About a week ago, SIA published a really good article on why production costs in China are rising. If you haven’t read it you can, and should, here: http://www.snowsports.org/SuppliersServiceProviders/SIANewsletter/NewsletterDetail/Contentid/1272/#top. The article is pretty tactical in nature, and I thought a little bit of the longer term social and political perspective might be interesting to you. It should at least convince you that this is probably not a temporary trend. More…
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SIA Article on the Rising Costs of Chinese Production
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010Chop Chop, Fizz Fizz, Oh What a Morass It Is!
Monday, November 17th, 2003Apologies to the Alka Seltzer people for bastardizing one of their old advertising slogans. It just sort of sprang into my head the moment I saw Dwindle’s announcement on their Chop Chop Wood Shop. I assume it occurred to somebody that the name might be offensive to the Chinese, but this is probably just some form of obscure skateboard humor. Hope it turns out to be good business. Last issue, I offered More…
China’s Fixed Exchange Rate; What It Means for Snowboarding
Saturday, August 9th, 2003My very first article for TransWorld, which became Market Watch, was on foreign exchange. I guess in some sense we’ve come full circle. But it’s never much fun ending up where you started, so I want to ask your help in keeping Market Watch valuable to you and occasionally controversial. It use to be, when the pace of change and general dynamism of snowboarding was greater, that my problem was picking among More…
Reality Check; Input From the Outside World
Thursday, October 31st, 2002Sometimes I get accused of being too much of a pessimist. Maybe sometimes I am. On the other hand, maybe the correct question is whether or not my occasionally pessimistic outlook is justified . I’d prefer to think I’m just taking a hard look at real business issues. For a change, I’m going to let somebody else raise the tough issues and, incidentally, write half my column for me. Can’t beat that. I received More…
China- Whether We Like It or Not. What’s to Do?
Thursday, May 30th, 2002Okay, let’s review the rules. 1) The consumer eventually gets what they want to the extent the market is capable of providing it. 2) Companies do whatever they perceive will give them a competitive advantage, or at least let them survive. 3) The less real differentiation there is among products in the same product class, the more important price will ultimately be to the consumer. Marketing can delay and reduce, More…
