Producers are also engaging in direct sales to consumers through on line retailing, bypassing retailers.

The highest growth rate was expected from digital electronic products (e.g. audio and video markets, and the digital part of traditional consumer electronics), while the analog consumer electronics market could almost disappear by 2008.

While the first operates fixed point of sale locations, non store retailers or retailers away from a fixed location reach customers and market merchandise with methods such as broadcasting infomercials , paper and electronic catalogues, door to door solicitation and selling from portable stalls.

and consumer electronics and other relevant products have also seen a relatively large reduction in tariffs.

China s E Tail Revolution

Retailers have integrated backwards into wholesale operations, and producers have integrated forward, performing wholesale functions by distributing their products directly to retailers.

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In addition, retailers provide a set of different services such as product assembly and display, supply of product information, customer services such as delivery, credit and implicit warranties, and production services such as packaging and processing goods in a suitable form for consumers.

In most countries, the retail sector has typically developed in three stages first, local or regional players dominate, before a smaller number of national companies takes over, with e tailers ultimately challenging traditional businesses. But China lacks national leaders, with the top five Chinese retailers in different product categories commanding less than 20 of the market, compared to up to 60 in the US.

More sophisticated retailers, especially in Europe, are increasingly demanding quality assurance all the way back to the producer and even to the feed supplier to ensure the consumer receives healthy products.

The factor that could limit the dominant market position of retailers is the increasing reliance on e commerce and the shift in power to consumers.

Rather, e tail supports incremental consumption 1 of online consumption seems to generate roughly 0.40 of additional sales. And incremental spending as a share of total spending is even higher in China s less developed cities, where a shortage of brick and mortar retailers means that online shopping provides access to otherwise unavailable products and brands.

The growth in concentration in retailing has also given rise to a number of concerns about anti competitive behaviour of major retailers vis à vis other competitors, and abuses of buyers' power with respect to suppliers of products and consumers.

By contrast, Alibaba (which owns marketplaces such as Taobao) and 360buy.com (which focuses on electronics) rank among China s top ten retailers, and already provide national coverage through the reach of express delivery companies. As a result, China s retail sector seems more likely to follow a two stage development path, with e tailers emerging as the major national players.

Products at zero tariff under the FTAs also include intermediates and raw materials required for the domestic production of end user consumer goods, which will, to a certain extent, also upgrade the mix of domestically produced consumer goods.

At present most Vietnamese retailers are small, family run outlets, offering a limited choice of products to their customers.

Consumer demand has been the main factor responsible for lower prices in retailing.

According to data, the consumption potentiality of rural residents has been continuously released. In the first half of this year, the retail sales of rural consumer goods increased by 10.5 , and the growth rate is 1.3 percentage points higher than that of towns.

Some products enter the market through wholesalers who in turn distribute the products to a variety of retailers, while in other cases the producer sells directly to the retailer.

The nature of global retail markets is being transformed through consumer level electronic funds transfers and on line delivery of some services.

On these platforms which resemble eBay and Amazon Marketplace manufacturers, retailers, and individuals offer products and services to consumers through online storefronts. By contrast, in the US, Europe, and Japan, roughly 70 of the market is composed of e tailers running their own Web sites, whether online only merchants like Amazon or traditional brick and mortar retailers such as Carrefour, Dixons, and Walmart.

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The increasing concentration has generated strong competition among retail establishments, which has translated into lower retailing margins and benefits to consumers.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 1 (reported by Liu Hongxia Ma Rui) The electronic commerce retail export enterprises received another benefits in the aspect of tax burden on October 1st, concerning value added tax and consumption tax exemption, etc.

Despite a broadband penetration rate of only 30 , e tail commanded 5 6 of total retail sales in China in 2012, on par with the US. And the sector is already profitable Chinese e tailers are logging margins of 8 10 of earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization, which is slightly larger than the average margin for physical retailers.

Mr. Arthur Weyns, Vice President of the Consumer Electronics Global Affairs, Philips

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China s e tail market is the world s second largest (after that of the United States), with an estimated 210 billion in revenue last year. Since 2003, the market has posted a compound annual growth rate of over 110 .

Foreign direct investment (FDI) and modernization in retailing bring benefits to consumers, who can have access to a larger variety of quality products within the same store, and to Governments, which can control quality, and measure and tax what is being sold.

Three additional factors create difficulties for producers of final products in the origin countries regarding market entry at the retail level.

Likewise, by removing some of the benefits of scale and specialization that characterize the consumer goods industry elsewhere, e tail enables new manufacturers to join the market, selling goods like apparel and cosmetics directly from workshops and factories to consumers. Such businesses are also leveraging their broad access and widely recognized brands to expand their role in the financial services sector.

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Being a retailer, it is a play on the belief that this middle class that's growing will continue to grow, that the boom and the confidence in consumer spending will continue.

However, with a growth rate significantly higher than for total retail trade, the share of e commerce in total retail trade is also growing.

It may involve the transport, distribution and sale of goods from a producer to a consumer, such as in wholesaling and retailing, or the provision of a service, such as in education, health care, tourism, entertainment, insurance, the media and legal advice.

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It's a process of the production and reproduction of novelty, continually chasing expanding consumer markets, consumer goods, new consumer goods.

Growing use by retailers of own brands and discount retailing have also been driving prices down significantly.

Special presentations were made by Mr. Gye hyun Kwon, Vice President of the Department of Global Public Relations, Samsung Electronics, and Dr. Arthur Weyns, Vice President of the Consumer Electronics Global Affairs, Philips.

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