Vanguard's concept of health and beauty, fashion retail chain brand Vivo Plus the first store in mainland China, recently opened in Xi'an. According to Vanguard said, this is the Vivo Plus prelude to formal entry into the Mainland market.
"Vivo Plus provides more than 5000 kinds of goods, including health and wellness, personal care, skin care and beauty, gifts and candy, etc. Our models tend to Mannings, fast food products to sell based,
Cosmetics material, no more than Watson." CR Wan Home Public Affairs Manager Jiang Yan told reporters on the Shenzhen Economic Daily.
According to reports, Vivo Plus will continue to develop the next Shenzhen, Tianjin, Guangzhou and other markets, the end of 2011 the number of stores is expected to exceed 10. Previously, this area has only two Watsons and Mannings Brand Hong Kong, Taiwan Beauty Cosmed store giant's unified only six stores in the mainland.
According to information provided by Watson, to the end of this year,
glutathione, Watson's opening number will reach 1,000 stores. To August this year, the Mannings in the country's over 180 directly operated stores.
Shaw is the new CEO and the Mannings told reporters that: "the rapid development of China's retail industry, the forms are from large and small U.S. supermarket chain to business change."
Is this not a golden opportunity to invest in local enterprises. According to the reporter, Guerlain, although from the second and third tier cities circuitous development, but since 2005 have already left for 153 stores mainly in the Guangdong Pearl River Delta region as the main battleground in Shenzhen Citistore, has also opened 200 stores accept the red Sequoia Capital as new shareholders and strategic investors, the Shanghai lyrics of Ma is expected to reach 500 by 2011.
In addition, many chain drug stores or pharmacies are also in the monomer to the "drug store" in transition. In Shenzhen and Guangzhou, 80% of pharmacies have begun to sell cosmetics.
Anonymity, the day of the suppliers told reporters: "The current profitability of retail pharmacies, on the one hand is the difference between buying and selling of goods, on the other store operating income and operating income, mainly fees and corporate promotion channel promotion expenses, etc., then there is the high-margin product sales, including retail pharmacies cheap proxy species, varieties of joint procurement, OEM varieties. "
With increased competition, declining margins drugs in Europe and Japan,
biotin, diversification has become the most effective retail pharmacy profit model. Although domestic business has just started, but many non-pharmacy drug sales have been a third or more of total sales. Source: www.cosprm.com
