Large, yet little-known cities in China After placing Wuhan (central China), Shenyang (northeast), Guiyang (southwest), Shaoxing (east), Chengdu (west), Fuzhou (southeast), Hainan Island (south), Xi’an (northwest), Nanjing (east) and Kunming (southwest) on the map, we will now cross the entire country from south to north, where we find the ‘Ice Capital’: Harbin. The city of […]
S3 UK’s presence on the professional social network LinkedIn After the presentation of S3 UK’s specific landing page in our last Newsletter, this time we will put the spotlights on yet another specific initiative concerning the subsidiary’s own presence on the internet. S3 UK’s LinkedIn page offers a more direct route for any business contacts
In this edition we will focus exclusively on the hiring of a new Sourcing Assistant Manager in our Shanghai office. Alice Wang, new Sourcing Assistant Manager in Shanghai This last summer we were happy to welcome in our Shanghai office Alice Wang, a 30-year-old mother of a boy. Alice is originally from the city of
A few months ago, the British marketing consulting firm Kantar BrandZ published its yearly study on the most valuable brands on a global scale. We would like to share this information, but in particular focusing on the brands for whom their market value has grown most in the last 12 months. As can be
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With S3 Group having an entrepreneurial spirit in its DNA and also given our often-cited training activities, it is pretty much unavoidable to mention here the business venture set up by one of our former students of the International Trade course at IQS, Ramon Llull University, in Barcelona. Martín Cohen, originally from Uruguay, like so
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We recently re-connected with the first ever institution where S3’s business teaching experience started, i.e., ICIL in Barcelona. www.icil.org www.supplychaintalentnetwork.com We were asked to record a total of 12 short videos in English on a wide array of topics, from sourcing to negotiations and emerging markets. The videos are now available on ICIL’s new online
We stick for a moment to the world of mobility (and in this case, as a direct result of the Global Sourcing course offered for CEAGA, the Galician Cluster for the Car Industry; see the past S3 Newsletter). In this case, our team in China recently implemented a complicated quality control inspection process corresponding
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One of S3‘s sourcing customers, recognized among others as Europe’s largest manufacturer of car number plates, recently requested us to research and select a number of factories providing technology linked to its core business. On the one hand, high quality self-adhesive rolls were needed, necessary for the production of the number plates, which are in
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Historically, S3 Group has always been very connected to the People’s Republic of China for the majority of its activities. Yes, for both the export and consulting service range, the company maintains strong links with Latin America and Africa. And yes, equally for sourcing, export and consulting, a variety of projects have been developed over
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Group CEO and S3UK director Tom Van der Heyden met with his fellow S3 UK Director, Adrian Pryce, at a leading Spanish winery, Can Feixes in the DO Penedes and DO Cava region for a board meeting to plan the UK marketing strategy. Can Feixes is run by the Huguet family, making high quality still