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  • Joy City reveals management Revamp

    Joy City reveals management Revamp

    Hong Kong property company Joy City has revealed new management appointments and the departure of its CFO.

    Two new deputy GMs have been appointed: Song Bingxin and Guo Fengrui.

    Song, 49, joined Cofco Corporation, Joy City’s controlling shareholder, in 1994. From December 2016 to April this year, she was deputy GM at Grand Joy Holdings.

    Guo, 50, served as GM of the operations management from February 2015 and acted as the GM assistant from April 2019 at Grand Joy Holdings.

    At the same time, CFO Xu Hanping has ceased her role “due to work reallocation”, according to a stock exchange filing by Joy City.

    “Ms Xu confirmed that she has no disagreement with the board and there is no matter in relation to her cessation as the CFO that needs to be brought to the attention of the shareholders of the Company,” the statement read, before expressing gratitude for her service.

    Zhang Jianguo, 53, has been appointed as her replacement. He joined Grand Joy Holdings in 1994 and most recently served as CFO at Grand Joy Holdings.

    All the changes took effect on April 26.

    The Joy City management team now comprises Zhou Peng (GM), Yao Changlin, Song, Guo and Li Wenyao as deputy GMs and Jianguo as CFO.

  • Benoy wins international design competition for COFCO

    Benoy wins international design competition for COFCO

    International architectural company Benoy has won the bidding for the Cofco Joy Breeze project in Suzhou, beating out several other global design firms.

    It is another Cofco project for Benoy following the Joy City development in Hangzhou.

    Joy Breeze is in Suzhou’s central Xiangcheng district, close to the entrance to the city’s planned central park. With a GFA of 300,000sqm, the mixed-use project brings together a retail mall, retail streets, public transport hub and parking.

    “Our brief was to create a major commercial opportunity on this site as well as capture the interest of the district’s 25- to 45-year-old community,” says Benoy Shanghai studio director/head Qin Pang. “We were inspired by a passage from the Analects of Confucius which speaks of former eras and the feeling of enjoyment in the springtime. Our design has aimed to evoke these feelings and memories of happy spring days spent exploring new places.”

    Subsequently, the retail, recreation and entertainment hub emphasises diversity through the variety of its spaces. It offers a network of balconies, rooftops, public squares, retail streets and boxes. The various sections are linked by a multi-level thoroughfare through each floor, ensuring the scheme can be navigated as a whole.

    “We’ve paid attention to that special element of surprise,” says Qin. “For visitors coming day to day to do their shopping or meet with friends, each visit will bring a new experience.”

    Through the openness of its design as well as multiple entry points and extensive street frontage, the Joy Breeze development also integrates with its surrounding urban and natural environments and nearby residential areas.

    As a transport hub, the project is close to Longdaobang Metro Station and includes a bus station terminal.

    Construction is expected to start next year.

  • Xidan Joy City’s new zone unveiled to mark 10 year anniversary

    Xidan Joy City’s new zone unveiled to mark 10 year anniversary

    Beijing’s iconic Xidan Joy City celebrated its 10 year anniversary today by unveiling its newly renovated Rose Garden relaxation zone. The celebration also marks the completion of the first phase of a significant upgrade of the mall’s interior and public areas that will continue until 2019.

    Mall owner COFCO has commissioned Woods Bagot to lead the interior design of renovation works as part of its wider strategy to deliver a new generation of Joy City malls that continue to stay ahead of changing lifestyles and interactive digital technology in China.

    Already a favourite destination among Beijing’s trend-setters and fashion-conscious youth, the 185,000 m2 mall is arranged over 12 floors in an established downtown shopping district and is home to a range of global brands including Apple, Kate Spade, Michael Kors, Sephora and Zara.

    When the renovation is complete in 2019 the mall’s leading brand portfolio will be showcased across eight diverse thematic areas, providing a change of pace and an engaging journey for visitors as they move through the space.

    Xidan Joy City’s reimagined Rose Garden is a spacious relaxation area within the F&B zone featuring a spectacular organic-form wood and glass spiral staircase as its focal point.

    The Rose Garden offers breathing space in an outdoor-themed environment, bathed in abundant natural light during the day and lit dramatically from above at night by an abstract rose ceiling light fixture. Different-height seating scattered with foliage and greenery gives shoppers a unique line of sight to enjoy a more natural and personal experience as they relax.

    Billy Ip, Woods Bagot, said:

    “Beijing’s youth market has evolved greatly over the last decade, with social, economic and technological developments driving new trends, desires and lifestyles. Visitor experience is the new battleground for this sophisticated audience who seek to spend time in unique, engaging environments.

    “For Xidan Joy City’s many fans, the Rose Garden is a space where many happy memories have been made. We have honoured this sentiment by creating a place for visitors old and new to both recall and build new memories.

    “Woods Bagot’s concept for the revived Rose Garden provides an avant-garde interpretation of an energising and peaceful ambience, and we look forward to sharing our creative direction for the other spaces as works progress over the next year.”

  • The Simpsons store on roll in China

    The Simpsons store on roll in China

    Following the success of the first-ever The Simpsons store in Taikooli Sanlitun, Beijing, more outlets are to be rolled out in China.

    Three will open this year – at Shanghai’s Grand Gateway 66, at Xi An Wu Huan Department Store in Xian, and at Joy City in Beijing, 20th Century Fox Consumer Products and HerChain Clothing Company have announced.

    The stores will feature more than 125 specially curated items related to The Simpsons animated television series.

    “The new locations – in high-traffic city centres and department stores – position The Simpsons store to attract a wide and diverse composition of consumers,” says 20th Century Fox Consumer Products VP for worldwide brand marketing, strategy and partnerships, Peter Leeb.

    The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted show in US television history, launching in 1990 and now in its 28th season.

  • The opening of Joy City Chengdu

    The opening of Joy City Chengdu

    Hong Kong-listed Joy City Property has opened its newest Mainland China mall – Joy City Chengdu.

    The new 400,000 sqm mall opened its doors on Christmas Eve – five days after the opening of sister mall, Joy City Shanghai.

    Joy City Property describes the Chengdu development as China’s “first experiential recreation-cum-shopping park”.

    Located in the Wuhou District of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Chengdu Joy City is also the company’s first Joy City project in the southwestern part of the country. Chengdu Joy City’s main building is comprised of a grade-A office building, shopping centres and themed indoor pedestrian streets.

    “Inspired by the scenery of the renowned Jiuzhai Huanglong, the architectural design of Chengdu Joy City incorporates elements of Chengdu’s lifestyle and culture, and showcases Joy City Property’s innovation in creating unique modern shopping spaces,” the company said.

    In Joy Street, a round-the-clock themed commercial district of Chengdu Joy City, consumers can enjoy various activities including bars, a mini-theatre, KTV, a video game arena, a studio for creative arts, boutiques, restaurants offering Chengdu cuisine, the largest indoor playground for children in southwestern China and a farm themed adventure park. In addition, there is the Gulu School for original living which consists of 44 creative boutiques in various styles. Serving as a landmark for leisure and social life, the Gulu School fills the gap in the regional market for shopping space.

    Zhou Zheng, VP of Cofco and chairman of Joy City Property, said the development marks his company’s “great stride in expansion of the domestic market”.

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    “This experiential recreation-cum-shopping park is expected to become a landmark for a new style of living and consumption among the locals. Overall, the earlier successful opening of Shanghai Joy City and the grand debut of Chengdu Joy City on Christmas Eve this year mark a milestone in Joy City Property’s development.”

  • Joy City wins mall accolade

    Joy City wins mall accolade

    Joy City Property has scooped two honours in the ICSC China Shopping Centre Awards at the 2015 Recon Asia-Pacific convention.

    Yantai Joy City’s new media marketing campaign, New Year Red Packets won a gold award in the Emerging Digital Technology category, and Tianjin Joy City’s O2O marketing initiative, Liangshiju took a silver award in the New Retail Concepts category.

    “It is noteworthy that Yantai Joy City not only pioneered the combination of WeChat Red Packets and payment methods through the New Year Red Packets, but also achieved mutual benefits for itself, its tenants and customers with the innovative marketing campaign,” said a Joy City spokesman.

    Meanwhile, Tianjin Joy City’s Liangshiju is China’s first O2O customer loyalty platform to adapt to the internet. Consisting of its online and offline stores, the O2O customer loyalty platform encourages purchases on mobile applications and effectively guides the customers to the company’s stores with gift redemption and induce them to become its members.

    The initiative has increased the membership significantly and at the same time boosted sales with accumulation and redemption of bonus points earned through purchases. The O2O initiative has enabled the company to surpass geographical limitations and revolutionise the conventional service of traditional customer membership centres.

  • Hangzhou Joy City marks No 8 for HK developer

    Hangzhou Joy City marks No 8 for HK developer

    Hong Kong’s Joy City Property will open an eighth Joy City mixed use development in Hangzhou.

    The company says the urban complex and commercial property project will become a lifestyle hot spot for the Hangzhou residents.

    Alas it has not released any images of the planned development (the image above is of an exciting Joy City project).

    Brands which have already proven successful in other Joy Cities will have an option to open in the new Hangzhou project.

    Hangzhou Joy City will replicate the Joy City brand’s unique architectural style, featuring sky walkways and an open atrium to project a “youthful, fashionable, trendy and quality” image of the brand. It will target the city’s middle-class customers aged between 18 and 35.

    The project will also adopt characteristics peculiar to Hangzhou’s culture while positioning itself as a mecca for the local trendy shoppers, introducing new brands into Hangzhou, the Yangtze River Delta and even Mainland China.

    Hangzhou Joy City comprises an urban complex and commercial properties with a combined gross floor area of 500,000 sqm. At the southern side of the project, a port will be built at the bank of the Grand Canal, which links Beijing with Hangzhou and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Consumers will be able to start a boat trip at the port to reach Wulinmen port and Xixi National Wetland Park directly, allowing them to enjoy shopping at Hangzhou Joy City and a boat tour of the park.

    In addition, Hangzhou Joy City will be the first Joy City to launch an outdoor commercial district where all types of shops will be opened for business round the clock.

    Representatives of retailers I.T., Zara, Uniqlo, China Film, Waipojia and Starbucks attended the inauguration ceremony for Hangzhou Joy City.

    Zhou Zheng, VP of COFCO and chairman of Joy City Property said Hangzhou has always been strategically important to Joy City.

    “We hope that Hangzhou Joy City will not only become the lifestyle destination of the city but will also drive consumption and improve the shopping experience in the Hangzhou Bay area. Hangzhou Joy City aspires to be a dazzling pearl in the southern Yangtze River Delta and will work with Shanghai Joy City to reshape the commercial real estate sector in the region.”

  • Pleasure Metropolis opens indoor road in China mall

    Pleasure Metropolis opens indoor road in China mall

    Pleasure Metropolis Property has launched China’s first cultural and artistic industry-themed indoor pedestrian road in Tianjin  Pleasure Metropolis’s Cheer Market.

    The road can also be the primary of its sort within the nation to have been situated inside a buying centre. The distinctive and ‘avant-garde fashion’, Cheer Market has been held up as a mannequin that different purchasing malls have been following in recent times in an try and buck the development of homogeneity and the affect of e-commerce in addition to to shoulder the company social duty actively.

    Pleasure Metropolis’s goal clients, aged between 18 and 35, are able to creating and appreciating artworks, together with these designs that are above the mass market’s style. Particularly, Cheer Market caters for the preferences and needs of the ‘yuppies’.

    Positioned as “an artwork road in a purchasing centre”, Cheer Market consists of delivery containers during which entrepreneurs arrange outlets and are free to train their creativity and originality of their inside ornament and design.

    As well as, the low lease and enormous share of revenues loved by the companies in Cheer Market and the place’s distinctive inventive atmosphere have attracted numerous artistic younger individuals to make their marks there. The freewheeling environment has given delivery to such creative zones as “Shen Shou Si” (Temple of Auspicious Animals) and “Secret Publish Workplace” which have turn out to be magnets for patrons.

    “Younger individuals are imbued with many unique concepts, however often can’t put them into follow as they face many various sorts of constraints, together with a scarcity of capital”, stated a graduate who’s a younger entrepreneur.

    “Nevertheless, they will realise their goals in Cheer Market, which is a seedbed for brand spanking new companies began by the younger due to its beneficial circumstances.”

    Tianjin Pleasure Metropolis’s GM Wu Jing says: “A purchasing centre ought to be energetic as an alternative of being mundane.”

    Situated on the fifth flooring of Tianjin Pleasure Metropolis, Cheer Market has now turned what was as soon as an inaccessible quiet nook with a big space into an indoor business road with a robust character and the very best income generated per sq. metre.

    The business property challenge distinguishes itself from Nanluoguxiang (South Lane of Gongs and Drums) of Beijing and Tianzifang, which is an arts and crafts enclave of Shanghai, by recreating outside streets inside a constructing.

    The identify “Cheer Market” was impressed by the youngsters’s e-book Nils Holgersson’s fantastic journey throughout Sweden of the Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerlöf. The novel illustrates the protagonist’s private improvement by means of a collection of fantasy adventures, and evokes individuals with a ardour for all times to be happy to reside out their goals.

    Says Wu: “The importance of Cheer Market lies in its functionality to set off individuals’s want for creativity with freedom. Their hands-on expertise with the fascinating actions on the outlets there result in consumption. Cheer Market will assist appeal to clients to Pleasure Metropolis. It has blazed a path within the industry by bringing outside streets indoor and by providing clients a stimulating buying setting.”

    Pleasure Metropolis Property’s government director and GM Han Shi says Pleasure Metropolis Property aspires to develop into an organization that may thrive for greater than a century, and innovation would be the key to that.” 

    “Pleasure Metropolis is far more than a purchasing centre. It’s a vibrant and stylish place for spreading tradition. Pleasure Metropolis will set the development for the younger individuals’s way of life. It is going to endeavor to realize this goal via fixed innovation and by main the industry in enterprise administration.”

    Hong Kong listed Pleasure Metropolis Property is a business property itemizing firm underneath COFCO Company, enterprise of which overlaying business property, residential property, lodge, tourism property and regional complete improvement.