Starbucks has extended its partnership with Alibaba in China, which will see it launch delivery services, establish a delivery kitchen and create a virtual store with the help of the eCommerce giant’s subsidiaries. The American coffee giant is already working with Alibaba for its interactive coffee store Shanghai Reserve Roastery, which is powered by Alibaba technology to allow consumers […]
Brand design agency Jones Knowles Ritchie Shanghai is celebrating the year’s most-watched sporting moment with a limited-edition China release of eight collectible bottles designed for Budweiser beer. The design concept harnesses the euphoric energy of the global campaign idea ‘Light Up the FIFA World Cup‘ and serves as a cohesive visual identity for Budweiser’s campaign […]
While the story of tea begins in China, India took the top spot as the global leader in volume sales of packaged tea last year, with the two countries regularly vying for the number one position, according to the latest Mintel research. In 2017, India consumed a total retail volume of 678,200 tonnes worth of […]
What you can do to celebrate Chinese New Year? While there are plenty of options, CNY is all about sharing good times with family and friends – And MullenLowe Group China is making this the focus for Carlsberg’s CNY 2018 campaign, that was launched recently. The 30-second clip tells of a story about a group […]
Coca-Cola China has once again revived its festive ‘Clay Doll’ figures to help promote Chinese New Year festivities. The commercial from McCann Shanghai features “evolved and refreshed” versions of the animated dolls, which first appeared in Coca-Cola festive campaigns in 2001. Modelled on Chinese traditional folk dolls, the brand usually depicts the pair as gleefully […]
In partnership with Anomaly Shanghai, Budweiser has launched its annual Chinese New Year campaign. Continuing to build upon the platform of “Thanking those who help me, be me”, this year’s film, entitled Marathon, focuses on the story of a young woman who chooses to forgo spending the new year with her family, and instead pursue […]
The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has renewed its collective trademarks ‘SCOTCH WHISKY’ and its translation ‘苏格兰威士忌’ in China until November 2028. As a result, Scotch Whisky is officially protected from locally produced copies for a further 10 years. The announcement was made as SWA Chief Executive, Karen Betts, joined the Prime Minister on a three-day […]
What makes Harbin Beer so smooth? The Chinese brewery reveals its secrets in its latest campaign, ‘Cloud Catcher’ which it teamed up with BBH Shanghai, A New Life Films and Fin Design + Effects to create. In the ambitious campaign, the film features a complex CG sequence featuring a polar bear and chimp as unlikely […]
KFC started serving freshly ground coffee across the country in 2016, but people didn’t believe KFC was truly serious about coffee. For KFC’s 30th anniversary, Wieden+Kennedy (W+K) Shanghai brought Colonel Sanders back to China with freshly ground coffee and a Kentucky bluegrass musical that hijacked one of China’s most recognizable folk songs. W+K redesigned KFC’s […]
China has become the first nation to embrace facial recognition technology to authorise digital payments following an innovative play by Alibaba to ease queues in local KFC restaurants. The so-called ‘smile to pay’ service has been introduced in the city of Huangzhou as part of a trial with the chicken chain to boost the customer […]