Yashí's '902 Love Festival' charts the blueprint for its retail expansion! Strategic partnership with global giant RPM! A grand six-business promotional carnival kicks off!

Amid fluttering colorful flags and thunderous cheers, Mr. Hua Hai, Director of the Group’s Brand Marketing Department, delivered the opening speech. He briefly outlined the background and origin of Yashí’s ‘902 Love Festival’, emphasizing that it represents a mutual commitment—‘love’ as the shared bond between Yashí and all its partners. Internally, it serves as ‘Yashí Day’, boosting employee initiative, vitality, and corporate pride—making Yashí a milestone of honor for current and former employees alike. Externally, it functions as ‘Brand Day (Month)’, raising broader awareness, understanding, and affection for the Yashí brand. Seizing this occasion, Yashí collaborates with ecosystem partners to co-create shared value and explore vast business opportunities rooted in lifelong loyalty—while simultaneously launching a time-limited, large-scale promotional campaign across its six core businesses. Ms. Wu Xiaoyan, General Manager of Yashí’s Consumer Marketing Management Center, presented Yashí’s strategic vision for its large-scale retail business. She noted that China’s vast market—with its deep geographical reach, multi-tiered distribution channels, and diverse consumer needs—cannot be fully served by a single brand alone. As an industry pioneer, Yashí introduced the ‘Large Retail Strategy’: maintaining the core identity of the ‘Yashí’ brand while building a diversified brand matrix—including premium and value-oriented sub-brands—to comprehensively address varied customer segments. Leveraging both full-product portfolios and a multi-brand architecture, Yashí aims to penetrate all sales channels and meet the needs of customers at every level. The strategic goal—‘One Distributor, One Hundred Million RMB, One Hundred Years’—envisions selecting 300 city-level distributors within three years; establishing over 3,000 large-retail specialty stores within ten years; reaching more than 100,000 sales points and 1 million master contractors; and achieving annual revenue of approximately RMB 30 billion. Yashí has already taken solid steps toward building this brand matrix—by introducing RUST-OLEUM, a world-class consumer brand. Focused on the premium segment and young DIY consumers, Yashí and RUST-OLEUM aim to jointly open 800 RUST-OLEUM specialty stores within three years; exceed USD 100 million in brand revenue within five years; and scale to USD 1 billion in annual revenue within ten years—co-writing a brilliant chapter of brand collaboration and market expansion. In front of the entire audience, Yashí officially announced its strategic brand partnership with RUST-OLEUM, a top-tier global consumer brand. Mr. Nigel Meakins, Managing Director of RPM Consumer Group Asia-Pacific, attended the ceremony in person, introducing RPM Group and the RUST-OLEUM brand—and expressing firm confidence and determination in this joint venture for the future. He stated that RPM Group ranks among the top three paint and chemical companies in the U.S. and fifth globally. Its 2023 financial report recorded sales exceeding USD 7.3 billion, placing it among the top 0.05% of NYSE-listed companies. RPM’s Consumer Group is one of the largest players in North American paint retail and DIY markets, headquartered in Chicago. Its products are distributed across major retailers—including Home Depot, ACE Hardware, and Walmart—as well as specialized neighborhood hardware stores. Its portfolio includes numerous century-old brands, such as DAP (founded 160 years ago) and Zinsser (founded 175 years ago). RUST-OLEUM—the largest consumer brand under RPM—boasts a 103-year legacy and enjoys over 97% brand recognition among North American consumers. It delivers comprehensive whole-home coating solutions—from aerosol sprays to wall paints—and even extends to color-matching applications for textiles, toys, furniture, and automobiles.

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