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In berlin today father christmas can put his feet up meanwhile retailers will be taking stock of the run up to todays festivities here in germany small shop owners are not in a merry mood sales were below expectations but the big retail chains and Department Stores did well selling plenty of toys clothes gadgets and cosmetics and also more people than ever before went on line to buy items for their family and friends the german retailers those years and says online sales increased by ten percent this Holiday Season to twelve billion euros and many of those big money spinning products are from the world of take bows the serious and the silly. Look at the little drummer boy playing without a drum set hes playing on free drum using sensors to track a drum his movements high tech is fun throwing a roller coaster at copenhagen stiffly you can ride a dragon through a fantasy world or enjoy the thrills of a hyper realistic london skyline adventure when in fact youre laying in an advanced swivel chair. Virtual reality made a big splash in twenty seventeen but not only for thrill seekers v. R. Is a learning tool to this shirt lets you look inside the body a lesson in biology ready to wear. Wearables were all over the place dressing humans in east and dogs with a collar that connects to g. P. S. And other devices. And if wearing your tech isnt personal enough for you how about implants chipping people sounds like an orwellian whoreson ario but its quite practical. Once chipped employees at a Swedish Company can open doors with the swipe of a hand employees i thrilled i want to pay for it on the future and. A future where even information about your train ticket is stored under your skin a future where you pay using your fingertips privacy issues not for these early adopters. My facebook account probably knows more about me than the company will ever know about me as a lot so im not really bothered by that humans and technology taking another step towards each other in twenty seventeen you do the walking the avatar follows at least for now. One thousand years ago caravans of camels brought porcelain spices and precious silk all the way from china to europe and the silk is what gave that old trade route its name the silk road today the Chinese Government is investing hundreds of billions of u. S. Dollars to revive this route by building ports and bridges and roads both in china and abroad this week we want to take you on a journey along with new silk road and take a closer look at the most important stations and today we stop in to place in the capital of georgia it is the only country in the southern caucasus with access to the black sea cutting shipping time to europe significantly and this is why the port city of a not clear gets a brand new deep sea harbor and the next ten years the Chinese Government will sink two point five billion dollars into that project and georgia does not only want to be a transit country with so much trade going past its doorstep georgia wants a slice of that pie and Many Small Companies are ready for business from the new silk road. For the guards is a family get together like this doesnt happen so often anymore theyre all looking after their businesses and son jordi now works in china as a marketing expert everyone here depends on chinese firms for their livelihoods to it all and to speak mandarin casually discuss the menu with the Chinese Restaurant staff. I thank you mother because its through using our whole family is connected to china. And. Its. This new luxury hotel is a few kilometers from tbilisi it belongs to the chinese quarreling group the director is a friend of the gods a family thats still on many guests here but the boss is thinking long term hes been in tbilisi for eighty years and has invested millions of Chinese Business park is due to be built close by with shops restaurants and a massive fim park. To. Hollywood first theyll be a lot of concrete then many trees will be planted because that will look nice and be good for the environment and who gets off this is the entrance to the Business Park vacant land all owned by chinese investors a few months ago the biggest Shopping Mall in the caucuses opened here one hundred fifty thousand square meters of retail space. But customers are scarce its simply too far from the city center and western brands are not on offer but there are some shops like this for key. If you want to buy some furniture and other things you can come here and buy. Mandarin lessons at the ben to kids Agrarian University in tbilisi the teacher is and his mother. She cant complain about lack of interest there are more students studying chinese than russian here. I study chinas because i think that its a more perspective language in the world and also china in a vis innovate to much money in georgia we already have a good relation with Chinese People and i think that we will we have to continue this relation more few of the gods a family know their future is with china and its a sure thing that their youngest member is going to grow up speaking mandarin that it was. One of the most important commodities on that ancient silk road spice pepper for example was only for the rich today everyone can afford it thanks in part to Spice Companies like german importer fox fox dominates the German Market for spices with an eighty percent share a husband and wife team from hamburg is making fast inroads into that market partly by using a clever social media strategy of a lot of little ida is helping out today. The creators of put their heart and soul into their business and theyre getting some good footage for their you tube channel. If you would like to wish you a Merry Christmas next week there wont be cookies but rather steaks again the limpers are eager to expand their business. We notice that our customers like to watch our videos and what could be better than making videos of us cooking baking and grilling we can show our spices and all the things we make with them and. We provide insights into our production and dont have any secrets were open and honest about how we do it and you can follow us on all the social media channels. The company has made an impact on the conservative german spice market due to t. V. Appearances and elaborate marketing crowd has been able to rival Market Leader foods in just four years spice mixtures are especially popular like pepper a barbecue meat and hearty roast goose the companys sixty five employees are used to the unusual fragrances. And then you dont smell anymore you dont notice that even in the evening when you come home you need an hour or two to perceive any orders again and. Again exclusively with online sales but it now plans to expand to supermarkets across germany to do that its product range has to be complete when Raw Materials are expensive it has to look for alternatives. Im going to move a quantity we could buy lower quality but we dont do that because quality is very important to us so we said that first well remove some recipes and certain spices from the market or to give a sort of routes to. Deafen limca likes looking for alternatives since his childhood in tanzania hes been fascinated with exotic spices and once wanted to become a cook. Even though he chose to work in the Media Industry he continued to experiment with spice mixtures amid rapid growth he can no longer do everything himself thoughtful enough i really did make the First One Hundred mixtures myself but now we depend on our employees who are very good at this but i still allow myself to taste every spice which definitely causes some irritation. Of less of the echoes of on average one hundred grams of spice costs six to seven euros certainly not a bargain but the limit is want to distance themselves from mass produced products in plastic containers and i do this that when we take all these steps and everything we do to make our brand what it is customers do notice it and perhaps then theyll choose to buy from us instead of buying from the monopolies doll few at a bus fundies want to name one or. Multiple distant it looks like customers are doing just that during the Christmas Season the company has been working at full production. But before i let you go i owe happening to look to buy a skyscraper maybe one who isnt a Chinese Court is auctioning off a thirty nine floor building in taiwan in the Northern Province the Online Auction is held on tao bao thats ali babas ecommerce platform and its the biggest year for the site of the starting price of over eight hundred Million Dollars the buy a will have to spend quite a bit more as pictures show only a hot finished building exists dimly lit and full of dust many Chinese Courts auctioning off goods on the web including cars jewelry and recently even several boeing seven four seven jumbo jets. Well thats it for me on the Business Team here and more news on the w. For you. Before you go have a look. Thank you very much for watching business. Keep calm. For me. Now from the. News its a kind of culture. Good news sunny a phenomenal. Clip mourning. For a family on a legal. Battle. And killing sea. Plastic waste. Some of it invisible to the naked eye. 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