china retail

Retail Asia22/10/2018

Chinese online grocery and delivery firm Dada-JD Daojia is partnering with French hypermarket chain Carrefour. The collaboration, which involves listing Carrefour China stores on the Dada-JD platform, has already resulted in a 720 per cent increase in the chain’s online sales compared with the month previous. Some 4000 Carrefour products are available to be traded […]

Retail Asia06/09/2017

Some 2,000 quick service outlets to open by 2022 in small cities McDonald’s Corp, the global fast-food chain that has forged a new partnership in China last month, will expand faster by opening 2,000 new restaurants in the next five years. They will be set up mostly in third-and fourth-tier cities with a focus on […]

Retail Asia13/02/2017

Chinese consumers are increasingly craving premium-tier products to underscore their success, says Nielsen China. The market research company defines premium-tier products as items that cost at least 20 per cent more than the average price for the category. The global information company’s retail sales data, which covers major retail chains, shows that factors on both […]

Retail Asia30/01/2017

Australian wine exporters expect to receive a profit boost from this week, with a further reduction of tariffs to China now in effect. China is now Australia’s biggest export market for wine — worth almost half a billion dollars. Gemtree vineyards in McLaren Vale, near Adelaide, is confident its 2016 shiraz is a good match […]

Retail Asia09/01/2017

China’s leadership has always seen gross domestic product (GDP) numbers as the most important indicator of their ability of govern; thus their whole apparatus does whatever it can, in terms of policies, to make sure a politically acceptable growth rate is achieved. With a persistent slowdown, the government has to adjust its target to a […]

Retail Asia15/11/2016

China’s retail sales growth rose to 10.0 per cent on-year in October, missing analysts’ forecasts of 10.7 per cent growth — the rate sales grew at the previous month. Thus there was a slowdown in retail sales despite the growth. Industrial output rose 6.1 per cent in October from a year earlier, the National Bureau […]

Retail Asia16/09/2016

Beijing-based retail giant WuMart has filed a bid to take over McDonald’s operations in both the mainland and Hong Kong, according to a report from Caixin.com. Someone familiar with the case revealed that Wumart’s bid is being backed by TPG capital, one of the largest private equity investment firms globally. WuMart is said to be […]

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Dada-JD Daojia, Carrefour to collaborate online

New McDonald’s set to expand faster in China

Chinese consumers crave premium products

Australian Wine to China

Why obsessing over GDP is no longer in China’s best interests

China retail sales grow 10% on-year in October

China’s retailer files bid for McDonald’s China operations