Lotus Supercenter

Charoen Pokphand Group was founded in 1921 by Mr. Xie Yichu, a Thai-Chinese entrepreneur, and is a renowned multinational enterprise known as Charoen Pokphand Group in Thailand, abbreviated as CP Group. Adhering to the business philosophy of "Benefiting the Country, Benefiting the People, Benefiting the Enterprise," CP Group has developed from a single-business 'Chia Tai Seed Shop' into a diversified multinational conglomerate with core businesses in agriculture and food, commercial retail, and telecommunications and television, while also engaging in over 10 industries and fields including finance, real estate, pharmaceuticals, and machinery processing. The Group operates in over 100 countries and regions worldwide, employing approximately 350,000 people, with global sales of about US$68 billion in 2019. As the first foreign enterprise to enter Mainland China after the reform and opening-up, CP Group has continuously increased its investment over the past 40 years, serving as a participant, witness, contributor, and beneficiary of China's great reform and opening-up. To date, CP Group has established more than 600 enterprises in China, with subsidiaries operating in all provinces except Tibet, employing 90,000 people, with a total investment exceeding RMB 120 billion and annual sales approaching RMB 150 billion. It owns widely recognized enterprises, brands, and products such as CP Feed, CP Food, CP Eggs, CP Seeds, CP Plantation, Lotus Supercenter, CP Plaza, CP Life Plaza, CP Center, CP Fresh, CP E-commerce, CP Pharmaceuticals, CP Land, CP Mechanical & Electrical, Chia Tai Industry, Dayang Motor, CP Guocheng, Zhengxin Bank, CP Variety Show, and CP Music. CP Group has established retail operations in China, creating various business formats including Lotus Supercenter, CP Fresh, CP Food Service, and CP E-commerce to meet diverse consumer needs based on shopping preferences. Lotus Supercenter, the flagship modern commercial retail brand under CP Group, opened its first store in China on June 23, 1997. Over the past 23 years, it has opened more than 100 stores nationwide, successfully introducing advanced retail concepts to China and establishing complete and efficient procurement, warehousing, and distribution systems to optimize costs and deliver the most valuable products to customers. Lotus Supercenter's omni-channel retail formats include "Lotus Supercenter" hypermarkets, "Lotus Center" community shopping malls, "CP Fresh" community lifestyle supermarkets, "LOTUS PLUS" premium boutique supermarkets, as well as "Lotus GO" online mall, "TAKEAT" unattended smart retail kiosks, and more. On this basis, Lotus Supercenter continues to innovate, building efficient shopping scenarios with technological innovations such as self-checkout machines and smart shopping carts to provide customers with extraordinary convenience. Lotus Supercenter adheres to CP Group's "Three Benefits" principle of "Benefiting the Country, Benefiting the People, Benefiting the Enterprise," striving to build a powerful community retail experience platform and become an intimate partner in the lives of all families, achieving shared growth.