New Zealand forestry firms unite to target China market
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About 20 forestry and wood processing companies in New Zealand have reached an agreement on planning to work together to take on the highly lucrative Chinese market.
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As Chinese companies cut into their market share at home, European businesses are stepping up demands for China to open its own vast markets and ensure a level playing field with local firms.
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British and Chinese companies have signed key business agreements, including a multi-millon-dollar engine deal between Rolls-Royce and Air China, witnessed by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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VIENTIANE, Laos -- China moved yesterday to expand its influence in a region long dominated by the United States, signing an accord with Southeast Asian nations aimed at creating the world's largest free trade area by 2010 -- a sprawling market of nearly 2 billion people.
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Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. and Nanjing Automobile Corp., said they will combine their production assets in hopes of creating a globally competitive firm.
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China, already a manufacturing  powerhouse, is flexing its financial muscles as companies based  there snatch up famous-name products from established companies  in the United States and Europe looking to divest low-margin  businesses.
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Carter Holt Harvey Ltd., the biggest lumber maker in Australia and New Zealand, said it is considering selling a third of its forests as it focuses on more profitable manufacturing businesses.
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NEW YORK/HONG KONG  - Chinese companies are  starting to pursue North American and European electronics and  consumer brands as their government pushes them to build global  sales forces for their low-cost products.
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion    will target multinational corporations in the  first phase of its new push into the huge Chinese market, its  co-chief executive said on Wednesday.
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Eleven of the world's largest companies are teaming up to see how they can work with thousands of their suppliers to curb greenhouse gas emissions, a green consultancy said on Sunday.
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China plans to let foreign companies take stakes in local television production companies, in a move giving international media companies better access to the world's biggest market.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil has met Chinese wishes  to recognize the Asian country as a "market economy" in a move  to solder the two emerging giants' growing commercial ties, the  nations' leaders said on Friday.
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The wood furniture maker uses a niche strategy to work around industry problems.
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Two local logistics operators last week announced plans to expand their activities in countries further east - moves that come in line with predictions and decisions by other industry players.
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The Chinese government asked the nation&#39;s biggest carmaker and largest coal miner to add domestic share sales to overseas initial public offerings to help boost a stock market that lost
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Southeast Asian and Chinese officials preparing for a summit in Laos next week gave final touches today to an agreement that aims for a free trade area with a market of nearly two billion people by 2010.
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China and Hong Kong expanded their free trade pact on Friday, with a deal to let Hong Kong companies enter a variety of businesses ranging from oil product sales to moviemaking and media marketing.