How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 15, 2009.

Other BC News

• The Vancouver Sun and other media gave hefty advance coverage to “a major Simon Fraser University conference” this week that explored how Chinese immigrants are coping with maintaining historical legacies while trying to integrate into Canadian society, and how Chinatowns here and elsewhere have evolved. Quoted were Paul Crowe, director of the David Lam Centre at SFU, and Rosalie Tung, prof of international business. Both the Early Edition and the On the Coast shows on CBC Radio also gave advance airtime to the conference, with good mentions of SFU. The Fanny Kiefer show on Shaw-TV also did an advance story, interviewing Jan Walls, prof emeritus and founder of the David Lam Centre and of SFU’s Asia-Canada Program. And Canadian Immigrant magazine ran a story on the conference, from an SFU news release.

National News

• The Globe and Mail looked at how Best Buy Co. is looking to lessons it learned in Canada—where it operates both Best Buy and Future Shop—to help double its annual sales to $US100-billion within a decade. Marketing prof Lindsay Meredith told the Globe: “You can run two brands as long as you’re sure you’re hitting two niches.”