Coca-Cola in China, development and competition with Pepsi
Marketing Strategy of Coca Cola in China Coca Cola, as the world’s largest beverage company, has a history of over 110 years. The brand opened its first bottling plant in China in 1927 in Tianjin and Shanghai. It continued its development in the Middle Kingdom until Shanghai became, by 1948, the first market, beside the […]
Market Analysis in China: Coffee Shop Retail Chains in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou
Recently, with many foreign brands entering China coffee market, coffee shop retail chains develop rapidly. Relying on its own characters, every brand successfully expand all over the country. As the number of consumers in China coffee market is growing up so quickly, the competition is far more intense than ever before. Our team of consultants in Beijing, Shanghai […]
Coke market in China
The consumption of Chinese soft drink is quite huge, of course coke takes much of it. As we all know, in summer people drink more coke because of hot weather, so consequently coke corporations do most of their advertisements in these season in order to stimulate the market. But it’s not all about positive affairs, […]
Infant Formula and the Chinese market
In 2013 China is the global leading country with 12, 93 US$ MN and still has enormous market growth. In 2016 Chinese infant formula market supposed to gain up to 20.72 US$ MN. Still the infant formula market has to struggle with many challenges a triggered by a series of food safety scandals. First in […]
Marketing research: Coffee shops and teahouses in China
Starbucks’ continuing expansion in China As of July 2013, Starbucks owned 878 company-operated and license stores in China. This US-based coffee chain operator aims open another 700 stores by 2015. Starbucks success in a country with a strong tea culture can mainly be attributed to the company’s effort to remain localized. For example, Starbucks offers its Chinese customers Biluochun green tea and Mudan White Tea. During traditional Chinese festivals, Starbucks will promote special-edition products, such as moon cakes and glutinous rice dumplings. This localization strategy has been working well in China. Potential challenges that might slow growth Although China is a tea-drinking country, tea houses find it difficult to formalize a well-organized chain. In general, tea houses are regarded as places for the elderly to spend time chatting and playing cards. Starbucks’ real competition comes from Costa, a UK-based company, which is expanding rapidly in China. Costa’s strategy is quite aggressive: the company opens new stores close to Starbucks, or occupy the stores where Starbucks just ended the contract. It entered into China’s market in 2006 hoping to open 2500 stores in total in 2015. […]
Distribution: Ice cream in China
Competition in China’s ice cream sector is turning red hot as market players are unveiling their bold expansion plans. International and domestic brands are well-armed with various production, marketing and distribution tactics for the looming war that will determine the nation’s ice cream king. The odds-on favourites to scope up the title as top ice […]
Diageo in China
Diageo is the leading Premium Alcohol Drinks company and operates within 180 countries globally. It is listed both on the London and New York Stock exchanges. It is headquartered in London with an annual net sales value turnover of 5000 million GBP and an operating profit of 1600 million GBP. It employs approximately 22,000 people […]
China Stratey: Unilever in China
Recent moves by Unilever to raise 300 million RMB may appear modest in scale, but the decision by the consumer goods group behind Dove shampoo, Cornetto ice creams and Lipton tea to launch a so-called “dim sum bond”, denominated in RMB, has further underlined its Chinese ambitions. The Anglo-Dutch multinational has, by its own admission, faltered […]
Market research: Coffee market in China
Throughout its long history, Chinese people have drank tea from morning to night. Today, a large amount of people, especially those who have been abroad and people of the younger generation, prefer to drink coffee over tea. They associate coffee with a “petite bourgeoisie” lifestyle (that is the way Chinese like to describe French lifestyle […]
Market study: beer in China
Nowadays, China’s consumption of beer ranks higher than any other country in the world. Tsingtao Beer(青岛啤酒), Snow Beer(雪花啤酒), Yanjing Beer(燕京啤酒), Budweiser(百威啤酒), Shancheng Beer(山城啤酒), Pearl River Beer(珠江啤酒), Harbin Beer(哈尔滨啤酒), Kingway Beer(金威啤酒), Sedrin Beer(雪津啤酒) and King Star Beer(金星啤酒): Out of these top 10 selling beers in China, 9 of them are Chinese domestic brands. Chinese beer has […]
Marketing research on Bakeries market in China
Bakeries, also called cake shops or cakery is the special establishment which produces and/or sells cakes, usually cupcakes, muffins, sponges, as well as other baked goods that fall under the title of cake. In the past Chinese people prefer eat stuffed steamed bun or porridge in the morning as their breakfast. However, as the society […]
Market analysis: Paris Baguette in China
Background of Paris Baguette Paris Baguette is the top baking brand of Korea’s oldest food company, SPC Group, South Korea. The company currently has over 1500 stores throughout South Korea, the United States ( Los Angeles, New York), China (Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin). Paris Baguette is mainly engaged in making authentic French bread, fresh sandwiches, delicious […]