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The Swiss Centers are delighted to invite you to

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Dear Friends of Swiss Centers,
The Swiss Centers, in collaboration with the Section
romande de la Société Suisse-Chine (SRSSC), are delighted to invite you
to a unique webinar that will allow you to better understand how China‘s
economic and political climate is changing with the pandemic,
especially its ever-growing and fast-changing consumer market.
If its GDP growth slowed to 7.9% year-on-year during the
second quarter of this year, after plateauing at 18.3% in the previous
3 months, the dynamics of Chinese consumer spending remains strong.
The total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 23% year-on-year
in the first half of 2021, contributing 61.7% to the economic growth,
according to data from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The Swiss exports to China have fully recovered from
the pandemic and continue to be on the rise. In the first half of
2021, Switzerland exported goods in the value of 10.1 billion Swiss
francs to China including Hong Kong– a growth of 24.9% compared to the
first half of 2020 and 8.6% higher than in 2019.
At the same time, many issues challenge the long-term
growth prospects and the sustainability of investments by foreign
companies already present in China or wishing to expand there.
Let’s mention for instance the "dual circulation"
strategy which aims to reorient China's economy by prioritizing
domestic market while remaining open to international trade and
investment. Besides, the geopolitical tensions may spill over into
international trade and impact Chinese consumers sentiment towards foreign
brands.
Do you need to know more about the opportunities and risks
of the attractive but complex Chinese market? Does your company ambition to expand there? Or are you
already present in China but would like to better understand where its
market is going?
To answer all these questions, Swiss Centers bring you two
speakers from China: a serial entrepreneur living in China for the
past 30 years, Nicolas Musy, founder of the Swiss Centers, and Tina
Lenz, Asia Representative of Brauerei Locher AG, the only brewery
left in the Appenzell region.
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Present a general understanding of
the latest Chinese economic developments and climate.
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Highlight the evolving opportunities
and risks for Swiss companies producing consumer goods.
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Get some initial elements to evaluate
the business potential of your company in China.
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Information
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Date &
Time:
8th
September, 2021
11:00 –
12:15 CET (17:00 – 18:15 UTC+8)
Webinar:
Teams
meeting
(Link will
be directly sent to all the participants)
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Language: English
Price: Free
of charge
Registration:
RSVP until September 6th to Romain Barrabas: romain.barrabas@swisscenters.org.
Thank you for mentioning your: Full name, Company name, Job title,
Email address, Phone number.
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Agenda
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11:00 – 11:10
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Welcome Speech &
Introduction of the Swiss Centers
by Romain Barrabas,
Customer Relations Executive of the Swiss Centers
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11:10 – 11:40
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Presentation 1
by Nicolas Musy,
Founder and Delegate of the Board at the Swiss Centers &
Founding Partner of China Integrated
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11:40 – 11:55
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Presentation 2
by Tina Lenz, Asia
Representative of Brauerei Locher AG
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11:55 – 12:15
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Q&A
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Speakers
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Nicolas
Musy
Founder of the Swiss Centers & Founding Partner of China
Integrated
Nicolas Musy holds a MSc. in
Physics Engineering from the EPFL
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne). He has won his
university’s first Special Alumni Award for demonstrating outstanding
innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. He has been responsible to
establish EPFL’s presence in China and his Alma Mater cooperation
with Chinese top universities and the Chinese Academy of Science. In
addition, he developed and ran the 2-week China Module of the EPFL
EMBA in entrepreneurship.
Exclusively involved in China
trade, investment, research, strategy and project management, he has
resided in the Shanghai area since 1988. He founded the Swiss Centers,
co-founded the first Swiss industrial SME in China, Suzhou
2-ply Co. Ltd and is the Managing
Director of LX Precision. As
Founding Partner of China Integrated (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.,
Nicolas has successfully supported a number of multinationals and
over 100 mid-sized companies for their legal set-up, market entry,
operations management, business acquisition, conflict resolution and
restructuring.
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Tina Lenz
Asia
Representative of Brauerei Locher AG
After
graduated from hotel management school in Switzerland with Advanced
Federal Diploma in 2011, Tina continued her career as manager in
hotels and Michelin restaurants in Switzerland, United States and
England, with 15 years hotel management experience.
In
year 2018, Tina started to work as their Asia Representative for Brauerei Locher AG,
a Swiss-based family-owned business, the country leading independent
brewery, founded in 1886 and has been brewing Appenzeller Beer for
five generations.
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Romain
Barrabas
Customer Relations Executive of the Swiss Centers
Graduating
in 2013 with a Multidisciplinary
Master in Asian Studies
(University of Geneva, Graduate Institute Geneva), Romain is
currently based in Switzerland where he works as a Customer Relations
Executive for the Swiss Centers,
a non-profit organization that has been supporting Swiss companies
wishing to expand into China for over 20 years.
He
spent most of the last decade in China: first in Nanjing to perfect
his Mandarin and then in Shanghai in event management and
communication for the watch manufacturer Breguet. He then spent more
than 6 years in Beijing, at the Swiss Chamber of Commerce (SwissCham
Beijing) as Marketing & Events Manager and then General Manager.
Romain was then employed by the Embassy of Switzerland as Deputy Head
of the Culture & Media Section. Finally, he chaired the Swiss
School of Beijing for more than 3 years where he still serves as a
member of the Board of Directors.
In
Switzerland, he has held positions in communication and sales for the
watch brands Baume & Mercier and Girard-Perregaux.
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About
Swiss Centers
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Founded
in 2000 as a non-profit Sino-Swiss public-private partnership, the
Swiss Centers are by far the largest cluster of Swiss companies in
Asia.
Swiss
Centers practical solutions supported the businesses of over 400
companies in China – both SMEs and large enterprises. Among others,
the Swiss Centers experts have established 50 production companies and
more than 50 commercial offices for Swiss companies in both industrial
and consumer goods. In cooperation with the Swiss diplomatic
representations in China, Swiss Centers also conducts surveys that
provide the most detailed expertise available on the situation of Swiss
companies in China, and at the same time promotes the Swiss Made
brand and Switzerland as a country for quality, innovation
and industrial leadership.
With
locations strategically situated on China's dynamic East Coast
(Shanghai and Tianjin), Swiss Centers provide:
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Instant physical office space
as well as ready-to-use workshops, showrooms and warehouses;
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Trade and supply chain management, including product registration, import/export,
transport, warehouse and distribution.
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Relations with local Chinese
authorities and connections to Swiss
government and institutions in China;
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Support for secure technology
transfer and intellectual property protection;
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Access to professional services
tailored to SMEs in all aspects of setting up and developing business
in China (legal, tax, accounting, recruitment, HR management, IT, marketing).
For
more information and some reference cases, kindly visit www.swisscenters.org
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© SWISS CENTERS CHINA
2021
The Swiss Centers are
invested and developed by Foundation Swiss Centers, a non-profit
foundation registered in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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