AVCJ Awards 2018: Operational Value Add: Qingdao Haier
KKR backed in Qingdao Haier at a time when the Chinese white goods giant wanted to expand overseas and address competitive pressure at home. The GP helped it deliver on both fronts
In 1985, when Ruimin Zhang took to the factory floor with a sledgehammer and smashed up faulty refrigerators as a demonstration of his zero-tolerance policy on defective products, few expected Qingdao...
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