Industrial production has stopped contracting, in part thanks to a temporary cut in sales taxes on cars and white goods.
Tsuga is placing big hopes on the home building materials and white goods sales in the near term and auto industry sales further out.
They could also make and sell consumer electronics, like localized versions of MIT Media Lab OLPC laptops and PCs, and white goods, like televisions, air-conditioners, fans, rice cookers and refrigerators.
The two sectors that provide the most hope right now are the property related market, with housing sales getting better, and the ongoing dwindling stocks in the industrials, mainly machinery, autos and white goods.
That has allowed the company to master a fast-follow market approach, and it is moving towards technology leadership where it can, as it ranges across LTE networks, smartphones, computers, TVs, and white goods, and gradually content.
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Given these priorities, Toshiba has assigned production of different lines to selected countries: refrigerators and other white goods in Thailand, televisions and other brown goods in Singapore, and information equipment in the Philippines.
From New York, Brandwise.com offers product reviews and price information about white goods and electrical appliances.
Discretionary incomes went elsewhere: into mobile phones, televisions, white goods and motorcycles.
So effective was the tuangou movement that some retailers first sought to reject volume tuangou purchases of white goods and autos, but all eventually caved in, with some eventually setting up group purchasing departments to specially serve tuangou buyers.
Copper imports into China increased 11 percent compared to the previous month due to increased demand from power infrastructure, white goods restocking and auto production.
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This is true buying a PC in an electronics store, a washing machine in a white goods store and even was true buying an espresso maker being flogged off cheap in a supermarket.
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On individual credit, the annual IOF rate will fall from 3% to 2.5% per year and Brazil is also back to cutting the Industrialized Products Tax (IPI) on white line goods such as refrigerators and washing machines.
He started out after inheriting a small white-goods firm and buying the Ariston brand.
He announced a range of new finance and insurance products as part of a Trade and Investment White Paper aimed at helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to export more goods overseas.
Haier in white goods, Legend in computers and Konka in television sets are all examples of Chinese firms with strategies based on their own brands or other intellectual property.
In a sense it has industrialized innovation, which means it can comfortably range across white goods, TVs, autos, mobile and computing devices.
There were some clever costumes (furs, black-and-white polka-dot flamenco dresses, natty gangster suits for the smugglers) and ideas (the smuggled "goods" were people).
The market for white goods remains largely regional, thanks to high transport costs and different tastes.
The richest tenth, about 90% of whom are white, accounts for 46% of national consumption of goods and services.
Much of the steel produced is shipped to Thailand, via Teesport, and is used mainly in the automotive sector, with some turned into white goods.
They argue the government aggravated the situation when it took control of land owned by white farmers, which triggered a sharp drop in production and exports of agricultural goods.
But he is also right in seeing that the old way of moving white goods, in which a floorwalker had to explain every icemaker and vegetable drawer, was too labor-intensive to survive.
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It also makes the white goods in the kitchen, the smartphone, the tablet, the computer and laptop.
These substantial Mittelstand companies include such famous names as Miele (white goods), Behr (air conditioners), Stihl (chainsaws) and Trumpf (laser-cutters), which each have a turnover of between euro1 billion and euro2 billion and employ between 5, 000 and 15, 000 people.
From its base in Qingdao, white-goods manufacturer Haier has become a hugely successful Chinese multinational, hawking fridges, microwaves and washing machines from Auckland to Accra.
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