Under the two of them, the Red Lobster restaurants got a facelift, with new music systems, and colorful plates to replace stark white china.
Now, worryingly, something similar may threaten Haier, China's leading white-goods maker, which recently failed with a bid for Maytag, an American rival.
Guangdong Kelon, China's largest private white-goods maker, was the first private company to list in Hong Kong, with a share issue in 1996.
Before deregulation in 1978, airlines competed almost entirely on service, thick steaks, white napkins, porcelain china.
Its 400-year-old synagogue is decorated with blue-and-white willow pattern tiles from China.
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Company name refers to high-quality white porcelain that was exported from China to the West in the 18th century.
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The flagship center, located on Maoming Road in Shanghai, China, has seven theme rooms: Snow White, Lion King, Cars, Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Winnie The Pooh and Toy Story.
White House officials said the plant in China was to meant to increase sales in China and across Asia and has strengthened the financial bottom line of the company's U.S. operations.
Nigel White, the general manager of Avis in China, says that the rental market, which took about 40 years to mature in Europe, will do so in 10 to 15 years in China.
When we meet, he wears a china-blue double-breasted Van Noten suit and white distressed Church's loafers that match the slightly cartoonish white round-frame sunglasses he puts on later as we walk over to Van Noten's Antwerp store, where he often shows up unannounced.
Analysts at Standard Bank (SA) note that silver stockpiles remain high (especially in China) and that demand from the industrial sector for the white metal is tepid at best.
Also on Wednesday, the White House released a statement saying that Obama will visit China this year.
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White put Abbott in position to capitalize on growth in China and nearby emerging markets by spending hundreds of millions of dollars in the last five years on new manufacturing and research plants.
Their visit comes at a particularly delicate time, scarcely a month after the breakdown of the planned six-party talks (with U.S., China, Russia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea) that the White House insists is the proper venue for resolving the nuclear standoff.
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Most notably, the X920e for China and Russia is the only model that comes with red capacitive buttons instead of white, and for some reason the J Butterfly managed to get away with no logo placement at all on the front.
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But even Barack Obama delayed a meeting in the White House until February, to avoid spoiling the mood for his trip to China last year.
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Thursday's People's Daily says China has opened up markets in manufacturing, agriculture and service industries, citing a White Paper released by the State Council.
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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"With demand for steel and other metals from China likely to remain strong for the foreseeable future, even if it does cool from recent white-hot levels, we think RT offers excellent value, even as we concede that the stock price has already had a great run, " he says.
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