Report on Haier's Ascent as a Global White Goods Manufacturer

This report analyzes Haier's remarkable journey to becoming a leading global white goods manufacturer. It delves into the company's strategic choices, emphasizing the importance of innovation, quality assurance, and independent intellectual property. The report highlights Haier's successful product diversification, foreign direct investment, and strategic alliances, such as joint ventures and acquisitions, which facilitated its expansion into international markets. Furthermore, the report examines Haier's localization strategy and responsiveness to national market needs, including the development of customized products. The study concludes by emphasizing Haier's adaptability to diverse cultures as a critical factor in its global success. The report references key academic sources like Hill et al. (2017) and Lewin, Välikangas & Chen (2017) to support its analysis.

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Rise of Haier as Global White Goods Manufacturer
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Haier Group has emerged as a supreme home electronic appliance maker in the world.
The general manager of Haier exhibited great amount of management talent and he laid stress
on the element of innovation along with quality assurance that helped Haier in gaining a
prominent position within the world market.
The key factor that helped in the rise of Haier is its independent intellectual property
and participation in the set up pertaining to 23 international standard. Haier has been
successful in developing new products that cab suit diverse preference pertaining to various
areas. Haier has been instrumental in making different variety of the home appliance in
around 100 product lines like freezer, air conditioner, washing machine and microwave ovens
(Hill et al., 2017). The primary factor that facilitated the rise of Haier as a white goods
manufacturer is foreign direct investment that helped the company in the arena of expanding
in the overseas markets. It has taken recourse to advanced technology that has helped it in
earning international brand name.
The global expansion of Haier was greatly facilitated by the joint venture that it had
with Indonesia in the year 1996 and the acquiring of the Italian fridge factory in the year
2000. The setting up of the design centre within Boston and the marketing centre within New
York helped in making Haier a global white goods manufacturer (Lewin, Välikangas &
Chen, 2017). The US subsidiary of China took advantage of the low costs within China by
buying components from that of Haier- China. Localisation strategy of Haier coupled with
the operational flexibility has helped in the rise of Haier as an international white goods
manufacturer. A factor that helped in the growth of Haier as white goods manufacturer is the
responsiveness of the company towards the needs pertaining to national markets. Haier made
computer-controlled refrigerator which was customised for that of the United States and
energy-economised home appliances for serving the customers in Italy. The main factor that

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helped in the evolving of Haier as global goods manufacturer was its efforts to adapt to
various countries along with different cultures.

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References:
Hill, C., Hult, T., Wickramasekera, R., Liesch, P., & MacKenzie, K. (2017). Global Business
Today Asia-Pacific Perspective. McGraw-Hill Education.
Lewin, A. Y., Välikangas, L., & Chen, J. (2017). Enabling open innovation: Lessons from
Haier. International Journal of Innovation Studies, 1(1), 5-19.