China Post Office Interested in Joint Ventures with U.S. Catalogers.Business Editors EVANSTON, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2001 China represents one of the great undeveloped mail order markets in the world and now an unusual opportunity is being offered to U.S. companies to come to China and in co-operation with their postal service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval to develop this opportunity. China Post, through the marketing director of their Guangdong Office, has contacted Maxwell Sroge Company, the leading U.S. catalog consultants and operators of the web site www.web-and-catalog-news.com with regard to American catalogers expanding into China. The Guangdong Province Noun 1. Guangdong province - a province in southern China Guangdong, Kwangtung is one of the most advanced in China. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Maxwell Sroge, the head of the consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , China Post is not only offering their postal services but in addition, is offering bonded warehouse bonded warehouse n → depósito de aduanas bonded warehouse n → entrepôt m sous douanes bonded warehouse n facilities and even joint ownership of catalog businesses with, (according to the China Post spokesperson), flexibility for the U.S. catalogers to own more than fifty percent of the equity. "While the majority of the 1.2 billion people who populate China are economically disadvantaged, the opening up of China in recent years has resulted in a middle-class population which is reported to now exceed 100 million persons," said Maxwell Sroge. "Obviously the needs in China for modern consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and is great", Sroge added, "and with a co-operative postal service, the Chinese market stands to be developed, as rural America was when the first catalogs from Wards and Sears reached them in the early 1900's." Companies and investors interested in exploring the opportunities for catalog businesses in China should contact Maxwell Sroge Company in Evanston, Illinois at 847-866-1890 or e-mail - msroge@catalog-news.com. |
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