1978-2018 As our 40th anniversary year comes to an end, I look back at our business, how it came about, why we did it, and what it means today. People often ask me how CPG got started, and more specifically, why I learned Chinese way back when China was not...
Keeping Track on how to doTasks and Missions “I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.” Bill Dana We recently wrote a blog series on The Future of Communications as it relates to the China supply...
YEAR OF THE SNAKE: SOURCING FROM A CHANGING CHINA Join us for an exclusive breakfast symposium to learn how China’s changes with impact YOUR business. March 13, New Jersey – The Alternative Board (TAB) and Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. are sponsoring a breakfast symposium with a...
Do you plan on attending the China Import & Export Fair (more commonly known as The Canton Fair) this year? China Performance Group will soon be publishing a comprehensive overview of the fair including a history, how-to guide, and best practices from some of the biggest experts in the world...
A few days after my attendance at the US-China Business Council luncheon in Washington, I traveled to Ireland where, on February 19, Prime Minister Enda Kenny (“Taoiseach” is his title in Ireland) hosted a dinner in Dublin Castle to honor the visit of Vice-President Xi Jinping. I was privileged to...
On February 15th, 2012, Mr. Michael De Clercq, Founder and CEO of China Performance Group, a U.S. and China based company specializing in China sourcing advisory services since 1978, was among the nearly 600 persons invited to the luncheon in honor of the soon to be President of the PRC,...
It was exciting for me to attend the luncheon in honor of Xi Jinping in Washington on Wednesday. It was an opportunity to meet impressive people and reconnect with old friends. Carolyn Brehm, for example, whom I had met in China in the late seventies as a trail-blazing China expert...
