April
2008 - Chinese weight management and/or loss clinics record double digit annual
growth
The best performers are time easy and effort easy.
They are passive weight loss therapies – such as massages and injections,
TCM remedies and diet pills.
A new report, Weight Management
/ Loss Market in China, reveals booming demand for body reshaping treatments and
therapies in China.
A number of features and categories of
the weight management/loss market in China are country specific. They include
traditional Chinese health therapies, such as, herbal products, teas, and acupuncture.
The regulatory environment is also different with products sold over the counter
in China that require a medical prescription in other markets.
The
weight loss market is concentrated in the largest, most affluent so called “Tier
One” coastal cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Indeed these
markets have delivered the highest growth rates to date. However, inland cities,
which have lagged behind the coastal cities, now show huge market potential.
The
most popular weight loss solutions are passive. People want effort easy and time
easy treatments. Body shaping programs (such as massages and injections), Traditional
Chinese Medicine-TCM remedies, and diet pills and programs are preferred by Chinese
consumers. The exercise option, which requires the expenditure of energy and effort
takes second place.
Besides the pure “weight loss”
specialists, a very wide range of businesses provide slimming and weight related
treatments. These include health and fitness, sport/gyms and beauty salon/spa
category facilities, plus hospitals which do surgical weight loss interventions.
Businesses providing weight loss treatments reported a growth
rate of more than 10% in 2007 compared to 2006. However, larger-sized companies
are out-performing the sector because they offer a wider menu of services than
the smaller sized businesses, invest in equipment, and employ professionally trained
staff.
Strong growth is forecast to continue due to a number
of factors, including:
• Increasing number of overweight/obese people
in China and greater pressure on these overweight/obese people to lose unwanted
weight
•Larger numbers of young overweight people
• Official
policy which encourages fitness and raises consciousness about dangers of being
overweight.
• The spinoffs from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
This
report, Weight
Management / Loss Market China 2008 is published in April. All findings are
based on interviews with slimming club and weight management experts in China.
The Weight Management / Loss Market China 2008
(Clinics,
Salons, Spas, Medspas, Weight Loss Clubs)
April 2008
NOTE:
TENTATIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS ONLY. Report to be published end of April
TABLE
OF CONTENTS 2
REPORT STRUCTURE 5
SECTION 1 SUMMARY 6
TABLE 6
Market
covered in report 6
Market size issues 6
Market trends and drivers 7
Best
performing businesses/services 7
Structure market specific China 8
Sources
and date of publication 8
SECTION MARKET STRUCTURE AND SIZE 9
Structure
geographic
9 New 9
Geographical structure 9
Changes in geographical structure
10
Lack of data 10
Weight loss products market 10
TABLE Sizes of related
markets (value/RMB) 11
TABLE Market sizes (volume/units) 11
Numbers and
types of businesses providing Weight Related Therapies 11
Weight related -
fitness and sports sectors 12
Weight related - beauty salons/spas 12
Medicalized
weight loss 12
Surgical weight loss 13
Medicalised therapies 13
The different
perspectives on injections 14
Oversight systems lag behind market 14
Industry
shake out possible 14
Unregulated WM/L, including medicalised 15
TABLE Breakdown
of weight loss and other (% revenues) 16
Non-weight business 16 TABLE WM/L
therapies / services offered 17
TABLE Weight related revenues (% by category)
18
Pure weight loss and other programs 18
Body shaping 19
Acupuncture
19
Body shaping equipment and brands 19
Weight loss therapies for the obese
20
SECTION FUTURE ? 21
TABLE WL trends variations historical and forecast
21
Market positive 21
The main competitors 21
Growth rates in best performers
22
Factors driving best performing businesses 22
Medicalicased weight loss
22
Marketing 23
Best performing Weight Loss services 23
Clinics market
"effort free" 24
Minority dissent 24
SECTION CONSUMER PROFILES
25
TABLE Weight Loss client profiles gender 25
TABLE Weight Loss client
profiles age 25
Clients problems/solution age/gender 25
Clients younger
26
Over 35… 26
Men 26
Obese consumers 26
Weight Loss duration
contracts 28
Frequency of visits 28
Weight Loss Therapies business peaks
29
SECTION Weight Management /Loss THERAPIES Companies (Names AND TYPES) 32
TABLE
(20 names) 33
TABLE Beauty salon companies in Weight Loss (10 name) 34
Heading
34
Criteria 34
Type 34
Origin 34
Ownership 35
Largest 35
Industry
development 35
Weight Loss specialists 36
Weight Loss and beauty (examples)
36
Weight Loss and fitness (examples) 36
Weight Loss and health/pharma (examples)
37
TABLE Clinic data 38
TABLE Benchmark data (m2 of facilities) 38
TABLE
Weight loss products market (value) 39
Weight loss products 39
Weight control
pills 40
SECTION TERMINOLOGY 41
SECTION data ISSUES, sources, AND AUTHORITIES
42
Market definitions 42
Hard to capture market 42
Data sources in brief
43
Government 43
Industry, trade, professional associations, and expos 43
SECTION
Regulatory Framework, 45
Obesity in China 45
2005 official survey 47
Participation
in fitness and sports 47
Consumer interest in fitness/WL 48
Sports goods
industry 48
SECTION sample 50
Locations 50
Level of expertise 50
Business
sectors 50
TABLE Weight Loss service menus 51
TABLE Weight Loss different
services 51
Consumer segments 51
Obesity 54
TABLE ? Weight Loss service
menus 55
TABLE ? Weight Loss client profiles age (2) 55
Weight Loss business
problems 56
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