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the multinationals have been trying to deal with in the shortest time customer complaints.

He appears to see the many barriers to trade thrown up by his rent-seeking minions as a means of preventing multinationals from taking over.

How much of your China funding comes from multinationals in China such as Marriott and how much from Chinese businesses themselves?

Mr Hulme said the two European multinationals might be unwilling to sell in the short term at prices that Huntsman would be willing to pay.

Multinationals benefiting from China's growth have long been a safer way for global investors to gain at least some indirect China exposure.

If it had grown up in those cities, he thinks, it might have evolved to serve the sophisticated multinationals nearby.

Some businesses can be found nestling close to Brazilian multinationals, in the way that growing companies cosy up to American universities.

"The decline of new jobs is an undisputable fact. Many multinationals stopped their campus recruiting last October, " she said.

High-tech multinationals today pay midlevel China executives at least $300, 000 a year, twice what they paid six years ago, Mr. Luo said.

you all can dream on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . you think any multinationals want to give up the China market ?

If another Big Four firm went down, there would not be enough capable of auditing multinationals to go around.

He's almost certainly right, which might explain much of the run-up in R& D work multinationals are shifting to China.

And, maybe, just maybe, if American multinationals actually paid 35 percent of their profits in taxes, he might have a case.

Nor has it secured management control, and the experience of multinationals in similar situations has never been inspiring. No matter.

It has half-a-dozen branches of its own and a franchise serving multinationals.

Mr Chandrasekaran said the first source of China business was multinationals operating there, followed by domestic Chinese companies.

He likes small, co-operatively run firms, but how that model could be made to work for multinationals is far from clear.

Supply chains, multinationals are discovering, need as much tender loving care as the animals on the land.

Finally, in terms of corporate earnings it is the developed nations that still yield the greatest windfall to US multinationals.

He did suggest, though, that publicly naming multinationals that attempted to compromise the system could act as a deterrent.

It mostly starts with the multinationals, to be honest with you.

All this helped spawn a troupe of new and ambitious Brazilian multinationals (see our special report).

The point is simple: Chinese citizens are getting wealthier; now smart multinationals can help them get healthier.

Multinationals do not feel threatened by this; their operations tend to rely on labour rather than big capital investment.

Maybe it is the summer weather, but when the subject of Beijing comes up these days, multinationals seem to get hot under the collar.

'Across the region, the local companies have been less sensitive to the economic recession' than multinationals, Mr. Heath said.

It has bumped up the earnings of U. S. multinationals, because profits earned overseas in other currencies buy more dollars.

Nor have they always come out on top when up against multinationals in their bid to secure control of oil.

"There are some multinationals remitting back profits or withdrawing investment to help ease fund shortages at home, " he said.

China has also been putting increased pressure on multinationals to hand over important technologies in return for access to its market.

For multinationals, these ventures can be a path to accessing the new ideas, customers, suppliers, and talent of emerging markets.

Glocalization is a combination of "globalization" and "localization" and is the traditional approach adopted by multinationals.

Jobs at multinationals tend to pay above-average wages and, for decades, sustained the American middle class.

Many multinationals, meanwhile, have long since begun to focus their China manufacturing operations on the vast Chinese market.

Too much information is currently hushed up while multinationals cite competitive confidentiality as the reason for lack of transparency.

Owing to the above, to some extent, culture gaps have been narrowed down in the multinationals.

Many multinationals, having decided to relocate production to China, could not change plans for projects already under way.

You can find our clients all over the world, ranging from She's to the biggest multinationals in the argufied business.

Just three Brazilian enterprises have enough foreign assets to rank among the top 100 emerging-market multinationals.

Our clients include Fortune 500 companies and multinationals who seek us out for our extensive experience and hospitality expertise.

Western multinationals complain that Chinese companies steal technology in a government-backed modernisation drive.

The other winners have been foreign multinationals, often in local joint ventures, using China as an export base.

In addition, "It is a good way of allowing multinationals to help develop the business infrastructure in new markets, " Cox said.

The trend stems in part from Beijing's moves to ease restrictions on overseas investments, as it seeks to nurture homegrown multinationals.

Multinationals are fighting back, in part through local acquisitions.

It adds that some of the multinationals' sales derive from components exported from China that end up in items reltailed in China.

Some big multinationals have had the same auditor for more than a century.

The multinationals are preparing for a downturn by implementing strategies intended to keep profits growing even as demand slows.

Some multinationals are, however, finding different and creative ways to get around the problem.

The hotel chain has been bought by one of the big multinationals .

Mr O'Neill is right to give credit to leading western multinationals, notably carmakers, for spotting the potential early.

For multinationals, encouraging greater innovation from places such as India is not just a luxury.

The emergence of new multinationals in Russia is part of a broader global phenomenon.

Many of these lenders simply followed their clients, initially offering trade finance and treasury services to multinationals.

Work at the pilot plant has proved slow , talks with multinationals remain inconclusive and there is no production timetable .

The other attraction is a plentiful supply of two things emerging-market multinationals want: expertise and strong brands.

While they grapple with that, multinationals are also coming to grips with Chinese wage inflation.

Having watched the breakneck expansion of foreign multinationals over the past decade, it wants to create its own global stars.

Already Chinese companies such as Lenovo, Haier and CNOOC are beginning to compete with leading multinationals.

And I'm only back from a visit to the U. S. A. , where we visited 13 multinationals.

With all the world's eyes on China, the city's role as a hub of headquarters for multinationals looms larger every year.

We decided to raise the money by offering a big plot of vacant land for sale to multinationals.

The rise of emerging market multinationals was also highlighted in another report from rival consultancy group Accenture.

Even sophisticated multinationals could set up a representative office in hours without concern for continuous paperwork.

I do not blame bright, ambitious individuals for choosing to work inside multinationals, law firms, banks and such like.

The incident highlights the public relations risks for multinationals posed by the Chinese internet, with its more than 440m users.

What should western (and Japanese) multinationals do in the face of this onslaught?

The dollar's decline has added impetus to the earnings of American exporters and multinationals with overseas subsidiaries.

His debut 1998 thriller Pi hurled a math geek into a hell storm of mental illness, murderous multinationals and messianic theologists.

Bankers and lawyers in Cayman work with the lawyers of American multinationals on structured-finance transactions.

In telecommunications, regulators likewise set the industry standards to disadvantage the multinationals.

Executives at multinationals need to understand which consumers are spending, where they are and what they're buying.

Oppenheimer pointed out that multinationals like Nike are deriving larger portions of their earnings from the big emerging markets.

The company started IP rights litigation against multinationals in April 2010.

For many multinationals, the new rules will be an improvement on the status quoin terms of clarity and predictability .

Our respected client list includes some of the largest multinationals and local companies in Asia.

With China's emphasis on innovation, the centres have long made for good public relations and government relations for the multinationals.

Multinationals speak privately of their frustration at the slow pace and opacity of the country's merger review process.

He wondered if it still made sense for foreign multinationals to form venture in Mexico.

Human resources experts agree that multinationals have returned to favouring expats in certain roles.

Y. On the plus side, he noted, the convergence should eventually allow multinationals to save on their accounting bills.

Although France has several multinationals doing well in Asia and plenty of tiny firms, it lacks medium-sized manufacturers.

Unions in developed countries protest job losses and pressure groups accuse multinationals of exploiting third world workforces.

Expect earnings disappointments from multinationals everywhere with big China businesses to increase.

To meet its ambitions and become a rich and powerful nation will require multinationals to flourish overseas.

Beyond that, a few Chinese characteristics of the law have spurred concerns from multinationals.

But frustration has led to frightening outbreaks of anger against multinationals.

These may create a substitution effect with multinationals supplying the service from abroad rather than establish an affiliate.

Jordan Siegel of Harvard Business School reports that foreign multinationals are recruiting large numbers of educated Korean women.

For workers, it is good news when U. S. multinationals start to complain about rising cost of offshoring production to China.

After all, globalization has forced domestic companies to compete with multinationals even at the domestic market.

Multinationals prevailed on Congress to approve a one-year tax holiday once before, as part of a jobs package in 2004.

Multinationals should help bolster the rules of the game rather than pandering to the most unscrupulous players.

Many multinationals once targeted only the wealthiest segments of emerging societies.

And politically speaking, "window dressing" R& D centres no longer work for multinationals.

Given the inherent instability and culture clashes in many China joint ventures, the case will be closely watched by other multinationals.

Providing cheap Chinese labour to multinationals from Japan, the US and Europe was a means, not an end.

By contrast, multinationals based in developed countries often make such postings a prerequisite to career advancement.

Dozens of multinationals want to be in south-east Asia's biggest and fastest-growing consumer market.

Chinese companies increasingly knowing how to brand is one of three big trends multinationals need to stay on top of now.

Costs matter, too, but most multinationals try to disperse costs and sales evenly in the regions in which they operate, he says.

Apart from multinationals, job opportunities for foreigners are increasingly on offer at Chinese companies.

The survey was conducted between late June and July on multinationals based in Europe, North America and Asia.

But for emerging-market multinationals eager to conquer a global market, the acquisition of foreign brands and expertise makes sense.

Restrictions on outward investment by Indian multinationals have also been considerably relaxed.

The quarterly results of many large American multinationals (other than banks) show how.

Little wonder big multinationals are already making plans on the presumption that China will gradually shift to consumer-led demand.

In the case of US, only if you work for a company that IRS recognize. Mostly these are multinationals or foreign agencies.

Their ambition and confidence is a sign of something new in global business: the arrival in force of emerging-market multinationals.

Further, half of the China-origin patents were granted to subsidiaries of foreign multinationals.

Where it comes to multinationals, the situation is a bit different, but still a lot more positive than elsewhere in the world.

In this field, many multinationals have explored and founded different yet effective modes of trans-cultural combination.

Multinationals are again complaining to U. S. trade officials about a problem they thought was resolved months ago.

In fact, the real threat comes from overly chummy links between a state and its multinationals.

The other big challenge facing multinationals is hiring and retaining enough talented locals to sustain their growth plans.

China's state-owned national champions and aspiring multinationals are ambitious, adaptive and fast learners (as were Japan's).

The world's biggest multinationals are becoming increasingly happy to do their research and development in emerging markets.

The multinationals have led this globalisation of CSR, but the basic principles are now being adopted indigenously in most regions.

Relatively few foreign multinationals, however, have party committees.

China's plans are not only a call to rally China's domestic industries overseas. They are a warning for foreign multinationals.

Today, multinationals have more options at their disposal, including mergers and acquisitions.

High turnover of trained managers is one of the most frequently heard complaints from multinationals operating in China.

It says the sale of state assets to corrupt officials, the super rich and foreign multinationals is illegal and unconstitutional.

The countries are not broke, they have been robbed by the bankers and the tax skipping multinationals slavers.

These multinationals typically have big U. S. business interests, so they may not perform that differently from U. S. shares.

In recent years, however, the tide had turned against the multinationals, they are now viewed by many countries with suspicion.

The multinationals, by contrast, spared only a handful of people, selling to the province's towns from afar.

Shame on you and the other multinationals who are eroding our diversity and free choice.

They discuss ambitious regulations in global forums, or look to giant multinationals and well-heeled NGOs to set an example.

A vast security network and compliant multinationals keep the mainland's Net under Beijing's thumb. But technology may foil the censors yet.

His calculus for moving closer to home is simpler than that of multinationals comparing costs of production in different countries.

A genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies.

Multinationals will face choices where what is locally acceptable would be criminal back home.

American multinationals such as Microsoft are establishing research and development facilities across the developing world.

Multinationals can generally defer paying tax to their home governments by retaining profit earned abroad in their foreign units.

Compensation levels are "on a par with multinationals or more" , says one headhunter.

The result is more expensive managers, a phenomenon that has put paid to the localisation strategies of many multinationals.

Nor is cost as big an advantage to emerging-country multinationals as it might seem.

IBM and the other multinationals are becoming increasingly nervous about the fifth-biggest Indian outsourcer, HCL Technologies.

If anything, the gap between these multinationals and their Chinese counterparts has widened, Mr Nolan says.

More important: Those jobs are working for local companies, not doing low-level engineering for big US multinationals.

Since 1992 we have translated thousands of projects for major multinationals and top companies.

Some fund managers see exposure best achieved through local subsidiaries of multinationals.

In his scheme, multinationals began when 19th-century firms set up sales offices abroad for goods shipped from factories at home.

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Multinationals have made large investments in Thailand.

Thus the interactions between multinationals'tax planning and their organizational structures arise from their tax planning activities.

The multinationals are betting on the potential of the expanding Chinese middle class.

Student interest in foreign multinationals has fallen dramatically.

It is not just multinationals that are looking to accelerate their China investment plans.

Chinese authorities are studying reforms that will make it possible for multinationals to list in Shanghai.

Some multinationals are diversified by product line as well as geography. Based in St.

The state oil company lacks the means, and multinationals the will, to invest much in expanding natural-gas output.

The recent currency devaluation in Venezuela hit many consumer goods multinationals.

At number 887 are KFC and Pizza Hut, examples of what can go right in the relationship between multinationals and China consumers.

Degree in Business A minimum of 6 years in marketing or multinationals, preferably within the FMCG industry and MBA degree.

Moreover, we plan and implement various market activities for Chinese units of multinationals.

Multinationals are powerful, and Chinese state-run companies make use of many favorable polices to grab bigger market shares.

Multinationals avoid taxes by moving profits around their global subsidiaries.

China will create new technologies and will spawn many multinationals with operations abroad in the years ahead.

Two of Lemon Tree's three properties are in Gurgaon, a suburb of New Delhi home to many multinationals.

Multinationals also should be willing to enforce their Chinese IP rights against infringers.

The 240 multinationals that responded to the questionnaire put the US in second place, followed by India, Brazil and Russia.

They are notorious for targeting politicians, government agencies and multinationals.

We have a team of more than 20 senior scientists leading the firm, many of whom used to be at multinationals like Merck and Pfizer.

Ever since World War I and the Russian revolution, host countries have shown willingness to seize the assets of multinationals.

We are actually better for the multinationals than the contractors they fly in and fly out.

The regulators' plan envisages American-based multinationals switching to the standards voluntarily in 2010.

Our customers are globally located, ranging from multinationals to small jobbing shops.

He argues that by joining with local generics firms, multinationals can get "cheap access to the middle class" in these markets.

And when the challengers do join forces with well-known multinationals, they increasingly do so from a position of strength.

Other banks concentrate on servicing multinationals.

There is scant evidence that wages are driven down by multinationals, nor that they help perpetuate indefinitely bad working conditions.

The meddling state lets multinationals in, only to squeeze them dry of their valuable technologies and then push them out.

Today, the huge Chinese market is fundamental to the health of large Western multinationals.

Indeed, facing a moribund US and Europe, consumer multinationals are today particularly grateful for their emerging market operations.

It is far easier for multinationals to be green than address labour rights.

The trend of emerging-market multinationals buying firms in rich countries faltered after the market crash.

The truth is that when you buy multinationals for emerging markets, you also buy their sagging developed markets businesses.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, the US regulator, is expected to push for allowing US multinationals to use IFRS by 2011.

Not all of the companies relocating to places like Penang are Western multinationals; in fact, many are Chinese firms.

Even when there is truth in the protectionist arguments, developed world multinationals cannot afford to rely on political counter-measures.

Blazona's firm is a prime example of a new breed of small business: startup multinationals.

he hoped this strategy would attract foreign investment by multinationals.

but when emerging-country multinationals operate in rich countries they tend to adopt local mores.

That led to great enthusiasm among multinationals over the promise of India's 1. 2-billion consumers.

Of course similar discussions are also taking place at multinationals.

Won't multinationals shift production from one place to another when a nation gets too strict about infringements (n. ) to fair competition?

This small company has been swallowed upby one of the multinationals.

Many of the world's leading companies are multinationals with operations scattered throughout the world.

A continued global boom buoyed multinationals like IBM, General Electric and Coca-Cola.

Multinationals also can benefit from several positive IP trends within China.

But the process is widely regarded by multinationals as a fairly weird kickback.

China represents 'the single most strategic investment market in the world for multinationals, ' said Mr.

At the white-collar level, most multinationals need to rethink their human resource strategies.

Our standards are extremely high, but many multinationals are facing the same problem.

The idea of working for multinationals has much attraction to young people nowadays.

The high-profile accidents have not dented the enthusiasm of the big chemicals multinationals for investing in the Chinese market.

Multinationals that dismiss such innovation as localisation do so at their peril.

Multinationals that make infrastructure equipment would feel the effect.

Multinationals own or have access to less than 10 per cent of world oil resources.

Our clients are all foreign multinationals with presence or interest in Asia.

To do this, China wants to make better use of the knowledge and expertise of multinationals.

They also lack home-grown talent: most senior staff are poached from multinationals.

And how should the existing multinationals respond to the challenge?

The irony is, many multinationals are in the camp of lobbying against fast revaluation.

There is no turning back for emerging market multinationals.

Google's move also put pressure on large multinationals, at a time when many are feeling their own tensions in China.

Four multinationals, Kraft, Nestle, Proctor and Gamble and Sara Lee dominate the world coffee market.

Qimin You, its inventor and Ustar's founder, graduated in North America and worked for Western multinationals for many years.

Even scrupulous multinationals saw sales drop, and none are taking any chances now.

The state has been overthrown by roistering banks and grasping multinationals.

The essence of global shift is "fragmentization" and geographic re-location of value chain by multinationals .

Nobody elected these multinationals. Nobody gave them a mandate.

Today they usually serve the local operations of multinationals.

"Our tax code competitively disadvantages multinationals simply because the parent is a U. S. corporation, " Perlman testified.

'The outcome for major multinationals that took this approach has been very mixed, ' Ms. Schwab said.

Multinationals are zealously adapting their products to appeal to China's exploding consumer market.

In the meantime, Shanghai has taken the lead in attracting multinationals.

Look at G. M. , Tesco, Apple and all the other multinationals banking on Chinese consumer spending.

The United Nations World Investment Report calculates that there are now around 21, 500 multinationals based in the emerging world.

Dim sum bonds are slowly gaining traction with multinationals, virtually all of which have growing Chinese operations.

So, why is China suddenly so hostile towards western multinationals?

Should they back multinationals or emerging market rivals?

Moreover, can you consistently pick the best multinationals?

In fact, many countries require multinationals to transform their business models to gain access to their market.

US multinationals operating in China have long been opposed to Washington taking action over the perceived undervaluation.

Some multinationals, he says, bought too much protection in 2009, when prices were falling, adding to their costs then.

With China's economy spiraling and domestic demand ballooning, many Western multinationals eagerly sought a niche in the Chinese market.

In Hanoi there is renewed talk of "China Plus One" as a strategy for multinationals keen to spread their bets.

And our surveys show that employees of multinationals are much more satisfied with their work and their career prospects.

In the process, it has put the spotlight back on whether multinationals should invest in China through such partnerships.

For multinationals, that means adapt or lose a substantive market.

The world's best-known multinationals include McDonalds, Ford, Coke, IBM and Microsoft.

For all the obstacles, however, it is hard for multinationals to act too surprised.

Around 900 challenges have been posted so far by some 150 firms including big multinationals such as Procter & Gamble and Dow Chemicals.

But Western multinationals had most of the resources tied up.

Most big multinationals have already staked their claim.

Investment management has been one of the most popular sectors for multinationals investing in China of late.

But it shows that multinationals must tread ever more cautiously in a market that is seeing a rise in consumer activism.

That was before Europe-wide insolvency arrangements for dealing with multinationals were introduced in 2005.

European multinationals such as Airbus are among the euro's strongest supporters.

It's no wonder National won't prevent the on-sale of shares to foreign multinationals.

India and China are as concerned to protect their markets from poorer nations as to keep out US multinationals.

McKinsey s advice is that even the most sophisticated multinationals must change significantly to realize Asias growth potential.

Will all multinationals flee China as this labor shortage looms?

That multinationals sell their products outside the host country market is more beneficial to industrial development in the host country.

Vietnam has become the darling of foreign investors and multinationals.

The Chinese rail industry provides a worrying case study for multinationals in many other industrial sectors.

A growing army of multinationals have expanded abroad.