What is cool in China – Shaun Rein
2013-10-24
The magazine Slate investigated what is cool worldwide. Our business analyst Shaun Rein explained for them what is ku or cool in China, and how it is influenced by South-Korea.Read More →
Confidence back in China’s economy – Shaun Rein
2013-10-18
Consumer confidence is back on track, and investors see China again as a safe haven, argues business analyst Shaun Rein on Bloomberg TV. Consumers are spending money again, after the government made small, but significant moves to shore up confidence.Read More →
How can Burberry survive in China? – Shaun Rein
2013-10-15
Fashion brand Burberry gets a new CEO, as Burberry’s chief executive, Angela Ahrendts move to Apple in 2014. But retail analyst Shaun Rein is not sure current Chief Creative Officer Christopher Bailey would be the best choice to move business in China, he tells in HITC Business. Read More →
China’s e-commerce is booming, but not for US retailers – Shaun Rein
2013-10-08
+Shaun Rein (Photo credit: Fantake) E-commerce in China is growing 50 percent each year, but US retailers like Macy and Neiman Marcus are scaling back their online operation in the country. Retail analyst Shaun Rein explains in the WSJ that US companies mostly lack brand equity and focus at the wrongRead More →
Apple: no longer cool in China – Shaun Rein
2013-09-23
Apple’s new iPhones are not getting the buzz the Apple products used to get in the past, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in Bloomberg. It might a against the bible of Steve Jobs, but it would help if they would listen to their users. And the fingerprint technology is not helping either.Read More →
What is cool in China (not Apple) – Shaun Rein
2013-09-10
Shanghai-based Retail analyst Shaun Rein takes Reuters on a cool brand tour in his city, as Apple keeps on losing its position. A few of the winners in this entertaining video: Starbucks and Adidas.Read More →
Why China’s middle class is not doing well – Shaun Rein
2013-08-20
While consumer confidence in China might be high in general, the so-called middle class – earning between 6,000 and 115,000 US dollar per year – are fairly pessimistic, explains business analyst Shaun Rein at CNBC. Mid-tier consumer brands are being hit, he predicts.Read More →
China’s retail, moving from the big boys to the little guys – Paul French
2013-08-19
China consumers are outspending the moderate GDP growth, but underlying changing undermine the big players in retail, as the sales increasingly go to the little guys, including e-commerce, writes retail analyst Paul French in the China Economic Review.Read More →
Facial masks, another score for L’Oreal – Ben Cavender
2013-08-19
The French L’Oreal groups bought China’s leading facial masks group Magic Holdings. A brilliant move, says retail analyst Ben Cavender in the China Daily, in a fast growing market segment.Read More →
Why Adidas is overtaking Nike – Ben Cavender
2013-08-15
Adidas is gaining ground on the China market leader for sport articles. While Nike focuses on the big stars, Adidas is winning because of a marketing strategy that focuses much more on the lifestyle of ordinary users, tells retail analyst Ben Cavender in AdAge.Read More →
China movies hit Hollywood blockbusters hard – Ben Cavender
2013-08-05
China has become a major market for film fans, but increasingly their taste is going into the direction of domestic movies, leaving Hollywood blockbusters behind, tells business analyst Ben Cavender at the WSJ. How domestic movies makers changed from an underdog into a winner on the China market.Read More →
China’s consumers move away from blink – Shaun Rein
2013-07-24
Paris and Europe in general are losing track as hot spots for buying luxury goods, as the crisis hits China’s middle class, and consumers move from luxury goods to lifestyle, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in WSJ. “Why buying expensive goods, if you cannot have clean water and air?”Read More →