Consumers In Hong Kong Can Now Play The StockX Market For Sneakers

Consumers In Hong Kong Can Now Play The StockX Market For Sneakers

Air Jordan 1 Retro sneakers, one of the brands carried by Stock X.



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With Asian women driving interest in rare, preworn sneakers, it's no surprise that resale platform StockX is making a run at the Asia Pacific region with the opening of an authentication center in Hong Kong and the launch of localized business in Mainland China.

StockX already has a presence in Japan, where in 2019 it opened a Tokyo office and subsequently launched service in the country this year. 

While opening a brick and mortar location in Hong Kong seems counterintuitive, given retail's extreme challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and political and social unrest, StockX has said that its growth in the coming decade will come from markets outside the U.S., including the Asia Pacific region and Europe.

A report from StockX last month said the global sneaker resale market will reach $30 billion by 2030, compared with $19 billion in the U.S.

StockX transactions up over 500% in the third quarter of 2020 compared to the same period last year, and transactions ahead by 1,000% year-over-year.



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