DGAP-News: Joyou AG: 302 new stores in 2011
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Joyou AG: 302 new stores in 2011
17.01.2012 / 15:25
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Frankfurt am Main, 17 January 2012. In the fourth quarter of 2011, Joyou
AG, a leading bathroom solution provider in China, opened another 47 new
Joyou branded stores (Q4 2010: 80). Altogether, the company has opened 302
Joyou branded stores in 2011 and thereby reached its target to open approx.
300 stores.
Including these new 302 stores, the company's distribution network
comprises 3,898 Joyou branded sales outlets throughout China as of 31
December 2011.
According to the announced strategy, Joyou is concentrating on growth in
small and medium-sized Chinese cities. 75 % of the new stores opened in Q4
2011 are in tier 3 and tier 4 cities. Among them are four new flagship
stores, one in the tier 2 city Zhengzhou and three stores in tier 4 cities.
32 of Joyou's newly opened stores are exclusive stores, of which one was
opened in the tier 1 city Beijing.
Joyou intends to further increase its number of stores to 4,500 by 2013.
Currently, the company is focusing on increasing sales per store and
expanding or refurbishing some key existing stores.
About Joyou
Joyou (ISIN DE000A0WMLD8, WKN A0WMLD, Ticker Symbol JY8) designs, produces
and sells faucets and other sanitary ware products in China under its brand
name 'Joyou' and is also engaged as a OEM/ODM-manufacturer for
international brands and trading companies in the United States and Europe
as well as other emerging markets. In 2010 Joyou was one of the leading
single-brand manufacturers of bathroom, kitchen and other faucets in China
in terms of revenues (according to BSRIA's China Bathroom Study 2011).
Joyou has established an extensive distribution network in China with 3,898
retail points of sales as of 31 December 2011.
Joyou's operating facilities are based in Nan'an near Quanzhou in Fujian
Province in China. Joyou's nine main product groups sold in its own brand
business are Bathroom Faucets, Kitchen Products, Shower Products, Ceramics
and Bathtubs, Bathroom Cabinets, Bathroom Accessories, Other Faucets and
Sanitary Hardware, Copper and Semi-Finished Components, Grohe Business. In
2010, Joyou realised group revenues of EUR 246.6 million, an operating
profit (EBIT) of EUR 43.7 million and a net profit of EUR 33.2 million.
For further information, please contact:
Joyou AG
Westhafentower, Westhafenplatz 1,
60327 Frankfurt am Main
Ian M Oades, Tel.: +49 69 710 456 346 or +86 595-8618 8883, ir(at)joyou.net
Kirchhoff Consult AG
Jens Hecht, Tel.: +49 40 60 91 86 0, jens.hecht(at)kirchhoff.de
or visit the company website at: http://www.joyou.com
Disclaimer concerning prognoses
This communication contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements are statements that are not historical facts instead they
reflect Joyou's current views and expectations and the assumptions
underlying them about future events. Forward-looking statements are subject
to many risks and uncertainties. If any of such risks and uncertainties
materialize or if the assumptions underlying any of Joyou's forward-looking
statements are proving to be incorrect, Joyou's actual results may be
materially different from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Joyou does not intend or assume any obligation
to update these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement
speaksonly as of the date on which it is made.
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Language: English
Company: Joyou AG
Westhafentower, Westhafenplatz 1
60327 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
E-mail: ir(at)joyou.net
Internet: www.joyou.de
ISIN: DE000A0WMLD8
WKN: A0WMLD
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard);
Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart
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