China Chain Drugstore Industry Indepth Research and Investment Strategy Report, 2013-2017

With Forward’s the long-term tracking and collecting market data of chain drugstore industry, we roundly and accurately analyze the structure system for you from the view of mastering the whole industry. This report mainly analyzes the following aspects: development model and macro-environment of China chain drugstore industry; development condition and experience of International chain drugstore industry; development status and management condition of China chain drugstore industry; competition and merger of chain drugstore industry; development status of chain drugstore related industry; industry positioning and development trend for chain drugstore industry; site selection and marketplace distribution of chain drugstore industry; suppliers and purchase management of chain drugstore industry; consumer behavior and marketing strategy of chain drugstore industry; development status of chain drugstore industry in key regions; leading corporations’ operation status in chain drugstore

Since the establishment of the first real China chain drugstore in 1996, the chain drugstore industry has experienced four major stages up to now. Judging from the many factors such as current industry concentration and competitive landscape, we can see that China chain drugstore industry is on the transition stage from fast development to reformation. Comparing with mature market, its development and reconstruction space is huge. Huge development space for chain drugstores in China judging from the aspects of industry development, industry competition and corporation management. integration space for single drugstore is big. There are over 400,000 retailing drugstores in current China among which there are about 140,000 chain drugstores which is 35% of the whole market (it is 60% in America). Either government or chain drugstore corporations make great efforts to increase such ratio. Besides, factors like expansion of advancing corporations, entry of capital force, high-speed growth of industry, enhancing consumption capability of customers and increasing terminal demand of the upstream contribute to the fast development of chain drugstores. In the aspect of industry competition: concentration is low and development is imbalanced for chain drugstore in China. It embodies that: market in eastern region is more concentrated and it is even over-saturated in some places while it is of little scale in the western region; relatively saturated in provincial cities, large and middle size cities while deficient in the second tier cities and rural regions. In the aspect of corporation management: overall operational management level for current chain drugstores in China is not high and there are still great rooms for improvement. And all the following factors will promote the development of chain drugstores: reduction of management cost, enhancing profitability for drugstore, improvement of service level, utilization of chain system advantages, efficient expansion of stores and introduction of high gross profit categories like cosmetics. The future chain drugstores will pay attention to both endogenous development and extensive expansion. View from the total volume of drugstore, number of drugstores in China is not that small but with an unreasonable structure comparing with mature market. It is necessary to promote the industry development by capital and policy supports, and perfecting industrial structure through integrating industry resources by advancing chain corporations. Therefore, chain corporations should pay attention to endogenous development which focuses on product operation, and extensive expansion which focuses on capital input & output and allocation. By the way of investment, financing and merger to expand the enterprise scale and perfect industrial structure.

With Forward’s the long-term tracking and collecting market data of chain drugstore industry, we roundly and accurately analyze the structure system for you from the view of mastering the whole industry. This report mainly analyzes the following aspects: development model and macro-environment of China chain drugstore industry; development condition and experience of International chain drugstore industry; development status and management condition of China chain drugstore industry; competition and merger of chain drugstore industry; development status of chain drugstore related industry; industry positioning and development trend for chain drugstore industry; site selection and marketplace distribution of chain drugstore industry; suppliers and purchase management of chain drugstore industry; consumer behavior and marketing strategy of chain drugstore industry; development status of chain drugstore industry in key regions; leading corporations’ operation status in chain drugstore industry; development trend, prospect and strategy for chain drugstore industry. Meanwhile, together with the comprehensive and detailed market data which is accumulated for 5 years, Forward helps you to grasp the market and development trends of chain drugstore industry, so as to win advantages from competition!

Major characteristics of this report are forward-looking and timeliness. Base on the forward-looking analysis of massive research data, we further analyze the development scale and competitive landscape of chain drugstore industry. Along with the industry development route and our practical experience, we analyze and predict the future development prospect of chain drugstore industry. This report contains a high value for enterprises like medicine retailing corporations (especially chain operational corporations), medicine wholesales corporations, medicine logistics corporations and investment corporations that they can accurately know the latest industry development trend, obtain market opportunities and determine an insightful operation strategy and development direction.

Here, we’d like to express our sincere gratitude to National Bureau of Statistics of China, International Information Institute, National Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, National Tsing Hua University Library, Institute of Market Economy of the State Council Development Research Center, and Beijing Qinghua Forward Market Research Center, etc. Thank you so much!

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Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research College
Research Team of Chain Drugstore Industry

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