On 16th October 2018 Horsten International organized a seminar about Sourcing from China & Payment to Chinese Suppliers in RMB, together with Ebury and the Belgian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce (BCECC). After an introduction by Mr.Bernard Dewit, Chairman BCECC, Bart Horsten talked about the new trends and challenges of sourcing from China. Despite rising salaries and costs, China is still a very importa...
In samenwerking met Fevia, Flanders Investment and Trade (FIT) en Green Seed organiseert Horsten International enkele interactieve China workshops en een handelsmissie naar Shanghai en Hangzhou. China is een economische grootmacht met een groeiende middenklasse en een sterke vraag naar internationale voedingsproducten. China is een van de grootste voedingsmarkten ter wereld en men verwacht dat ze dit jaar de grootste markt ter wereld van geïmporteerde voeding w...
On 13 July 2018 the State Council officially decided to set up a batch of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones in 22 cities. Among the designated areas are Beijing, Hohhot, Shenyang Changchun, Harbin, Nanjing, Nanchang, Wuhan, Changsha, Nanning, Haikou, Guiyang, Kunming, Xi’An (the location of Horsten’s office in China), Lanzhou, Tangshan, Wuxi, Weihai, Zhuhai, Dongguan, Yiwu and Xiamen. With this move, the country continues to promote the opening to the outside world...
HORSTEN International, the EU SME Centre, VOKA – Chamber of Commerce Mechelen-Kempen, the Belgian-Chinese Chamber BCECC and BENCHAM organized a half-day seminar in Mechelen on 25 June 2018 about how to set up a WeChat shop and sell by cross-border e-commerce. Trainers at this seminar were Bart Horsten (Horsten International), Rafael Jimenez (EU SME Centre in Beijing) and Brian Goff (WeChat Expert of th...
On 19 June 2018 VOKA Limburg organized the Global Dialogue China at JAGA, a successful Belgian famlly-owned company, producing heating, cooling and ventilation systems. After an introduction by Catherine Dreesen, Director Internationalisation & Innovation at VOKA, Bart Horsten gave an introduction about doing business in China. This was followed by a panel discussion with the followi...
On 17 May 2018 Hey!Belgium, one of Horsten's tourism customers, had a successful launch event in ITB Shanghai for the OTA platform of HEY! Belgium. The Chinese version of the website has been well received by the attendees of the event. With this new version of the platform, Hey!B...
Corsendonk Hotels and HEY!Belgium, two of Horsten's tourism customers, are participating in two important tourism events in China, supported by Jeffrey Wouters, Business Development Manager at Horsten: We have added an Event-page to our Horsten website. From now on, if you want to learn about the China seminars or workshops we are organising or participating at, please go to the ABOUT page of our website and click on "Events". Bart Horsten, Managing Director of Horsten International, participated as a speaker at one of the break-out sessions, discussing the trends and opportunities in the tourist business. During the presentation Bart explained that group travelling is still taking the biggest share of Chinese travellers, with individual travellers or small groups increasing in importance. The so-called Second Wave travelers are more open to suggestions, but also more confident and demanding than ...
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