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Profiting from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China:

Worldwide Olympic Partners:
Coca-Cola
GE
Johnson & Johnson
Atos Origin
Kodak
Lenovo
Manulife
McDonalds
Omega
Panasonic
Samsung
Visa

Beijing 2008 Partners:
Bank of China
CNC
Sinopec
CNPC
China Mobile
Volkswagon
Adidas
Johnson & Johnson
Air China
PICC
State Grid

Sponsors:
UPS
Haier Group
Tsingtao Beer
Yanjing Beer
Budweiser
BHP Billiton
Sohu.com

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Re: Yanjing

In Beijing, Yanjing is widely available in restaurants, but is not generally available in bars and nightclubs. Because of Yanjing's low price, bar owners claim that they cannot make enough of a profit selling it; thus, they stock the popular beer brands Tsingtao and Zhujiang, or foreign brands of beer instead.

Tsingtao is publicly traded, but you need a broker that trades foreign equities. Full Disclosure: I am building a position in Tsingtao.

ok so basically in the form of ADRs? dont forget to invite us over if you're having a Tsingtao party :P

Haha, Austin, I had Tsingtao one time at a Chinese restaurant in the city, I personally don't understand why people even drink it haha! I am headed to Portugal and Spain on the 30th and I will probably drink the $1 Portuguese beers that taste like swill, maybe that is why they drink it?

Tsingtao is traded in Shanghai and HK, as well as on the PINKs in the US and Canada. No depository receipt as far as I know.

ADRs are what are traded for any foreign held stock thus it should be ADR'd :P usually they are 5 or 10 to a recepti (stock to receipt ratio) and you buy them in American dollars and as such are subject to currency risk

Nick….huh what huh what are you talking about haha

I know what American Depository Receipts are but what is this about ADRs to ADR's

ADR=acronym for american depository receipt lol

I know that obviously, I was talking about your response to Austin, were you correcting his grammar?

no no since u said no depository receipt and i was sayin shouldnt there have to be an ADR since its a foreign traded? because you said there was none that u knew of

ohhh yeah, well that's what i meant, since we are in America and we were talking about Chinese companies. haha

lol. the reason why I asked is because I thought you were opening a brokerage account overseas, since some Chinese stocks are really hard to trade especially if you're a foreigner. There's probably a way to own those stocks in lieu of an ADR, but its just a bloody hassle.

Interactive Brokers and e-trade, i think, let you trade on multiple exchanges