Dominic Lyncker worked for the Volkswagen Group as Motorsport Director for five years. One of his goals was to build up a China Schumi there – but he didn’t succeed. A few days ago, competitor Alfa Romeo signed its first Chinese Formula 1 driver, Zhou Guanyu. “If we succeed in personalizing motorsport in China through […]
Nils Griesbach, Key Account Manager at Kerry Logistics, has returned to Bremen after five years in Shanghai. Kerry Logistics is a freight company from Hong Kong.Jan Timm is now a materials planning expert at Daimler Greater China’s Zhenjiang site. Previously, he worked on start-up management in Germany.Andreas Rade will become the new managing director of […]
No other country in the world now has as many super-rich people as the People’s Republic. One person who particularly benefits from this isPatrick Chou,an entrepreneur who grew up in Germanyand sells luxury cars and sports cars. In aninterview with Frank Sieren, Chou explains why sales rose during the Corona pandemic and why young people […]
Holger Scherr will be the new President and CEO of the Chinese joint venture Beijing Foton Daimler Automotive (BFDA). This was recently decided by the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG. Scherr succeeds Kelley Platt, who will retire at the beginning of 2022. She had been in charge of BFDA in Beijing since 2018.
VW China is on fire. But it remains unclear whether the fire broke out at the headquarters in Wolfsburg or in Beijing. Nothing is coming out of the VW Group about the reasons for the replacement of its China boss Stephan Wöllenstein. Sure, sales of electric cars aren’t going as planned in China. But VW […]
In the race for ever greater EV ranges, Chinese manufacturer GAC Aion has presented a new version, the LX Plus, which has a maximum range of over 1,000 kilometers on one battery charge. The capacity of this battery is 144.4-kilowatt-hours. According to German EV portal Teslamag, the Aion LX Plus is likely the EV with […]
Falk Kretschmann has moved from Munich to Shenyang as Senior Manager for Electronics and Assistance Systems at BMW.Under the management of Guanzhe Cao , the Port of Duisburg is establishing its own Asian Desk. Cao is to manage the growing Asian business. He has already been employed by the port for five years as a […]
Disclaimer: This interview has been translated into English and is not considered an official translation by any party involved in the interview.Ms. Fischer, delivery bottlenecks, power outages, tech companies under pressure, then the crisis of the real estate giant Evergrande – the problems are piling up. What is the current state of the world’s second-largest economy?I recently spoke to a German entrepreneur who described how rapidly the transport costs from China to Germany have […]
Due to expensive raw materials, power shortages, and persistent supply bottlenecks, the Chinese economy raised its prices in October by the most in 26 years. Producer prices rose by 13.5 percent compared to October 2020, the statistics office announced in Beijing on Wednesday. Economists had expected an inflation rate of only 12.4 percent, down from […]
Supply chain problems, lockdowns, and a boycott call in China have caused Adidas’ third-quarter profit to slump. Chief Executive Kasper Rorsted reiterated to Reuters that the company’s projection, which had only been raised at the halfway point but expected profit and sales growth to be at the lower end of the target range. Profit from […]