High-end beauty brands owned by top international conglomerates like LVMH and Estée Lauder are flocking to China’s top e-commerce marketplaces, according to a new report by digital intelligence firm L2 Inc. “The Digital IQ Index: Beauty China 2018” report released at the end of February 2018, ranked Estée Lauder as the most digitally competent brand in China for the second year in a row. L’Oréal Paris followed in second, with three of the top five brands owned by L’Oréal Group. The highest-ranked Chinese brand was Chando, which also made the top five. The report found that 82 percent of premium beauty brands in its index now have an official store on Alibaba’s Tmall, which is China’s largest B2C e-commerce platform. The rate is up from 55 percent in 2015, with new additions in the past year including L’Oréal Group’s YSL Beauty and Estée Lauder’s MAC Cosmetics. LVMH saw its portfolio brands Fresh and Benefit open shops on the platform in 2017, while its Givenchy beauty label launched a Tmall store in February of this year. Liz Flora Courtesy image. Premium beauty brands are following in the footsteps of their mass-market counterparts, which have a Tmall adoption rate of 97 percent that has remained constant since
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