Since the spin-off of its China operations on November 1, 2016, the company’s stock has risen 8.6%. The spin-off is expected to make Yum! Brands more efficient, improve its capital structure, and help the company…
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European luxury brands struggle to adapt in Chinese digital market
Despite a 30% growth in total global spend on luxury goods and a significant increase in the importance of the domestic Chinese market, European luxury brands are struggling to adapt in the region. While spending…
Interview: Warren Wang, Interbrand China CEO on the State of Branding in China
The challenge is that building a global Chinese brand is intrinsically linked to building China’s nation brand. The two factors—whether we like it or not—go hand in hand.” Discussing the enormous potential for doing business…
Yum! Brands’ 4Q16 Revenue: What Analysts Expect
Yum! Brands (YUM) earns its revenue from company-owned restaurants and franchised restaurants. After the spin-off, revenue from franchised restaurants is expected to rise, as the company will receive 3% of sales from its China operations…
Chinese shoppers begin to buy luxury brands again — at home
Foot traffic rose in opulent Shanghai malls, Swiss watch sales shot up and top European luxury brands from Burberry to LVMH reported sharply improved revenues from China in the second half of 2016. Chinese consumers…
Hurun: China’s Super-Rich Name Apple, Bulgari As Top Brands for Gifting
Chinese wealthy consumers’ enthusiasm for luxury goods is on the rise and brands like Bulgari and Apple are reaping the benefits, according to Hurun’s latest consumer report. The report features Hurun’s “Best of the Best…
How China’s luxury consumers moved on from bling to doing their own thing, opening space for niche brands to prosper
What have been the major changes in media, communications and PR in mainland China over the past five years? The pace and degree of change has been incredible. The most striking has been the adoption…
BSE exchange draws robust demand for $182 million IPO
The IPO, which is seeking to raise 12.43 billion rupees ($182 million … as a portion of financial savings is only 5 percent in India compared to 14 percent in China, 20 percent in Indonesia,…
BSE IPO, Donald Trump’s TPP pullout and Flipkart valuation cut again
It will also allow space for China to step into a more influential role in the Asia … 8. Strong response to BSE IPO The Rs1,234.4 crore initial public offering (IPO) of Asia’s oldest stock…
Week in Review: China Investors Announce $4 Billion of Life Science Deals
Knowledgeable observers expect the IPO to take place in Q2, raise $300 million and value WuXi Biologics at $1.5 billion. Sanpower Group enlisted China’s CITIC Bank, a state-owned investor, to raise $2.9 billion for a…
Saudi Aramco shelves plan for joint venture with Malaysia's Petronas: sources
KUWAIT Saudi Aramco IPO-ARMO.SE has shelved plans for a partnership with Malaysian … “In any case, considering the scale of the investment, China’s growing regional exports of refined products, Singapore’s existing refining capacity and the…
Update: Wisdom Education launches HK$1.14 billion IPO
Wisdom intends to use proceeds from the IPO to push for further acquisitions in the Pearl … of most players in the sector such as Virscend Education. Virscend is one of China’s largest international school…
Not a Pretty Picture: Lessons from GoPro about Growth and Underestimating China
they promised investors their IPO would focus on becoming a media company… but that never happened, and they’ve been suffering ever since. GoPro’s next mistake: getting into China too late and, when they did, not…