Welcome to BizChinaUpdate. Launched on 1 September 2007, BizChinaUpdate is an independent online information resource, providing fast, accurate China business news, interviews and features. Readers can browse our selection of online China business content and Register to our website here and sign up to our free weekly electronic newsletter here.
As China continues to evolve into a global power, its economic structures are changing, new laws are being enacted and the government is seeking to re-channel the fruits of sustained growth from the eastern seaboard to the rest of this vast nation. Gateway cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, now compete with cities across China for foreign and governmental investment.
Meanwhile, successful Chinese companies are raising billions of dollars from domestic and international IPOs, and the most ambitious are acquiring foreign companies from Santiago to Sydney and Stockholm to Saigon. The nation’s twin-barreled property and stock market frenzy has created 106 dollar billionaires, when in 2002 there were none.
China's unparalleled economic renaissance is impacting citizens of almost every nation, and timely, reliable information on commercial trends and developments is in strong demand. That’s why BizChinaUpdate was created: to provide business news and informed comment from trusted sources.
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BizChinaUpdate's managing partners and organisational structure:
Gary Bowerman
Editor-in-Chief and Managing Partner
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Education: BA Hons, Politics & Economic History, University of East Anglia (1992); Diploma in Spanish, Institute of Linguists (2000)
Background: Based in Shanghai since February 2004, Gary Bowerman has contributed China- and Asia-based features for South China Morning Post; Business Traveller; Departures; Forbestraveler.com; Financial Times How to Spend it; Conde Nast Traveller; Travesias and World Travel Guide.
Between 2004 and 2006, he was Editor-in-Chief of Shanghai Business Review, and has written on a range of industries in China, from hospitality to retail, architecture to supply chain management and travel and tourism to outsourcing. He has interviewed leading CEOs and business executives, plus prominent urban planners, designers, consultants, authors and celebrities.
He co-edited the 2005 (and forthcoming 2008) ZAGAT Shanghai Restaurants & Hotels Guide, is Resident Editor for LUXE Guide Shanghai and for Note Bene’s Shanghai and Beijing publications. He contributes a regular business travel column for CNN Traveller, and writes regularly for MIX, a Hong Kong-based corporate meetings and events magazine. He was previously the Editor of ASTA Network, the official magazine of the American Society of Travel Agents.
Peter Bachmann
Operations Director and Managing Partner
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Education: Journalism, MAZ (1998) and International Management, University of Applied Sciences (2004); Fluent in English, German, French and Spanish
Background: Peter Bachmann has worked in the media industry for 10 years. He was a writer for several newspapers in Switzerland and was employed as an editor and reporter by the Neue Mittelland Zeitung. In China, Peter was the Chief Editor of the "Bridge", the magazine of the Swiss Chinese Chamber of Commerce. He was in charge of the project and wrote numerous articles and conducted several CEO-interviews. Peter also co-authored the “Bridge Vision”; a paper that discussed and outlined the future of the publication.
Peter was then hired by the Shanghai Business Review as a publisher where he was responsible for managing special projects such as publications and surveys. That was also the time when he met Gary and Richard. Since spring 2007, Peter is in charge of operations at BizChinaUpdate and, at the same time, works on a project basis for Value Communication Services (VCS), a WFOE of Telemarketing Japan, carrying out projects in areas such as communications, customer relationship management and sales consulting.
Richard Santoro
Marketing Director and Managing Partner
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Education: Thames Valley University London (1999), the London Institute of Marketing (2000)
Background: Since finishing his studies in the UK, Richard quickly gained his grounding within the media, marketing and creative industry. Working for BAFTA, Microsoft and GT Interactive in London before moving to Hong Kong where he stayed for several years as a design director handling agency advertising for Euro RSCG and managing Global product lines and brand communications at Neil Pryde.
Richard has been working in Shanghai since 2005, one year as Director of Accounts at the Shanghai Business Review magazine, finally offered position of Associate Publisher before leaving to join his current position as National Account Director, China for Value Communication Services, a leading Japanese WFOE, specialising in CRM consulting, direct marketing, EDM and contact centre BPO services. Richard was also instrumental in planning the initial development of the China Supply Chain Council’s magazine CHAINA.
Richard is also an active member of the British Chamber of Commerce, and participates at the ITC focus group. He is also a corporate member via Value Communications of the China Direct Marketing Association.
Charlene Ruan
Special Projects Director
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Education: University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Journalism, Bachelor of Arts: Journalism
Background: Charlene currently works as the Director of Client Services for the Shanghai office of Argent Trading, Inc., an international corporate trading firm headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to helping companies restore value to underperforming assets. Charlene works in developing an extensive client roster and in strengthening the direction of the new office in order to contribute effectively to the core value of Argent Trading, Inc.
In the past she has held various positions through a variety of media outlets, including Good Morning America, KTLA channel 5, Teen Magazine, a Hearst Publication and even briefly at Shanghai Media Network. Charlene's experience and underlying passion, however, spreads across the apparel and fashion industry. She has previously worked as the Regional Director and Buyer of a foreign retail company responding to market trends and supervising the creation of their Los Angeles office. In addition, she was formerly a Senior Consultant and Analyst for an international fashion office, aiding and advising major American retail stores in market trends and resources.
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