The club, believed to have about 90 million fans in China, will sell jerseys and a variety of fan merchandise ranging from genuine apparel for men, women and
children as well as other goods including traditional German and Bavarian
products of the football team in the store that is set up on Tmall, the
business-to-customer platform of Alibaba.
After placing orders, Fans can receive the products in 8 to 10 days delivered by DHL.
As one of the most prestigious clubs in the world, Bayern has sped up its pace to mine China's large soccer market.
"I am glad that we will be moving closer to our huge Chinese fan base. Making our fan merchandise accessible is crucial to connect with our fans in
China cheap nike air max free shipping uk ," said club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
Jorg Wacker, executive board member of Internationalization and Strategy of Bayern, admitted that China always has been a very attractive market.
"China continues to be our key focus market and plays an important role in our internationalization strategy," he said, adding that he was deeply impressed
by Alibaba's stunning 57.1 billion yuan (nine billion U.S. dollars) in sales on
China's Singles' Day last year.
The shopping day, falling on Nov. 11 similar to Cyber Monday and Black Friday in the United States, saw an explosion of the buying power of the Chinese
consumers.
Jeff Zhang cheap nike air max wholesale uk , president of Alibaba's retail marketplaces, believed "it will help Bayern gain easier access to their 90 million Chinese fans by leveraging
Alibaba's 350 million users".
Bayern was just one of the top clubs who started to shift their focus to China, a country with 1.3 billion population.
According to a study by Shay Digital Sports in September 2014, 32 European football clubs have established a presence on Sina Weibo, China's equivalent to
Twitter. Among these clubs, 10 from the Italian Serie A, seven each from the
Bundesliga cheap nike air max trainers uk , Spanish La Liga and English Premier League.
Bayern is the leader in Germany while Schalke has more than 950,000 followers and Borussia Dortmund more than 715,000 for the top three.
And four of the 18 Bundesliga clubs - Bayern Munich, Wolfsburg, Schalke and SV Hamburg - have Chinese language versions of their main websites.
These clubs don't just make themselves available online. They actually travel to China for pre-season training camps and friendly matches.
In July, Bayern will play three friendlies against Inter Milan, Valencia and Chinese champions Guangzhou Evergrande.
Last summer cheap nike air max mens , SV Hamburg and Werder Bremen both spent about a week in China with schedules full
of sponsorship meetings, pre-season training, friendly matches against Chinese
Super League teams and chances for Chinese fans to see their favorite players
live and in person.
Taiwan actor Kai Ko, who was detained for two weeks in August on drug-use charges, is among the "tainted talents". Chinese director Wang Quan'an was
detained for hiring prostitutes.
Going by recent developments in China, a star's career could end if the person is found to be involved in drugs or with prostitutes.
The State Administration of Press, Radio cheap nike air max womens , Film and TV, the country's top regulator for media and films, released a document on Oct 9, stating that people in the
business who use drugs or hire prostitutes will be banned from the big and small
screens.
The regulator described such celebrities as "tainted talents", and barred them from appearing on TV, films, online dramas and commercials. Following the
directive cheap nike air max shoes , many films and TV dramas are expected to face immediate delays in production or
release.
Tiny Times 4, the latest installment of the film series that stars Taiwan actor Kai Ko, among others, was scheduled to be released in February, but
industry insiders now believe this is unlikely. In August, police detained Kai,
23 cheap nike air max online , in Beijing on drug-use charges. He was subsequently released.
The actor rose to quick fame with You Are the Apple of My Eye in 2011, a rom-com that was a massive hit across Asia. Kai has three films awaiting release
later this year and in early 2015. When contacted by China Daily, Tiny Times
scriptwriter and director Guo Jingming declined to comment.
The series' previous installments irked some Chinese cinema-goers because they showed the main characters' materialistic approach to life, in apparent
depictions of present-day Chinese youngsters.
Monster Hunt, another film that stars Kai, is directed by Chinese-American animator-director Raman Hui, who co-directed Shrek The Third (2007).
A media conference by the Monster Hunt team scheduled for Oct 9 was canceled at the last minute.
Well-known director Wang Quanan and Kai are among the growing number of high-profile celebrities caught in scandals recently.
In the August crackdown cheap nike air max free shipping , Jaycee Chan, son of kung fu star Jackie Chan, was also detained by Beijing police for using drugs and providing them to others,
including Kai. Chan's latest role is in Chen Kaige's costume drama, Monk in a
Floating World. The film's budget was more than 250 million yuan ($38 million),
and it also stars Lin Chi-ling, a top model from Taiwan and mainland veteran Fan
Wei.
Senior producer Ben Ji is now preparing for a film written by Chen Wanning cheap nike air max uk , another showbiz wizard, who was detained for drug-related offenses for one month
earlier this year.
According to the new regulation, "tainted talents" include not only actors but also screenwriters.
"Actually we don't know what we can do now," says Ji. "The regulation gives no timetable, and only the authorities know how long the ban will last."
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