Bundle of Four China Reports - Alcoholic Drinks, Fast Food & Consumer Catering, Kids & Soft Drinks

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Alcoholic Drinks in China 2006 - 12/26/06

The increased number of drinking outlets, especially bars and nightclubs, as well as restaurants, have helped to increase market penetration for all alcoholic drinks. Likewise, the spread of organised retail chains has helped to provide greater market penetration for the home consumption market.

Fast Food & Consumer Catering in China 2007 - 10/24/07

Consumer catering has come along way in the past few decades, especially since the opening-up of the economy since the late 1980s, and the introduction of foreign fast-food marketing methods.

Yet China’s consumer catering market remains strongly attached to its local traditions. These entrenched traditions have forced the foreign invaders to adapt both their menus and the way they do business in order to suit local tastes, all at the same time that they have been forced to change their operating methods in their established markets in North America and Europe.

The massive changes that China has been seen over the past few years have also forced changes on the whole industry.

When a society and economy, such as China’s, undergoes such massive change over a short period of time, people begin to get used to a constant renewal of ideas and circumstances, and aspirations tend to fixate on the newest and most outstanding. Thus, the catering and fast-food sector has had to continually recreate and reinvent is offering in order to maintain consumer interest and loyalty.

For large-scale operators, creating brand loyalty across a chain of outlets over such a large and diverse country as China has been a huge and difficult undertaking. Small- and medium-sized operators have had to face continually changing competition, forcing them to continually invest in upping their own competitive edge, in order both to compete, but ultimately simply to survive.

Issues such as branding, hygiene, staff training and retention, location in cities that are continually being rebuilt, décor, service, home delivery, etc., are all issues that caterers must address in order to maintain their competitive edge, and keep in business. With the market having become so complex and competitive, it is no wonder that outlets come and go with alarming frequency, as do fads and fashions in dining.

Yet, despite the continually shifting ground rules, created by continually shifting consumer aspirations and demands, the industry has flourished. Within the industry, there have been some major success stories - all the more successful for having survived and flourished in such a demanding market.

Among the most interesting successes have been the emerging Chinese chains, which are becoming viable competitors for the massive foreign fast-foot and restaurant chains. These domestic leaders in the catering market are creating a new definition of the Chinese dining experience, and even redefining and rebranding old concepts, such as the teahouse.

The result of such massive change, over the past couple of decades, is a very diverse market, covering many cuisine sectors, and a diverse demographic. As the consumer market in China continues to grow apace, so this diversity can only be expected to increase. This will also strengthen the market and the leading players, who are beginning to expand their geographical spread and influence, much further afield from their home markets, including overseas expansion.

Kids in China 2007: Children As Consumers & Lifestyle Trends - 09/01/07

Appreciate the full horrors suffered by the previous generation during a World War, it will perhaps be even harder for the new generation of Chinese to appreciate the shadows of pre-Deng Xiaoping China, and the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”.

Many of China’s children are now born in a country that is radically different to the China of just 25 years ago. The economy has gone from bust to boom, the nation is now an outward-looking international heavyweight rather than an hermit pariah, there are computers and mobile phones everywhere. The bicycle used to represent technology, there are now massive luxury shopping malls, the Chinese can world travel, put a man in space and host the Olympics. Chinese children must feel that the new century is all about them and their country.

There were, in 2006, about 312 million Chinese under the age of 15. But, while the rest of the population of China grew by about 7.5% since 2000, the 0-14 age group only grew by about 1%. China’s children are therefore entering an ageing population - a profound break with history, and in stark contrast with other, more youthful, developing Asian nations, such as India and Vietnam.

As China develops into one of the world’s largest economies, and its consumer market grows in world significance, so the Chinese consumer of tomorrow has become the focus of huge amounts of product and brand marketing expenditure. If the children of today can be made loyal to a brand now, what potential for sales in the future, in a country where the economy continues to grow at over 9% a year?

China’s children are bombarded with media messages from all angles, all the time - from billboards, posters, TV at home, TV in taxis, cinemas, magazines, food packaging, lunch boxes, clothing, text m essages, websites, store shelves, radios, etc. All of this is having an effect, and some of it detrimental. Childhood obesity rates are soaring, and rates of depression and mental health problems are also increasing.

Yet, this new generation has a world view that their parents’ generation never dreamed of, has access to better healthcare, better education, more and better toys and electronic gadgets and not only a wider choice of careers to aspire to, but choice, full stop. Not only can they aspire to own a home and a car, many are likely to have these provided for them by their doting parents.

This is also the generation of the One Child Policy - the “little emperors”, doted upon by two parents and up to four grandparents, plus various aunts and uncles. Only children, in a society of only children, will learn to, and be expected to behave differently, more pressure to succeed will be placed upon them, and all of this is affecting how these children see themselves within their society, and how this affects their behaviour as people, and as consumers.

Soft Drinks in China 2006 - 07/03/06

Due to the powerful advertising that backs up many carbonated soft drink brands, volume sales of such products has ballooned. Not only are Chinese consumers buying more of these drinks, they are also buying more expensive brands.

The significance of the soft drinks market has grown within the total Chinese food market over recent years, rising from 1.39% in 1999, to 1.58% in 2005. This is indicative of how the Chinese are both more willing, and more able to afford to drink more soft drinks.

This report covers the market for soft drinks in China. The report covers the following sectors:
  • Carbonated soft drinks
  • Fruit juices
  • Mineral water
  • Sports drinks
  • Concentrates/dilutables
This newly updated Access Asia report covers:
  • An overview of total food market in China, including retail sales statistics up to 2005;
  • Soft drinks volume & value market and sales in China, including regional and sector breakdown, up to 2005;
  • Data of soft drinks market shares in China by sectors and region;
  • Pricing trends of soft drink products up to 2005;
  • Volume & value forecast soft drinks by sales and sector growth trends up to 2010;
  • Marketing & advertising analysis;
  • Statistic analysis of soft drinks industry by sector, with data of leading manufacturers in China;
  • Profiles of leading soft drinks companies in China;
  • Key contacts & trade events;
  • Overview of China’s demographics and macroeconomics.
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