YNAP Group in for the long run
Updated: 2016-07-16 01:14
By XU JUNQIAN in Shanghai(China Daily USA)
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The online luxury goods retailer is confident of achieving success in China's massive e-commerce scene though it doesn't expect to reap rewards anytime soon
China's e-commerce market may have proven to be dismal hunting grounds for some of the world's largest luxury brands but Federico Marchetti, the CEO of Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP) Group, believes that the online retail empire he is building will not falter as others have.
"China has fantastic e-commerce companies. But we are in a segment where local Chinese companies are still struggling to get access to the luxury brands, mainly because the luxury brands are very protective about their image," said Federico Marchetti, who founded Yoox Group in Milan in 2000.
"YNAP has the best relationship with luxury goods in the world. That's why in China, we are adopting a long-term plan. I still see a lack of competition in selling luxury products at full price in China. Frankly speaking, I haven't seen or heard of any big players succeeding in that."
In December 2011, Coach became the first luxury and lifestyle brand to set up a store on Taobao.com, China's most visited and largest online shopping platform. But the store was closed after just a month. The official explanation given by the company was that the store was merely a part of a campaign celebrating the New York brand's 70th anniversary.
YNAP Group CEO Federico Marchetti. Provided to China Daily |
Despite these examples, Marchetti believes that the trend of buying luxury products on the Internet will soon begin.
"We are probably just at chapter two of a 10-chapter book. YNAP is the market leader in a fast-growing industry that is not experiencing any slowdown. In China, especially, we are even more at the beginning of the story, simply because young Chinese customers were not exposed to online luxury full price goods until 2010. We don't expect to reap immediate gains in China. We're here for the long term," said Marchetti.
Yoox merged with Net-a-Porter, which was established by former fashion journalist Natalie Massenet in 2015 and the deal was viewed as one of the most significant in the global fashion industry in the past decade. YNAP registered a growth rate of 38 percent in Asia Pacific region last year, with China being one of its fastest-growing markets in the world.
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