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French beauty brand L’Occitane to open its first Café in China
Recently, French beauty product retailer L'Occitane is opening the first Café in mainland China (Nanjing). As the brand competition becomes more and more fierce, skincare brands have to develop...
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Online accounted for over 17% of China’s total retail sales Jan-May 2017
China’s total retail sales of consumer goods reached 2,945.9 US$430.8 billion in May, up by 10.7% YoY. Online retail accounted for over 17% of total retail sales from January to May. In May 2017,...
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China social media impact survey 2017
Kantar’s social media report has found that Chinese respondents are generally happy with changes brought by social media. People born in 1990s (post-90s) showed more caution against negative impacts...
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Quickstart guide to Kaola, a top cross-border e-c platform in China
Kaola.com is one of the top cross-border retail e-commerce platforms in China, set up by NetEase in 2015. It's the top cross-border retail platform based on total GMV in 2016, according to iiMedia. It...
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5 Trends of Chinese digital consumers
A recent McKinsey report shows five trends of Chinese digital consumers including omnichannel shopping, context-triggered shopping, social media centered consumer interactions, increasing demand for...
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An overview of China’s quality retail e-commerce users
Premium quality products are becoming increasingly popular in China, and more and more e-commerce companies are turning its focus from low prices to high quality including Netease Yanxuan, Mijia...
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WeChat Pay launched open platform for overseas merchants
WeChat Pay held a WeChat Pay Overseas Open Conference in Tokyo on July 3, 2017, launching an open platform of WeChat Pay for overseas merchants. WeChat Pay is a payment feature integrated into the...
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How to satisfy Chinese consumers’ demand in digital retail era
In order to meet the ever-changing Chinese consumer preferences in the digital retail era, companies should adjust their products and marketing strategies. A recent McKinsey report shows five trends...
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Xiaomi smartphone shipment grew by 70% in Q2 2017
The shipment volume of Xiaomi smartphones totaled 23.16 million in the second quarter of 2017 with an increase of 70% QoQ according to an internal letter by Lei Jun. Phone companies shipped a total of...
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WeChat transforming retail with self-checkout, product identification, big data
'Retail is retail, there is no old and new'. In today’s Fast Moving Consumer Goods(FMCG) retail industry, the consumer demand, groups, channels, and patterns are all changing, but WeChat Pay team...
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China’s air ticket online booking market in Q1 2017
China’s air ticket online booking market is upcoming and on the rise, with seen increases in market share and dominance of certain air divisions, coupled with increased direct sales channels to...
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China retail industry development report 2016-2017
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) views the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market and industry in China with increasing optimism going into the second half of 2017. On the backs of China’s...
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WeChat enhanced in-app search results with mini-programs data
Tencent has enhanced WeChat search features this week and feed the search results with data from WeChat Mini-Programs. WeChat users can search a specific stock by name or the stock symbol. The stock...
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Chinese outbound travelers spend less on shopping in 2016
As Chinese tourists spending increased in 2016, their total overseas shopping spending decreased by 17% according to consulting firm Oliver Wyman. The average spend per Chinese tourist on shopping was...
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JD notebook sales during 618 campaign in 2017
JingDong (JD) held an annual sale on 18th June to celebrate its anniversary in China. Other eTailers as Alibaba’s Tmall follow to compete with JD. Data below shows the sales of electronic products...
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Drive customer engagement with scene marketing
Now, people go to McDonald's in China, in addition to queue to buy their meals, they can also order online and take meals offline by using McDonald's ordering App. By constantly optimizing and...
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China’s mobile phone market overview in June 2017
In June 2017, China’s mobile market has produced a total of 41.786 million mobile phones, showing a comparative 6.2% decrease; there are 97 newly released models, which has decreased 29.7%. In the...
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China online retail grew by over 33% in the first half of 2017
In June 2017, the total retail sales of consumer goods in China reached 2,980.8 billion yuan (US$439.37 billion), up by 11.0% year-on-year (nominal growth rate. The real growth rate was 10.0%). Of the...
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5 Trends of online businesses in China
E-commerce operations in China are currently moving from a scale of tens of trillions RMB to hundreds of, and it has gradually penetrated every aspect of economic and social life. AliResearch made...
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Starbucks promoting group sharing WeChat Gift Cards
Starbucks' updated WeChat app encourages users to share smaller gift cards in WeChat group chats, instead of just one-on-one. Does the thought of gifting Starbucks in a group chat scare you? No need...
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