I'd hate to blow a commercial entity's trumpet unless I were genuinely convinced about its productMaybe we should start it OH?![]()

I'd hate to blow a commercial entity's trumpet unless I were genuinely convinced about its productMaybe we should start it OH?![]()
I'd hate to blow a commercial entity's trumpet unless I were genuinely convinced about its product![]()
What do you think they have been practicing with all this time?
The entire team must have been using Li Ning / Kason at this preparatory camp.
By the time they hit the AE courts, they will be quite at home with the new brand.
Oops, if that's the case, we will definitely see China using Yonex at the AEIf the information that the team china contract ends in April with Yonex, I cannot see how they should be able to use another brand at AE, without contract breach? Or maybe the current contract does end before AE?!?!
/Twobeer
Oops, if that's the case, we will definitely see China using Yonex at the AE![]()
Or they can they can pay an early contract termination sum to Yonex.
Li Ning has been hitting the sports news recently. They have just signed up Yelena Isinbayeva, Olympic pole vault champion and IAAF female athlete of the year, reported to be worth US$1.5 million/each year for 5 years. Li NIng has also signed up speed king Usain Bolt, and this one must be real big bucks.
Has anyone visited their website?
http://www.lining.com/EN/home/index.html
Must say it's rather underwhelming
Can you explain?
BTW, Yonex is a much older company than Li Ning. Already Li Ning is financially a bigger company than Yonex and it's revenue has already overtaken Yonex's and it's profit is about ten times larger than Yonex's.
A taste of things to come is Li Ning's staggering revenue and profits growth over the very few years since it started as a company, like growths in the 50 to 60% each year.
The case of Li Ning and Yonex is a classic case of Yonex not realizing the importance of an emerging China. Instead of forming a joint venture with China in the early days, it has overplayed its "Made in Japan" is superior strategy thru quality differentiation. Now I can only see Yonex as the biggest loser overtime in the badminton equipment market, having been beset with problems from less well known Chinese competition, is now faced with a competitor it cannot win.
The case of Li Ning and Yonex is a classic case of Yonex not realizing the importance of an emerging China. Instead of forming a joint venture with China in the early days, it has overplayed its "Made in Japan" is superior strategy thru quality differentiation. Now I can only see Yonex as the biggest loser overtime in the badminton equipment market, having been beset with problems from less well known Chinese competition, is now faced with a competitor it cannot win.
Yonex does not earn that much market share in CHN to begin with, due to its much higher cost. Now, LN steps in, but with the massive signing, LN/Kason may need to adjust its price tag (mostly higher) to swallow the cost. So, in some of a way, Yonex can actually take advantage of it. I am pretty sure badminton die hard know LCW, TH, but not only LD.
In the western markets (as well as most other Asian markets), Yonex are much well established than LN/Kason. By losing LD and co. I do not think everyone will start to trash Yonex on ebay, and switch to LN/Kason in a split of second, just because the symbol changed.![]()
maybe lin dan should turn independenthahah kidding
I think you misunderstand me. The website is rather underwhelming for such a supposedly large company.
Look, Yonex is the market leader in badminton racquets solely due to its brand name, not better quality than competition. Racquet manufacturing is actually very low tech, contarry to what many think. The only high tech comes from the raw materials used to make the racquets, and for that Yonex or for that matter all other racquet manufacturers know next to nothing about how to manufacture say hmg, uhmg, titanium, cup stack nanotubes, etc. These high tech fibers and resins and matrixes are made by other more high tech companies, and they sell such materials to all racquet manufacturers like Yonex, Kason, Victor, Chao Pai, RSL, etc.
ur only 19, u'll learn soon one dayI think the guy's right.