万花筒 2011-12-18&12-20 中国品牌价值最高的50家企业

 The world's largest telecommunications provider is China's most valued brand, and that is China Mobile with brand value of just over $53 billion. It's got 600 million customers and put that into a little bit perspective, their customer base is nearly twice that of the population of the United States. 

 

 

 

Now the next top four in the survey are pretty easy to group, they are China's Major banks, they have combined brand valuation of more than $100 billion. Notably¹, ICBC weighs in at $44 billion. It is the world's biggest bank by revenue. Now the top five through ten span these companies here in tech, in insurance as well as in oil. Baidu here is China's biggest search engine, equivalent to Google. It jumped 67% to make it top ten this year. And you know, these top ten brands are fairly well known. You might have heard about them, but there are dozens more companies on that survey this year that are also very very huge.

 

 

 

Now, one of them is this one here, Yili. This is one of China's dairy giants. It's making things from milk to icecream. And it's got a brand valuation here just $2.4 billion, that is as much as the value of Miller² Lite. This is in milk world brand top 100 global brand survey for 2011. 

 

 

 

And talking about alcohol, you might know about Budweiser, right? But if you haven't been to China, you might not know about this company--Maotai, which makes a famous and very strong white grain alcohol. And Maotai has a valuation of about $9 billion here, that tops Budweiser's $8.8 billion value. 

 

 

 

And if you need some herbal healing for that heady ors, there is also one other Chinese company called Yunnanbaiyao valued at about $2 billion here. That's approaching the value of much well known western brand and that would be Clinique at about $2.4 billion.Let's keep in mind the domestic demand in China is still growing so these brand valuations here could grow even larger is as middle class expands in China. 

1 notably   

adv.值得注意地，显著地，尤其地，特别地

参考例句：

• Many students were absent,notably the monitor.许多学生缺席，特别是连班长也没来。
• A notably short,silver-haired man,he plays basketball with his staff several times a week.他个子明显较为矮小，一头银发，每周都会和他的员工一起打几次篮球。

2 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。