Peter Chan/Hong Kong
Chan chairs YGM Trading, a spinoff from the clan’s garment manufacturing business. YGM acquired the Guy Laroche label in 2004, and in recent years it has also made a breakthrough with a UK brand, Aquascutum. YGM first obtained the rights to the brand in 42 countries and regions in Asia in 2009, and in May this year acquired it in full.
Eddie Chen/Shanghai
Chen leads Daphne, a Taiwanese shoe maker that has thrived in the mid-end of the market at a time of relatively slow economic growth in the mainland and whose shares have outperformed as a result. Chen is pursuing a savvy multi-brand strategy, and also working as a distributor of U.S. brands. Chen told Forbes earlier this year he was also on the lookout for acquisitions. Chen’s family was a member of the 2012 Forbes Taiwan Rich List.
Franz Chen/Taipei
Franz Chen is the founder and chairman of Franz Collection, which makes decorative Chinese-style porcelain tableware and vases. The company sells its wares in some 6,000 stores in 56 countries, and plans to increase its presence in China this year with new 10 stand-alone stores that will its total to 125.
Pollyann Chu/Hong Kong
Pollyanna Chu, better known as the ambitious CEO of Hong Kong financial services firm Kingston Securities, made a splash in the luxury goods business this year by acquiring 75% of Hong Kong-listed Sincere Watch. Sincere Watch is the sole distributor of Franck Muller watches and accessories in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and mainland China. Chu and her family ranked No.32 on the 2012 Forbes Hong Kong Rich List with wealth of $1.2 billion.
Jeffrey Fang/Hong Kong
Fang is a member of the Fang textile clan from Hong Kong. He has had success in the distribution of luxury apparel with his wife Christine at Global Retail Inc. Jones Group of the U.S. is a GRI partner. GRI distributes Joan & David, Anne Klein New York, Nine West, and Pringle of Scotland among others.
Guo Shunyuan/Putian
It’s hard to walk very far in an airport in Beijing or Shanghai without running across advertising from Guo Shunuan’s luxury women’s bag supplier Powerland. The spending is helping the top line: Sales last year rose to 146 million euros from 113 mlllion euros a year earlier. Powerland went public at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange last year.
Hon Kwok Lung/Hong Kong
Hon is a successful real estate developer that is having a growing impact in the country’s watch industry through successful partnerships with foreign brands via Hong Kong-listed China Haidian. Last year, Haidian bought the Swiss watch company Eterna AG Uhrenfabrik, which manufactures and sells watch brands Eterna and Porsche Design. It also set up joint ventures in Liaoning & Beijing to distribute Japanese and Swiss watch brands. Hon ranked No. 183 on the 2011 Forbes China Rich list with wealth of $870 million.
Hong Zhongxing/Shanghai
Hong Zhongxing leads K-Boxing, one of the largest men’s leisurewear chains in China with more than 3,000 stores. “Loyal to Men,” K-Boxing has changed with the times to stay current since 1980.
Patrick Lee/Shanghai
Taiwan-born Lee was named the Greater China CEO of Michael Kors last summer, and has quickly led the company’s expansion in China. By mid-2014, Michael Kors plans to have 40 stores in Greater China. Lee was previously worked at LVMH as the president of the company’s couture and perfume business in China. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California.
Li Wei/Nanjing
Li Wei leads Nanjing fashion success story C.banner International Holdings, which recently changed its name from Hongguo International. The company, which went public in Hong Kong last year, is one of China’s largest retailers of mid- to premium women’s footwear. It manages self-developed brands and a licensed one. In May, it added three strategic investment partners: New York’s Mousse Partners, CVC Capital Partners and China Consumer Capital Partners.
Liang Yaohua/Guangzhou
Liang Yaohua leads Kisscat, a supplier of women’s footwear with 455 store that is invested by IDG Ventures. The company is gearing up for an IPO, industry analysts say.
Henry Liao/Taipei
Liao leads Breeze Development, one of Taiwan’s most successful upscale luxury mall operators whose shops include brands such as Coach, Gucci and Prada in its Breeze Center in downtown Taipei. Yet Breeze isn’t just in real estate. Breeze Development also has distribution ventures that import Ed Hardy, Minnetonka, Koolaburra, Frye and Madison and Mystique fashion brands into Taiwan. Last year, it purchased giuliano Fujiwara of Italy, and is expanding the brand in the mainland.
Shen Dongri/Beijing
Shen, with his sister Shen Jinhua, is co-founder of Lancy, one of China’s most successful brands aimed at women. Beijing-based Lancy competes with Ports 1961, whose leader Alfred Chan was a member our list of 25 Influential Chinese in Global Fashion in 2010. (See related story here.) Lancy was a member of the 2012 Up-and-Comers List published by Forbes China, and raised 1.7 billion yuan in an IPO at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange last August. Lancy also holds an exclusive China license for ZOOC, a South Korean brand.
Eric Shen/Guangzhou
Eric Shen is the chairman and CEO of Vipshop Holdings, an online fashion retailer that listed on the NYSE this year, raising $71 million.. That’s no small feat at a time when many U.S. investors have been avoiding Chinese companies. VIPShop had attracted pre-IPO venture capital support from Sequoia.
Sun Jui-Hung/Taipei
From a modest start as an apparel trading company in Taiwan more than a decade again, Sun Jui-Hung rose into rarified air at the end of last year, obtaining capital from the LVMH investment arm L Capital. His company, Xin Hee , is best known for its main brand, Jorya, which opened a flagship store in Macau earlier this year.
Mimi Tang/Hong Kong
Tang is president of PPR Asia-Pacific, the French fashion giant led by the family of billionaire Francois Pinault whose portfolio of brands includes Gucci, Bottega Veneta, YSL, Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney. She started out at age 17 as a saleswoman in DFS. Since joining Gucci in 1998, Tang has expanded her responsibility from managing a single brand in one country, to managing multiple brands in 14 countries with more than 3,500 employees under her leadership.
Uma Wang/Shanghai
Shanghai-based designer was in the U.S. this year a participant in the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. She has studied at China Textile University and Central Saint Martins, has participated in shows in London, Paris and Milan, and partnered with Audi in China.
Kent Wong/Hong Kong
When it comes to jewelry, Chow Tai Fook is the king among Chinese jewelers and it’s usually the controlling Cheng family’s spirited third-generation leader Adrian who is in the public eye. But Kent Wong keeps the business running day-to-day. He helped to lead the company to a 79% increase in net profit in the year ending March 31, following the company’s successful IPO in Hong Kong last year.
Wong Yat Ming/Hong Kong
Wong Yat Ming has since 2009 been the managing director at Trinity of Hong Kong, a high-end to luxury end menswear retailers primarily doing business in Greater China and a member of the privately held Li & Fung Group. Wong helped to manage Trinity’s acquisition of the Cerruti Group in 2011. Under Wong’s leadership, Trinity’s revenue in the year ending Dec. 2011 increased by 30% to HK$2.6 billion; net profit rose by half to HK$513 million. Trinity also owns Kent & Curwen, part of a network of 503 stores.
Jacky Xu/Guangzhou
Xu leads Trendy International, which earlier this year reportedly received $200 million of investment from LVMH Group, one of the largest in China by the French fashion giant. Trendy’s top brand: Ochirly.
Allen Yang/Beijing
Founder of luxury goods site VIP Store has had a busy year successfully lining up investment: Last September, VIP Store received cash from Intel Capital along with GSR Ventures and others. The company also enjoyed a big breakthrough recently in when it obtained additional investment from Macy’s and formed a partnership in China with the storied U.S. department store chain.
Zhang Yuping/Guangzhou
Zhang leads Hong Kong-listed Hengdeli, one of the world’s largest distributors of luxury watches. The company, whose investors include Swatch and LVMH, had 405 retail outlets in Greater China at the end of last year, including its Elegant (top tier), Prime Time (middle tier) and With Time (mid-to-high-end tier) chains. The company also sells leather goods and writing instruments
Zhang Zhifeng/Beijing
NE Tiger of Beijing isn’t one of China’s largest fashion companies but is established in the niche for traditional Chinese styles. The company made a splash in U.S. last year during a visit by President Hu Jintao when high-profile promotion of Chinese culture in ads show in Times Square in New York featured celebrities such Tan Jing and Zhang Ziyi wearing outfits made by NE Tiger.
Zheng Yonggang/Shanghai
Texile maker Itochu of Japan bought 28% of Zheng’s Shanshan Group a few years ago, and Shanshan’s expansion into retail helped both. The two in 2010 introduced Elle stores in China, along with StompStamp. Shanshan itself also distributes European brands in China.
Zhu Chongyun/Shenzhen
Zhu Chongyun’s Shenzhen-based Marisfrolg is an elegant homegrown Chinese women’s brand that is slowly gaining traction around Asia, with stores in Singapore and Seoul among its overall total of 300 shops. Zhu, a former factory worker, has been investigating the possibility of going public, industry analysts say.
Source: http://english.ctei.gov.cn/innews/domestic/201208/t20120815_1374975.html
Chan chairs YGM Trading, a spinoff from the clan’s garment manufacturing business. YGM acquired the Guy Laroche label in 2004, and in recent years it has also made a breakthrough with a UK brand, Aquascutum. YGM first obtained the rights to the brand in 42 countries and regions in Asia in 2009, and in May this year acquired it in full.
Eddie Chen/Shanghai
Chen leads Daphne, a Taiwanese shoe maker that has thrived in the mid-end of the market at a time of relatively slow economic growth in the mainland and whose shares have outperformed as a result. Chen is pursuing a savvy multi-brand strategy, and also working as a distributor of U.S. brands. Chen told Forbes earlier this year he was also on the lookout for acquisitions. Chen’s family was a member of the 2012 Forbes Taiwan Rich List.
Franz Chen/Taipei
Franz Chen is the founder and chairman of Franz Collection, which makes decorative Chinese-style porcelain tableware and vases. The company sells its wares in some 6,000 stores in 56 countries, and plans to increase its presence in China this year with new 10 stand-alone stores that will its total to 125.
Pollyann Chu/Hong Kong
Pollyanna Chu, better known as the ambitious CEO of Hong Kong financial services firm Kingston Securities, made a splash in the luxury goods business this year by acquiring 75% of Hong Kong-listed Sincere Watch. Sincere Watch is the sole distributor of Franck Muller watches and accessories in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and mainland China. Chu and her family ranked No.32 on the 2012 Forbes Hong Kong Rich List with wealth of $1.2 billion.
Jeffrey Fang/Hong Kong
Fang is a member of the Fang textile clan from Hong Kong. He has had success in the distribution of luxury apparel with his wife Christine at Global Retail Inc. Jones Group of the U.S. is a GRI partner. GRI distributes Joan & David, Anne Klein New York, Nine West, and Pringle of Scotland among others.
Guo Shunyuan/Putian
It’s hard to walk very far in an airport in Beijing or Shanghai without running across advertising from Guo Shunuan’s luxury women’s bag supplier Powerland. The spending is helping the top line: Sales last year rose to 146 million euros from 113 mlllion euros a year earlier. Powerland went public at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange last year.
Hon Kwok Lung/Hong Kong
Hon is a successful real estate developer that is having a growing impact in the country’s watch industry through successful partnerships with foreign brands via Hong Kong-listed China Haidian. Last year, Haidian bought the Swiss watch company Eterna AG Uhrenfabrik, which manufactures and sells watch brands Eterna and Porsche Design. It also set up joint ventures in Liaoning & Beijing to distribute Japanese and Swiss watch brands. Hon ranked No. 183 on the 2011 Forbes China Rich list with wealth of $870 million.
Hong Zhongxing/Shanghai
Hong Zhongxing leads K-Boxing, one of the largest men’s leisurewear chains in China with more than 3,000 stores. “Loyal to Men,” K-Boxing has changed with the times to stay current since 1980.
Patrick Lee/Shanghai
Taiwan-born Lee was named the Greater China CEO of Michael Kors last summer, and has quickly led the company’s expansion in China. By mid-2014, Michael Kors plans to have 40 stores in Greater China. Lee was previously worked at LVMH as the president of the company’s couture and perfume business in China. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California.
Li Wei/Nanjing
Li Wei leads Nanjing fashion success story C.banner International Holdings, which recently changed its name from Hongguo International. The company, which went public in Hong Kong last year, is one of China’s largest retailers of mid- to premium women’s footwear. It manages self-developed brands and a licensed one. In May, it added three strategic investment partners: New York’s Mousse Partners, CVC Capital Partners and China Consumer Capital Partners.
Liang Yaohua/Guangzhou
Liang Yaohua leads Kisscat, a supplier of women’s footwear with 455 store that is invested by IDG Ventures. The company is gearing up for an IPO, industry analysts say.
Henry Liao/Taipei
Liao leads Breeze Development, one of Taiwan’s most successful upscale luxury mall operators whose shops include brands such as Coach, Gucci and Prada in its Breeze Center in downtown Taipei. Yet Breeze isn’t just in real estate. Breeze Development also has distribution ventures that import Ed Hardy, Minnetonka, Koolaburra, Frye and Madison and Mystique fashion brands into Taiwan. Last year, it purchased giuliano Fujiwara of Italy, and is expanding the brand in the mainland.
Shen Dongri/Beijing
Shen, with his sister Shen Jinhua, is co-founder of Lancy, one of China’s most successful brands aimed at women. Beijing-based Lancy competes with Ports 1961, whose leader Alfred Chan was a member our list of 25 Influential Chinese in Global Fashion in 2010. (See related story here.) Lancy was a member of the 2012 Up-and-Comers List published by Forbes China, and raised 1.7 billion yuan in an IPO at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange last August. Lancy also holds an exclusive China license for ZOOC, a South Korean brand.
Eric Shen/Guangzhou
Eric Shen is the chairman and CEO of Vipshop Holdings, an online fashion retailer that listed on the NYSE this year, raising $71 million.. That’s no small feat at a time when many U.S. investors have been avoiding Chinese companies. VIPShop had attracted pre-IPO venture capital support from Sequoia.
Sun Jui-Hung/Taipei
From a modest start as an apparel trading company in Taiwan more than a decade again, Sun Jui-Hung rose into rarified air at the end of last year, obtaining capital from the LVMH investment arm L Capital. His company, Xin Hee , is best known for its main brand, Jorya, which opened a flagship store in Macau earlier this year.
Mimi Tang/Hong Kong
Tang is president of PPR Asia-Pacific, the French fashion giant led by the family of billionaire Francois Pinault whose portfolio of brands includes Gucci, Bottega Veneta, YSL, Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney. She started out at age 17 as a saleswoman in DFS. Since joining Gucci in 1998, Tang has expanded her responsibility from managing a single brand in one country, to managing multiple brands in 14 countries with more than 3,500 employees under her leadership.
Uma Wang/Shanghai
Shanghai-based designer was in the U.S. this year a participant in the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. She has studied at China Textile University and Central Saint Martins, has participated in shows in London, Paris and Milan, and partnered with Audi in China.
Kent Wong/Hong Kong
When it comes to jewelry, Chow Tai Fook is the king among Chinese jewelers and it’s usually the controlling Cheng family’s spirited third-generation leader Adrian who is in the public eye. But Kent Wong keeps the business running day-to-day. He helped to lead the company to a 79% increase in net profit in the year ending March 31, following the company’s successful IPO in Hong Kong last year.
Wong Yat Ming/Hong Kong
Wong Yat Ming has since 2009 been the managing director at Trinity of Hong Kong, a high-end to luxury end menswear retailers primarily doing business in Greater China and a member of the privately held Li & Fung Group. Wong helped to manage Trinity’s acquisition of the Cerruti Group in 2011. Under Wong’s leadership, Trinity’s revenue in the year ending Dec. 2011 increased by 30% to HK$2.6 billion; net profit rose by half to HK$513 million. Trinity also owns Kent & Curwen, part of a network of 503 stores.
Jacky Xu/Guangzhou
Xu leads Trendy International, which earlier this year reportedly received $200 million of investment from LVMH Group, one of the largest in China by the French fashion giant. Trendy’s top brand: Ochirly.
Allen Yang/Beijing
Founder of luxury goods site VIP Store has had a busy year successfully lining up investment: Last September, VIP Store received cash from Intel Capital along with GSR Ventures and others. The company also enjoyed a big breakthrough recently in when it obtained additional investment from Macy’s and formed a partnership in China with the storied U.S. department store chain.
Zhang Yuping/Guangzhou
Zhang leads Hong Kong-listed Hengdeli, one of the world’s largest distributors of luxury watches. The company, whose investors include Swatch and LVMH, had 405 retail outlets in Greater China at the end of last year, including its Elegant (top tier), Prime Time (middle tier) and With Time (mid-to-high-end tier) chains. The company also sells leather goods and writing instruments
Zhang Zhifeng/Beijing
NE Tiger of Beijing isn’t one of China’s largest fashion companies but is established in the niche for traditional Chinese styles. The company made a splash in U.S. last year during a visit by President Hu Jintao when high-profile promotion of Chinese culture in ads show in Times Square in New York featured celebrities such Tan Jing and Zhang Ziyi wearing outfits made by NE Tiger.
Zheng Yonggang/Shanghai
Texile maker Itochu of Japan bought 28% of Zheng’s Shanshan Group a few years ago, and Shanshan’s expansion into retail helped both. The two in 2010 introduced Elle stores in China, along with StompStamp. Shanshan itself also distributes European brands in China.
Zhu Chongyun/Shenzhen
Zhu Chongyun’s Shenzhen-based Marisfrolg is an elegant homegrown Chinese women’s brand that is slowly gaining traction around Asia, with stores in Singapore and Seoul among its overall total of 300 shops. Zhu, a former factory worker, has been investigating the possibility of going public, industry analysts say.
Source: http://english.ctei.gov.cn/innews/domestic/201208/t20120815_1374975.html
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