Bravo! Apple has finally acheived its goal, geared towards spreading spreading its retail foot prints in the greater china region. China indeed has gotten a very large bite of apple in just a space of two years. Apple has succeeded in opening 480 retail stores across 17 countries. China being one of these countries, is getting its 39th and 40th apple retail stores opened this June. Apple is seriously spreading its retail stores in the important cities of china its second largest market. By now we should be lost in thoughts as to why China is getting a big bite of apple every passing day. Well, this is because Apple has had a goal of operating 40 apple stores in China in the space of two years as quoted by the Apple retail chief …show more content…
A detailed location of the opening apple store in China is very much included. The 39th Apple Chinese store which is the second apple store that will be opening in Tianjin Hexi district just this year will be at the Galaxy International Shppping center on 9 Le Yuan Road in the city's south west Hexi district. While the 40th Apple store in China which happens to also be the second Apple store in Shanghai just this year will take off at the New Hopson one complex; This complex houses also a shopping mall, hotel, office building and even more. It is at 1099 Xiangyin Road in Wujiaochang, Yangpu District. Even in China, Tianjin and Shanghai are having even larger bites than other cities, hosting two Apple stores each. Guess what! These new Apple chinese stores have come with mouth watering deals. Unlike many other stores in North America and Europe, which have limited hours of operation , these new Apple stores in China will be operating throughout the seven days of the week from 10am to 10pm; This deal indeed is very …show more content…
The great demand for these Iphones has placed most of the Chinese citizens in the middle class. This aggressive purchase of Apple's very own IPhone 6 has really pushed up its revenue; 71pc to $16. 8bn. Apple recorded a total sales of 61. 2m Iphones in just three months prior to March. So wonder less y Apple is bent on expanding its retail store in every nook and cranny of China. China even gave Apple a helping hand in selling its smart phones in other Asian countries. At the same time, Peter was robbed to pay Paul. In the sense that as the sales of IPhones in Apple stores in China is on the increase, that of Ipads is on a rapid decrease. Too bad for our dear Ipads. Its sales dropped from 21.4m to 19.5m and now to 12.6m in just in just the second quartar. The excited Chief executive Tim Cook even commended China and its Apple stores for its great sales of iphones within a short period of time. He said the bulk of their sales were going to middle class in China and they would continue to invest in
...nada and China. They are able to find already existing stores in these countries that the brand BCBG can fit in with and be sold at. Since their customer base is so wide, I think that they will be able to do this effortlessly.
If you keep up with the news, then you probably have heard of Foxconn and the controversy that has surrounded the company over the last five years or so. If you have not, more than likely you are very familiar with Apple products such as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad among others. Although Apple Inc., is one Foxconn’s most popular customers, it is certainly not the only one. Foxconn manufactures products for Acer, Amazon, Dell, IBM, Ericsson, Phillips, Microsoft, HP, Nokia, Sony, and many more. A quick Google search for Foxconn will direct you to their official website. Hai Hon/Foxconn Technology Group boasts to be “the most dependable partner for joint-design, joint-development, manufacturing, assembly, and after-sales services to the global
Apple Inc. originated out of California in 1976. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak dropped out of college together to begin making technology in their garage. Apple’s technology skyrocketed becoming one of the top technology producing companies. They fell short in the nineties though, companies began to catch up and now there was more competition than before. Apple released their ipod in 2001, putting them back in the leadof the technology industry (The History of Apple). Presently, Apple is still exceeding other companies in the technology industry, such as Microsoft, Blackberry, Google and Hewlett Packard. Microsoft is Apple’s largest competitor, which is revealed through the Dupont analysis and other activity ratios, these particular ratios also make known that Apple’s numbers are not all accurate.
Apple is a billion dollar a year company. It is through their manufactures in China that they are able to produce their products. These manufactures want fast and inexpensive production. One of its largest manufactures is Foxconn. They have manufacturing complexes throughout China. People of all ages come to work in the factories. The majority are young migr...
Another opportunity was seized in 2009, where Tesco have signed several joint venture accords with Chinese companies, thus making a move to enter a market with 1.4 billion people, which makes it the worlds largest consumer market (BBC,2013). This became possible as the result of China joining WTO in 2001, which opened the market for Western companies by removing the trade barriers.
For Burberry, it recently closed 17 and opened 18 stores in Dubai, London, Moscow, New York, Seoul and Tokyo. Its various channel of distributions like retail, wholesale and licensing can help to expand those opportunities to the company. However, it seems that Burberry rely too much in Chinese market both in region or as tourists with approximately 30% of its sales in Chinese market (Financial times 2016). As mentioned in PESTEL, if the Chinese market experience the decline or political issue, it will significantly influence the sales and performance. Moreover, the company is also trying to attract the young generation for future
It launched the very first collection in London. Since 2007 till now, COS has expanded over 100 stores in worldwide. COS has the first launch in Singapore Orchard at November 2013. Till now in 2016, COS has 3 boutique stores in Singapore Ion Orchard, Raffles City and Jurong Westgate as well.
Apple is one of the world’s greatest tech company and has its products sold in many countries. Apple makes about 34 percent of iPhone sales in America while compared to Android sales which is about 20 percent (Tung).
With a population of 1.357 billion (2013)3, China is the most populated country in the world. Along with the huge population comes a market that is unmatched by any other country of the world. Both domestic companies and foreign companies want to tap into this large market that just recently embraced capitalism and entered into the World Trade Organization.
Apple Inc. has over the years grown to become one of the largest corporates in the globe. The company specializes in electronic devices and over the years its product range has expanded to include the iPhone, iPad, Apple watch, Macintosh computers as well as cloud services among other products. While most of its products have had some level of success in the market, the iPhone has by large experienced the most success. This is illustrated by the fact that the company has sold over a billion iPhones since the launch of the product in 2007. Consequently, Apple Inc. has become synonymous with the iPhone despite having a much wider range of products.
Around the world they have 3,100 stores. Most of the stores are in Germany, United Kingdom, United States, France, Spain, and Sweden. The stores are in every continent.
is yet to reach its maximum potential. Truly a unique entity in its accomplishments and organization, apple through the conviction and leadership of Steve Jobs its founder and then CEO; have pioneered the revolution of mobile technology. When it comes to strength, apple Inc, has a great marketing team with great marketing and advertisement capabilities, strong brand awareness, a strong and extensive distribution channel, and most of all a vertical integration and the most obvious which is customer loyalty. With the acquisition of valuable companies such as Beats, WhatsApp, mobile payment systems with the IPhone 6, wearable gadgets like the IWatch, apple uses these opportunities to satisfy its loyal
In 1995 Dell entered the Chinese market. With a population of 1.3 billion this was a great new market for Dell to tap into. IBM, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard had all ready realized this and had opened offices in China in the early 1990s.
Apple Inc. is located in Cupertino, California and was established in 1976. Apple Inc. designs, manufactures and markets mobile and media devices, personal computers and portable digital music players. They also sell a variety of related software, services, and networking solutions. As of this writing, Apple Inc. is the first United States Company to reach a market valuation of over seven hundred billion dollars (Higgins 2015).
...act, Langham Place is not alone. There are more and more shopping mall operates their business in the same manner as Langham Place. Though these shopping centres tried to make breakthrough using different methods, it seems that impressions of these shopping malls are blurred in eyes of public. Since these shopping malls are usually invested by large-scaled enterprises with great powers, merchants without resources to apply different tactics like these large-scaled shopping mall, will one day be eliminated. Those survivors will become copies of one another. As Shoppers' Paradise famous for selling products with different characteristics, if similar shopping malls are seen everywhere and merchants with distinguishing feature disappears, Hong Kong will soon lose its competitiveness among tourists. Resent among society may also arise and raise different social problems.