Tiffany's To Open In Tianjin And Shenyang. Tianjin And Shenyang?
Posted by Dan on October 4, 2007 at 09:55 AM
Iron-clad Advice from a voice of experience to people everywhere: If you are going to spend less than 15 minutes buying a gift for your female significant other, buy it at Tiffany's.
I mention this because Tiffany's just announced it will be opening its third and fourth China stores by January, 2008, in Tianjin and Shenyang. Logically enough, its first two China stores are in Shanghai and Beijing.
Anyone know, because I sure do not.
http://www.chinalawblog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-t.cgi/2176
Tiffany's To Open In Tianjin And Shenyang. Tianjin And Shenyang?:
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It's called "follow the money."
Posted by: Law Office of Todd L. Platek | October 4, 2007 7:52 PM
The change in Shenyang over the past 5 years is really amazing. Granted, its still has its decaying SOEs and a whole part of the city (Tie Xi, anybody?), but there is definitely a growing foreign presence in the city and the trappings (high end apartments, fancy shopping malls) to go along with it...
Posted by: b. cheng | October 12, 2007 12:45 AM
Can't get my head around Tianjin...was there last week for a few days...dustbowl with the worst roads I have ever come across in China. Massive P&G facility along with large scale Semicon investment...High tech boom across the bay from Dalian.
Possibly the Shenzhen of the North...but a whole lot rougher.
Posted by: Alex | October 17, 2007 1:52 AM
@Alex:
I don't know what part of Tianjin you were cruising around, but I was just there two weeks ago and found it to be one of the nicest cities I've visited in China. The city center seems much better planned than that of other big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, and a lot of colonial architecture survives in the areas along the Hai River.
Perhaps you were way out in the farm/industry/development zones? Tianjin, like Beijing, occupies a vast area of which only a small part is really "the city of Tianjin."
Posted by: michael | October 20, 2007 11:32 PM