FIERCE COMPETITION AND SHIFTING TASTES SQUEEZE CHINA’S YOGA APPAREL MARKET
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China’s yoga apparel market is grappling with fierce competition and slowing growth amid sluggish domestic consumption, as middle-class shoppers diversify their activities, according to analysts. Lululemon, the Canadian athletic apparel brand popular among China’s middle class, continues to face sales pressure in the world’s second-largest consumer market.
Lululemon’s same-store sales growth at sampled Chinese shopping malls dropped 4 per cent year on year in May, compared with a 3 per cent...
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- News - South China Morning Post: China’s yoga apparel market is grappling with fierce competition and slowing growth amid sluggish domestic consumption, as middle-class shoppers diversify their activities, according to analysts.
- News - South China Morning Post: Lululemon, the Canadian athletic apparel brand popular among China’s middle class, continues to face sales pressure in the world’s second-largest consumer market.
- News - South China Morning Post: Lululemon’s same-store sales growth at sampled Chinese shopping malls dropped 4 per cent year on year in May, compared with a 3 per cent...
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- Topic: CHINA — the feed headline centres on FIERCE, COMPETITION, SHIFTING, TASTES, SQUEEZE.
- Original feed: News - South China Morning Post.
- Published: 18 Jul 2026, 04:00 UK.
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