MANA China study mission offers business view from the other side of the world

From: Agency Sales | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

Concurrent with MANA's Study Mission to China earlier this year was an article in Sports Illustrated magazine reporting "In Shanghai there are a dozen Western-style supermarkets - and a Starbucks on nearly every corner, plus Tony Roma's and T.G.I. Friday's and Hard Rock Cafe."

Any doubts that description is truly accurate can be dashed by listening to Study Mission participants as Agency Sales 'de-briefed' them shortly after their return from Asia. For instance, Paul Pease, the author...

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