{"id":5379,"date":"2022-12-14T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T20:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intarget.net\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2023-05-05T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T07:09:49","slug":"china-luxury-market-consumer-habits-and-future-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intarget.net\/en\/china-luxury-market-consumer-habits-and-future-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA LUXURY MARKET: CONSUMER HABITS AND FUTURE TRENDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<html><head><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Along with the rapid growth of\u00a0<strong>Chinese consumption power<\/strong>, Chinese consumer interest and attitude towards luxury goods is also similarly increasing. According to the annual report on the luxury sector published by <strong>Bain &amp; Company,\u00a0<\/strong>the 21% of global consumer spending on luxury goods in\u00a0<strong>2021<\/strong>\u00a0came from China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nevertheless, since 2020, due to the global impact of the pandemic, the\u00a0<strong>Chinese luxury market<\/strong>\u00a0has deeply changed in terms of\u00a0<strong>purchasing patterns<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>consumption behavior<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the restrictions on international travels caused the increasing tendency in purchasing luxury goods within the mainland, with\u00a0<strong>domestic duty-free<\/strong>\u00a0like the one of Hainan experiencing a yearly growth of\u00a0<strong>85%<\/strong>, the decreasing number of physical touchpoints, abreast with the improving digital retail infrastructures, prompted the online purchasing of high-end products through online platforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Social platforms like\u00a0<strong>WeChat<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>Xiaohongshu<\/strong>\u00a0have therefore become the major communication channel for brands wishing to implement an effective marketing strategy. More and more brands are in fact creating their own\u00a0<strong>Mini-program<\/strong>\u00a0and implementing\u00a0<strong>adv campaigns<\/strong>\u00a0within the\u00a0<strong>app<\/strong>, aiming to closely reach its consumers and build a tighter and more personalized relationship with these. As a matter of fact,\u00a0<strong>WeChat\u00a0<\/strong>has resulted to be the most-used platform across\u00a0<strong>post-90s<\/strong>\u00a0consumers for searching and purchasing luxury goods, this consumer segment accounting for the\u00a0<strong>46%<\/strong>\u00a0of China\u2019s luxury purchases in 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>So how to address the future changes of China Luxury Market?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Adopt an \u2018on-going\u2019 communication approach:\u00a0<\/strong>Since the increasing number of differentiated touchpoints, it is important for brands to adopt an \u2018on-going\u2019 and consistent marketing strategy, aimed at achieving an effective conversion on different communication channels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Offer exclusive experiences and high-quality content on digital platforms:<\/strong> Being high-quality content the main driver for gaining consumers\u2019 attention on digital platforms, the formulation of creative and high-quality content becomes the foundation of an effective marketing strategy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I<strong>ncrease awareness through online experiences:<\/strong>\u00a0For luxury consumers offline experiences are still relevant when engaging with a certain brand. Offline exhibitions and pop-up stores not only become the occasion to increase consumer\u2019s interest in the brand, but also to create unique content to communicate with their followers on social media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Expecting to become the world\u2019s largest luxury goods market by\u00a0<strong>2025<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>China\u2019s luxury market<\/strong> offers plenty of opportunities for foreign brands wishing to enlarge their market share in this business industry. Nevertheless, due to the fast-changing nature of the Chinese digital environment and to the increasing consumer expectations, it is important to constantly stay up to date on the latest and more efficient marketing strategies to adopt.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the rapid growth of\u00a0Chinese consumption power, Chinese consumer interest and attitude towards luxury goods is also similarly increasing. According to the annual report on the luxury sector published by Bain &amp; Company,\u00a0the 21% of global consumer spending on luxury goods in\u00a02021\u00a0came from China. Nevertheless, since 2020, due to the global impact of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"class_list":["post-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intarget.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intarget.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intarget.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intarget.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intarget.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intarget.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5614,"href":"https:\/\/www.intarget.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions\/5614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intarget.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intarget.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intarget.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}