Sunday, July 10, 2016

Playing the China chord


Steinway, the venerable piano maker whose sales have been sluggish since the economic crash of
2008-09, looks to China to revive its fortunes.

Tapping burgeoning interest in the piano among the Chinese, the firm saw its sales there rise “more than 15 percent a year over the last decade, far outpacing the single-digit growth of the United States and Europe. China is now Steinway’s largest market for pianos outside the United States, representing about one-third of global sales,” Javier C. Hernández reports in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/business/international/steinways-grand-ambitions-in-china.html