CHINESE WOMEN FAVOUR BUYING COSMETICS ONLINE

BY WANG FANGQING AS e-commerce continues to boom in China, increasingly Chinese women are buying their favourite beauty products online. Internet sales of beauty and personal care products in China reached (China Yuan Renminbi) CNY1.3 billion (US dollars USD195.3 million) in 2010, and are expected to double in 2015, according to London-based research firm Euromonitor International. Skincare products, it reported, received the most orders among all cosmetic products purchased online by Chinese consumers in 2009. Encouraged by the trend, Fujifilm Holdings ...


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