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China Consumer

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‘Tao labels’ is a threat to bigger fashion retailers
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

There were some unexpected findings in Taobao’s fashion trend report published earlier this year. First, there were more women looking for blazers and suits than men during the first quarter – with the iron-lady, oversized style being the ...

OYO is a rare Indian success story in China
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

In 1925 Arthur Heineman spotted a market niche: a new type of hotel with garage parking. In the town of San Luis Obispo he opened what he termed as the first ‘motel’ to cater to people driving between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Motels ...

Is Luckin Coffee a serious challenger to Starbucks in China?
May 10, 2019 (WiC 451)

Starbucks’ business in China was lossmaking for the first nine years after it opened its first cafe in Beijing in January 1999. Investors weren’t happy with all that red ink but company founder Howard Schultz argued that some pain was ...

Durex blasted for racy online ads run with HeyTea
May 3, 2019 (WiC 450)

In 2009 Burger King landed itself in hot water because of a raunchy advertisement in Singapore. It featured a blonde woman agape at one of the chain’s seven-inch burgers with the words below saying: “Fill your desire for something long, juicy ...

Fonterra resets agenda in China after Beingmate fallout
May 3, 2019 (WiC 450)

The term ‘sour milk’ is pertinent to the attempts of many international dairy firms to enter the huge China market. Many have set up joint ventures or partnerships but then watched aghast as the tie-ups curdled. A landmark case: last year ...

Why app developer Meitu thinks its future is in skincare
Apr 26, 2019 (WiC 449)

Every industry has its clichés. “Pivoting” qualifies as one in the world of start-ups and venture capital. Referred to as a shift in business strategy – either to test a new approach to a company’s business model or product – pivoting ...

Why JD’s Richard Liu is working 98 hours a week
Apr 26, 2019 (WiC 449)

Even by the nightmarish benchmark of his brief jailing in Minnesota last September, Liu Qiangdong has had a dreadful week. First, the same University of Minnesota student again accused the billionaire founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant ...

How the world is counting on China’s consumers
Apr 18, 2019 (WiC 449)

Spending from China’s new breed of consumers has got cash registers ringing in some unlikely places. Regular readers of WiC will be familiar with the holiday shopping that has turned Bicester Village, a retail park in central England, into one ...

China’s e-commerce sector is increasingly being driven by KOL ‘influencers’
Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448)

In the true-story movie Joy, an inventor-housewife played by Jennifer Lawrence goes on a television-shopping network to peddle her Miracle Mop. After she nervously wields her invention, demonstrating how it self-wrings and how its head ...

Saturnbird takes aim at China’s $150 billion coffee market
Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448)

The world’s first water-soluble ‘instant’ coffee was patented in Britain in 1771. It did not prove very popular until the First World War when the US military stocked up on the product for soldiers’ trench rations. Instant coffee’s next ...

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