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2024: Entering the Russian market
On April 11, 2024, it became known that the development company Malltech entered into a cooperation agreement with the Chinese retailer Happy Easy Anyway (HEA). As part of the partnership, HEA clothing stores will appear in various cities of Russia.
According to TASS, the opening of the first salons of the Chinese brand in shopping centers managed by Malltech is scheduled for 2024. In particular, the HEA store with an area of 74 square meters will appear in the Planeta shopping and entertainment center in Perm, with an area of 99 square meters - in the Planeta shopping and entertainment center in Ufa. The priority for opening new stores is also other shopping and entertainment centers managed by Malltech, including facilities in Krasnoyarsk, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg.
In parallel, in this [2024] year, it is planned to open HEA in Yekaterinburg and Kazan, there are also plans to withdraw HEA to Magnitogorsk. As for Moscow and St. Petersburg, we plan to enter these cities in the last place, especially Moscow, "says a representative of the Russian division of the HEA group of companies. |
It is noted that Happy Easy Anyway is developing several business areas: the production of clothing and accessories for men and women (HEA itself), restaurant business (HEA Tea and Coffee), cultural sphere (cultural and creative school Longshi), as well as hotel business (Longshi hotels). The Chinese brand will start working on the Russian market by selling men's, women's and children's clothing, as well as accessories. The first NEA store in St. Petersburg can earn in the first half of 2025, in Moscow - in the second half of the same year. In the future, it is planned to open HEA Coffee coffee houses, HEA mini-hotels, hostels and linguistic studios for teaching Chinese HEA Language.[1]