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From Super Slogan to Super Symbol
Liu Chunxiong argues that the focus of brand creativity has shifted from super slogans (represented by Ye Maozhong) to super symbols or logos (represented by Hua & Hua), reflecting changes in marketing media environments. He explains the transition from F2C centralized communication to B2C distributed communication via channels, and predicts a future shift to C2C IP-based communication.
刘春雄IP Marketing Trends in 2025: From 'Connecting the Back-End' to 'Clearing Business Obstacles'
In 2024, business growth for many companies was like a self-destructive long-distance run, with profits often driven by layoffs and ad cuts, and sales by price cuts and promotions. For healthy growth, companies should focus on solving underlying problems rather than sales alone, using major content IP as a 'business lever' to clear obstacles such as low dealer confidence, high performance pressure with low budgets, over-reliance on existing customers, price-cut dependence, and declining consumption frequency.
梁将军Major Move: Three Squirrels Strategically Acquires Two Discount Brands, Ailingshi and Aidazhe, Signaling a Potential Tripartite Landscape in Snack Retail
On October 28, Three Squirrels announced its intention to acquire Ailingshi, a snack discount store chain based in Changsha, and Aidazhe, a full-category discount brand in Tianjin. Although the deal is still in preliminary stages and no formal agreements have been signed, it has already stirred significant attention, deepening Three Squirrels' presence in offline retail. Tang Guangliang, founder of Ailingshi, predicts that the bulk snack market will form a tripartite competitive landscape. This acquisition raises questions about Three Squirrels' strategy and its potential impact on industry trends.
赵胜男Li Zi Yuan's 'Midlife Crisis': Can Going Global Save the Brand?
Going global has become a common strategy for brands seeking new growth. In September 2024, Li Zi Yuan received its first Southeast Asian order, shipping 30 tons of sweet milk to the region, with plans to export to Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. However, for a brand that has relied on a single product for over 30 years, it remains uncertain whether this move is a second growth curve or a lifeline.
唐雨昕CR Beverage IPO Success: C'estbon's 14.6 Billion Bottles Sold Annually Support a HK$39.1 Billion Valuation
On October 23, 2024, C'estbon's parent company, CR Beverage (Holdings) Co., Ltd., successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code "02460." As of the time of writing, the stock surged 15.03% to HK$16.68 per share, giving it a total market capitalization of HK$39.162 billion. CR Beverage is China's second-largest packaged drinking water company, and its flagship brand C'estbon achieved retail sales of RMB 39.5 billion in 2023, with annual sales of 14.6 billion bottles and a market share of 32.7%, ranking first in the purified drinking water market.
New DistributionAfter the Ice Cup Craze, Brands Set Their Sights on 'Flavored Ice Cubes'
On National Coffee Day, U.S. food innovation company Dice Provisions launched its first craft coffee ice cubes, Dice Coffee Ice Cubes, designed to solve the problem of diluted iced coffee. In China, brands like Yongpu Coffee, Hema, and Dingdong Maicai have also introduced similar products—coffee ice ball cups—priced at 6-7 yuan each.
FBIFIndustry Exclusive | White Paper on Omnichannel Growth Strategies for High-Potential Emerging Brands
The fundamental issue all enterprises must address is growth. In 2024, Gartner surveyed 416 CEOs and executives globally, finding that 62% prioritized growth as their top business focus, the highest level since 2014. Amid market saturation, rising traffic costs, and intense price wars, brands face new consumer characteristics of personalization, fragmentation, and omnichannel behavior. This white paper focuses on high-potential emerging brands with revenue over 500 million RMB, addressing the challenge of transitioning from niche market structural growth to mainstream market omnichannel growth, with instant retail as the first step.
火曜石Co-building 'One Inventory for FMCG'! Anneng Smart Logistics and Genki Forest Launch Henan Joint Distribution Center
In September 2024, the 'Anneng Smart Logistics Henan Joint Distribution Center Opening Ceremony' was held at Anneng Smart Logistics Henan Mei'an Logistics Park, and the 'Henan DC Warehouse and Distribution Logistics Center' jointly operated by Genki Forest and Anneng Smart Logistics was officially launched. The event focused on 'One Inventory for FMCG and Brand Channel Digitalization', exploring practices to enhance freshness across all channels and support new growth through supply chain innovation.
安得智联Exclusive | Interview with Fan Xiao Qi "Milk Qi" Founder: Leading Distributors Out of Involution with an Innovative Category
A regional beverage brand in China, Wei Yi, was recently acquired by a private equity firm under LVMH, sparking industry attention. This article explores why a plant-based protein drink focused on the foodservice channel attracted global luxury interest, and introduces Fan Xiao Qi, a new brand rapidly rising in Zhejiang with its signature product "Milk Qi," which is making waves by focusing on the foodservice channel and creating a new category.
冯瑶The Disappearing Brand Department: A Wake-Up Call from the Marketing 3.0 Era?
Brand professionals are anxious as companies like Jiaoxia, JD.com, Shiseido, Estée Lauder, and Unilever cut brand and marketing roles. This reflects a shift in the marketing 3.0 era, where brand departments must evolve from traditional roles to become more integrated, data-driven, and agile.
执牛耳The Shelved Ice Dew: Where Is It Headed?
The war in the drinking water market has extended from summer to autumn, involving numerous brands and spanning multiple price points, bringing the timeline back to the 1-yuan price range of a decade ago. Amid this battle, one mineral water brand has gone into hiding, seemingly cut off from the fray, and is increasingly disappearing from consumers' view: Ice Dew, once a dominant player in the low-price water segment.
饮品营销Is Low Price the Only Way Out for 'Chinese-Style Retail'?
On the evening of August 26, Pinduoduo's stock plunged 30% intraday, its biggest drop since October 24, 2022. Known for its low prices, Pinduoduo is also controversial for its supplier and employee relations. Despite this, it remains China's fastest-growing e-commerce platform. Meanwhile, in the second half of the year, wholesale and discount supermarkets have been proliferating across regions, with 'hard discount' becoming a buzzword and a lifeline for traditional supermarkets. The article argues that China is not entering an era of full discounting but rather a further consumption stratification, with a vertical stratification centered on price, unlike Japan's horizontal stratification based on culture and social identity.
戚特What Kind of Mess Did Lin Xiaohai Inherit at Shanghai Jahwa?
Shanghai Jahwa, once the undisputed leader in domestic beauty and personal care, has recently undergone major personnel changes, with former RT-Mart CEO Lin Xiaohai taking the helm. Despite the company's 125-year history and iconic brands like Herborist, Liushen, and Shuangmei, its latest half-year report reveals declining revenue and profit, a shrinking market position, and a host of challenges including an unclear brand structure, lack of blockbuster products, and lagging channel innovation.
李彦Condoms: From Past 'Pride and Prejudice' to Present 'Disruption and Transcendence'
In the movie 'Lost in Hong Kong,' a scene features an ad for Elephant condoms, where the brand's integration with the plot left a lasting impression. Elephant founder Zhao Chuan leveraged emotional value and seized four waves of emotional consumption—film, social media, trends, and open culture—to grow the brand to 600 million yuan in revenue within a decade, aiming to become a public social enterprise.
田静“Self-Zai Water” Sells Big! Your Health Anxiety Has Earned Genki Forest Another 1 Billion Yuan
Genki Forest has hit the trend again. According to LatePost, sales of its “Self-Zai Water” products are expected to exceed 1 billion yuan in 2024. Launched in February 2023, the product surpassed 100 million yuan in sales within four months, making it the fastest product to reach that milestone. 2024 marks the eighth year since Genki Forest's founding, and founder Tang Binsen mentioned in an internal letter that “believing in good products” has been the company's foundation since its inception, noting that younger consumers place greater emphasis on product quality, health, and emotional value.
李杨The Core Value of FMCG Manufacturers' Marketing Teams Is to Enhance Channel Competitiveness
The core value of FMCG manufacturers' marketing teams lies in enhancing channel competitiveness. Market share is a result indicator driven by product & brand competitiveness, channel competitiveness, and consumer competitiveness. While marketing teams can only inherit and execute on product and consumer aspects, channel competitiveness is the area they must build and develop to drive growth in a shrinking market.
高级研究员 海游Brand Rejuvenation: Baixiang Dala Jiao Opens New Channel Windows
A viral video on Weibo showed young people dressed as Honor of Kings characters moving goods at a convenience store in Shanghai, sparking a trending topic. Baixiang Dala Jiao quickly seized the moment, announcing a second collaboration with the game and launching an innovative marketing campaign that integrates online and offline channels to deepen its youthful brand image.
AmySnack Industry's Top Student: Lay's 'Fresh-Baked Naked Rice Cakes' Debut, Disrupting the Rice Cake Market
The saying 'What's scary is not that others are better than you, but that they work harder than you' perfectly describes Lay's. After over 30 years in the Chinese market, Lay's not only dominates the potato chip category but also reinvents itself year after year. Recently, Lay's Gourmet Lab launched a new product—Fresh-Baked Naked Rice Cakes—which is set to disrupt the stagnant rice cake market.
冯瑶In the Era of Channel Convergence and Shrinking Volume, How Can Brand Owners Break Through the Dilemma of Choice?
In recent years, with the rise of discounting trends, high-quality factories skilled in cost control and efficiency improvement will encounter new market opportunities. What characteristics do such enterprises typically possess? What are their strategic considerations? On August 21, Mr. Xue Wenfa, Assistant to the Chairman and Deputy General Manager of the Marketing Center of Guangdong Yinxue Group, delivered a brilliant sharing session at the 3rd China FMCG Hard Discount Conference, themed 'In the Era of Channel Convergence and Shrinking Volume, How Can Suppliers Break Through the Dilemma of Choice?' The company has an annual turnover of 5 billion yuan and is a veritable factory/brand with manufacturing capabilities.
薛文发Unsweetened Tea Faces a 'Bloody Battle'
The booming unsweetened tea segment cannot be monopolized by Oriental Leaf alone. Since the first half of this year, unsweetened tea products have proliferated, with sizes ranging from small to large and prices dropping ever lower. No beverage subcategory has ever been this lively. In a very short time, issues such as product homogenization and accelerated iteration cycles have already surfaced in the unsweetened tea industry. When a category's room for innovation is exhausted, all parties on both the offensive and defensive sides of the market will face a brutal 'bloody battle.' The 'worst-tasting beverage' is now a hit. Nongfu Spring (09633.HK) has once again tasted the sweetness of tea. In the first half of this year, the company's packaged drinking water business took a sharp downturn, while unsweetened tea became the backbone driving growth.
陈晓京Understanding the Consumer Journey: The Starting Point of All Brand Marketing | Creating Incremental Growth
The starting point of all marketing and brand building is to think back to consumer behavior patterns, so we can understand how brand marketing actually works. When we start marketing, we first focus on the consumer's purchase decision process, which is the behavioral chain of 'information search - comparison evaluation - purchase action - sharing and diffusion', to find user touchpoints and influence their purchase behavior. Consumers buy because they have needs. Human needs come from the overlay of desires and life scenarios, which are based on a person's self-concept and lifestyle.
空手Creating Increment | What Exactly Is the 'Scenario' That Marketers Always Talk About?
The term 'scenario' has been a hot concept for over a decade and is widely used. In the context of internet marketing, channels, e-commerce, stores, and other transaction venues are scenarios; payment is a payment scenario; looking at phones and browsing platforms are media consumption scenarios; specific tasks in enterprise marketing such as new product launches, promotions, and brand building are marketing scenarios. In short, everything in marketing can be called a scenario. However, the author believes that to discuss something clearly and accurately, one must start with a clear definition of the concept. The author defines scenario as: under specific spatiotemporal accompanying conditions, a specific task that appears in a consumer's life, which requires purchasing a brand to complete, thus generating specific needs and consumption behaviors. In short, scenario equals spatiotemporal conditions plus task resolution.
空手Pioneer of Affordable NFC Orange Juice: GanNing Brand Rises Rapidly with Dual Drive of Supply Chain and Market
In recent years, due to the downward economic cycle, consumers have increasingly valued the 'quality-price ratio' of products, posing sales challenges for high-end market categories with high production costs. In this context, quality factories capable of cost control and efficiency improvement will encounter new market opportunities. The case introduced in this article—GanNing brand—started with fresh orange business. In 2022, based on insights into consumption trends, it ventured into NFC orange juice, offering products of uncompromised quality at half the industry price, striving to break the boundaries of the high-end market.
赵胜男Scenes Create Increments: Do People Group by People, or by Scene?
Segmentation is the starting point for enterprises to operate in the market. Businesses first segment the market to identify consumer differences, then select target markets with the greatest opportunities, and finally position their products. However, as people become increasingly individualized, traditional demographic segmentation is less effective. The article proposes that scenes, as hard boundaries and soft constraints, can unify diverse consumers, leading to the concept of 'people grouped by scene' (人以场分), which finds commonalities across different consumer groups in the same scene, as illustrated by cases like Jiangxiaobai and Wuling Motors.
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