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Event Details

On September 13th, DIT (Department for International Trade) will run a webinar introducing the latest news and trends of China's grocery industry including topics that are most relevant to UK food and drink producers who are looking at China market, from consumer purchasing habit, to social media influence and to consumer's preference on food and drink products.

Sep 13, 2022

10:00 AM - 11:30 AMGMT+1

Agenda

  • 10:00 AM - 10:10 AMDIT's Introduction

    Stuart Dunn

    DIT

    10:10 AM - 10:20 AMGrocery Market Insights

    Faye Xu

    DIT

    10:20 AM - 10:30 AMQ+A
    10:30 AM - 10:50 AMChina 101 - Consumer Journey

    Jack Chuang

    Partner at OC&C

    10:50 AM - 11:00 AMQ+A
    11:00 AM - 11:20 AMFood and Beverage Tastes and Trends at Tmall Global

    Zarina Kanji

    Alibaba Group

    11:20 AM - 11:30 AMQ+A

Speakers

Jack Chuang - Partner in OC&C

Jack has spent over 12 years in management consulting in Greater China and more than 7 years' corporate experience in China, Taiwan, and the U.S. His major consulting experience covers retail, consumer, F&B, and digital sectors. Jack specializes in developing consumer proposition, consumer journey, digitization (process and innovation), GTM (online and offline), retail expansion, and organization strategy for domestic and multinational clients.

Zarina Kanji - Tmall Business Development & Marketing

Zarina has been leading Tmall Global Business Development for health and wellness, and food and beverage brands at Alibaba UK & Nordics since September 2018.Zarina is responsible for helping brands to enter the Chinese market and build their business by connecting them to the over 1.31 billion global annual active consumers across the Alibaba ecosystem, which includes over 1 billion annual active consumers in China. She is based in London.

Stuart Dunn - Head of Food & Drink Trade, DIT SH

Stuart has been in his current role since its creation in 2017 supporting the Agriculture Councillor in a5 year period that has seen UK agriculture, food & drink exports increase from £243m to over £750m alogne with the UK moving from the 10th to 6th in the country export rankings. A leader with over 20 years of UK & international trade, operations, & project basedexperience in world leading hospitality corporations, as an entrepreneur and in Government. 

Faye Xu - Grocery Lead, DIT SH

Faye has been working as the Senior Investment and Trade Officer at Agriculture, Food and Drink Team of DIT for 4 years. She is now leading the Grocery sub-sector.

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