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  • Metro China expands into Deyang

    Metro China expands into Deyang

    Metro China has opened its eighth wholesale store in West China.

    The new outlet is located in Deyang, Sichuan, described as the “Heavy Duty Equipment Capital” of China.

    “Deyang is a center for manufacturing, and the local economy has seen phenomenal growth in the past few years.” said Jeroen de Groot, president of Metro China.

    “Aiming to be the Champion for Independent Business, Metro China is well positioned to support Deyang’s growing number of small and medium-sized businesses by providing high-quality and safe products, as well as professional solutions and excellent services.”

    Metro entered West China in 2001 by opening two stores in Chongqing and Chengdu. The company opened its second store in Chongqing in 2013, which is also the wholesaler’s 750th store worldwide. With the opening of the Deyang store, Metro will introduce its Cash & Carry new store concept, meanwhile its online store will also open to local customers on the same day to better meet their needs.

    True to the wholesaler’s commitment to local sourcing, Metro has built close relationships with local suppliers through deep roots established in Sichuan over the past years. Hengdu Beef and Luzhou Langjiu Liquor are among the best-selling products in Metro stores throughout the year. Local vegetables and fruits in Sichuan, including kiwifruit, lemon and mango, are purchased and distributed to Metro stores nationwide through Metro’s professional logistics system to provide authentic Sichuan flavor to the customers.

    The new store has a sales area of nearly 5500 sqm, offering more than 19,200 items.

    A feature of Metro Deyang is the coldness in food related display areas, reflecting the importance of the cold chain to food freshness and high quality. The store has multi-temperature areas to meet the demand of different products, such as 0 Celsius – 4 Celsius for fresh meat, 5 Celsius – 7 Celsius for dairy products, etc. If customers want to walk into the cold storage areas to select products, they may borrow clean cotton-padded jackets, considerately prepared by the store for customers’ convenience.

    The store also sells a wide range of non-food products, including Seasonal, Kitchen, Cooking & Table, Apparel, Office & Media, and Business & Home Care, satisfying customers’ various needs.

    To meet expectations of the customers, especially small and independent businesses, Metro Deyang store adopts a wholesale pricing scheme. On top of the already competitive shelf prices, customers receive five per cent off if they buy three of the same item, and up to 20 per cent off on six of the same on selected items, truly buying more with better prices.

    The new store features a Metro Cafe, Welfare & Gifting Showroom, Express Delivery, scan pole, information counter and complimentary in-store WiFi.

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  • Coca-Cola fosters Mama’s Houses to empower ladies in Sichuan communities

    Coca-Cola fosters Mama’s Houses to empower ladies in Sichuan communities

    QIN Guoying, Common Secretary of the China Ladies’s Improvement Fund, and Zhang Huaying, Vice President of Coca-Cola China and Korea, joined representatives from a number of native authorities businesses to collectively inaugurate two new Mama’s House facilities in Leshan Metropolis, Sichuan Province, yesterday.

    Mama’s Houses are group ladies’s empowerment facilities managed in partnership with native authorities, social organizations and companies. The primary aim of those facilities is to advertise household, group and financial improvement in areas affected by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.

    Up to now, 4 Mama’s Houses have opened their doorways. It’s estimated that these facilities profit 50,000 ladies annually by providing programs on enterprise subjects, housekeeping, cooking, nursing and handiwork. These facilities additionally assist arrange part-time jobs to serve native communities.

    Designed particularly for moms, these Mama’s Houses are outfitted with childcare areas the place ladies can depart their youngsters as they consider studying expertise or partaking in part-time employment.

    Qin has praised the achievements of the Mama’s Residence’s initiative. “Ladies are the core of households and communities. In contrast to different typical group sponsorship packages, Mama’s Residence pilots a win-win answer to a number of group wants by furthering ladies’s social and financial independence,” she stated.

    Mama’s Houses have loved a lot early success. Many ladies collaborating in this system say they’ve develop into extra assured and happier by serving to themselves and serving others of their native communities.

    Wei Rong, for example, went to Mama’s House day-after-day to attend shuxiu-style embroidery courses in her spare time. After six months of coaching, she bought one piece of handiwork for a number of thousand yuan. Now her dream is to turn out to be an embroidery grasp.

    In the meantime, Lily Wang studied enterprise administration with Mama’s House, and now the grocery retailer she runs brings in sufficient revenue to cowl her household’s every day bills. As an entrepreneur, she is now actively planning a shiny future for her daughter.

    As Zhang remarked, “Coca-Cola strongly believes that sustainable enterprise progress is constructed on the sustainable improvement of the communities the place we function. We’re proud to be a part of this significant program.”

    Additionally in line with Zhang, Mama’s Houses show the native relevancy and collaborative potential of Coca-Cola’s 5by20 packages, a worldwide initiative which goals to empower 5 million ladies by 2020 via Coca-Cola’s worth chain.

    Coca-Cola and the China Ladies’s Improvement Fund are absolutely dedicated to this program and plan to determine a complete of 20 Mama’s Residence facilities in Sichuan province over the subsequent two years, and to regularly broaden the Mama’s Residence program to different provinces throughout the nation.

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