In August H&M returned to China’s e-commerce platform Tmall, a year after it had been removed after a boycott when it raised concerns regarding Xinjiang cotton and the forced labour of the Uyghur community. The extend of labour camps first came to global attention in a 2020 report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). H&M was...
China, the world’s leading producer of footwear, has Vietnam hot on its heels. Ranking second place, Vietnam exports over 1 billion pairs of footwear every year, and its output is steadily increasing. New data from Research and Markets show Vietnam's footwear exports to the EU account for the largest proportion of total exports. By the end of...
Sep 14, 2022
It has been well over two years since Chinese visitors flocked to Europe and buoyed its high street and luxury retailers. These days queues outside Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Balenciaga boutiques have become shorter in length and with fewer Asians. Chinese-speaking store staff, once key to customer relations, is a skill proving less useful to the...
Aug 29, 2022
On the day the UN released its report of the “Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences," stating it is reasonable to conclude China forced labour among Uighur minorities, H&M went back to business on the country’s online behemoth, Tmall. The unfortunate timing for the Swedish fast fashion giant...
Aug 17, 2022
Fashion giant H&M has re-opened its official store on Alibaba’s e-commerce platform Tmall, after 16 months of absence. The Chinese site took the retailer down after the brand criticised human rights abuses in Xinjiang and pledged not to use cotton from the region. The Swedish group, which launched on Tmall in 2018, joined many other retailers in...
Aug 16, 2022
Swedish lifestyle brand Axel Arigato has entered the Chinese market with the opening of its first-ever flagship store on the Tmall platform. The move aims to expand its direct-to-consumer model and customer-first approach while building an “authentic conversation” with its Chinese community, following the brand’s positive growth over the last...
Aug 8, 2022
British designer label A-Cold-Wall, founded by Samuel Ross, opened its first standalone store in China on July 22 to mark the beginning of its expansion into the Chinese retail landscape. Located in the Taikoo Li Sanlitun shopping district in Beijing, Ross opened the store in partnership with brand management group Power Rich and Tomorrow Ltd,...
Jul 26, 2022
Lululemon has officially debuted its digital flagship store through China’s JD, bringing its yoga and fitness products to the e-commerce site’s J Shop. According to the platform, the new addition falls in line with the current growth in popularity of fitness and sports in the country, as well as the increasing demand for sports equipment. It...
Jul 21, 2022
The jungle of intellectual property rights in China is full of horror stories. From trademark squatters, counterfeiters, parallel importers to brand owners fighting for the right to use their genuine names that were maliciously, yet legally, registered by others. Global fashion brands Dsquared2, Ice Iceberg, Disney Victoria’s Secret are just...
Jul 20, 2022
Manolo Blahnik has announced that it has won a trademark dispute in China following a 22-year legal battle. The British luxury brand initially filed a complaint with the China Trade Mark Office (CTMO) back in 2000 after an individual in the region registered a trademark application for ‘Manolo & Blahnik’ covering footwear. The CTMO dismissed the...
Jul 19, 2022
Alibaba shares sank on Friday after a report said the tech giant's executives had been called in for meetings with Chinese officials over the theft of a vast police database. A hacker last month put on sale what they claimed was the personal information of hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens -- which, if true, would make it one of the...
Jul 15, 2022
Bershka, Pull&Bear and Stradivarius have decided to close up shop in China as their owner Inditex continues to make adaptations to its business model. According to a statement provided to FashionUnited from Inditex, the three fast fashion chains will cease to operate online activity in the region, including through platforms such as Alibaba’s...
Jul 5, 2022
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