Tag: Wuhan

  • King Baby Studio Announces Five New Stores in China

    King Baby Studio Announces Five New Stores in China

    King Baby strengthens its presence in China by opening five brand new stores – for a total of seven – in China. King Baby is one of a handful of brands exporting “hand-made in the USA” products to China.

    About the new King Baby Locations:

    The Grand Gateway 66 (Shanghai) is in the heart of the Shanghai Xujiahui business and shopping district and contains 1.1 million square feet of retail and entertainment space. The mall adds a Western-style experience to the dynamic Xujiahui commercial district and is located above the subway making it a convenient location for customer traffic.

    The Wanda Plaza (Wuhan) is one of the most unique landmarks in the region, the Han street Wanda Plaza is located in the central part of Wuhan’s central culture area, known as the “Pearl of the crown”. Han Street houses shopping malls, restaurants, and cultural and recreational sites. Hanjie Wanda Square is a luxury-shopping plaza which houses international brand stores, world-class boutiques, catering outlets and cinemas. The shopping mall belongs to Wanda Group, which is the biggest shopping mall group in China.

    The Mixc (Hangzhou) is a luxury mall which has been built in a new Hangzhou Central Business District area along the Qianjiang river, which is surrounded by high-end apartment building, office building, service apartment and Hyatt Regency hotel.

    Joy City (Tianjin) opened for business in 2011. Measuring 530,000 m2, this Joy City in Tianjin is located at the convergence of three traditional commercial circles in Tianjin and is a one-stop urban shopping complex covering experiential shopping malls, international A-1 office buildings, hotel-style service apartments and high-grade residences. You can experience high-end services provided by the super five-star IMAX cinema, the all-star theatre skating rink, the role playing center for children (Babyboss) or the exquisite supermarket Ole.

    Hisense Plaza (Changsha) is the joint project of Hisense Plaza and China’s most well-known property developer Huayuan Property. It’s the podium building of “Huayuan-Hua center”’s city complex The project locates in central Changsha and occupies one-kilometer core river view. Hisense Plaza is devoted to becoming the top shopping center in Central China — the total planned area is over 130,000 square meters (the whole building is nearly 200,000 square meters).

    “King Baby is thrilled and excited to have the opportunity to share American handmade jewelry and accessories along with our passion and lifestyle to China. We believe that quality, tradition, and ‘Made in the U.S.A.,’ are worth their weight in gold,” says founder Mitchell Binder.

    King Baby’s collections capture the spirit of Americana with rock n’ roll sex appeal and includes sterling silver pendants, beaded bracelets, earrings, and accessories detailed with fossilized mammoth ivory, locally mined jet and turquoise.

    “Management is confident with the development of King Baby business in China and very happy to see the progress on this market. More stores will open in a near future,” says Mr. Ching, The Retail Group LTD.

    Los Angeles-based King Baby designs, markets and sells premium artisan jewelry. The collection consists of men’s and women’s sterling silver and gold pendants, bracelets, earrings, and accessories. The company has retail stores in Santa Monica, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Nashville, TN, and Las Vegas, NV. In the United States, the company also distributes merchandise to better department stores and boutiques, including, Saks Fifth Avenue, Harvey Nichols, and Kitson. The brand also sells directly and through distributors to better department stores and boutiques worldwide.

  • Inside Wuhan 1818 mall

    Inside Wuhan 1818 mall

    Wuhan 1818 mall has recently opened in China, delivering a new generation retail and lifestyle centre set to energise the precinct’s urban core.

    The 70,000 sqm, seven storey mall was developed by CapitaMalls Asia  and caters to the needs of the 2.4 million people living and working in the district. It provides a diverse range of quality lifestyle, food and entertainment tenancies, anchored by rooftop cinemas and a basement supermarket and car parking.

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    “The project opens at a dynamic point in space and time for Wuhan, coinciding with a period of unprecedented change,” said Buchan Group principal, David Macleod.

    “Our design for the centre fits well with the contemporary facelift of the district as Wuhan rapidly evolves into a Future City.”

    The design for the development was inspired by the unique cultural catchment and captures the essence of its past, whilst responding to evolving retail trends of the future.

    “We felt both a responsibility to be respectful of Wuhan’s history and culture in our design, but to look to its future,” said Macleod.  “We felt a need to embrace the needs and aspirations of the new modern urban community.”

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    The interior design concept for the mall expresses aspects of this dynamic through restrained organic patterns crowned by splashes of vibrant colour and dappled light effects.  The prominent podium facade creates an impressive street-edge to the integrated office and residential mixed use precinct, and adds an impressive addition to the quality development portfolio of The Buchan Group and CapitaMalls Asia.

    The centre’s planning was engineered to ensure the mall performs a civic function as an urban meeting place for the local community, encouraging social connections and redefining the art of placemaking in the district. This informed the predominance of formal and informal food and entertainment spaces in the planning and tenancy mix.

    The Buchan Group provided integrated design and delivery services for this ambitious project, including facade and interior architecture, interior design and graphic and wayfinding design services from concept design through to construction site services.

  • Carrefour’s Six China Distribution Centers To Be Opened Within Two Years

    Carrefour’s Six China Distribution Centers To Be Opened Within Two Years

    The world’s leading supermarket retailer Carrefour announced that the company will enhance investments in logistics distribution centers in mainland China over the next two years.

    Carrefour’s new distribution center in Kunshan was completed in June 2014, serving the East China region; and its distribution center in Chengdu was completed in April 2015, serving the West China region. In 2015, the company plans to build two more distribution centers: one in Wuhan, Hubei province, and the other is responsible for the Beijing and Tianjin region. In 2016, Carrefour expects to have two more logistics distribution centers for Northeast region and South China region, respectively.

    By the end of 2016, Carrefour will have six modern distribution centers in the Chinese mainland which will lead the Chinese retail industry sector by construction scale and speed-to-market.

    Carrefour’s Kunshan logistics distribution center, which has already been completed, covers 60 hypermarkets in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai. It adopts the world’s most advanced voice picking system, which boasts a voice picking accuracy of 99.97%.

  • Prada China opens Wuhan retailer

    Prada China opens Wuhan retailer

    Prada China has opened a brand new retailer in Wuhan, inside the distinguished Worldwide Plaza purchasing centre.

    The 2-level, 950 sqm retailer area, designed by architect Roberto Baciocchi, homes the ladies’s and males’s ready-to-wear, leather-based items, equipment and footwear collections.

    The exterior facade pays tribute to artist Carlo Cruz-Diez.

    The massive entrance, mild bins and home windows are inserted into the decrease a part of the facade, which is clad in black granite and topped by an imposing gold and steel-coloured aluminium construction backlit to create a singular kinetic impact each day and night time.

    General, the facade stands 10 metres tall and stretches roughly 50 metres in size. The interior facade, the place the second entrance to the shop is situated, can also be clad in black granite.

    The inside is designed as a succession of areas, every that includes a unique environment.

    The doorway contained in the mall, outlined by the signature black-and-white marble chequered flooring, opens on an space housing the ladies’s leather-based items and equipment collections. Inexperienced fabric-clad partitions with Prada’s iconic cut-in niches with polished metal profiles outline the area.

    Inexperienced velvet sofas characterise the world devoted to ladies’s footwear.

    The ladies’s ready-to-wear assortment is showcased in an area outlined by inexperienced fabric-clad partitions and clear perspex show models.

    The lads’s leather-based items and equipment collections are set in polished metal show instances inserted into alcoves wrapped in black marble with inexperienced fabric-clad backdrops.

    The area devoted to the lads’s ready-to-wear and footwear collections is characterised by ebony floorboards and partitions, chocolate brown carpeting and cotto-coloured leather-based sofas. Polished metal show instances and counters with drawers coated in colored saffiano leather-based full the furnishing.

    Prada says it admires French-Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, whose paintings served as a place to begin for the design of the facade.

    The Prada boutique is situated in Wuhan Worldwide Plaza, 690 Jiefang Ave, Jianghan, Wuhan, Hubei.

  • Walmart China plans major expansion

    Walmart China plans major expansion

    The world’s biggest retailer Wal-Mart Stores believes the best way to achieve profitability in China is to open more stores and lure more customers.

    Walmart China will expand its store network by almost a third between now and 2017 according to CEO Doug McMillon.

    “Our aim is to become an integral part of China’s economy. China is a top priority,” McMillon told a press conference in Beijing.

    Faced with slowing growth in its mature home market, Walmart sees a massive opportunity in China’s rising middle class and booming tier 2 and 3 cities as a means to restoring growth and boosting profits. Cities like Shenzhen and Wuhan.

    But its experiences in China to date have been mixed. Sales declined 0.7 per cent in the quarter to January 31 and same store sales fell 2.3 per cent.

    At the end of January, Walmart had 411 stores in China – and after some underperforming stores are closed should end 2017 with a network exceeding 500.

    The company is also increasing its investment in its online business Yihaodian.com. Launched in 2011 with 18,000 SKUs the online store now boasts more than 8 million products. With more and more Chinese buying online – on both computers and mobile devices – the potential seems unlimited.

    Walmart’s Asian chief, Scott Price, said while the company had seen a softening in sales, it was not all bad news.

    “We’ve gained share in the hypermarket channel.”