Shanghai’s first luxury brand event of the year signals positive outlook for china

Jan 12, 09 | 1:56 am

'LuxuryMart09', an annual luxury business-to-business event sponsored by the Hurun Report - publisher of China's ‘Rich List' -  will be held at the Pudong Shangri-La in Shanghai next Thursday January 15_^th and is set to welcome over 50 of the world's top luxury brands including Bentley, Princess Yachts, Cartier, Bank of China and Relais & Chateaux.

The premier event for luxury brands targeting China's fast-growing affluent sector, is now in its third year and is the leading annual platform for brands to exchange ideas and collaborate on marketing products and services for high-end Chinese consumers.

The event is sponsored by Hurun Report, China's leading luxury business magazine, globally renowned for its annual ‘China Rich List' of mainland tycoons and entrepreneurs.

China is the world's fastest-growing market for luxury brands, expected to rank second only to Japan by 2015. The country's annual ‘Rich List' includes 1,000 individuals with personal wealth of US$100 million or more and 800,000 millionaires.

An insight into the ‘Current China Luxury Market and Predictions for 2009' will be presented by Rupert Hoogewerf, Founder of China's Rich List and Publisher of Hurun Report at LuxuryMart09.

Commenting on this year's ‘LuxuryMart', Rupert Hoogewerf said "This is not just another conference in the business calendar, it's an annual, private, peer to peer gathering designed to act as a powerful matchmaker between like-minded luxury professionals. It is the kind of event for which senior luxury brand decision-makers are ready to commit their time and energy."

Hurun Report invites the leading industry professionals of China to participate at this highly valuable meeting of minds. Attendance by up to three representatives at LuxuryMart09 is priced at RMB 25,600 and includes arrangements for up to 15 individual meetings plus lunch.

LuxuryMart09 will also announce China's prestigious ‘Best of the Best Awards' recognising the top brand and lifestyle preferences of China's high net worth individuals and now in its fifth year. The awards are decided by a survey of 500 elite consumers and are the largest and most authoritative in China.

To register for LuxuryMart09_^TM, please contact Rupert Hoogewerf at rupert@hurun.net or Tel: (86) 21 - 6272 4690.


About Hurun Report

Hurun Report is a leading luxury publishing and events group, comprising a magazine and active events business targeted at China's high net worth individuals.

Established in 1999 by Rupert Hoogewerf, the ‘godfather' of the China Rich List, Hurun Report today is widely recognized as the foremost authority in tracking the rapid changes amongst China's high net worth individuals. Hurun Report magazine is a monthly publication and reaches the households of 90,000 proven wealthy Chinese individuals and their advisers. Hurun Report's flagship product is the China Rich List_^TM, considered the bible of wealth and de-facto Who's Who of Chinese business. Other key products include the ground-breaking China Philanthropy List_^TM, a benchmark report on the state of charitable donations in China, and the Best of the Best Awards_^TM , the annual brand and lifestyle preferences of China's high net worth individuals. The awards are drawn on the results of 500 one-on-one surveys of this elite segment of society, the largest and most authorative survey of its kind.

Hurun Report's personal relationships with China's high net worth individuals provide the basis for its innovative conferences and lifestyle dinners. The Best Things in Life, for example, is a series of lifestyle events, designed as an education platform for luxury brands to meet with China's high net worth individuals. Since 2004 it has raised US$420,000 for local charities. Some of the best-known musicians in China have performed for Hurun Report events, including the pianists Lang Lang and Kong Xiangdong, as well as the violinists Lu Siqing and Huang Mengla (on two of the rarest violins in the world: Stradivari and Guarneri). In July 2003, Hurun Report hosted the China Entrepreneurs Summit, together with Euromoney, for 250 of China's leading entrepreneurs and featuring an address from Tony Blair.