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Area Man Travels To Beijing, Site Of The Summer Olympics
August 12, 2008
The 2008 Summer Olympics are well underway this week in Beijing, China. While Beijing may seem a world away and culturally odd to many in North Escambia, one area man that has made multiple visits to China says it is a great place.
Bill Busch, COO of Alto Products Corp. in nearby Atmore, travels to China at least twice per year to visit the company’s sales office in Shenzhen. Shenzhen is about 1200 miles from Beijing, but Busch has paid several visits to Beijing to visit Alto customers.
“Beijing has very, very nice people,” Busch said. “They are very enthusiastic.”
Besides the people, he said he enjoys the city and its culture.
“It is very much like New York City because it is such a big city,” he said. “But it is perhaps a little more modern. It is very Western. There is a Starbucks everywhere, plus you will find companies like KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonalds all over the city.”
“There is still a lot of old culture there, a lot of people that ride bicycles to work,” he said. “I enjoy things like the older parts of the city and the Great Wall; it is very impressive.”
But equally impressive is the “Bird’s Nest”, the main Olympic stadium that Busch has seen first hand.
Busch enjoys the food when he travels to Beijing, a city that announced it was ordering the removal of dog meat from restaurant menus during the Olympics.
“The food I enjoy contains a lot of vegetables and fish,” he said. “It is very different that the Chinese food in restaurants here in the United States.”
“I really, really enjoy visiting Beijing,” he said.
Alto Products is the world’s largest and oldest independently owned and operated transmission clutch manufacturer in the world, having manufactured over a billion clutches in the past 50 years. In addition to the corporate office and manufacturing facility in Atmore, the company operates offices and distribution facilities in California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Germany, India, China, Dubai and Australia.
“China is one of our fastest growing markets right now,” Busch said.
Alto employees many North Escambia residents at their Atmore facility.
Pictured above: Bill Busch (blue shirt, top middle) in the Alto China sales office with Alto employees Albert and John and their families. Submitted photo.
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