14th September 2018

Harbour’s Managing Director Andrew Bascand  visited China last week and met with companies and commentators, to dig beneath the data and get a sense of the current issues.

We visited many malls and shopping centres. In particular we went to mother and baby stores to experience the consumer in action and witness new the eCommerce model. We also visited “wet markets”, hired bicycles with WeChat, and saw progress with a2’s new Chinese-labelled product seeing first-hand innovation in the shopping experience …