Blog by Jim James

May 24 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Stephen Engle speaks with Jim James, a Morgan Motor Company roadster owner who's asked the British automaker for permission to market the handbuilt luxury cars in China. Luxury-car sales in China will rise 20 percent this year after surging 48 percent to 459,000 ve...

The Morgan had an opportunity to celebrate the Royal Wedding at the invitation of the UKTI. She sat pride of place alongside an Aston Martin Rapide, Jaguar XJS and a JCB digger. HE Mr Sebastian Wood CMG was even tempted behind the wheel, joined by his wife Sirinat. There wasn't time for a quick spin...

Why the American PR agency model doesn’t work in China I have noticed over the past 12 months a couple of trends which appear to be gathering pace, and an article by WPP CEO Shelly Lazarus in Ad Age prompted my thinking about why the American PR agency model doesn’t work in China. It is an issue for...

This is the first Morgan ever in China, and may just be allowed on the roads before another year is out. She is worth every second of the wait. At least that is what we thought after calls with the factory said that they hadn't heard of a Morgan being shipped into China. However, within 3 months we...

Public relations firms in China face a lot of issues that might seem strange to their counterparts in other countries, like press-shy clients and reporters who want to get paid for writing stories. Jim James, a native of Britain who studied in Americ...