Today we started the study component of the tour with a visit to Time Warner this morning, which covered many facets of the company and discussed some of the challenges being presented in the current climate, including a decline in print media sales (although 'People' magazine, published as 'Who Weekly' in Australia, is apparently still very profitable. After lunch at a yum cha with the locals in central, it was time for yet more shopping at the IFC Mall (I was determined not to buy anything today, until I came across a pair of black boots at Nine West, and that was the end of that... I did however manage to resist the pair of Christian Louboutin heels I also saw on sale, which would have gone perfectly with a certain pink handbag....)
We then backtracked to the building we started at this morning for a visit to Jack Morton which was really interesting, particularly from my recent event management perspective and also for the work they are doing with clients internally around employee engagement, given the recent "change" agenda at Ernst & Young.
In the evening we headed out to the Ladies' Market which was a bit like souvenir central and finished up with some world-famous Hong Kong mango pudding as recommended by Dino. It was amazing to see how many people were still out and about at 11pm on a Monday night - the shopping culture is alive and well here. This was illustrated from the minute we got on the plane - the Cathay Pacific in-flight shopping guide is almost twice as thick as their regular in-flight magazine, in stark contrast to Qantas, and the satellite navigation map on the TV screen which shows you where your plane is was regularly interrupted by ads!
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