Our Business Intelligence Services provide clients with critical, on-the-ground information that is necessary to make key business decisions.
Whether you manufacture products in China or source raw materials here…whether you sell goods or services on the Chinese market or intend to expand in Asia…whether you partner with or invest in Chinese firm…intelligence is your best asset.
We work hard to meet the evolving needs of our clients, developing comprehensive solutions tailored to suit their requirements.
- CBI has conducted countless background investigations, media searches, and due diligence inquiries relating to individuals and companies throughout Greater China.
- CBI has unique capabilities to gather information in ways that multinational companies and factory auditors might not. For many of our clients, CBI places informants into factories to develop intelligence.
- CBI can provide insight into unauthorized or illicit activity at factories or partner companies, and investigate a supply chain from the ground up, generating hard data about security and efficiency.
- Our consultants provide real-time intelligence, analysis, and risk assessment in the case of natural disaster or other economic events.
Case Study
Electronics Factory
in Mainland China
A major electronics company found that waste at their supplier’s factory increased from 4% to about 10% in the span of a few months.
CBI conducted several weeks of surveillance on the target to determine the source of the problem.
In our experience, factory waste is often the result of obvious problems: diversion, non-contractual production, labor misuse or abuse, or poor manufacturing processes are just some of the common reasons why inefficiency may increase.
In this case, we checked the factory’s waste disposal process to ensure that products were being properly recycled. We monitored for backdoor sales, unauthorized production, and even sabotage. Ultimately, none of these issues proved to be a problem.
CBI placed an informant in the factory as a worker and deployed extensive surveillance. We soon learned that the workers—who were primarily immigrant laborers from Southeast Asia—were asking to work double shifts in order to be able to send extra remittances home. In addition, what little sleep the workers were getting was inside crowded, non air-conditioned dorms. Wastage was rising because the factory workers were simply too tired to perform their best.