Acer Jumps on the Chain Store PC Retailing Bandwagon
China Tech News reports:
Chinese electronics retailer Suning is entering a strategic partnership with Acer for the computer manufacturer to bring its products to about 200 Suning stores in Chinese mainland before the end of this year.
Acer says that it will join hands with Suning to explore China’s PC market and aims to sell 150,000 Acer [...]
Will Dell Get Hit By a Chinese Refrigerator?
Dell may be changing its China strategy a lot more radically than just selling computers at Gome. USITO, quoting an article from Digitimes, explains that Dell is considering purchasing Founder, the third overall PC vendor in China.
There were rumors of the sale of Founder late in 2006, both to Dell and to the refrigerator [...]
Retailing Microsoft Office in China: Microsoft, Lenovo, and Gome
Pacific Epoch reports that Gome and Microsoft have signed an agreement that Gome will only pre-install and sell legal copies of Microsoft software in its stores.
The deal has limited significance for Microsoft. While the Chinese market continues to be saturated with pirated software, Microsoft is slowly winning the battle. The Gome deal is [...]
1.3 Billion Customers are for Suckers
Shanghai Daily reports that Dell has found a local partner to implements its retail sales strategy:
Under the deal, announced yesterday, Dell computers will be marketed in 700 Gome Electrical Appliance stores within three to five months, 70 percent of the chain’s total outlets in China, according to Gome Vice President Wang Junzhou.
There’s a quote from [...]
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