Belle International opened almost 3000 new stores in China last year

13/01/2012
Hong Kong-based footwear group Belle International opened a total of 2,983 new retail outlets in mainland China in the course of 2011.

In a statement on January 12, the company said that 1,100 of these new stores opened in the fourth quarter of last year. The new stores take Belle's total retail presence in mainland China to 14,950 outlets, all directly managed by the Belle International group.

Of these, 10,270 stores are devoted to footwear, with the others selling sportswear.