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Hubang Chili Sauce: Adding Pungency to a Competitive Emerging Market
Jianping Xu; Hui Sang; Harry Xia; Xilin YangCase IVEY-W33463-EMarketing, StrategyIn 2015, Hubang chili sauce was launched in China’s highly competitive emerging condiment and sauce market. Instead of undertaking direct competition and a costly price war in traditional retail channels already dominated by a market leader, Wenjin Lu, a local entrepreneur and the chief executive officer of Hubang, developed a unique strategy to achieve breakthroughs via online-to-offline (O2O) food delivery platforms, whose consumers were made u...Starting at €8.20
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UNIQLO: Relaunching +J Collection
Yuri Taira; David Hardisty; Rui Jorge B. Basto da Silva; William Thomas CarneCase IVEY-W26671-EMarketing, StrategyFast Retailing Co. Ltd.’s UNIQLO brand (UNIQLO) was planning to relaunch +J, its collaboration with the legendary high-end designer Jil Sander in the fall of 2020; however, the COVID-19 pandemic began in March of that year, causing many consumers to spend less on clothes and more on essentials. Just like the first launch of the +J collection in 2009, this launch would once again happen during a global recession. The affordable street fashion bran...Starting at €8.20