china distribution

China Tech News reports:
Dell China has secretly launched a new program called “Online Sale Promotion Service Provider”, authorizing regional dealers to display Dell’s products at their sales site to provide offline order placements for customers.
…Zhang Saying, a spokesperson from Dell Greater China, said that this is a new pattern to enhance consumers’ experience of Dell’s [...]
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Pacific Epoch reports:
Dell China is going beyond directly-operated experience centers to franchise-like storefronts for the nationwide promotion of Dell consumer products, reports China Business News. According to Dell Greater China spokesman Zhang Saying, the company currently has more than 50 partners setting up shop in forth-, fifth- and sixth-tier markets. The sales partners will display [...]
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Marbridge Daily reports:
Vice president Zhang Hui of Lenovo’s (0992.HK) global consumer notebook division revealed recently that the company intends to change its notebook assembly strategy, moving from the old model, in which notebooks were produced at EMS plants in Taiwan and assembled and shipped out by Lenovo, to a new model under which assembly and [...]
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The Shanghai Daily has a long article interviewing Amit Midha, Dell’s new China president. There’s nothing particularly earth shattering in the interview, Mr. Midha is typically effusive about China and the China market. Some highlights:
Cheap computers for the countryside
Dell, like the Haier-Intel Farmer PC partnership, is targeting rural China with a cheap PC:
To [...]
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Pacific Epoch reports:
Google China plans to cooperate with Internet cafes in Chengdu to promote Google services, reports West China City Daily quoting Google China president special assistant and strategy officer Guo Quji. The cooperating Internet cafes will set google.com as the homepage on their PCs as well as install the Google toolbar on their cafes’ [...]
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Shanghai Daily reports:“China’s income has surpassed Japan’s in some quarters since 2006 and the two, our top two markets in Asia, are close (on revenue),” Tsoi said in an interview during BEA World 2007 in Shanghai.The combined revenue of China and Japan is more than half of BEA Asia’s income and China has become the [...]
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China Tech News reports on Haier’s new partnership to distribute its computers internationally:Haier Group has signed a global selling agreement with Ingram Micro, one of the largest IT distributors in the world, to initiate its overseas expansion in 2008.The agreement is said to involve about 400,000 computers worth a total of US$250 million.The article continues [...]
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China Tech News reports:Guo Wei, president of Digital China, says that Digital China will push its business shift for each of its affiliates following the restructuring of its stake, and it will shift from a product seller to solutions provider in the next three to five years.After last year’s Innovation Technology Week, Digital China announced [...]
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China Tech News reports:Ma Chong, general manager of Lenovo Greater China’s Commercial Desktop Computer Marketing Department, says that Lenovo has noticed that online selling is taking a larger proportion of its sales and the company is discussing plans on recruiting some online agents for its PC products.…Ma discloses to Chinese media that Lenovo is negotiating [...]
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