China Top 100 Retail Companies Report is out Now.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c78948) has announced the addition of "China Top 100 Retail Companies Report" to their offering.

The report fully analyzes the top 100 retail companies as well as the investment opportunities, the company's operation, M&A, market positioning, development strategies and development trend.

With the overall opening of retail industry in 2004, the scale of China's retail industry has expanded gradually. Considering the total sales of consumer's good in the first ten months in 2007, it rose 16.1% to RMB 7.2090 trillion. It is forecasted that the retain industry in China will grow rapidly, over 15%, from 2008 to 2010.

About 15% of market shares in retail market in China will be occupied by middle and small-sized supermarkets in the forthcoming five to ten years, while the market share of large supermarket and department store will be 10%, and the other retail types will be no more than 10% as well. The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will bring the opportunity for the development of China's retail industry, and so the year of 2008 will be a golden period for commercial retail industry.

The retain industry in China witnessed a rapid growth of foreign-funded retail and frequent M&A in 2007. Among the top 100 companies, 91 of which were domestic, and nine were foreign-funded in 2003, while 12 and 15 foreign-funded companies entered top 100 in 2004 and 2005 respectively, and 17 in 2006.

The M&A in the retail industry were frequent. Beijing Wu-mart acquired Beijing Meilianmei Supermarket, Ningxia Xinhua Department Store and Jiangsu Times Supermarket successively, and its total number of stores had amounted to 728 by the end of 2006, up 12%. Gome Electrical Appliances acquired Yongle Electrical Appliances, and by the end of 2006, the total number of stores of Gome had reached 820, becoming the largest enterprise by the retail sales in China.

1 Development of China Retail Industry

2 East China
2.1 Beijing
2.1.1 Summary
2.1.2 Status Quo of Merger and Acquisition
2.1.3 Potential Investment Opportunities
2.1.4 Gome Electrical Appliance Group
2.1.5 Wu-mart Holding Group Co., Ltd
2.1.6 Beijing Wangfujin Department Store (Group) Co., Ltd
2.1.7 Beijing Hualian Group
2.2 Tianjin
2.2.1 Status Quo of Merger and Acquisition
2.2.2 ZOWEE Department Store Group Co., Ltd
2.3 Hebei
2.3.1 Summary
2.3.2 Status Quo of Merger and Acquisition
2.3.3 Shijiazhuang Beiguo Renbai Group Corp.
2.3.4 Tangshan Department Store Group Co., Ltd
2.3.5 Hebei Baolongcang Commerce Chain Co., Ltd
2.3.6 Hebei Baobai Group Co., Ltd
2.4 Shandong
2.4.1 Summary
2.4.2 Status Quo of Merger and Acquisition
2.4.3 Potential Investment Opportunities
2.4.4 Shandong Sanlian

3 PRD
3.1 Guangdong
3.1.1 Summary
3.1.2 Status Quo of Merger and Acquisition
3.1.3 Rainbow Store Co., Ltd
3.1.4 Guangzhou Grandbuy Co., Ltd
3.1.5 Guangzhou Friendship Co., Ltd
3.2 Fujian
3.2.1 Summary
3.2.2 Status Quo of Merger and Acquisition
3.2.3 Fujian Yonghui Group Co., Ltd
3.2.4 Fujian Xinhuadu Shopping Mall Co., Ltd

4 YRD
4.1 Shanghai
4.1.1 Summary
4.1.2 Potential Investment Opportunity
4.1.3 Shanghai Brilliance (Group) Co., Ltd
4.1.4 Suning Electrical Appliance Group
4.1.5 Shanghai Agriculture Industry Commerce
4.2 Jiangsu
4.2.1 Status Quo of Merger and Acquisition
4.2.2 Potential Investment Opportunity
4.2.3 Wuxi Commercial Mansion Group Co., Ltd
4.2.4 Jiangsu Five Star Appliance Co., Ltd
4.3 Zhejiang
4.3.1 Summary
4.3.2 Potential Investment Opportunity
4.3.3 Ningbo Sanjiang Shopping Club Co., Ltd
4.3.4 Hangzhou Building Shopping Center

5 Central China

6 Northeast China and West China

7 Foreign-funded Retail Companies

8 Conclusions

Selected Charts

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