Enhanced Competitiveness through Solidarity

In addition, the development of Soho Holding’s cultural industry has reached a new stage. Based on a favorable platform, the three featured sectors of cultural and artwork business, publishing and media, and cultural property transactions are booming. With regard to cultural and artwork business, Artall Cultural Industry Co., Ltd., has enhanced its profitability through integration with its advantageous businesses covering exhibition organization, arts-and-crafts business, gold and jewelry transactions, art investments, international brand agency, international trade, and interior decor. Artall has completed nearly 10 exhibition projects, including the renovation of the Nanjing Museum and the Imperial Examination Museum of China. In 2014, Artall’s sales in cultural and art services, works of art and gold products will reach RMB one billion. The company has also actively promoted its “Cultural Exchange Square” project. In implementing its strategy of taking the company onto the global stage, the company has set up a culture and art exchange center and an office in the U.S. Overseas affiliations provide an economy and trade service platform for Jiangsu’s advantageous cultural resources, and also serve to promote Soho’s brands and expand the export volume of its cultural products.

In the field of publishing and media, Soho Media Co., Ltd., now owns eight ISSNs (International Standard Serial Numbers) with one for a newspaper, seven for periodicals. The company is one of the five major media groups supported by the province. In cultural property transactions, business and revenues have experienced growth on a large scale. As the only provincial-level cultural property exchange, Jiangsu Culture Assets and Equity Exchange will provide more resources and create more favorable conditions for Soho Holdings to boost its business in the cultural industry.