Market research: Asia (page 1 of 42)

Kazakhstan has experienced a national economic revival since the collapse of the Soviet Union. As incomes have risen, the buying habits and attitudes of consumers have changed. For instance, more cons...

Value sales of apparel specialist retailers rose by 1% in 2012. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, the closure of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant necessitated the saving of electricity. As...

Value sales of direct selling declined by 3% in 2012. The number of reported dishonest business practices increased in direct selling over the last decade, resulting in a negative image of the industr...

Value sales of homeshopping declined by 3% in 2011. Category sales can be broken down into two major formats: TV and catalogue shopping. Although proportionally small, TV shopping continued to grow in...

Value sales of internet retailing grew by 11% in 2012. With high penetration of the internet in Japan, the industry experienced continuous double-digit growth over the past 10 years. According to the ...

Value sales of mixed retailers declined by 2% in 2012. Although warehouse clubs experienced sales growth of 4% in 2012, a sharp decline in department store sales negatively affected overall category g...

With a difficult economic situation in Japan, consumer expenditure remained modest and retail sales continued to be flat in 2012. Traditional grocery retailers continued to exit the market, as competi...

Shrinking consumer demand as well as too rapid outlet expansion, high stock levels and excessive competition increasingly became the key obstacles to the sustainable growth of local sports players in ...

The country’s economy suffered a decline in growth over the review period with 2012 GDP growth declining to 7.8% from 9.2% in 2011. Under the sluggish macroeconomic conditions, consumers became more c...

As the leading player in footwear in China, Belle’s core businesses in China covers two major parts: manufacture and retail of the company’s self-owned footwear brands as well as authorised distributi...

Directly owning various brands represented by Jack & Jones and Selected in men’s clothing and Only and Vero Moda in women's clothing, Bestseller Fashion Group continues the multi-brand strategy with d...

As affordable necessities in Chinese consumers’ daily lives, hosiery in China was less affected by the economic downturn compared with other apparel categories like men’s and women’s clothing in 2012....

In China, retail value sales of men’s jeans reached RMB33.8 billion in 2012, while the corresponding figure of women’s jeans was RMB30.5 billion. This was mainly due to key players’ efforts in develop...

The economic slowdown continued to adversely affect women’s outerwear sales in 2012, reflected by the slowdown in retail volume growth. In 2012, volume growth decreased to 6%, compared to the correspo...

In 2012, childrenswear continued to register healthy retail volume growth of 7% compared to the 8% growth in 2011. It was adversely affected by the rising economic uncertainty in 2012 with domestic GD...

In 2012, clothing accessories continued to witness dynamic growth with retail volume growth of 10% in 2011 and 2012. Ties had the most dynamic volume growth of 12% in 2012 which was largely propelled ...

Similar to 2011, footwear in China witnessed stable retail volume growth of 7% in 2012, largely due to the rigid replacement demand combined with demand for better products. With retail volume growing...

As one of the leading sports brands in China, Li Ning continued to deploy the multi-brand strategy with diversified product portfolios to cover multiple segment markets such as Li Ning in footwear and...

Negatively impacted by the economic downturn, men’s outerwear saw slower retail volume and value sales growth rates in 2012 at 5% and 8% respectively, which were slower than historical volume and valu...

As one of the company’s key short term strategies, Metersbonwe Group plans to transform to fast fashion business model, imitating the success of international fast fashion players like Zara and H&M. I...

With considerable market shares in men’s and women’s clothing and childrenswear, Semir Group Co Ltd is one of the leading players in Chinese apparel with major focuses on young consumers’ casual wear ...

Adversely affected by the sluggish economic downturn in 2012, sportswear in China saw a decelerated growth trend with value growth down from 9% in 2011 to 5% in 2012. In addition, the collective downf...

Compared with outerwear and footwear, the demand for underwear, nightwear and swimwear was less negatively affected by the economic downturn and had stable value growth of 13% in 2012. This was due to...

Vestiditos is expected to continue to lead childrenswear with its Mimo & Co brand, opening new outlets and further strengthening consumers’ loyalty; they trust this brand due to decades of leadership....

Grimoldi continues to grow. In 2012, the company celebrated the opening of its latest industrial and logistics complex in Pilar, located 48km from downtown Buenos Aires, surrounded by not only the Arg...

2012 enabled Cosas Nuestras to complete the acquisition of the work and safety apparel brand Pampero from Alpargatas. Pampero’s traditional working spirit, emulating the local culture, represents the ...

Present in seven countries in Latin America, and with more than 60 outlets, Las Blondas sustains its differentiation strategy, successfully targeting middle and high-income consumers through its bohem...

Cheeky remains one of the top two players within childrenswear in Argentina. Despite the growing political and economic uncertainty in the country, with constant inflation, the company manages to cont...

With a better economic backdrop compared to 2011, the year 2012 sees more robust growth in the retail market, both in grocery and non-grocery channels. The industry has benefited from the increase in ...

With fast growing cities and municipalities emerging in provincial areas, chained players continue to expand their networks through the establishment of outlets outside of Metro Manila. Mall operators...