Bloomberg BusinessWeek, November 7, 2016

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(1) China's High-End Retail Emporium.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... end-retail-emporium

Note:
(a)
(i) summary underneath the title in print: Walmart is remaking its Sam's Clubs to offer foreign goods aimed at aspirational consumers
(ii) In print the source was not a reporter, but "Bloomberg News."

(b) "Walmart is doing the same thing in China [with Sam's Club 山姆会员商店] but with some pricey twists, including $3,200 Zojirushi rice cookers and $295,000 diamond rings."
(i) Zojirushi Corp  (Japanese: 象印マホービン株式会社, which is pronounced as Zōjirushi Mahōbin Kabushiki-gaisha)

ja.wikipedia.org: (Headquarters Osaka; "市川金三郎・市川銀三郎兄弟が、1918年（大正7年）に大阪で魔法瓶の製造をおこなう「市川兄弟商会」を創業。元々は魔法瓶の内瓶を製造していた。1948年（昭和23年）に法人改組した後、本格的な魔法瓶の製造販売を開始した")

my translation: The Ishikawa brothers founded Ichikawa Brothers Trading Company in Osaka in 1918. At first it made the inner tube of, then the entire, thermos.
(ii) Japanese-English dictionary:
* zō 象 【ぞう】 (n): "elephant"   (Japan has had no elephants. So there  there is no Japanese pronunciation -- only Chinese pronunciation.)
* shirushi 印【しるし】 (n): "(1) mark; sign; (2) (also written as 徴) symbol; emblem"  (The "shi" is softened to "ji" when not placed as the first syllable of the compound word.)
* mahōbin 【まほうびん】 (n): "thermos flask; vacuum flask"


(2) Baseball Wants a Home Run in China.
https://www.scribd.com/article/3 ... A-Home-Run-In-China

Note:
(a)
(i) summary underneath the title in print: MLB sponsors training camps to develop interest on the mainland
(ii) In print the source was not a reporter, but "Bloomberg News."

(b) "Xu Guiyuan 许桂源, a wiry 20-year-old from Puning 广东省揭阳市 普宁市, is trying to become the first mainland-born Chinese player to reach baseball's major leagues": Baltimore Orioles' minor league organization in July 2015 signed him

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(3) Thomas Black, Private Jets Aren't So Private Anymore.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... s-for-new-airplanes

Note: summary underneath the title in print: Services that share planes are hurting sales


(4) Adam Satariano, A License to Print Plastic.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... ong-to-plastic-cash

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Innovia dominates the growing market for polymer cash

(b) Mark "Robertshaw is the chief executive officer of Innovia, the world's leading maker of plastic money. * * * Of the 50 billion-plus plastic notes now in circulation, Innovia made more than 99 percent. 'There is a received wisdom out there that cash is disappearing,' Robertshaw says. 'Statistics don't support that.' "
(i) The English (West Yorkshire) surname Robertshaw is "from a lost place in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, taking its name from an owner Robert + Middle English shawe 'copse' (Old English sceaga)."
(ii) Innovia Films
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovia_Films
(Headquartered in Wigton, Cumbria)
(iii) received (adj): "generally accepted"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/received

(c) "Making the bills [or banknotes] is a lot more technical than it was under the Tang or Song dynasties more than a millennium ago, or in the 13th century, when explorer Marco Polo first brought Asia's cotton money back to Europe. (Before that, currencies tended toward metals, shells, and salt.) Materials have to resist rips and stains, as well as incorporate ever-more-complex security measures to discourage forgers."
(i) banknote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote
(section 11 Early Chinese paper money)
(ii) "each year before 1101 AD, the prefecture of Xinan 新安郡 (modern Xi-xian, Anhui 安徽省黄山市 歙县) alone would send 1,500,000 sheets of paper in seven different varieties to the [Northern Song] capital at Kaifeng [name at the time: 汴京]."

(d) " The UK put the first of 440 million plastic £5 notes into circulation in September; it will introduce a £10 bill in June[, 2017,] made by Innovia. The company [Innovia] is bidding on the contract for the £20 note to follow. * * * Plastic bills cost a few cents each to make, about twice the cost of paper, but they last five times as long, according to Robertshaw. 'They can go through your washing machine,' he says."
(e) "Innovia then sends the sheets to bank note maker De La Rue, which adds the bills' designs (the Queen, Winston Churchill)."

De La Rue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Rue
(section 1 History)