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2013.03.21

The China Opportunity

New Zealand Natural Products Summit Michelle Yeh

What comes to mind when you think of China?

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When abundance is no longer an issue…

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Vanity Takes Over

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Before Liberation

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Young Urban Chinese Couple Today

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The Bund in Shanghai 1990

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The Bund 2010

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The NEW China

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China – a big market

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China – the world’s second largest economy and cosmetic market

• Market Size & Growth: China cosmetic market reached 200

billion RMB in 2011 – with a 15% annual growth. – mainly driven by premium brands, which grew at 21% in 2011

• Trends:

– Foreign brands own 80% of the market – Online cosmetic sales reached 37 billion RMB in 2011 – the demand for green personal care products has increased significantly in recent years. 53% of the respondents said that they have bought green personal care products in 2011*.

*According to 2011 report by HKTDC,

Natural & Organic in China

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Sales of organic products in China have quadrupled in the last five years.1 There is a growing level of concern about product safety and potential harmful effects of chemical ingredients. The market is projected to continue its growth

• undoubtedly. The Chinese skin care market saw dynamic

growth with a 40% jump in new skin care products in 2010, far outpacing the growth in Europe and the US. The Chinese organic market is projected to grow 10 times in the next 10 years.2

1The Soil Association 218report.com

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Green Beauty & Lifestyle Evolution

Alternative Lifestyle Luxury Way of Life Trend

• W. Europe, AUS/NZ

US

China

Luxury Goes Beyond the Surface

Natural Products’ Key Selling Points for Chinese Consumers:

• Safety - #1
• Efficacy - #1
• Trendy
• Luxury
• Lastly, eco-friendly

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Who is your Target Market?

Two Trendsetter Groups: Primary Target:

• Well-educated, upper-middle-class urban

Chinese*, mostly in their 20’s, 30’s & early 40’s, trend-setters in China

• Relatively more health-conscious, not yet

knowledgeable about environmental issues, but mainly concerned with product safety and product benefits for themselves

• Most in tier-1 & tier-2 cities
• est. 175 million Chinese can afford luxury goods

today (source: China Branding Strategy Association)

Secondary Target:

• Expats, their trailing spouses and families

(450,000+ foreigners in Shanghai alone, plus est. 1 million migrants from Taiwan, HK and Macau

• More familiar with natural & organic concepts;

more sophisticated and knowledgeable with various brands

Who is your competition?

1. Pharmaceutical/Dermatologist- Recommended Brands 2. “No-Additive” Brands

• Imported brands
• Local brands

3. Natural Positioning

• Imported brands
• Local brands

Pharmaceutical/Dermatologist

• recommended Brands

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No-Additives Brands

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FANCL: NO- ADDICTIVES Entered in 2004 Counter #：Current stats N/A, 2010.10 celebrated its 100th Store

Natural Brands

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L’Occitane: from Provence Entered in 2005 93 stores in 2012

Kiehl’s: Herbal Apothecary Entered 2009 35 Stores in China in 2012

Jurlique: Bio-dynamic Entered in mid-90’s as a spa line Re-launched in 2009 as a retail brand Store #: N/A

Local Brands

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Started 2004 Over 650 Points of Sale today

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Started 2003 840 points of sale

What should be your channel

• f distribution?

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Channels

• 1. Supermarket/Hypermart

– high-end supermarkets

• 2. Department stores/Shopping Centers
• 3. Drug Stores

– Traditional drug stores – personal care convenience stores

• 4. Specialty Stores

– cosmetic stores – pharmacy beauty stores – natural/organic stores (beauty/lifestyle) – stand-alone stores

• 5. E-commerce

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Supermarket & Hypermart

• Wal-Mart, Carrefour and other hypermarkets: where

urban residents to buy daily necessities, food and daily care products

• The channels cosmetics sales accounted for

approximately 35.3% in 2010, has become one of the most important sales channels, in recent years.

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High-end supermarkets

Dept Stores/Shopping centers

• As of the end of 2011, China has 2,795

dept stores/shopping centers.

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60% of China’s total consumption still come from 700+ fourth-tier cities.

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Traditional department stores

• Accounted for 28.1% of cosmetic

sales in 2010 sales.

• Increase in the number of large-

scale high-end department stores, the gradual decline in the number

• f small and medium-sized

department stores

• Department stores in the density of

the first-tier cities, in the second, the number of third-tier cities gradually increased.

Drug store

• 7.2% of 2010 cosmetic sales sales
• Drug store franchise brand with

professional impression.

– Traditional – Modern

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Traditional drug stores

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Personal Care Convenience Store

Specialty Stores

• Small individual stores
• Regional/National chain stores
• Focused more on quality, higher customer

loyalty.

• Specialty stores help promote brand image,

ensure high quality services and standardized prices

• It is expected that specialty stores will become

another key retail channel for cosmetics as large shopping complexes spring up.

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Specialty Stores

• Cosmetic Store

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Pharma beauty stores

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Specialty Stores: Natural organic beauty/lifestyle store

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Stand-alone store/counter

E-Commerce

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Tmall Stats

• TMALL: 213 million active accounts
• US$175 billion sales in 2012
• 54% of Chinese shop online at Tmall
• 68% of what they buy is clothing and accessories, with

much lower rates for digital goods, consumer electronics

• 2013 will be the year that Chinese e-commerce surpasses

U.S e-commerce, with $265 billion in sales compared to a projected $230 billion for America

• total Chinese online sales will reach $445 billion in 2015

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Sampling Channels

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Key Question: Should you be in China?

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A Big Price to Pay

• Product Registration
• Business license cost
• Monthly tax filing
• Special formulation
• Special packaging
• Special people
• Rising cost of living (rent, HR, travel)
• Copycats
• Brand Consciousness

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Product Registration

• Tedious, costly and time-consuming 9-12 month process (see

attachment for detailed process) – Requires full disclosure of formula and production protocol – Approx. 2500 USD per SKU – Approx. 30 sets of samples from the same batch required for testing

• Will require full cooperation and support from brand

headquarters to supply information required by FDA on a timely basis

• Modification of labeling most likely necessary to comply with

Chinese regulations

• Try to avoid ingredient listing on primary packaging
• Changing regulation

Animal Testing

L'OCCITANE's position on Animal Testing

• Please take time to read and understand our position on this important subject below:
• L’OCCITANE does not and never has tested its products on animals and guarantees that the active ingredients

and raw materials have never been tested on animals at any point in the product development or manufacturing process.

• L’OCCITANE has long been committed to the suppression of animal testing for beauty products, along with

associations including One Voice and PETA. It was one of the first companies to be admitted to the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in 1997.

• China’s policy is to test cosmetic products which are to be sold in the Chinese market in order to safeguard

consumer safety. These tests are conducted by external laboratories in China. In December 2011 the BUAV decided to remove their accreditation from all companies operating in China. PETA followed suit this year.

• Since December 2010, L’OCCITANE has been meeting with representatives from the Chinese authorities and in

February 2011 the company took part in a colloquium in Beijing - together with the BUAV and the Chinese authorities - which aimed to implement alternative tests to animal testing, recognized by these same authorities.

• L’OCCITANE is fundamentally committed to the abolition of animal testing of beauty products worldwide and by

working with the Chinese authorities and promoting our products, which are not tested on animals during the product development and manufacturing process, to Chinese consumers, we believe we are more likely to encourage positive dialogue and prove the case for the removal of animal testing for beauty products.

• L’OCCITANE continues to work alongside the BUAV as one of the main beauty brands represented on its China
• Taskforce. This group works with European and Chinese groups in order to promote alternative testing methods.

The last meeting took place in May 2012 and regular meetings ensue. To this end, the Chinese authorities have recently launched a new program to investigate alternative testing protocols and L’OCCITANE continues to proactively participate to push for these alternatives to be implemented as soon as possible.

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Other issues

• Distributorship: Exclusive for the entire

country, or by region, or channel?

– Registration – Price control – Investment in branding

• Ensuring continuity of supply to the market
• Potential for niche brands in second- &

third-tier cities

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What kind of partner you need

• 1. Passion & Ethos
• 2. Integrity
• 3. In the business for the long

term

• 4. Willing to invest in branding
• 5. Experience
• 6. Network

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What is myLOHAS Beauty?

• The first organic beauty lifestyle multi-brand store in

China promoting natural and organic beauty & lifestyle products

– Our products: ranges from facial skin care, body care, hair care, mom & baby care, men’s care, home care, home fragrance to daily care. – 100% imported, high-quality, natural organic formulas w/ eco- friendly package – Currently carries over 15 brands including two exclusive brands

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Founder & CEO: Michelle Yeh

• 20 years of global management

experience in health & beauty industry

• Sr. Vice President, Int’l Business

Development & Greater China, Shaklee Corporation, the first carbon-neutral certified company in the world

• Vice President, Marketing, China.com
• Sr. Director, Global Marketing, SINA.com,

the #1 consumer Web portal in China

• Director, Asia-Pacific, Mary Kay Cosmetics,

the #1 skin care & color cosmetic brand in the US

• M.S., Integrated Marketing

Communications, Northwestern University

• Evanston, IL, USA
• B.A., Chinese Literature, National Taiwan

University - Taipei

• Multi-lingual and Multi-cultural: Taipei,

Shanghai, and San Francisco

myLOHAS Investor Advisory Board

• Mr. Ivo Raznjevic

Chief Security & Compliance Officer, Cisco System

• Mr. Frankie Kiow

Chairman Hong Kong Sausantang

• Mr. Robert Dahdah

Vice President Global Sales Operations ADP (Automatic Data Processing)

• Mr. Jan Gronski

Green Industry Investor Former Silicon Valley Executive

Our Products

• Our product range includes facial skin

care, body care, hair care, mom & baby care, men’s care, home care, home fragrance and daily care.

• 100% imported, high-quality, natural
• rganic formulas w/ eco-friendly package
• Currently carries over 15 brands

– Some exclusive brands with distribution rights for the entire China market – Some non-exclusive brands

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Some of the Brands currently carried by

myLOHAS Beauty Stores

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myLOHAS Beauty Business Model

Online Channel

– Our own website – Reseller websites (for our exclusive brands)

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Retail Channel

• Our own Flagship store(s)
• Franchise Stores

Wholesale Channel

• Also sell our exclusive brands

through regional distributors & retailers

myLOHAS Beauty Shanghai Flagship Store Soft Opening on Dec 31, 2011

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China’s first Organic Beauty Lifestyle Store

myLOHAS Shanghai Store Inside shots

Xintiandi: one of Shanghai’s most trending shopping malls

Currently myLOHAS Beauty has four franchise stores (plus two new Shanghai stores opening in April, 2013)

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Beijing Store Suzhou Store Wuhan Store

www.mylohasbeauty.com

• nline shopping site

• ver 50,000 fans following myLOHAS

Beauty on weibo (Chinese twitter)

Featured in BW Confidential, a global cosmetic trade magazine June 2012, next to Sephora

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myLOHAS Beauty Store and products Featured in LOHAS magazine, a China eco-beauty lifestyle magazine October 2012

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myLOHAS Beauty Founder featured in an article about cosmetic safety in Lifestyle August 2011, a bilingual Luxury Lifestyle magazine

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myLOHAS Beauty Flagship Store Opening in Timeout Magazine March 2012, a China English magazine myLOHAS Beauty web store featured in EnjoyShanghai August 2011, a Shanghai English magazine

In summary, you need to be prepared for：

• Product Registration
• Business license cost (if you enter directly)
• Monthly tax filing
• Special formulation
• Special packaging
• Special people
• Invest in branding
• Patience/Long-term view (short-term gains are for

local brands)

• Rising cost of living (rent, HR, travel)
• Copycats

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China – A big reward

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Thank you !

michelle@mylohastyle.com