Your are here:Home | News&Events | Local News | Content

Categories

Yiwu toys:technological innovation widen and upgrade the road

Source: Yiwu sourcing agent    Author:       Date: 2008-11-11

Brand and e-commerce  promote the overall industry development
A colorful, unique small car  switched to the vertical glass  wall, the  side of the car  firmly affixed to the wall, circling around, go and back  freely. A young man was busy handling the remote control,  under the command,the car ran very freely. On November 6, reporters saw an  interesting show of the smart toy  in Yiwu IQ Toys Co., Ltd seated on the 8th floor of the International Trade Buildingi. It is learned that this   toy car is one of the coolest products with the latest world-class on the market today , and it is also  a dynamic display of Yiwu toy industry.  Multiaspects innovation make Yiwu toy industry remains stable development trend in the current international economic situation .

Scientific and technological innovation brought  the functional upgrades
"The market updating and changing market environment promote the toy industry to upgrade and transforme constantly." A boss who has  been doing  toy business for many years evaluate the start point of the innovation so. Yiwu has a toy industry with  more than 400  manufacturers,  more than 2,300 operating ,  30,000 employees, and more than 60 billion yuan year sale totals.
Yiwu toy industry  ran with extensive form first , there were more than 50,000 varieties products with small individual but  large scale. Most  products were low technical content and easy to imitate,  the main competition in the market was the price. "With the development of the  market, the old way is surly narrowing. To go well, to  innovate," said Yiwu Toy Industry Association  General Secretary Tong Yuan. For  innovation, toy industry has adopted a series of actions to implement integrated trade and strategic cooperation, to start the product R & D  center and training center in specific R & D cooperation with Zhejiang University in tertiary institutions.
Innovation in the toy industry gradually become a conscious action. It is reported that about 10% manufacturing enterprises with  strong   strength relatively  set up their own R & D centers, and connect with the trade associations ones, to upgrade and develop  intelligent  products.A company intelligentized a best-selling but outdated baby, which is popular in the market again. The Price turned to more than  100 yuan from more than 50 yuan each, and also  increased the added value.

Brand innovation creat another way
"In addition to relying on the function to reflect the products added value, it's more important to strengthen the brand." Tong Yuanzhi has his  own opinion on the development of Yiwu toy industry .

From the practice, many toy companies recognize the significance of the brand, and began to make great efforts to cultivate their own  brands.For example, a toy company  developped a voice doll with their own intellectual property rights, using  chips, using simulation  technique to imitate human movement, which make the toy's interpersonal behavior more realistic, after being putting into the market ,it is  very popular, and also a substantial increase in added value, and finally  improve the benefits of enterprises.

To build yiwu toy brand, the trade associationput  brand strategy into development planning, gather superior resources,  employ unitedly a   specialized consulting firm, unitedly planning construction. It is reported that there are now 15 toy companies are in the process of applying  brand-name products in Jinhua, which make foundation of applying Zhejiang as well as China brand-name in the future.

Increase the proportion of e-commerce largely

The market has changed, the enterprises have to change the mode of operation, in addition to its innovative and upgrade and brand building,  toy companies are innovating on marketing . Many enterprises have changed the traditional passive attitude of marketing, they make full  use of modern network functions and increase the proportion of e-commerce.

Reporters know from Yiwu IQ Toys Co., Ltd. that the company's business this year, mainly through e-commerce, the company has retained a  team of young employees who understand the network,  use on-line platform such as Alibaba, QQ, Baidu and so on , establish  the database  to implement full-scale search Engine optimization, the use of blog marketing, video marketing, e-mail marketing and event marketing and  other modern means of marketing, business development, not only reduces operating costs and also improved benefits, the company this  year, 90% of the business were realized through the completion of the network. In order to meet the manpower requirements of e- commerce high, the company organized staff to have training, and upgrade their professional quality ,  10 employees received the  Commissioner of Internal Trade Alibaba e-commerce certificate, and their business is booming.

According to general manager, in the current spreading financial crisis , Yiwu toy companies  choose the multi-level marketing means. Many  of them try to e-commerce businesses, some enterprises who has no  technology ability itself , go into the markets through the vertical B2C,  C2C platform, and so on to co-operate with the network businessman, they make full use of the  advantages that Yiwu market is good for   Internet sales because of the variety goods to expand trade Volume.



Prev:The third"culture"body-building project of farmers was held   Next:The price of 19 yuan per kilogram meat hit a new low this year