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Fengshou Crab Manor
Yan Gong; Liman Zhao; Liang DongCase IVEY-9B16M063-EEntrepreneurship, StrategySince its founding in 2002, Fengshou Crab Manor had become one of the top brands in China’s mitten crab sector by using a distinctive gift voucher model. The company had attracted over 100,000 loyal customers from companies and non-profit institutions in Beijing and Shanghai. At the beginning of 2013, however, the government’s Central Committee unveiled an eight-point code of conduct to reduce bureaucracy and boost ties with the public, which adv...Starting at €8.20
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51.com: Rise to the Top via Spin-Off
Yan Gong; S. Ramakrishna Velamuri; Liman ZhaoCase IVEY-9B16M078-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOnline social network service provider Five One Network Development Co. Ltd. (51.com) was founded in August 2005 and entered the online game industry in 2011, when browser games became popular in China. Although it continuously invested in developing online games, it had failed to reach its goal of becoming one of the top 10 companies in China. The online game industry had seen fierce competition and was finding it difficult to retain talented em...Starting at €8.20
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Tesla's China Drive
Yan Gong; Qiong ZhuCase IVEY-9B15M024-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAs a newcomer in the automobile industry, Tesla Motors had distinguished itself by redefining automobiles and rewriting some of the rules of the automobile industry. Ten years after its founding, it had begun to make inroads into China — a totally different market from Europe and the United States — and commenced its globalization efforts. China had set “new energy” as its major strategy for sustainable development and national security. Which pa...Starting at €8.20
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ERKE: Consumption Binge Caused by Donations
Weina Li; Su Liu; Chenxi YiCase IVEY-W27047-EMarketing, StrategyHongxing ERKE Industrial Co., Ltd. (ERKE), founded in 2000, was the first large Chinese sportswear company to list overseas. Despite the difficulties it faced caused by poor management and the decline of its brand influence, ERKE donated ¥50 million worth of aid to disaster-hit areas in Henan, China, shortly after severe flooding in the province in July 2021. The donation caused an unprecedented online event in China and ignited the enthusiasm of...Starting at €8.20
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The Qingdao International Beer Festival’s Pandemic Predicament
Su Liu; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-9B21M030-EStrategyIn mid-2020, the organizer of the Qingdao International Beer Festival (QIBF) faced a predicament. The QIBF was an annual festival held every August in Qingdao, China; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizer had initially abandoned the idea of holding the QIBF in 2020. By the end of March 2020, the spread of the pandemic in China had been basically contained. The organizer then decided to restart the event preparations. However, on Ju...Starting at €8.20
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Hisense-Hitachi Joint Venture: Expanding Internationally
Paul W. Beamish; Su LiuCase IVEY-9B16M169-EStrategyIn June 2014, Hisense of China and Hitachi of Japan were considering whether their 11-year-old joint venture (JV) should once again assume responsibility for its international sales. After developing a solid central air-conditioner market share in China, in 2009, the JV began to sell in various overseas regions but struggled. In April 2012, the partners agreed to have a Hisense subsidiary (the HIMC) assume full responsibility for selling the JV’s...Starting at €8.20
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Hisense-Hitachi Joint Venture: Expanding in Southeast Asia
Paul W. Beamish; Su LiuCase IVEY-9B16M220-EStrategyBefore re-entering the Southeast Asian market in 2015, the Hisense-Hitachi joint venture mainly used the well known Hitachi brand to explore overseas markets. After the JV had accumulated enough capacity to adopt a product differentiation strategy, they decided to treat the Hisense brand as the focal brand in Southeast Asia and adopted a series of distribution strategies that differed from what they had used to sell Hitachi branded products elsew...Starting at €8.20
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Souche: A Start-up Exploring the Used Car Market
Yan Gong; Qiong ZhuCase IVEY-9B16M134-EEntrepreneurship, StrategySouche had just celebrated its first anniversary in 2014 as a business in China’s used car market. After more than a year of strenuous effort, Souche had achieved considerable objectives. The company’s website had been providing information on used cars for six months, and its physical store had opened in Beijing around the same time. The store’s monthly sales had increased dramatically from 30 cars in the first month to over 231 cars in December...Starting at €8.20
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PhoneWin: Winning in Rural Markets
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri; Yan Gong; Liman ZhaoCase IVEY-9B17M096-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2014, Jiangsu Huabo Industrial Group Co. Ltd. brought together offline logistics services and an online platform to create Jiangsu PhoneWin Logistics Management Co. Ltd. (PhoneWin). PhoneWin’s purpose was to exploit e-commerce opportunities for phones and related services in small towns and villages in China. Although competition was fierce from several large e-commerce companies in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities, PhoneWin achieved some success. By ...Starting at €8.20
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BROAD’s Holon Building: Internationalization Strategy (Spanish version)
Yaozhou Zheng; Su Liu; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-W34566StrategyOn June 5, 2021, an eleven-story building developed by the BROAD Group was completed in Changsha, China, in just 28 hours and 45 minutes. This building, known as the Holon Building, had the advantages of a long lifespan, short construction period, strong earthquake and typhoon resistance, low cost, high comfort and energy savings, and global transportability. Because of its standardized installation and 100 per cent factory prefabrication of all ...Starting at €8.20