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Pop Mart expands internationally with new Singapore store and bakery

Chinese toymaker Pop Mart has opened a new flagship store on Singapore's Sentosa Island, which also features its first overseas Pop Bakery dessert shop. This expansion is part of the company's strategy to diversify revenue and drive growth in international markets, particularly in underpenetrated regions like North America and Europe. The move comes as Pop Mart faces slowing domestic sales and a normalization of demand following a strong intellectual property cycle. AI

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Pop Mart expands internationally with new Singapore store and bakery

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhu Wenqian ·

    China’s Pop Mart opens new store in Singapore’s Sentosa amid slowing domestic sales

    Chinese toymaker Pop Mart International ramped up its global expansion on Wednesday by opening a new store on Singapore’s Sentosa Island – alongside its first overseas Pop Bakery dessert store in the same venue – with observers predicting that more overseas locations would help d…