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...capture it is obvious. McKinsey estimates that by 2025 there will be 220 million upper-middle-class households in China's cities, defined as those making $5,000 to $12,500 a year, in contrast to 23 million households in 2005. Less clear for the company, says retail analyst Raphael Moreau of Euromonitor International, is "how much it will have to reinvent itself to make an impact...
...China's free spenders may be looking for something else. China knows a thing or two about cheap clothing, and when its consumers buy foreign brands, they want what they can't find at home. "It's a fatal mistake to discount for the Chinese customer," says JPMorgan analyst Vineet Sharma. "Young people want clothes that aspire to luxury. H&M should concentrate on that mid-market, where there's still room to grow...
...short turnaround time, but that advantage largely disappears in Asia. H&M sources more than 60% of its products in the region, more than half of that from China, compared with Inditex's 34%. "H&M has been in Asia as a manufacturer for 30 years," says retail analyst Henrik Schultz of Danske Equities in Copenhagen. "It has a broader choice of suppliers, and strong relationships already in place. For perhaps the first time, it can set the timetable for trends...
...into a group of 13--such as automation, power generation, medical technology and telecommunications. By the end of last year, Siemens employed 475,000 people in 190 countries and generated 81% of its sales outside Germany. "He turned Siemens into a proper company," says Michael Hagmann, a London-based analyst with investment bank UBS Ltd. "If you're a purist, you could say he could have done more. But there were a lot of people trying to prevent change...
...federation or imploded into disparate ethnic states, since the territory dominated by their ethnic group was thought to be the only one without large reserves of oil. (Both the Shi'ite south and Kurdish north have productive fields.) "The Western desert has lain dormant," says Colin Lothian, senior analyst on Middle East energy for Wood Mackenzie, an international energy research and consultancy. "It's not out of the realm of possibility...