mardi 22 avril 2014

coffee market in China

 Is the coffee going to replace the tea in China? The question is voluntarily provocative, but not totally divested of sense in a country where the consumption of coffee increases by 15 % a year, against 2 % in the rest of the world.

Emergence of coffee market in China


We consume the «small black " in the morning in front of the hot drink vending machine, we drink it after the lunch either to talk with a colleague or because we are bored and because it is not extremely expensive.
Chinese are basically of the drinkers of tea, and do not appreciate the coffee. However giants of the food-processing industry launched the trend to drink coffee, and this concept seduced recently the new Chinese consumers. We are going to discover the opportunities today that offer this market in China, and the "best practices» of the big groups to encourage consumption of coffee in this continent country.

How to develop the market potential


Against this trend the market of the coffee in China shows a 15 % growth on a per year basis. According to the international Association of the Coffee in Beijing the Chinese market of the coffee should even affect 1 000 billion Yuan, about 116 billion euros in 10 years. With regard to such statistics the Chinese market of the coffee would have everything of the new El Dorado the western brands of coffee.
While it is taken into account the high potential of the market of the coffee in China it is however advisable to put in perspective this speech.
The brand of leading instant coffee of the group Nestlé is leading in China on the market of instant coffee. It aims at the consumers of the rising middle class and at the junior executives. To target these consumers the brand had the idea to make an advertising campaign with an ambassador of choice: the "dissident" blogger TuTun.

mercredi 2 avril 2014

China gains market share in automotive industry in Africa

In ten years, the market share of China on the African continent has risen from 2 % in 2000 to 12 % in 2010, according to a study.

Chines brands reinforce their position in Africa


The big brands of the Middle Kingdom are henceforth established well on the continent. But to resist to the Korean competition, they again have to improve the quality of their models and optimize their distributive network.
Gradually, the Chinese brands nibble at market shares in Africa. In the streets of Abidjan, Algiers and Nairobi, record player Great Wall, the city-dweller Chery and the Lorries Futon make more numerous. After a difficult starting up in the middle of 2000s, related to an inferior image then on the way up tariff barriers, the business of the big motor groups of the Middle Kingdom took off in 2012.
The Chinese Association of the mechanical engineering industries estimated at 2 million the number of vehicles exported by its members in the world last year, which is 30 % more than in 2011. In Africa, the first Chinese exporter, Great Wall Motors, asserts having sold 22 000 vehicles in 2012. Henceforth, in Senegal, the Chinese vehicles represent about 20 % of the market of the new. «These brands are the future of the motorcar in Africa! » asserts Lady Gueye, ex-sales manager of Space Automobile, the main distributor of the Chinese cars of the country.
«Those who buy our vehicles are mainly urban middle managers and companies. They are attracted at first by the difference in price with the Korean and Japanese models ", indicates Fadi Kanaan, general manager of Rimco in Côte d'Ivoire, who distributes cars Great Wall Motors and lorries Yuejin. Rest that the distance on the cost of purchase - from 10 % to 30 % with the competition on the same segment - is not enough to convince everybody.