BEST OF 2019: Most-Clicked Content

Browse through our readers’ favourite Fiducia publications for a crash course on current China business topics. >> Download full publication: ‘2019 in Facts and Figures’ Article | RETAIL IN CHINA: WHAT SLOWDOWN? Find out why many of our clients report the opposite of a “slowdown” and learn about six must-know Chinese online platforms.     […]

FIDUCIA: Our Year in Review

We are continuously working to become a better service provider, organisation, and corporate citizen. Here are some facts and figures showing what we achieved in 2019: 1. As a Service Provider >> Download full publication: ‘2019 in Facts and Figures’ Digitisation Accounting We are rolling out new software, including leading OCR system ABBYY, to streamline […]

China Business Buzzwords 2019

Ten terms and topics to remember >> Download full publication: ‘2019 in Facts and Figures’ 2B China’s tech giants are betting on to-business solutions, locally dubbed ‘2B’, for growth. Tencent, for instance, restructured to focus on ‘the industrial internet’ (e.g. cloud services) for the next decade. Unlike 2C technologies such as e-commerce and mobile payments, […]

Press Release – VDMA-Fiducia Salary Survey 2019

Contact: Florian Mikulasch Phone: +49 69 66 03-1836 Emai: florian.mikulasch@vdma.org Date: 05 June 2019 Plastic and Rubber Machinery Manufacturers in China experience record low fluctuation and stable headcount growth Frankfurt, 05 June 2019 – On the day prior to the Chinaplas opening, a newly released Salary Survey found that German and Austrian machinery manufacturers in […]

Zalando China: China Sourcing in the E-Commerce Era

What better way of testing the future-readiness of China as a sourcing market than through the eyes of a forward-looking online retailer? Zalando, Europe’s leading e-commerce platform for fashion, sources private label products from factories in the Far East through a team of merchandisers, quality control, testing, and ethical trade professionals located in Hong Kong, […]

China’s Sourcing Advantages

From “Buy Cheap” to “Buy Well” That China remains a manufacturing powerhouse despite its rising costs shouldn’t be surprising. Sourcing is more than just chasing cheap costs, and this statement is only becoming truer. Competitiveness is increasingly driven by other considerations. While China may not be the cheap sourcing paradise it once was, it has […]