CHINA: Disney Shanghai Breaks Ground

Today the Walt Disney Company broke ground on the five-year construction project for Disney Shanghai.

"We're incredibly excited to build a Disney resort in Shanghai, one of the world's most vibrant cities," said Thomas O. Staggs, Chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. "We are hard at work designing Shanghai Disneyland, which when complete will be a special place where guests of all ages will discover a world of imagination, creativity, adventure and thrills." The resort will "include a Magic Kingdom-style theme park with characteristics tailored to the Shanghai region and other amenities consistent with Disney's destination resorts worldwide," Disney said.

Disney already has a park in Hong Kong.

China : Shanghai Summers See High Sale Of Lingerie

During late spring and early summer, Shanghai streets turn beautiful with lingerie clad good-looking women.

Today, in Shanghai market, the average price of female under garment can be purchased within 200 to 300 yuan.

According to a survey, women buyers in the age group of 20 to 35 years, while purchasing lingerie, pay heed mainly to its function, brand, as well as design.

Body-shaping and weight-losing lingeries are the top choice of Shanghai women, that they can look bootylicious.



Fibre2fashion News Desk - China

Shanghai - Top High-End Hot and Sexy Lingerie Market

Shanghai has emerged as the dominating city in intimatewear industry, especially growing stronger in past 5 years. It has been noted that the lingerie segment in Shanghai has long history and strong roots, which have helped it to defend its position even in today’s tough trade scenario.

Although the number of lingerie enterprises in Shanghai is small, all of them are quality manufacturer, attracting huge number of clients each year. The industry consisting of less than 200 companies is worth tens of billions of yaun. Recognizing the potential of this city, various foreign brands are opting to move here.

Shanghai Association of lingerie makers has 113 member companies. Of these, Gujin Lingerie has average annual sale of nearly 3 billion yuan and Triumph registers that of over 4 million yuan.

Threeguns Lingerie obtained annual sales of 1.4 billion yuan in 2004, and Yiershuang Group surpassed 1 billion yuan.

These figures are staggering in a relatively small industry, providing stiff competition to manufacturers in other regions.

According to the information 81.25 percent of world's top lingerie brands have already settled in Shanghai. However, domestic famous brands still dominate Shanghai underwear market. Thus, Shanghai is being known as China's top high-end lingerie market.

News Source: Fibre2fashion.com