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Potential capital inflows from a probable US QE2 could exacerbate liquidity challenges, just as China is showing signs of wanting to reassert control.
- 04 November 2010
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Glorious Sun - Low-end jeans do well but premium Quiksilver brand falters
Glorious Sun is weighed down by declining sales in Australia and New Zealand, as well as by the poor traction of its premium Quiksilver brand. Jeanswest, the low-end casual brand, is more popular.
- 04 November 2010
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Vancl - Booming online apparel retailer eyes Nasdaq listing
Vancl has built a powerful business in a very short time by relying on an online sales model, aiming at the fashion-conscious 25-35 age group and constantly updating designs with input from houses in Europe.
- 04 November 2010
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Apparel - Online sales drive apparel brands
A rush to buy clothes online, supported by the rise of domestic brands, is boosting apparel sales, while fashionable foreign companies are also benefiting.
- 04 November 2010
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Metersbonwe - A domestic brand competing with Zara and H&M
Metersbonwe has been able to successfully to appeal to lower-income customers in lower-tier cities with the Metersbonwe brand and compete with the likes of Zara and H&M in first-tier cities with its ME&CITY brand.
- 04 November 2010
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Fujian Septwolves - An online and small city bestseller
Fashionable among third tier city urban males aged 25-35, Septwolves has cut costs and boosted profits, partly due to a successful online strategy.
- 04 November 2010
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Booming business of matrimony
Weddings are big business in China as 12m or so tie the knot in a blaze of consumerism each year. Now, some listed companies offer the prospect of a "wedding play".
- 20 October 2010
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Les Enphants - Growth spurt for Taiwan children's clothes maker
The company's mainland business contributed 64% of total revenues last year, but the proportion has been rising this year, Les Enphants says.
- 12 August 2010
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Xtep – popular with discretionary rural consumers
The sports shoe and clothing company was one of the most popular brands with younger rural respondents we spoke to.
- 01 July 2010
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Anta - growing margins
The selling price of the company's sports shoes has been rising despite its popularity in lower-tier cities and rural China.
- 01 July 2010
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