CP Lotus is a commercial retail brand under CP Group. On June 23, 1997, the first Lotus store was opened in Shanghai, China. Since then, dozens of stores have been opened, introducing advanced retail concepts into China. Its one-stop system that integrates purchase, storage, and delivery optimizes costs and efficiency.

Following the three-benefit principle, it aims to make a powerful community retailer, create a healthy, happy and joyful place serving different age groups in the community, and become a close friend for every household. Its retail formats include B2C—large supermarkets (Lotus’s), malls (Lotus Happy Mall), grocery stores (CP Fresh Mart), and boutique supermarkets (Lotus Plus), B2B—a fresh products provider (Zhengxiansheng), and O2O—an online shopping platform “Lotus Go”.

It provides over 8 major kinds of quality products and one-stop solutions to hundreds of millions of consumers and small- and medium-sized restaurants and hotels, contributes to public charity, and promotes a healthy lifestyle with a special focus on women’s health.

CP Fresh Mart epitomizes CP Group’s vision of becoming the world’s top food and beverage distributor. It provides safe and fresh products and convenient services to both B-end and C-end customers in various online and offline scenarios.

Its network covers 6 provinces nationwide with fresh products as the core to meet the needs of community residents.

It provides products in 8 major categories, namely, pork, chicken, aquaculture, egg, fruit, processed food, cooked food, and beverage, and one-stop services including sales, display, warehousing, and delivery.

Through exploration, CP Group has developed its own supply chain business, in order to integrate the Group’s logistics resources, promote the development of both online and offline supply-chain businesses, and help companies in traditional agriculture, food production, and retail enhance their supply capability. This helps reduce logistics cost and ensure food quality, also serves the Group’s “One Million Restaurants Initiative” to meet various demands of consumers.

CP Supply Chain develops integrated logistics, improves data capabilities, empower sales teams to boost sales in the catering, hotel, and retail markets, and expands the B2B market for fresh products in conjunction with the CP Mart e-commerce system. Cutting-edge technologies are employed to build a complete industrial-chain ecosystem for CP Group.

In terms of international logistics, CP Supply Chain actively participates in the building of the Belt and Road Initiative. By building a platform for international cooperation in logistics, the business aims to coordinate cross-regional logistics services along the whole industrial chain. Meanwhile, CP Supply Chain is integrating intermodal transportation of railway, highway, aero-plane, waterway and shifting towards a new logistics mode with the use of new technologies, so as to provide effective domestic and international logistics services for CP Group.

In the future, the supply chain business will continue to invest in largescale intelligent warehouse logistics centers for fresh food, cold-chain warehouses, and processing centers for agro-products and fresh food. The business will further strengthen the R&D in intelligent warehouse technology, automatic sorting, the W-Navigation system, the MPS system, the 3D visualization system, block chain, and online freight platform, speed up their deployment, and deeply cultivate both the domestic and overseas cold-chain markets, in order to fulfill the needs of B2B and B2C customers. The online revenue of CP Mart is expected to reach RMB20 billion yuan, and evolve into a dominant player in China’s food supply chain industry.