sessions on topics ranging from the Five Key Mom Segments to the future of shopping to a discussion examining what […]

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MEAT Podcast, Episode 8: China and the motion picture industry

March 15, 2012 – 7:20 am

by Nancy Robinson and Michael T. McCune Consumer Strategists discuss the recent US/China trade agreement and how it will affect the motion picture industry as well as the internationalization of film. To listen to the podcast, click here.

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WE HAVE BECOME FAT

September 15, 2011 – 8:36 am

by Becky Sun In Tanzania, a common greeting for someone you haven’t seen in a while is “Umenenepa!,” which translates to “You have become fat!” While Westerners are horrified by this “compliment,” being plump carries all sorts of positive connotations in a region that’s food insecure and prone to disease, and where most jobs involve […]

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FURY OVER FAKES

August 23, 2011 – 12:24 pm

by Michael McCune News from China about Da Vinci’s fake Italian furniture and copycat Apple stores has engendered the usual bemusement around the world. But if marketers scratch the surface of these stories, they’ll uncover an evolution in consumer sentiment — one that’s driving changes in intellectual property rights enforcement. China is indeed rife with […]

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Catching Up With China’s Internet Stats

August 5, 2011 – 12:57 am

The China Focus Program will be weaving facts & figures about the digital landscape throughout our immersion journey.  The big picture numbers are readily available.   Our focus will be on how values & attitudes drives the usage of connected devices within different parts of peoples’ lives. That said, we’ll always pass along links to […]

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Netizens bemoan China spying via Skype

November 6, 2008 – 6:05 am

by Paul Katz WHAT’S HAPPENING The news that the Chinese government used Skype to keep records of VoiP conversations filtered by key words — without notifying users  — has caused a kerfuffle on the blogosphere. The service has became a popular communications outlet for many citizens living abroad seeking to avoid government censorship (CNN.com 10.08.08). […]

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