How could our fledgling China Market Research Group take on the big consulting firms?

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He is the founder and managing director of the China Market Research Group.

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Shaun Rein is the founder and managing director of the China Market Research Group, a strategic market intelligence firm.

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"It is an absolute nightmare, " said Shaun Rein, whose consulting firm, China Market Research Group, employs about 20 analysts in the country.

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Shaun Rein is the founder and managing director of the China Market Research Group, a strategic market intelligence firm focused on China.

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My own firm, the China Market Research Group, is actively hiring but simply can't grow as fast as we want and as the market is demanding.

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"The average migrant worker's wages increased 15% this year, and inflation is only 1.9%, so that means lower-wage workers can spend, " said Shaun Rein, managing director of China Market Research Group in Shanghai.

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After slaving for three years building up my firm, the China Market Research Group, positioned as higher than McKinsey in price and quality for strategy projects focused on China, I feared losing it all.

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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.

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Last year Chinese energy drink sales reached 5 billion yuan, registering an annual growth of 45%, according to the market research group China Investment Research Consultant.

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