{"id":13291,"date":"2021-03-18T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/03\/18\/china-lilang-announces-2020-annual-results\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T06:30:00","slug":"china-lilang-announces-2020-annual-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/03\/18\/china-lilang-announces-2020-annual-results\/","title":{"rendered":"China Lilang Announces 2020 Annual Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<p>\n                               Revenue at RMB2,681 Million   Net Profit at RMB557 Million  Total Dividend for the Year at HK44 Cents Per Share                            <\/p>\n<p>HONG&#13;<br \/>\nKONG SAR &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 18&#13;<br \/>\nMarch 2021 &#8211; <b>China Lilang&#13;<br \/>\nLimited <\/b>(&#8220;China&#13;<br \/>\nLilang&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;, together with its subsidiaries, known as the &#8220;Group&#8221;;&#13;<br \/>\nstock code: 1234) today announced its 2020 annual results. <\/p>\n<p><b>Mr. Wang Dong Xing, Chairman and Executive Director of&#13;<br \/>\nChina Lil<\/b><b>an<\/b><b>g, <\/b>said,<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><i>&#8220;In face of the complex and&#13;<br \/>\nvolatile retail market, China Lilang adopted flexible strategies <\/i><i>and promote<\/i><i>d the <\/i><i>new retail business<\/i><i> to give full play&#13;<br \/>\nto complementary advantages of online and offline<\/i><i>. The Group also str<\/i><i>ived to keep the channel healthy and decisively cancelled <\/i><i>some&#13;<br \/>\nof the spring and summer <\/i><i>orders while&#13;<br \/>\nstrictly controlling <\/i><i>pre-orders for <\/i><i>the fall and winter<\/i><i>&#13;<br \/>\ncollections. The total retail sales of LILANZ products&#13;<br \/>\nresumed growth <\/i><i>in the second half of the year, and total retail sales growth in the fourth&#13;<br \/>\nquarter reached 10-15%, primarily benefiting from the nationwide cold weather.<\/i><i> Both the inventory<\/i><i> level and its ageing have improved.<\/i> <i>During the year,<\/i><i> the Group launched a <\/i><i>number of brand promotional&#13;<br \/>\ncampaigns, which won multiple&#13;<br \/>\nawards from the advertising industry, further enhancing LILANZ&#8217;s brand awareness&#13;<br \/>\nand reputation.<\/i><i>&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the year ended 31 December 2020, revenue of&#13;<br \/>\nthe Group decreased year-on-year by 26.7% to RMB2,681 million. The&#13;<br \/>\namount was after the provision of HK$390 million made for inventory buy-back in&#13;<br \/>\nrespect of the conversion of some of the core collection&#13;<br \/>\nstores to consignment model starting spring and summer 2021. Profit from operations decreased by 33.5% to&#13;<br \/>\nRMB651 million. Operating&#13;<br \/>\nprofit margin was down by 2.5 percentage points to 24.3%. Net profit was&#13;<br \/>\nRMB557 million, down by 31.4%. Earnings per share declined 31.4% to RMB46.53&#13;<br \/>\ncents. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Group maintained a healthy financial&#13;<br \/>\nposition with sufficient cash flows. The Board of Directors recommended payment&#13;<br \/>\nof a final dividend of HK19 cents per share and a special final dividend of HK8&#13;<br \/>\ncents per share. Together with the interim dividends already paid, total&#13;<br \/>\ndividend for the year amounted to HK44 cents, maintaining a relatively high payout&#13;<br \/>\nratio.<\/p>\n<p>Combating the challenges the pandemic&#13;<br \/>\nbrought to its business, China Lilang speeded up the development of its new&#13;<br \/>\nretail business during the year. By mounting different promotional and&#13;<br \/>\nmarketing activities online, the Group attracted more customer traffic to its&#13;<br \/>\nonline stores, as such, online store sales increased by more than 1.2 times&#13;<br \/>\nyear-on-year. In addition to online stores, the Group had set up stores on&#13;<br \/>\nWeMall Mall for its smart casual collection and core collection, a move to&#13;<br \/>\npromote its brand via the social media platform and also enlarge the virtual&#13;<br \/>\ninventories of physical stores, resulting in higher sales efficiency per store and&#13;<br \/>\nenabling more effective inventory control. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the year, the Group actively&#13;<br \/>\nenhanced management of its sales channels. After the conversion of the smart&#13;<br \/>\ncasual collection from consignment model to direct-retailing in the second half&#13;<br \/>\nyear of 2020, the inventory control of the collection has improved and&#13;<br \/>\ninventory balance reduced. The Group also pragmatically optimized its retail&#13;<br \/>\nnetwork by closing underperforming stores and opening stores in carefully&#13;<br \/>\nselected quality shopping malls to enhance the efficiency of stores. In&#13;<br \/>\naddition, the Group encouraged distributors to open stores in outlet malls in&#13;<br \/>\nthe second half of the year as a recurring channel for inventory clearance. At&#13;<br \/>\nthe year end, LILANZ had a total of 2,761 retail stores, representing a net&#13;<br \/>\ndecrease of 54 stores. The number of stores in shopping malls was 807,&#13;<br \/>\naccounting for 29% of the total store count and approximately 32% of total&#13;<br \/>\nretail floor area. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for brand management and promotion, the Group increased promotion activities&#13;<br \/>\nduring the&#13;<br \/>\nyear to showcase LILANZ&#8217;s young product positioning. In&#13;<br \/>\nthe fourth quarter, the Group engaged Han Han and Li Dan as brand ambassadors and carried out a series of&#13;<br \/>\npromotional campaign featured by the brand-new duo, which attracted tremendous attention from the market and customers, and were included among&#13;<br \/>\nthe &#8220;2020 Top 15 Best&#13;<br \/>\nCommented Cases&#8221; by the Advertising Gate APP. During&#13;<br \/>\nthe year, the Group launched LILANZ crossover products with <i>China Daily<\/i>, Chinese comic &#8220;Under&#13;<br \/>\nOne Person&#8221;, Japanese cartoon &#8220;Doraemon&#8221;, 80s US graffiti artist&#13;<br \/>\nJean Michel Basquiat and emerging artist Nick etc., respectively. The&#13;<br \/>\npromotional campaign for LILANZ X CHINA DAILY products won the &#8220;Gold Case&#13;<br \/>\nAward&#8221; and was accredited among the &#8220;Top 100 Branding Cases of the&#13;<br \/>\nYear&#8221; at the ADMEN International Award Presentation Ceremony. In addition, the in-depth interactive communication in&#13;<br \/>\ncolleges in respect of the promotion of LILANZ as the business wear brand of&#13;<br \/>\nthe new generation won the &#8220;Brand Rejuvenation Award&#8221; and the &#8220;Top 10 Brand Rejuvenation Cases Award&#8221; at the ADMEN International Award&#13;<br \/>\nPresentation Ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, China Lilang will adopt a prudent strategy&#13;<br \/>\nfor store openings which will focus on optimizing the existing store network,&#13;<br \/>\nand will further strengthen the management of the retail network. The Group&#13;<br \/>\nwill continue to add more stores in quality shopping malls in provincial&#13;<br \/>\ncapitals and prefectural level cities and will also add stores in outlets as a&#13;<br \/>\nrecurring channel for inventory clearance. The plan for the year is to add 100&#13;<br \/>\nto 150 stores and the target for total retail sales growth is 10% or more. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In order to&#13;<br \/>\nmore closely control the retail stores and reduce inventory risk, the Group&#13;<br \/>\nwill reform the operation model of the core collection in 2021 by converting&#13;<br \/>\nselected distributors with higher management capability to the consignment&#13;<br \/>\noperation model starting from the 2021 spring and summer collections. Under the&#13;<br \/>\nconsignment model, the Group would be able to manage inventory more effectively&#13;<br \/>\nas product transfers will be more flexible. The consignment model would also enable&#13;<br \/>\nthe virtual inventory of individual stores to expand, and thus help improve&#13;<br \/>\nstore efficiency. Furthermore, the consignment model will allow the Group to&#13;<br \/>\ncontinue to leverage the retail management talents of distributors while using&#13;<br \/>\nthe Group&#8217;s financial resources to accelerate channel upgrade in any particular&#13;<br \/>\nregions by adding stores in quality shopping malls in provincial capitals and&#13;<br \/>\nprefecture level cities. As part&#13;<br \/>\nof the change to the consignment model, the Group would buy-back from these stores past-season&#13;<br \/>\nproducts totalling about RMB390 million as at 28 February 2021.&#13;<br \/>\nProvision for such inventory buy-back was made in 2020 and deducted from the revenue.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regarding new&#13;<br \/>\nretail business, the Group has turned its online stores into self-operating,&#13;<br \/>\ninstead of distributor-operated stores, since January 2021. This could improve&#13;<br \/>\nthe management and control of online stores and facilitate the launch of&#13;<br \/>\nspecial edition products online. Online stores have been set up on the WeChat Mall&#13;<br \/>\nfor both the core collection and the smart casual collection. It is expected&#13;<br \/>\nthat the customer base of the WeChat store will continue to expand,&#13;<br \/>\ncomplementing the physical retail stores with virtual inventory to increase&#13;<br \/>\nsales efficiency. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for brand promotion, the Group will&#13;<br \/>\ncontinue to organize a range of activities through online and offline channels&#13;<br \/>\nto promote its brand, and launch crossover products with <i>China Daily<\/i> or other parties. The Group also plans to use new store images to attract more&#13;<br \/>\ncustomers. The&#13;<br \/>\nseventh-generation store image renovation of the core collection will&#13;<br \/>\ngradually roll out to existing stores, with a plan to cover about 500 existing stores&#13;<br \/>\nin 2021. It also plans to launch a new store image for the smart casual&#13;<br \/>\ncollection in the second half of 2021. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Group&#8217;s new headquarters in Fujian&#13;<br \/>\nofficially commenced operation in February 2021. Phase I of the new logistics&#13;<br \/>\npark is expected to open in the second half of 2021, which will facilitate&#13;<br \/>\nbetter inventory management within the Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Mr. Wang <\/b>concluded,&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;At the Chinese government&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\neffective epidemic control measures, the mainland economy has been recovering quickly.&#13;<br \/>\nWith that plus the new structure of dual circulation as proposed by the central&#13;<br \/>\ngovernment which encourages residents to expand consumption, and in turn drive&#13;<br \/>\neconomic growth, the Group is cautiously optimistic about development of the&#13;<br \/>\nretail market. Looking ahead to 2021, building on its solid brand foundation,&#13;<br \/>\nChina Lilang will adopt a prudent approach towards market development, focus on&#13;<br \/>\noptimizing its existing store network and strengthening management of its retail&#13;<br \/>\nnetwork. Apart from stepping up growing the new retail business, it will also&#13;<br \/>\nenhance sales and marketing and inventory management to boost its stores efficiency.&#13;<br \/>\nT<\/i><i>he Group will&#13;<br \/>\ncontinu<\/i><i>e to adhere to the&#13;<br \/>\nstrategy of providing products that represent excellent value for money<\/i><i>. After the&#13;<br \/>\nefforts made in the past few years in upgrading research and development and supply&#13;<br \/>\nchain management, the Group now affords products that stand out in original&#13;<br \/>\ndesign with great value-for-money. The Group&#13;<br \/>\nis confident that its business will continue to outperform those of its peers. We&#13;<br \/>\nwill continue endeavoring to enhance the competitiveness and value-for-money of&#13;<br \/>\nour products over the long run so as to further consolidate our leading&#13;<br \/>\nposition in the menswear industry in China and realize sustainable long-term&#13;<br \/>\ngrowth&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/69279#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revenue at RMB2,681 Million Net Profit at RMB557 Million Total Dividend for the Year at HK44 Cents Per Share HONG&#13; KONG SAR &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 18&#13; March 2021 &#8211; China Lilang&#13; Limited (&#8220;China&#13; Lilang&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;, together with its subsidiaries, known as the &#8220;Group&#8221;;&#13; stock code: 1234) today announced its 2020 annual results. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}