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  • 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%.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.”