Before embarking on a China career, my brother and I started a health and beauty supply store in New York City. In memory of our father, the store was called Yaba Bath & Body (“Yaba” being the slang term for “father” in Arabic).
As an entrepreneur …
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Believe it or not next week begins March’s end. With it comes our compilation of our sponsors’ best articles. This month we reviewed articles from Global Sources, Asia Quality Focus, and Chibridge. GS gave us two completely different posts, one about ‘reshoring’ and one regarding the top electronics for February. …
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In the midst of Chinese New Year, Asia Quality Focus didn’t miss a beat. AQF gave us a look at various areas inside inspecting within sourcing. AQF told us of a new directive the EU will begin following, summer 2013. AQF reinforced the importance of environmental audits. They gave us …
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Global Sources always provides the latest in all things sourcing. Here are our favorites, from winter 2012-2013.
Why is China expensive?
Global Sources provided an excerpt from the article, ‘“The End of Made-in-China?” orginially from Silk Road Associates. GS summarized different scenarios causing buyers less likely to ‘buy China.’ Two in particular, China’s …
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In light of the recent horsemeat scandal we thought we’d take this time to go over some key points about quality assurance and the importance of proper third parties and inspections.
For those who are just now joining the horsemeat discussion, here’s some quick facts:
In late January it was announced that some …
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