In terms of direct exposure to the Chinese consumer market, the Global X China Consumer ETF ( CHIQ) is the only fund available to US investors.
China's economy faces a WTO-mandated overhaul--that's precisely why the country's reformist leaders wanted the deal--and farmers and factories around the world will have greatly expanded access to China's vast consumer market.
Long important as a manufacturing base, China has become a crucial consumer market for Apple as well.
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As their incomes rise, so will consumption, making China the third-largest consumer market in the world after the United States and Japan.
Furthermore, locating the factories in China's hinterland puts them in a better position to service China's growing domestic consumer market instead of exporting to consumers in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Third, although Lenovo has gone a long way toward blending its Chinese and American assets, the consumer market outside China particularly in North America remains stubbornly beyond its grasp.
China's labor and its growing consumer market will provide a boon for U.S. businesses, and our investments will ultimately help China's people escape decades of oppression.
In 2006, McKinsey predicted that the by 2025, the Chinese middle class would reach 612 million and China would become the third largest consumer market in the world after the U.S. and Japan.
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China remains a phenomenal mobile Internet consumer market.
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As for the WTO itself, bringing China in would not only open up what is potentially the world's biggest consumer market, but it would also ensure that China does not stand aloof from the trading rules that govern commerce in the globalized new century.
Foreign firms investing in China do so partly to tap its growing consumer market, but overwhelmingly to produce for export, according to Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach.
We feel that nothing could be better than the opportunity to produce in the targeted consumer market itself, in this case China.
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The total consumer market volume for soft drinks in China is forecast to reach somewhere in the region of 20.6 billion liters by 2016, growing by about 47% against 2011.
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Add to that anxiety about weakened growth in China and the slump in consumer confidence, and you have a skittish market.
If the magnitude of a domestic market of a country is measured by the size of her population, China is a large resource (labor) and product (consumer) market.
Stanford professor Michael Spence, Nobel laureate in economics, and Shaun Rein, founder and managing director of China Market Research Group (CMR), both told me that China might very well exceed Japan to become the second-largest consumer market in the world.
The market priority for Huawei's Consumer Business Group is China, followed by Europe and Japan.
For a relatively new fashion brand, this focus on China just goes to cement the fact that the Chinese consumer is an important market segment for the fashion and luxury sector.
For Apple as well as other consumer products companies the best strategy is to build up China market share quickly before counterfeiters can enter the field.
Thus, even if Venus never makes a big impact on China's Internet market, simply embedding Windows CE in millions of Chinese consumer products will create momentum that can only help the marketing of Windows CE elsewhere.
Consumer discretionary stocks are roughly 5% of the the total market capitalization of China Inc, compared to approximately 20% for Japan and 15% for France.
Most succeeded by either dominating the local market (most of the richest people in China now lead domestically-focused consumer goods, real estate or Internet companies), or assembling PCs, phones, components, tablets, printers or other gadgets designed by overseas firms.
Earlier this month, RIM said it was preparing to launch an applications store and consumer Internet services in China as part of its push into the world's top mobile market.
This latest product falls in line with a growing narrative among big emerging market fund managers that China is no longer a pure play export market, but is on the verge of becoming a consumer market.
With China and India showing faster growth rates than Western economies, research analysts have been bullish about luxury, positing that even if the West slows down, a rise in consumer spending among the newly rich of China, India and other emerging economies will lift the luxury market.
Why shouldn't more be asked from a place that, as well as being the world's most-populous country, is already its biggest exporter, its biggest car market, its biggest carbon-emitter and its biggest consumer of energy (a rank China itself, typically, contests)?
China has gotten rich over the last thirty years, in part, from exporting the small mass-market consumer goods that fill the shelves of my local Target before they make their way into my apartment.
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