After realizing the difficulty, Les Enphants decided to focus on the wholesale sector, with over 400 vendors and department stores selling its products, rather than risking licensing their brand names or patents to local retailers like other Taiwanese companies, Chen said. Howard Chou (©P²ø¶³), an associate manager at Sinyi Real Estate Inc («H¸q©Ð«Î), which set up its first Chinese branch in Shanghai in 1993, however, said having local companies running their brands is not a bad idea (Taipei Times, Taiwan).