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How Distributors with 80 Million to Over 100 Million in Sales Grow: Cross-Online Business, Cross-Category Business, Cross-Region Business
Many distributors are finding this year's business particularly tough, but instead of looking inward at their own management and operations, they tend to blame external factors. This article explores the 'outward-looking' opportunities for growth, including online channels, new categories, and new regions, offering practical advice for distributors seeking new growth curves.
袁来Practical Guide: How Can Brand Owners Achieve Store Self-Ordering and Display Maintenance?
In recent years, due to rising labor costs and the spread of internet technology, many brand owners have attempted to enable terminal stores to place orders and maintain displays autonomously. Except for a few industry leaders leveraging their channel coverage, product mix, brand power, and digital capabilities, most brand owners have not achieved satisfactory results. The core issue is not technology or operational skills but the store owners' willingness to use the app. This article explores how mid-sized enterprises can address the willingness problem through selection, incentives, verification, and process design.
高级研究员 海游A Major Beer Distributor's Waterloo in Cross-Province Expansion
In June 2022, Xie Min, a top beer distributor, ended her 300-day attempt to expand into a new market, facing failure due to conflicts with the new management team and incompatible channel models. The article analyzes why her cross-region expansion failed and offers lessons for other distributors.
陈思廷Genki Forest's 'Cooler Defense War' That It Cannot Afford to Lose
In 2020, Genki Forest's management held an internal discussion on how giants could destroy the company, foreshadowing intense competition. Over the following two years, Nongfu Spring and Coca-Cola led a crackdown, and in 2022, Genki Forest shifted from an internet-plus beverage company to a traditional food and beverage enterprise, aggressively deploying coolers and offline marketing while facing slowed revenue growth.
袁喜乐Returning Offline: How Can Distributors Seize New Opportunities?
Ten years ago, I spread three sayings about the importance of opportunities. Now, as the industry transitions, strategic opportunities are emerging offline. Distributors should seize new profit models, ally with secondary wholesalers, and adopt bC integration to capture innovation dividends.
刘春雄How Should Distributors Plan for the Second Half of the Year?
Many distributors are feeling anxious this year due to the ongoing pandemic and global uncertainties. Key data points include a 0.4% GDP growth in Q2 and a projected population peak in China, signaling structural changes. Distributors should focus on stabilizing their core business, optimizing costs and efficiency, building organizational capabilities, and embracing technology to survive and grow.
赵波Reasonable Channel Policies Are the Cornerstone of Deep Distribution
The article discusses the importance of designing reasonable channel policies for deep distribution, emphasizing that overly detailed policies can be counterproductive. It provides principles for policy formulation, the need for effective communication and execution, and the importance of collecting feedback from the field.
高级研究员 海游Big News! ChouBao Luosifen Enters Sam's Club, Multi-Channel Interaction Boosts Distributors' Business
For distributors, is luosifen a good business? Some say yes, some say no. Let's look at the data: According to the Liuzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau of Guangxi, in 2021, the sales revenue of the entire Liuzhou luosifen industry chain reached 50.16 billion yuan, of which packaged Liuzhou luosifen sales revenue reached 15.197 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 38.23%. Despite the siege of traditional instant food categories, its development momentum remains the 'top trend' in the instant food category, and the answer is self-evident. In 2022, the luosifen market is still in the industry development period, with more and more brands joining this camp, which will inevitably dilute distributors' attention in product selection. How should distributors choose their ideal business partner from the many brands? Today we recommend a new brand in the luosifen track - ChouBao Luosifen.
高级研究员 海游From "Amateur" to "Professional": Where Does Distributor Growth Come From?
Distributors have evolved from amateur to professional players over three decades, transitioning through four stages: workshop, family, team, and enterprise operations. To achieve growth, distributors can expand channels, products, customers, regions, and refine pricing strategies.
周群Most Companies' Digitalization Efforts Are Just to Alleviate Anxiety!
A leading FMCG company with hundreds of thousands of retail outlets cannot even pull a list of terminals with monthly sell-through of 5 cases, highlighting a common reality: despite much talk about digitalization, most companies struggle to obtain basic data. This article argues that the real obstacles are status quo bias and collective inertia, and that many digitalization initiatives are merely superficial actions to ease anxiety rather than address the hard strategic and organizational challenges.
任文青AndyAfter Deep Distribution, What Will Be the Next Major Innovation in Chinese Marketing?
This article examines the achievements and current confusion in Chinese marketing, arguing that while channel innovation like deep distribution has driven past success, the next major breakthrough will center on customers—specifically, building direct, seamless connections with them through brand and channel innovation.
陈思廷The Bloated Distributor: High Sales, No Profit
Many distributors boast high annual sales but suffer from meager profits, often relying on manufacturers for orders and lacking core competitiveness. True competitiveness lies in the ability to distribute and sell through retail stores, not just serving brands.
袁来Thinking About Product Sell-Through from the Perspective of Competition
A brand executive discusses the challenge of driving sell-through for their second engine product. The article explores three core competitive advantages—product, channel, and consumer competitiveness—essential for successful product sell-through in the current market landscape.
高级研究员 海游All Distributors Should Rebuild Their Terminal Operations Through Salary and Assessment Adjustments!
This article argues that a distributor's frontline salesperson compensation structure is the best indicator of their management capability and future prospects. It categorizes three common salary structures and explains how they reflect different business philosophies, ultimately advocating for a market-oriented approach that rewards market-building actions.
袁来The Evolution and Revolution of Deep Distribution in FMCG - FMCG Industry Seminar
Deep distribution has been the most successful distribution model for FMCG in the Chinese market over the past two decades. However, traditional deep distribution, characterized by a 'human wave' strategy, is facing challenges in cost, efficiency, and management. This seminar will explore the evolution and revolution of deep distribution in the FMCG industry.
New DistributionWill the FMCG Market Improve in the Second Half of This Year?
The article discusses the uncertainties facing the global and Chinese FMCG markets in the second half of 2022, including geopolitical conflicts, the pandemic, and inflation. It analyzes consumer behavior changes and offers cautious optimism for recovery, while highlighting the need for brands and distributors to prepare for both challenges and opportunities.
文石From 3 Cases, See the Strategies and Paths of Digital 'Transformation' in FMCG Enterprises
This article discusses the strategies and paths for digital transformation in FMCG enterprises through three real cases: Dongpeng, Snow Beer, and Shahe Tequ. It emphasizes that digitalization should be viewed as a business model change rather than just a tool, and that successful transformation requires organizational capability and a gradual, incremental approach.
任文青AndyDealers Tripped Up Again and Again by Inertial Thinking
A recent consulting project with a leading FMCG company revealed that while dealers are increasingly adopting digital tools, their data analysis capabilities remain weak, often relying on outdated business thinking. This article highlights several common inertial thinking patterns among dealers, such as focusing only on high-volume outlets, neglecting customer acquisition and repurchase, and overlooking competitive display, and offers practical suggestions for improvement.
高级研究员 海游Where Have the 1-Yuan Ice Creams Gone?
The article explores why ice cream prices have risen and where affordable ice creams have gone, attributing it to multiple distribution layers, high cold-chain logistics costs, and the shift towards premium products in convenience stores. It highlights the case of Xuelian, a 0.5-yuan ice pop that went viral but still struggles to reach consumers due to lack of profit margins.
胡楠楠The Top Student of New Alcoholic Drinks, the New Choice for Distributors, Who Is It?
Where are the new opportunities in the alcoholic beverage channel? According to data from the China Alcoholic Drinks Association, in 2021, the output of the baijiu industry was about 7.16 million kiloliters, nearly halved from the peak of 13.5836 million kiloliters in 2016. Meanwhile, domestic beer production and per capita consumption have also peaked, with a clear trend of year-on-year decline. In the Guangdong market, a bellwether for China's alcoholic drinks industry, wine has lost more than 30% of its market share. In this red ocean, how to break through? Meijian, by leading the green plum wine category from its inception, is rewriting the landscape of the alcoholic beverage market.
New DistributionWhich Type of Distributor Can Survive the Winter?
2022 may mark the beginning of winter for China's FMCG market. Distributors, as the most active and sensitive group, face a challenging period; only those who adapt—whether as agile hunters or meticulous farmers—can survive and even thrive.
陈思廷In an Uncertain Market in 2022, Where Are the Opportunities for Distributors?
Despite market uncertainties caused by the pandemic, consumer demand remains unchanged, and distributors' core challenge is how to deliver products to consumers efficiently. Opportunities lie in omnichannel distribution that integrates online and offline, and in deepening engagement with community stores to find incremental growth.
周群Three Cases You Must Know About Stabilizing the Core Business
The core business is the foundation of a company's survival and growth. Over the past six years, New Distribution has tracked 100 FMCG brands and distributors, finding that those who excel in building and upgrading their core business remain stable and grow amidst drastic changes. This article presents three typical cases of brands and distributors focusing on their core business to stabilize their market position.
陈思廷Three Years of Pandemic: Distributors in Deep Water
The article reviews the challenges FMCG distributors faced during three years of the pandemic, including two waves of bankruptcies in 2020, the impact of community group buying in 2021, and the deepening consumption downturn in 2022. It highlights successful cases and emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and exchange for business growth.
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