{"id":1964,"date":"2021-12-30T02:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T02:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2022-11-28T07:28:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T07:28:40","slug":"2021-and-what-will-2022-bring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/?p=1964","title":{"rendered":"2021 and What Will 2022 Bring?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2021 saw markets open, business develop, only to grind to a halt as new variants of Covid-19 brought new restrictions and lockdowns but despite this we saw growth on 2020 and there are positive signs for 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During 2021 our FAT client base increased by 30% as travel restrictions prevented overseas travel into China and our Shenzhen &amp; Dongguan FAT teams were increasingly busy as we expanded our normal manufacturing areas of Shenzhen, Dongguan and Huizhou to include locations farther afield such as Jiangsu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall 2021 saw an increase of 16% in FATs over 2021 but December saw us break records with the most number of FAT days completed since we started business in 2006. This continued into 2022 with a record breaking January, again the best ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of May, 2022 has seen our FAT client base expand by a further 26% with numbers matching pre-Covid levels and the best March since 2017. What is really exciting is that as of May our FAT order book already exceeds 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021-Jan-P1.9.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021-Jan-P1.9-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021-Jan-P1.9-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021-Jan-P1.9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021-Jan-P1.9-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 saw markets open, business develop, only to grind to a halt as new variants of Covid-19 brought new restrictions and lockdowns but despite this we saw growth on 2020 and there are positive signs for 2022. During 2021 our FAT client base increased by 30% as travel restrictions prevented overseas travel into China and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,115],"tags":[39,56,57],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bateman-consulting","category-fat","tag-bateman-consulting-2","tag-fat","tag-inspection"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinasourcing.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}