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...investment, although the amount has dropped off in the past few years. A recent McKinsey report suggests that Poland is well placed to create as many as 500,000 jobs over the next five years by becoming a new center for outsourced services for European companies. Already Lufthansa and GE, among others, have moved some back-office operations to Poland...
...have plenty of skilled people here," says Moez Bakir, an engineering manager at Eurocast, a Tunisian subsidiary of Arizona-based firm Paradigm Precision Holdings. Eurocast, which is based outside Tunis, builds aircraft parts for GE Aviation and Rolls-Royce, paying its machine operators about $280 a month - a fraction of what equivalent workers would earn in Europe. Over 80% of Tunisia's exports head to Europe, where they will soon be exempt from customs duties, thanks to a free-trade agreement that takes effect in January. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Europeans soak up the sun on Tunisia's beaches...
...state of the art. Fuselage sections are built at factories throughout China - located in cities including Chengdu, Xi'an, and Shenyang - and are shipped to Shanghai for final assembly. Critical components, such as advanced electronics and engines, are being sourced from 19 foreign suppliers, including the U.S.'s GE and Honeywell. "ACAC has been strong about demanding on-time delivery," says Martin Lin, Beijing representative for Rockwell Collins, which is making the ARJ21's primary avionics systems...
Vicki Ho, 43, was born in Taiwan, immigrated to the U.S. at 7 and attained her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Rising swiftly through the ranks at General Electric, she lobbied hard for an overseas assignment, finally landing one in 2005 as head of equipment-leasing for GE in China. But she learned quickly that being ethnically Chinese has some disadvantages for a U.S. executive. "Customers, particularly the older ones, thought nothing of lecturing me on how I speak," says Ho, who speaks conversational but not business Mandarin. On the other hand, she skipped some of the culture shock...
...stars will crowd the firmament over Singapore the week after Milan for the Food Wine and Arts Experience at the landmark Raffles Hotel (Jan. 30-Feb. 3). Among those on hand will be Thomas Keller from the French Laundry in Napa Valley, California; Alain Passard from L'Arpège in Paris; Santi Santamaria from Can Fabes in Catalonia and Nicolas Le Bec from Lyon. Wineries from world-renowned regions including Chateau Haut-Brion from Bordeaux and Frescobaldi from Tuscany will host tastings, and German painter Hella Nohl will discuss red wine's place in her palette. www.rhwfae.com...