Boom expected in beer sales, in China for World Cup fever

Beer sales set to boom with the 2014 World Cup fever in China. This is aided by the increasing middle class drinking bottled and canned beers creating a good market for exporting to China, especially for British real ale and craft beers.

The second and third quarters of the year 2014 will see an increase in beer sales between June 12th and July 13th.

Even though there are lots of exported beers in China Tsingtao and Beijing's Yanjing are expected to do well. In China beer consumption is a seasonal tradition of doing well in the summer and but slowing down for the autum/winter due to the Chinese drinking hot drinks instead.

More can be read on our blog  

http://www.gofrontiers.co.uk/blog.php?varPgId=0012-2014-world-cup-approaching-beer-sales-set-to-boom-in-china

Published by Go Frontiers (UK & China)

Beijing bans cheese imports from Britain

Food inspectors from China were dissatisfied with standards at a UK dairy during their visit.

In China most things are polluted and poisoned including the air, water and food. Recently in 2008, their was the milk scandal (melamine chemical poisoning) were six babies died and 300,000 left sick but largely unknown to the rest of the world was the poisoned and sick pets (dogs and cats) suffering with gallstone problems.

From these incidences China has new food safety laws which came into force on 1^st May. The UK prides its self with its high standards of food quality but if China has higher standards then dairy companies have to meet these standards if they want to continue to export to China.

Britain currently exports 11.5 tonnes of cheese to China each year. All though the cheese market in China is relatively small their has been a sharp increase in demand for this year. Export figures for January and February alone are already valued at £93,003 Pounds.

Posted by: Gary Rice, Chinese Business Culture Expert,
Director of Go Frontiers (UK and China) based in Derbyshire, UK.

Go Frontiers helps Buddhist group to restock a lake in Beijing. New Years Day 01/01/2014

On a Beijing freezing morning on New Years Day 01/01/2014 the directors of Go Frontiers who train companies in China and the UK in British and Chinese business culture and etiquette kept their promise of Corporate Social Responsibility in China and got involved with a local Buddhist group in Beijing to help restock a lake that had previously been polluted and the fish stocks depleted.

With every one getting involved they managed to purchase four lorry loads of carp that where destined for the morning fish markets.

After a short Buddhist ceremony the young and old carried and dragged buckets of fish from the trucks to the lake. In sub zero temperatures every one had to move fast and stay dry, which is hard when you are dealing with large fish.

Director Gary Rice said, "Many Chinese were amazed and very pleased to see an Englishman from an English company paying an interest in their local community and helping with a local environment issue. Many Chinese came up to me shook my hand and thanked me".

When Go Frontiers first started in business the directors (one English and one Chinese) decided on having a corporate social responsibility policy to help the areas where the directors grew up as children (Ripley and Beijing).

Chinese Checkers: A local business man has helped prevent war with China!

During a trade trip there Gary Rice spotted a sign at a Buddhist theme park telling staff to 'execute tourists in the most advantageous manner'.

 

Gary and his interpreter pointed out the translation error and the sign will now be reworded.

 

His Loscoe firm Go Frontiers provides Chinese Business Culture, Etiquette and Protocol training and translations to UK companies doing business with China.

 

Extract from TopNews, Feb 2014. 

UK People Lucky to have the NHS. In China you Pay for Hospital Treatment! Chinese Culture.

Well, its fourteen months since we had to drop every thing and fly to China to help a Chinese business friend recover from a serious operation.

Most westerners don't understand the importance of building Chinese business relationships (Guanxi) or Chinese culture but to the Chinese, business relationships include the social aspect too.

This can save your life!

This story will tell you how important it is to build a close Chinese business relationship and how lucky we are having the NHS. At least once a year visit the doctor and have an MOT and CT scan, even if you need to pay for the scan.

Our story can be read here http://www.gofrontiers.co.uk/blog.php?varPgId=0018-chinese-hospitals-nhs-expensive-do-not-get-ill-poor-service.


Author: Gary Rice, Chinese Business Culture Expert
Company: Go Frontiers (UK & China)