International Market Access: TP-Link’s Success Worldwide

International Market Access: TP-Link’s Success Worldwide

Chinese manufacturer of computer networking products TP-Link is one of the few examples of a Chinese company that has successfully gone global. The Shenzhen-based company has become one of the world’s leading providers of SOHO & SMB networking products and is still growing and striving to become one of the top 3 networking providers in the world.
But how did TP-Link manage to become this successful on a global level?

What Does a Global Product Look Like?

For all kinds of companies going global – Chinese, European, North American – the process is a complicated coordination of numerous components: developing strategy, sustaining R&D, facilitating project design, localizing materials. It takes time and a cohesive vision to bring everything together, and in the process, things can easily fall through the cracks. Sometimes companies […]

CSOFT to Assist with Shenzhen Globalization Efforts

Chinese companies appear to be enjoying their golden age of global expansion; Huawei, Alibaba, Xiao Mi, Haier, TP-Link and Mindray are all examples of domestic Chinese companies that have successfully taken their business models to the global market. Unfortunately, for every Huawei or Mindray, there are many companies that encounter enormous hurdles. While 85 percent […]

Coffee brand localization in China

Coffee Brand Localization for Companies Entering China

In light of Costa coffee’s recent announcement to almost triple the number of stores in China in the next 5 years, it seems appropriate to discuss one of the most intriguing markets in China: the coffee industry. This is a sector in which big brands from the west have had to adapt drastically and localize everything from product lines to the design of stores in order to meet the needs of a culture so different from their own.