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China Market Entry · E-commerce Specialists

Your brand, China's next obsession.

We help international brands launch, scale, and win on Tmall, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and JD — with e-commerce marketing strategies built for China's hyper-competitive digital landscape.

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✓ Trusted by 10+ global brands · $22M+ GMV generated in 2025

FEATURED RESULT

German Sports Nutrition Brand →

Douyin Mall, Tmall Global · Launch in 90 days

¥22M
Year-1 GMV
4.2x
ROAS Achieved
Tmall Douyin Xiaohongshu

TRUSTED BY 10+ GLOBAL BRANDS ENTERING CHINA

WHAT WE DO

End-to-end China market entry, built around commerce.

From strategy to storefront, we operate as your embedded China team — blending local intelligence with international brand standards.

01 ✦

Market Entry Strategy

Consumer research, competitive mapping, pricing architecture, and a 12-month go-to-market roadmap tailored to your category.

Research GTM Pricing
02 ▲

E-commerce Channel Management

Full-stack operations on Tmall Global, JD Worldwide, Douyin Mall, Pingduoduo Mall and Xiaohongshu — from store build to daily ops and CRM.

Tmall Douyin Pingduoduo Xiaohongshu
03 ●

Performance Marketing

Paid media, livestream commerce, and KOL/KOC programs engineered for ROAS — across Alibaba, Bytedance, Tencent, and Baidu ecosystems.

Paid Ads KOL Live
04 ◆

Brand & Creative Localization

Bilingual brand systems, packaging compliance, content adaptation, and visual identity refined for Chinese consumer culture.

Branding Content Creative

CASE STUDIES

Brands we've taken from zero to category leader.

A selection of recent wins across beauty, wellness, F&B, and lifestyle. All numbers are verified by client finance teams.

Sports Nutrition · ByteDance ✦
A Famous German Sports Nutrition Brand

A Famous German Sports Nutrition Brand

Launch on Douyin Mall · 3-month engagement · 2023–2026

CHALLENGE

Zero brand awareness in China, fragmented competitor set, and a price-sensitive category dominated by domestic players.

APPROACH

Repositioned AS all stars as a clinical-cleanliness leader, secured flagship Douyin store, ran 14 livestream series with tier-1 sports nutrition KOLs.

¥22M
Year-2025 GMV
4.2x
Blended ROAS

OUR PEOPLE

Bilingual operators who've lived both sides.

Our leadership has launched brands inside Tmall, Bytedance, and Tencent — and built campaigns for Fortune 500s abroad. You work directly with senior strategists, not account managers.

SD

Shawn Du

President

Visionary President boasting a world-class academic foundation and extensive C-suite tenure across global Fortune 500 enterprises.

SC

Sabrina Chen

Head of E-commerce

Former Tmall operations lead. Manages flagship stores across beauty, wellness, and F&B verticals.

TY

Tony Yang

Supply Chain Director

Supply Chain Leader overseeing end-to-end Sourcing, Procurement, and logistics within the supply chain, with deep expertise in import operations.

EY

Elva Yang

Marketing Director

Market Leader with deep expertise in e-commerce marketing, content marketing, and omni-channel marketing, coupled with comprehensive knowledge of the China marketing ecosystem.

Numbers that matter.

$22M+

Client GMV generated across our active portfolio in the last 12 months.

10+

International brands successfully launched or scaled in mainland China since 2018.

4.2x

Average ROAS across e-commerce clients — verified by platform dashboards.

12

Specialists across Xi'an, HongKong — fully bilingual senior operators.

HOW WE WORK

A four-phase path from exploration to scale.

Every engagement follows the same proven rhythm — fast enough for early traction, structured enough for institutional decisions.

01 Weeks 1–2

Discover

Consumer research, category audit, and competitive mapping. We diagnose the opportunity before writing a single line of strategy.

02 Weeks 3–4

Strategize

Position the brand, define pricing and assortment, lock channel mix, and build a 12-month go-to-market plan with clear KPIs.

03 Weeks 5–12

Launch

Build the storefronts, localize creative, secure KOL partnerships, and ship the first wave of campaigns with daily performance reviews.

04 Month 4+

Scale

Iterate creative, expand channel mix, optimize media spend, and grow from launch into a category position that compounds.

READY WHEN YOU ARE

Let's open your China chapter.

Book a 30-minute strategy call. We'll review your brand, your category, and your ambitions — and tell you, honestly, whether China is the right next move.

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