{"id":43967,"date":"2011-10-31T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/rovio-entertainment-has-said-it-will-open-its\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:50:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T23:50:04","slug":"rovio-entertainment-has-said-it-will-open-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/rovio-entertainment-has-said-it-will-open-its\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-43967 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/rovio-entertainment-has-said-it-will-open-its\/attachment\/43968\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ltxk324dcu1qescblo1_250-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ltxk324dcu1qescblo1_250-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ltxk324dcu1qescblo1_250.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Rovio Entertainment has said it will open its first retail outlet this year.<br \/>\nBloomberg has reported that the firm is aiming to hit $100 million in retail sales in the country in its first year of trading.<br \/>\nThe chief marketing officer, Peter Vesterbacka said at the Techcrunch conference in Beijing: &ldquo;China is our fastest-growing market, so we are taking it very seriously. We want to be more Chinese than Chinese companies.&rdquo;<br \/>\nRovio didn&rsquo;t disclose how many store it was planning to open, or their locations, but the stores are set to offer the full range of licensed Angry Birds merchandise, including toys, apparel and dress-up.<br \/>\nCurrently licensed goods are accounting for ten to 20 per cent of the business and the plush range is selling a million units per month. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toynews-online.biz\/news\/34732\/Angry-Birds-store-set-to-open-in-China\">Angry Birds store set to open in China | Toy Industry | News by ToyNews<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rovio Entertainment has said it will open its first retail outlet this year. Bloomberg has reported that the firm is aiming to hit $100 million in retail sales in the country in its first year of trading. The chief marketing officer, Peter Vesterbacka said at the Techcrunch conference in Beijing: &ldquo;China is our fastest-growing market, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-43967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-br9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43969,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43967\/revisions\/43969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}