Lotus

History of Charoen Pokphand Group: Charoen Pokphand Group was founded in 1921 by Mr. Xie Yichu, a Thai-Chinese entrepreneur, and is a well-known multinational enterprise, also known as Chia Tai Group in Thailand, with the English name Charoen Pokphand Group, abbreviated as CP Group. Adhering to the business philosophy of "benefiting the country, the people, and the enterprise," CP Group has developed from a single-business "Chia Tai Seed Store" into a diversified multinational conglomerate with core businesses in agriculture and food, wholesale and retail, and telecommunications and television, while also engaging in more than 10 industries and fields including finance, real estate, pharmaceuticals, and machinery processing. The Group's business spans over 100 countries and regions globally, with approximately 350,000 employees and global sales of about 68 billion USD in 2019. It owns widely recognized enterprises, brands, and products such as CP Feed, CP Food, CP Eggs, CP Seeds, CP Plantation, Lotus, CP Plaza, CP Mal, CP Center, CP Fresh, CP E-commerce, CP Pharmaceutical, CP Land, CP Machinery, Ek Chor Industries, Dayang Motorcycle, CP Guocheng, Zenxin Bank, CP Variety Show, and CP Music. Introduction to Lotus Shopping Centers: Lotus is the flagship modern commercial retail brand under CP Group. Since opening its first store in Shanghai, China on June 23, 1997, it has opened over 100 stores across China in 24 years, successfully introducing advanced retail concepts to China and establishing a complete and efficient procurement, warehousing, and distribution system to optimize costs and bring valuable products to customers. Now, Lotus's omni-channel retail formats include not only B2C channels such as Lotus hypermarkets, CP Center community shopping malls, CP Fresh community lifestyle supermarkets, and LOTUS PLUS premium supermarkets, but also B2B business with external enterprises through the Group's "CP Fresh" platform, leveraging the Group's full industry chain products, as well as O2O business through the "Lotus GO" online mall. Lotus adheres to CP Group's "three benefits" principle of "benefiting the country, the people, and the enterprise," striving to build a strong community retail experience platform and become an intimate partner in family life. Lotus adheres to the "three benefits" principle, implements the philosophy of "love is selfless dedication of CP," and keeps social responsibility in mind during its development, never forgetting to give back to society. Given the retail industry's characteristics of many female customers and employees, and with the original intention of "caring for women," Lotus, based on the "Pink Spring" public welfare brand, cooperated with the Guangdong Provincial Women's Federation in March 2010 to establish the "Pink Spring Care Fund," mobilizing caring enterprises to donate and linking public welfare promotional activities to raise funds, specifically to assist impoverished women in underdeveloped areas of eastern, western, and northern Guangdong suffering from "two cancers" (breast and cervical cancer). The Pink Spring Care Fund lit up Guangzhou Tower, the world's tallest tower, rode the Pink Special Train, set a world record with a ten-thousand-person yoga event, pinked the Lupu Bridge, and lit up the Oriental Pearl Tower. Lotus will continue its public welfare theme of caring for women, evoking society's gratitude towards women. Official website of CP Group: *.