Li Ning is slipping, and has been losing its market share to other Chinese brands in the smaller cities. From Caixin: On May 24, Li Ning announced the resignations of three senior executives – COO Guo Jianxin, Chief Marketing Officer Fang Shiwei, and Director of E-commerce Lin Li. A source blamed the exodus on the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Business'
Li Ning Caught In The Middle
June 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Business, Sportswear
Tags:361 Degrees·ANTA Sports·branding·Li Ning·marketing·Peak Sports Products
Action Sports And Sport Participation in China
June 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Business, Extreme Sports, Government, Sports Regime, Sportswear
Thoughtful China has a very interesting video discussion lately on action sports and sports participation in China that really worth checking out. In the video, Harvey Davis, vice president at ESPN’s Events Management Group, reckons that “these [action] sports are now recognized in China as real sports, with real committees and real organizations reporting up [...]
Tags:action sports·Chen Jie·ESPN·extreme sports·Harvey Davis·KIA X Games Asia·PT Black·Shanghai·Shen Jian·SMP·sports participation·Thoughtful China
Italian Super Cup Derby: A Ticket Scalper’s Dream, An Organizer’s Headache
June 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Business, Football
Inter Milan’s 3-1 victory over Serie A counterpart Palermo has filled the final spot for the other participant in this summer’s Italian Super Cup, which will be returning to Beijing. This year’s curtain-raiser to the 2011/12 Serie A season is going to be a treat for Chinese supporters of Italian football as this season’s champion [...]
Tags:AC Milan·Bird's Nest·CFA·Inter Milan·Italian Super Cup·Palermo·ticket scalping
The CBA All-Star Weekend, Still a Disappointing Knockoff
March 21st, 2011 · 3 Comments · Basketball, Business
There’s a moment of awkwardness after Wang Zhizhi trying to reach out to the audience through his microphone. “Ni Men Jiu Shi Rong Yu,” the Bayi Rockets center shouted. It looked Wang, the first Chinese to have played in the NBA, knew too that what he was speaking was weird. The words basically mean “you [...]
Tags:CBA All-Star Weekend·marketing·MasterCard Center·merchandising·Quincy Douby·Stephon Marbury·Wang Zhizhi·Wukesong Arena
Communists Go After Liverpool
August 7th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Business, Football, Government, Sports, Sports Media
An op-ed article looking at the recent news reports that the Chinese government’s “investment arm” is interested in purchasing a Premier League football club. It might be too early to call it “normal,” but since Chinese investors went after the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers basketball squad in 2009, the latest news that a Chinese investment group [...]
Tags:BBC·China Investment Corporation·CIC·Franklin Templeton Investments·Guang Yang·Guardian·Kenneth Huang·Liverpool·Lou Jiwei·NBA·Premier League·soccer·Telegraph
Foreign Investigations into the NBA
April 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Basketball, Business, Government, Sports, Sports Media
A Russian billionaire is being challenged by an American politician over previous company investments. Is this cause to also go after a Chinese investment group that is finalizing a deal to purchase the Cleveland Cavaliers? A New Jersey congressman is demanding an official inquiry into Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire who is about purchase the [...]
Tags:Albert Hung·Cleveland Cavaliers·David Stern·Kenny Huang·Mikhail Prokhorov·NBA·New Jersey Nets·Robert Mugabe
How Golf Relates to Agricultural Project in China
April 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Golf, Government
A disheartening piece from the Shanghai Daily: TREES that cost millions of yuan to plant to stop soil erosion and water run-off in a north China village have been uprooted for a golf course. The sea buckthorn trees sheltered gales and stabilized the soil in Jiuchenggong Village in Erdos City of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, [...]
Tags:Erdos·Erdos Yitong Yitong Coal Co Ltd·golf development·Inner Mongolia·WTF
A Youth Soccer Tournament Visible from Outer Space Kicks Off in July
March 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business, Football, Sports, Sports Media
Our friends at China Sports Tour are working on a great project. Before reaching out to the outer space, they’re bringing teams from around the planet to compete in a youth football tournament. Please see below their media release. The first international youth soccer tournament in Beijing reveals details today. The tournament, named The Great [...]
Tags:Beijing Football Association·Beijing Municipal Sports Administration·China Sports Tour·Olympic Sports Center·Shine Liu·The Great Wall Cup of Beijing
Football Reporters Should also be Investigated
February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Football, Government, Sports, Sports Media
An article asking the question: Why have China’s football beat reporters been left out of the league-wide investigations? The China Football Association handed out another round of rulings this week, demoting Guangzhou Pharmaceutical and Chengdu Sheffield United from the China Super League after evidence showed the teams had bribed opponents during the 2006 and 2007 [...]
Tags:Chengdu Sheffield·China Football Assocation·China Super League·FA·Global Times·Guangzhou Pharmaceutical·Nan Yong·Qingdao Hailifeng·soccer·Yang Yimin·Zhang Jianqiang
Golf in Hainan Island
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Golf, Government
Where’s the largest collection of golf facility in the world? Right, Shenzhen. But soon that will be Hainan, China’s southernmost province: The scope of the multi-billion-dollar project is staggering. It occupies 80sq km of forest and shrubland – an area the size of Hong Kong island – in north-east Hainan, the island province long touted as [...]
Tags:gambling·Guangdong Province·Hainan·horse betting·lottery·Mission Hill Hainan
