Chinese prosperity boosting drinks groups
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Growing consumer spending levels in China have helped boost sales at two of the world's leading drinks groups.
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Economic growth is booming in countries like India and China where American popular culture does not dominate.
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Investors cheer as the company sweetens the pot.
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The acquisition of the French perfume and cosmetics group Marionnaud by AS Watson, a company owned by the Hong Kong magnate Li Ka-shing, is another indication of how Chinese investors are expanding abroad.
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HONG KONG : Brewing giant SABMiller has said that China Resources Breweries Ltd., a joint venture in which it has a 49-percent stake, has bought the Chinese brewing interests of Australian brewer Lion Nathan for 154 million dollars.
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By Anonymous  US companies participate in a broad range of programs that bring benefit to the people of China and strengthen the bonds of USChina friendship beyond the commercial realm.
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Associated British Foods is growing its sugar business by teaming up with a Chinese producer.
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Businesses in China are having a hard time finding able-bodied workers and are having to pay the workers they can find more money.
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NEW YORK -- Investors' appetites for new alternative energy companies remain robust but tastes have shifted: while ethanol makers seem to have exhausted their favor, Chinese solar cell makers continue to pull in fresh capital.
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When China booms, so do UK mining stocks. China&#39;s insatiable appetite for commodities this year has been the main reason that mining stocks have had another good year.
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A spokesman for China&#39;s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in Beijing Friday that the 9.7 percent increase of consumption in the first three quarters this year is &quot;encouraging&quot;.
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TRANS-Tasman beer and wine group Lion Nathan is selling its Chinese beer business to the second largest brewer in China for $US154 million ($219 million).
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A giant global producer, China is expanding its role as a consumer and, in the process, creating threats and opportunity.
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Chinaâs sizzling economy grew 11.5 percent in the third quarter, surging ahead despite official efforts to cool the countryâs boom.
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BEIJING - Two employees at a Chinese bank dream of getting rich quick. The only two with the keys to the vault, they steal a few thousand dollars to see whether anyone notices. No one does. In the course of a month, they take out $6.6 million.
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The expanded program offers free services to Chinese consumers and small businesses.
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Philip Ehrmann, whose Gartmore China Opportunities Fund rose 14.7 percent during the past three months, is boosting his investment in Chinese retailers such as Wumart Stores Inc., anticipating that China's will remain the world's fastest-growing economy in 2005.