The largest retail drugstore alliance in Hubei has been established and 22 chain medical companies in the province will jointly set up a collective purchasing platform.

Retail giant Wal-Mart has announced plans to adopt radio frequency identification for products supplied by its Chinese suppliers from January 2009.

Courier service provider TNT has announced that the company will open eight new branches in China before the end of the year, increasing the number of its outlets in China to 34.

COFCO, one of China's biggest agricultural trading and processing companies, has signed an overall strategic cooperative agreement with the Japanese trading company Itochu on the global purchase of grain and oil products.

The British retail giant Tesco has set up a purchase center for Asian areas in Shanghai.

To meet the development demand of Les Enphants, the company has decided to establish a logistics center in Taicang, Suzhou.