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If you did not perform proper due diligence on your subcontracted factory in Alabama, there is still little chance that it is employing prison or child labor. But that chance increases as you cross the International Date Line.

Alongside the incredibly high concentration of authorized factories and suppliers in Fujian Province, a wide array of businesses pump out knock-offs of major brands, ranging from cheap imitations to near-identical copies. There are also a number of businesses that operate in the gray area between licensed production and counterfeiting.

Business has always been kindest to the companies that react quickly to changes in the environment, but never has the environment been so big. Today, your business environment is the entire world, and the commodity of value is information.

The companies that can gather the most information about their competitors, their markets, and their consumers are the ones that can react quickly. The ones that can’t will find themselves looking from the outside in at a lucrative, expanding market in Asia and the rest of the world.

Multinational companies deploy a vast array of tools and mechanisms to foil criminal appropriation of their products and profits, but any unchecked assumption can leave the defenses worthless.