Guest Column

Department stores: profits under pressure

  • Published 12 Nov 2009

Access Asia's Paul French writes on how China's department stores are feeling the heat from growing competition.

Despite vociferous complaints by many leading department store retailers about weakening sales, the sector is actually performing very well, and sales growth in the sector has outstripped growth in both total retail sales and sales in the supermarkets/hypermarkets sector.

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