Watsons partners with NetEase in offline retail
The roughly 3-year-old NetEast Yanxuan co-branded with Watsons to form a sub-brand as a brick-and-mortar retail store featured with life aesthetics. It launched in Pazhou Poly
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China’s top e-commerce and retail are being integrated, a concept brought by Alibaba “New Retail”. The largest shopping festival in China are Double 11 (or Singles’ Day) in November and mid-year promotion 618 (August 18).View articles related to China’s retail, new retail, online shoppers, and e-commerce market statistics, trends and insights below. Check out cross-border e-commerce specific articles here.
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China’s US$16bn cross-border e-commerce market overview in Q4 2018
China’s cross-border import retail e-commerce market grew by 36% to US$16.86 billion in Q4 2018. Tmall Global and NetEase Kaola together account for 56.2% of
China retail market overview 2018; rural areas grew by 10.1%, online retail up 24%
In the whole year of 2018, the total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 38,098.7 billion yuan (US$5,620.13 billion), up by 9.0% year-on-year (nominal
Alibaba’s Tmall to incubate 100 new products for 10 billion yuan GMV in 2019
It is becoming trendy and vital for brands to make products debut on Alibaba’s B2C e-commerce platform Tmall. Tmall also makes great efforts to help
New e-commerce regulations in China you should be aware in 2019
Individual agents (Daigou), who frequently promote products on WeChat Moment or sell products in live streaming and short videos, all share a new name “e-commerce
Chinese post-95s spent 80% more buying overseas in 2018
Post-90s was the main force of Chinese Haitao users while post-80s held the strongest per capita consumption power. Surprisingly, post-95s attracted extensive attention as its
China retail trend 2019; to hit US$6.77 trillion, fueled by e-commerce and new retail
China’s retail market is estimated to hit US$6.77 trillion by 2019 with e-commerce representing 14.46% of this market. The population of post-80s and post-90s totaled nearly
Alibaba’s Tmall led China’s US$186 billion online retail B2C market in Q3 2018 with almost 60% market share
China’s online retail B2C market reached US$186.13B in Q3 2018. Tmall led this market with a share of 59.5%, followed by JD.com (25.8%) and Suning
Top mobile e-commerce apps in China Q3 2018; top 3 are Taobao, Pinduoduo, and JD
The market penetration of comprehensive e-commerce apps reached 82.6%, an 11.3% increase year-on-year in China. Its average daily active users dropped by nearly 6.3 million
China retail sales of consumers goods saw the slowest growth in Nov 2018
In November 2018, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 3,526.0 billion yuan (US$510.46 bn) in China, up by 8.1% year-on-year (nominal growth rate),
The story of a Taobao celebrity who sold 300 million yuan products on Double 11
Image Credit: Global E-Businessmen Viya, the so-called Taobao blogger who “earn a house in one night”, broke her own record in this year’s Tmall Double
Haitao users buying overseas to reach 101 million in 2018
Total cross-border e-commerce transactions were projected to hit 9.1 trillion yuan (US$1.33T) with 101 million haitao users by the end of 2018. 67.7% of users went
46 insurgent brands shake up China’s FMCG market
China’s local brands accounted for 98% of the domestic market in 2017, with a 7.7% increase in sales value. 67% of local insurgents grew at least two times
21 FMCG companies reached over 100 million Chinese urban households in 2018
21 Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies reached over 100 million urban households. P&G and Yili led the race, reaching over 160 million families. Nongfu
7 highlights from Tmall Double 11 2018
What have Chinese consumers bought during Tmall Double 11, the world’s largest e-commerce shopping event? Which categories are big winners? How much have they spent?
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