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China’s Legacy Purchasing Meeting Model Starts to Change

Competition is forcing even the most stalwart companies to seek more agile inventory management.China’s legacy retail purchasing model has come ...

China’s Massive Online Market Shifts Gears

The combination of a huge population and high e-commerce penetration rate has laid a solid foundation for China’s online retail development. In the f...

How La Chapelle Wins by Giving the Customer What She Wants

La Chapelle has built a fast growing billion-dollar retail company by following their customers’ tastes, rather than fashion trends. As the...

How Hstyle is Dividing and Conquering China's Retail Market

How HStyle’s conglomeration of micro ‘brand-teams’ has helped it stay on top in China’s wildly competitive online market. ...

Cutting Costs vs. Boosting Margins

“The future is all about consumers deciding what is fashion and what they want the product to look like. Instead of a push to inventory, it&rsqu...

Souyute: The Unique Advantage of Starting Small

How Fashion Frontier built a massively successful brand portfolio by focusing only on lower tier cities Souyute is a very rare case among success...

eShop Talk Asia: Why Offline Retail Remains Crucial in the Digital Age

The non-stop buzz about the exponential growth of online sales (as well as a general fascination with the platform itself) has made it seem like onlin...

How Better Back End Systems Can Drive Better Profits

Shortening lead times is becoming increasingly critical, the challenge is how to do this – particularly when there’s a very complex and well entrenc...

Why Physical Store are Critical

For the past decade conventional wisdom was that online is going to replace offline retail. Companies have spent millions of dollars building websites...

Exception: Dressing China’s Avante-Garde Women

Exception is indeed an exception to typical Chinese brands.As one of the earliest Chinese designer brands, Exception never tried to court the mainstre...

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