China is the world's factory, but its top firms remain oddly anonymous.

[KRonn]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/207381

Generic Giants

China is the world's factory, but its top firms remain oddly anonymous.

Huawei may be the best company you've never heard of, and that's a big problem for China. Founded in 1988 by a former People's Liberation Army officer with less than $4,000 in startup capital, Huawei has grown from a small importer into a growing giant—revenue rose 43 percent last year to more than $18 billion—now poised to overtake Nokia Siemens as the world's second-largest maker of telecom hardware, after Ericsson. Even a decade ago, China watchers were touting Huawei as one of the companies most likely to become China's first big global brand. Its headquarters in booming Shenzhen look like a Silicon Valley transplant, with high-tech laboratories, manicured lawns, and staff swimming pools. It made BusinessWeek's latest list of the world's 10 "most influential" companies, alongside Apple, Wal-Mart, Toyota, and Google. Yet Huawei is by far the least internationally recognizable name on the list.

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[Neil]

China can never have a global brand, as China can't ever produce anything of quality.

[Admiral Yi]

They could start by coming up with better company names.

[KRonn]

They could start by coming up with better company names.

China, Inc.   

[DGuller]

They could start by coming up with better company names.

China, Inc.   

Or Yu Wan Mei.

[saskganesh]

seafood salvage and polymer injection.

SSPI?

[Jacob]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/207381

Generic Giants

China is the world's factory, but its top firms remain oddly anonymous.

Huawei may be the best company you've never heard of, and that's a big problem for China. Founded in 1988 by a former People's Liberation Army officer with less than $4,000 in startup capital, Huawei has grown from a small importer into a growing giant—revenue rose 43 percent last year to more than $18 billion—now poised to overtake Nokia Siemens as the world's second-largest maker of telecom hardware, after Ericsson. Even a decade ago, China watchers were touting Huawei as one of the companies most likely to become China's first big global brand. Its headquarters in booming Shenzhen look like a Silicon Valley transplant, with high-tech laboratories, manicured lawns, and staff swimming pools. It made BusinessWeek's latest list of the world's 10 "most influential" companies, alongside Apple, Wal-Mart, Toyota, and Google. Yet Huawei is by far the least internationally recognizable name on the list.

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It kind of makes sense though, doesn't it?  Huawei has apparently risen in the last decade while the others have been around for much longer.  Its rise has been in large part due to importing and to providing products for the domestic Chinese market, or if outside, product that has been rebranded.  Stands to reason that it's less known than the others, though I'm sure it'll change.

[Josephus]

China can never have a global brand, as China can't ever produce anything of quality.

They said that of the Soviet Union too, and look at the great brands they went on to produce.

I can't think of any specifically right now, though.

[DGuller]

China can never have a global brand, as China can't ever produce anything of quality.

They said that of the Soviet Union too, and look at the great brands they went on to produce.

I can't think of any specifically right now, though.

Aeroflot seems like a brand recognizable by everyone.

[Iormlund]

China can never have a global brand, as China can't ever produce anything of quality.

They said that of the Soviet Union too, and look at the great brands they went on to produce.

I can't think of any specifically right now, though.

I can think of quite a few, mostly in the weapons industry.

[DisturbedPervert]

China can never have a global brand, as China can't ever produce anything of quality.

They said that of the Soviet Union too

And Japan.

[Jacob]

China can never have a global brand, as China can't ever produce anything of quality.

Excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan, I assume?

[Neil]

China can never have a global brand, as China can't ever produce anything of quality.

Excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan, I assume?

It would appear so.  It seems that the guidance an anglophones can create skill.

[derspiess]

The Chicoms just can't do branding & marketing.  Just isn't in their DNA, it seems.  Lenovo might be an exception, but then again they're mostly reaping all of IBM's branding efforts.

[Habsburg]

I won't buy anything from the Student-Tibetian-Muslim killers until they allow the Republic of China to claim it's rightful place as the government of China.