Mediamarkt servicecenter7/26/2023 ![]() ![]() In 2011, United States-based Best Buy said it would close all of its nine outlets across the Chinese mainland and its regional retail headquarters in Shanghai.įrench construction group Compagnie de Saint Gobain SA also pulled out its La Maison brand from the Chinese market. Over the past few years, a number of foreign retail giants withdrew from China. "The service and experience Media Markt provides are unparalleled in the Chinese market, but it ignored its prices, the deciding factor, the thing that most Chinese customers care about the most when buying an electronics product," said Qi. ![]() Qi Xiaozhai, director of the Shanghai Commercial Economic Research Center, said Media Markt missed the best timing to explore the Chinese market because major domestic electronics retailers had already consolidated their market shares before its high-profile arrival. Given the high cost of operating large footprint retail stores in first-tier Chinese cities, their decision to leave the market is not surprising, he added. There is a tremendous amount of competition from well-established domestic brands and consumers' attention is shifting very rapidly to other shopping channels, like the Internet, Cavender said. The electronics retailers' disappointing experience in China highlights just how difficult it is to build a new retail brand in the country, especially in the consumer electronics space, said Ben Cavender, an associate principal at the China Market Research Group. Media Markt's exit from the promising but elusive Chinese market reminds industry insiders of Best Buy Co Inc's departure a couple of years ago. "The decision to close the stores was made in response to the highly competitive market environment and associated high investments to build an operation of the necessary scale," said Bussalb. It was expected to open more than 100 stores across China by 2015. Media Markt entered the Chinese market in November 2010. Metro Group - Media-Saturn's parent company - said in a mid-January statement that it was planning to withdraw further financing for a planned expansion of the Chinese business. The company's store on Shanghai's Huaihai Road will remain operational to serve as a customer service center before closing its doors for good in late April.Īll of the company's stores are in Shanghai. The move marks the end of the company's two-year foray into the Chinese market.įrank Bussalb, chief executive officer of Media Markt China, said that the closures of the stores were in the best interest of the two shareholders. Media Markt China Ltd, the electronic products chain owned by Germany's Media-Saturn Holdings and Foxconn Technology Group, will close its seven Chinese stores on March 11, a senior company official said on Wednesday. The electronics products chain has announced it is withdrawing from China due to fierce competition. I want to give special thanks to Abraham, my best friend here in The netherlands, who kindly offered to assist me with the “delivery project”.A Media Markt store in Shanghai. I also had to make a special construction for my car to place each section on top of each other. The whole diorama had to be split in four 1×1 meter sections. Transporting the monument valley diorama was also a project in itself. ![]() The rougher surface was welcome due to the nature of the landscape for a monument valley diorama. It’s harder than plaster and with a rougher surface when dry. After a lot of thinking and trying many solutions I have decided to coat (almost) everything with cement. Features that are not standard in most dioramas exhibited behind glass. Another challenge was to integrate different scale vehicles into the monument valley diorama.Īs this diorama was intended for display in a MediaMarkt store, it had to be robust and easy to (vacuum)clean as well. In this case it was the size of the diorama. In most cases the challenge lies in the technique to be used, the small size or complicated shape of parts that need to be made. Those of you that have been following our blog for a while now know that I always embark in every kind of challenging projects. Several weeks ago I was contacted by HorizonHobby with a very unusual request: Building a monument valley diorama in king bed size (2×2 meter or 76×76 inches) with a mountain in the middle (80 cm/31 inches high). ![]()
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