concur on the US slowness.

building brand will be tough. in germany it will take them 2-3 years till they are declared a trustable brand. maybe longer.
it took stp,yge and tsl a long time...

if I go back to 2005-2007 installers threads then those were defined as bad quality china products. and somehow tsl just joined the no1 stp and yge group 1.5 years ago