CC Convenience Store Retailing in China 2010: A Market Analysis

Access Asia
October 21, 2010
160 Pages - SKU: ACS2844436
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Countries covered: China

This report covers the convenience store retailing industry in the People’s Republic of China, including profiles of leading retail chains.

KEY REPORT FEATURES

This recently updated report includes:
  • The total, regional and sector value for retail sales, including urban/rural and food/non-food splits, up to the end of 2009;
  • Statistical data on leading retailer market shares by sales in China up to 2009;
  • Market data for each key provincial and urban region, in terms both of volume retail trade and the value of the local economy, up to 2009;
  • Value forecast retail market, up to 2014;
  • Key current issues, and discursive analysis of the key factors affecting the market;
  • The domestic industry examined by key statistical indicators, including number of outlets and turnover, by sector and by key city;
  • SWOT analysis
  • Profiles of the leading supermarket companies active in China, with financial data up to 2009 in most cases.
  • Key demographic data, including detailed age group and by habitation and province.



Additional Information

Executive Summary

Based upon our own recalculations of retail sales, and based upon the growth in individual retail sectors as well as more recent macro-economic re-evaluations, Access Asia estimates that between 2003 and 2009, China’s total retail market grew 168.9% in current terms to RMB6.92trn - representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.18% over that period.

China’s convenience stores retailing industry continues to develop rapidly. New chain store networks are now focusing on expanding outside large urban centres as retailers extend their reach into many second- and third-tier cities, as well as into provincial towns and rural villages. In the main cities, overcrowding of the market has led to aggressive consolidation, as larger operators begin to swallow up smaller players.

Most convenience stores are run on a very low margin, and these chains’ inability to innovate in what products and services they provide makes them unable to compete effectively and raise margins. Lack of back-of-store efficiency also hinders competitive development. Thus, many chains are financially vulnerable. Larger chains are beginning to aggressively target competitors who they know cannot compete effectively because of poor liquidity and poor management, in order to take them out of the market, and free up market share.

China’s total convenience store industry, based upon our own estimates themselves based largely on company and China Chainstore and Franchise Association data, comprised nearly 380,000 stores in 2009 (including rural retail development programme stores), with total retail sales valued at RMB425bn, this representing about 9.6% of total retail outlets in China, but only 6.6% of the total value of the retail market in China in 2009.

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