In one of our recent blogs we featured a 10-question quiz to test your overall knowledge of retail POP displays. If you missed our quiz, you can take it here. In today’s blogpost, we put together another short 10-question quiz. This quiz is designed to test your general knowledge of overseas manufacturing and importing of retail POP displays. Let’s see how you do. At the end of the quiz we provide answers with brief explanations as necessary.
1) What is the average transit time of an ocean container sailing from China to Southern California?
A) 14 days
B) 8 days
C) 18 days
D) 21 days
2) How many factories were estimated to be manufacturing hoverboards in Shenzhen, China in 2015?
A) 300
B) 900
C) 1200
D) 10,000
3) Based on current exchange rates, how many Chinese Yuan to the U.S. dollar?
A) 7.22
B) 6.47
C) 5.98
D) 6.15
4) What is the approximate number of national holidays or common local holidays in China each year?
A) 11
B) 16
C) 39
D) 27
5) How many 20 ft. containers can fit on the largest available shipping vessel?
A) 2,500
B) 10,000
C) 7,500
D) 18,000
6) What is the total CBMs (cubic meters) of a shipment of 100 boxes, each of which measures 133x44x12 CMs?
A) .12
B) 4.6
C) 7.02
D) None of the Above
7) In 2015 the average factory worker in China earned how much per day?
A) $27.50
B) $42.00
C) $18.75
D) $32.80
8) In 2015 the average factory worker in Vietnam earned what percentage of the daily wage of the average China factory worker?
A) 78%
B) 65%
C) 52%
D) 24%
9) Which of the following is not a sailing port in China?
A) Shenzhen
B) Yan Tian
C) Xiamen
D) Shanghai
E) Ningbo
10) 6MM wire is closest to what diameter?
A) 1/8”
B) ¼”
C) ¾”
D) None of the above
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1) A
2) D
3) B
4) D
5) D
6) C ((1.33x.44x.12)x100=7.02)
7) A
8) D ($6.70 per day)
9) A
10) B
How did you do?
1) 9-10 correct answers= Excellent
2) 7-8 correct answers= Very Good
3) 5-6 correct answers= Good
4) Less than 5 correct answers= Fair
Jim Hollen is the owner and President of RICH LTD. (www.richltd.com), a 35+ year-old California-based point-of-purchase display, retail store fixture, and merchandising solutions firm which has been named among the Top 50 U.S. POP display companies for 9 consecutive years. A former management consultant with McKinsey & Co. and graduate of Stanford Business School, Jim Hollen has served more than 3000 brands and retailers over more than 20 years and has authored nearly 500 blogs and e-Books on a wide range of topics related to POP displays, store fixtures, and retail merchandising.
Jim has been to China more than 50 times and has worked directly with more than 30 factories in Asia across a broad range of material categories, including metal, wood, acrylic, injection molded and vacuum formed plastic, corrugated, glass, LED lighting, digital media player, and more. Jim Hollen also oversees RICH LTD.’s domestic manufacturing operation and has experience manufacturing, sourcing, and importing from numerous Asian countries as well as Vietnam and Mexico.
His experience working with brands and retailers spans more than 25 industries such as food and beverage, apparel, consumer electronics, cosmetics/beauty, sporting goods, automotive, pet, gifts and souvenirs, toys, wine and spirits, home improvement, jewelry, eyewear, footwear, consumer products, mass market retail, specialty retail, convenience stores, and numerous other product/retailer categories.