All Courses
The courses will help to gain a better understanding of the Cross-Cultural complexities, and cultivate your awareness of your own and others cultural identities. Identify and highlight notable variations in communication styles and cultural values.
- Foreign Direct Investment Project – Examine the four main types of Foreign Direct Investment.
- Look at resource, market and efficiency seeking. Strategic asset seeking.
- Selecting a location.
- Developing a foreign investment strategy.
- Evaluate the investment characteristics of the location. Analyse your competitors, develop a questionnaire, develop a dialogue.
- location visit. Planning the site visit and visit Activities.
- Foreign Direct Investment Law and Corporate Forms –
- China Introduced a new Foreign Investment Law (FIL) which came into force on 1st January 2020
- National treatment of foreign investment (subject to the Negative List).
- Protection of foreign investment Property Rights (PR) and trade secrets.
- Equal treatment of domestic and foreign companies in government approval procedures.
- Typical foreign investment structures in China.
- Joint Ventures or WFOE.
- M&A Transactions Variable Interest Entity.
- Key Government Agencies for FDI.
- Trends, Timing, Acquisition of public companies, disclosure thresholds.
- Inward Investment in the UK – The UK has been, the number one destination for inward investment in Europe and remains a top investment destination globally.
- World Bank Ranking, Strong business environment, UK foreign direct investment, what to consider when you invest in the United Kingdom.
- Government measure to motivate or restrict Foreign Direct Investment.
- Procedures to foreign investment, investment aid.
- Freeports investment opportunities.
- Carrying on business in the UK.
- Registration requirements, Companies Act 2006, Repatriation of profits and financing.
- Manufacturing Agreements – China has becomes the world’s leading manufacturing base. Made in China has become a high-profile issue for consumers and retailers.
- Standard form agreements.
- The major terms of an agreement.
- Carefully select and monitor Chinese manufacturing suppliers.
- Six basic things to protect yourself when manufacturing in China.
- Overseas manufacturing contracts.
- The value of manufacturing agreements.
- Types of manufacturing agreements.
- Contact manufacture.
- ODM, product development.
- IP protection.
- Moulds and tooling (Tooling).
- Market Research in China – B2C distribution in China, Hypermarkets and supermarkets, department stores, shopping malls, street stores and markets, E-commerce.
- B2C distribution in China.
- B2B distribution in China.
- E-commerce.
- The market, some differences.
- Budget, your research programme.
- Data sources.
- Industrial clusters, desk research, new methods of selling, social media and e-commerce platforms, Alibaba group, Wechat, JD.com, Xiaohongshu, primary research.
- Protecting your IPR in China and Manufacturing Agreements – Protecting your IPR is essential in any market but particularly so in China. Patents and trade marks, trade mark protection, The China trade mark office (CTMO).
- Confidentiality, Non-use, non-disclosure, non-circumvention, NNN agreement.
- Manufacturing agreements.
- Standard form agreements.
- The major terms of an agreement.
- The Marketing Planning Process Market Research in China – The annual planning system.
- The benefits of a planning system.
- The contents of a marketing plan objectives, objectives should meet certain criteria, the marketing strategy.
- A Basic Guide to Exporting – Export strategy, export advise, market research.
- Methods of exporting and channels of distribution.
- Preparing products for export, service export.
- Making contacts.
- Business travel abroad.
- Selling overseas, pricing, quotations and terms.
- Export regulations.
- Customs benefits and tax incentives, documentation, shipping and logistics.
- International Business Management
- International Business Management (case Studies).
- International Trade Trade Management 1
- International Trade Management (case Studies).
- Identification and selection of Agent and Distributors.
- Cross-cultural communication and negotiation