Shoe Industry Is Struggling To Expand Online Business.

< p > BELLE's net profit growth slowed to 4.43%. Daphne's net interest rate is expected to drop to a single figure. The net profit declines of both Saturday and 100 billion are more than 20%. This is the basic financial data released by the four largest listed companies in China, namely, "a" target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" and "shoes /a" listed companies in 2013.

At the China ASEAN shoes marketing conference held recently, Li Bin, Deputy Secretary General of the Pearl River Delta women shoes Marketing Association, said that since the second half of 2012, China's women's shoes industry has entered a channel of slowing down in marketing and profit growth.

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< p > 2013, the days of Chinese women's shoes manufacturers were quite difficult.

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Less than P, Daphne, whose image of the laurel goddess of S.H.E has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, has been running low in 2013.

Its performance Bulletin released in January 20th showed that sales of Daphne's core brand in the same store fell 10.4% in 2013, and its core brand business in the fourth quarter of last year fell by 5.4% year-on-year.

On Saturday, it also said that the company achieved operating income of 1 billion 882 million yuan in 2013, an increase of 19.94% over the same period last year, and the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies decreased by 28.95% over the same period last year.

The BELLE international financial report, which is based on footwear, shows that in 2013, its operating income was 36 billion 250 million yuan, an increase of 10.3% compared with the same period last year. The sales volume of footwear increased by 5.9% over the same period last year, and the growth rate of footwear agency declined significantly. Its footwear agency brand also appeared the first negative growth in 4 years.

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< p > multiple plight forced women's shoes giants to tighten their belts, live in compressed stores, and actively expand their online businesses.

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< p > in the first three quarters of 2013, a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_x.asp" > Daphne < /a > basically showed expansion, but in the fourth quarter, it closed down the stores directly, and the number of outlets decreased by 222, and the number of franchisees decreased by 23.

In 2012, 418 stores were added, but in 2013 it dropped to 120.

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< p > in fact, the slowdown is not only true for offline stores, but also for online shopping. This is a sign of weakness in consumer demand.

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Wang Enbin, public relations director of BELLE International's shopping website, excellent purchase network, said in an interview with our reporter: "the sales growth of the super purchase network last year was more than 50%, and this figure reached 100%~200% in the first two years." P

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< p > for brand women's shoes, the Internet has different advantages than physical stores.

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< p > "for the two or three tier cities, many women's shoes" sink "can not go down, not enough physical stores.

Wang Enbin said.

In addition, online shopping has also increased the choice of consumers.

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< p > industry analysts believe that the footwear market in 2014 will still be in a doldrums. The next 3 years will be a critical period for the a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > women shoes < /a > the industry's survival of the fittest. The leading enterprises will also reduce the expansion speed of the stores, and at the same time, strengthen the promotion efforts in the field of electronic commerce, so as to minimize costs and maintain profit margins.

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