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Major Events of Bathroom Brands
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Germany’s GROHE Joins Hands with the Musical “The Secret Garden,” Opening a Healing Journey as Exclusive Bathroom Partner
Recently, Germany’s GROHE, as the exclusive bathroom partner of the musical “The Secret Garden,” joined hands with this work full of healing qualities as it arrived at the Shanghai Jasmine Theater. “The Secret Garden” uses delicate musical storytelling to lead the audience closer to the inner world of boys and girls amid the interweaving of reality and imagination. In this collaboration, GROHE, with the brand’s understanding of “water living,” forms a spiritual resonance with the healing quality of the production. The stage evokes inner feelings through story and music, while water living responds in everyday life to people’s needs for relaxation, calm, and self-care. The two together point toward a fuller state of living—rediscovering oneself amid the flow of emotions, and recovering the order and strength of body and mind in the details of daily life.
INAX Holds Exclusive Free Maintenance Activity for Smart Toilets
Recently, INAX launched a two-month-long exclusive free smart toilet maintenance activity at China Resources Runxi Phase II in Shenzhen, serving hundreds of homeowners and receiving widespread acclaim. This activity is an exclusive free value-added service that INAX launched for its core partner China Resources Land across major key projects in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The maintenance personnel carried out deep cleaning and care for the smart toilets, gave on-site hands-on demonstrations and detailed explanations of daily maintenance tips, and with refined one-stop attentive service, comprehensively safeguarded homeowners’ comfortable and worry-free home-use experience.
Hansgrohe Holds 125th Anniversary Celebration
From June 12 to 13 local time, the Hansgrohe Group held a celebration at its headquarters in Schiltach to commemorate the brand’s 125th anniversary. The event included an evening appreciation gala for partners and customers, as well as a grand employee carnival. This event invited around 350 guests from all walks of the industry to attend, with more than 5,000 employees and their families also participating, and everyone together enjoyed a weekend gala combining the company’s historical heritage, innovative spirit, and a sense of collective belonging.
HEGII’s 2026 High-End Hotel Quest for Quality Design Tour Successfully Held
On June 13, HEGII’s “Quality Beauty in China · New Realm of Coexistence” 2026 High-End Hotel Quest for Quality Design Tour was held at the Suzhou Yangcheng Lake Taikang Marriott Hotel. Heavyweight guests including Hu Bin, Vice President of Design and Project Management for Greater China at Marriott International, Liu Bo, founder of PLD Liu Bo Interior Design Co., Ltd., Mars Yao, Director and Partner at HBA, Ji Chunhua, Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Hotel Design Association & President of the Design Branch of the China Building Decoration Association, and Wang Xinyan, founder/creative director of Cathy Wang, gathered together with representatives of East China hotel designers to jointly explore new trends in high-end hotel design and high-quality bathroom spaces.
Dongpeng Selected as a Typical Case of Brand Building for Building Materials Enterprises 2026
From June 11 to 12, the 2026 Building Materials Enterprise Brand Building Conference, hosted by the China Building Materials Enterprise Management Association, was grandly held in Jinan, Shandong. At the conference, Dongpeng Holding was successfully awarded the “AAAAA Brand,” and with “Low-Carbon Dongpeng, Green Building Pioneer: Construction of the Dongpeng Brand Value Chain System,” was selected as a typical case of brand building for building materials enterprises 2026.
Huida Sanitary Ware Selected as One of China’s 500 Most Valuable Brands for 23 Consecutive Years
On June 24, in Beijing, at the site of the 2026 (23rd) World Brand Conference. The list of “China’s 500 Most Valuable Brands 2026” was unveiled—Huida Sanitary Ware, with a brand value of 88.683 billion yuan, ranked 158th, advancing one more place than last year. This is the 23rd time Huida Sanitary Ware has appeared on this list. From the first edition in 2003 until now, it has never been absent.
Huayi Completes Acquisition of European Brand FRANCIS
Recently, Huayi completed the acquisition of the European brand FRANCIS. In October 2020, Huayi acquired 100% equity of Comap (Jiangmen) Pipeline Heating Equipment Company—the wholly-owned production base in China of the UK’s PEGLER HOLDINGS LIMITED—and its FRANCIS brand, formally taking over operations in November of the same year. Previously, the assets related to the FRANCIS brand were mainly operated through Comap. After this integration is completed, the brand and its production and operation system in China are uniformly incorporated into the Huayi Sanitary Ware system.
Rifeng Sanitary Ware Appears at the Foshan Smart Toilet Promotion On-Site Meeting
On June 16, the Foshan Hotel and Accommodation Industry Smart Toilet Promotion and Application On-Site Meeting was successfully held in Shunde, Foshan. As a benchmark local bathroom brand in Foshan, Rifeng Sanitary Ware was invited to attend. Relying on its leading smart product strength and a mature and complete commercial engineering support system, Rifeng Sanitary Ware deeply participated in the precise matching of supply and demand between government and enterprises, injecting strong momentum into the high-quality transformation of Foshan’s trillion-yuan-scale pan-home furnishing industry with its hardcore smart manufacturing strength.
Seenor Sanitary Ware Wins Guangdong Emerging Brand Certification
On June 26, the 2nd Guangdong Emerging Brand Release Conference, centered on empowering the brand upgrade of Guangdong enterprises and boosting high-quality industrial development, was grandly held. Seenor Sanitary Ware, with its strong brand innovation, solid product quality, and excellent market performance, successfully won the heavyweight honor of “Guangdong Emerging Brand,” once again gaining authoritative recognition from the industry with its comprehensive strength.
Solux Technology Joins Hands with Tongxin Intelligence to Build a New Ecosystem for the AGI Robot Industry
Recently, Xiamen Solux Technology Co., Ltd. and Tongxin Artificial Intelligence Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. officially signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. The two sides combine their strengths, with Tongxin Intelligence’s “AGI chip + AGI model solution” as the core technology foundation, combined with Solux’s robot medical and elderly care vertical-domain models, robot bodies, large-scale mass production, and global channel capabilities, to connect the entire industry chain of AGI chips, AGI large models, vertical-domain large models, robot bodies, and the implementation of application scenarios, jointly advancing commercialization and seizing new opportunities for industrial development.
HIGOLD’s Xuzhou Kitchen & Bath Original Hall Opens
Recently, the HIGOLD Kitchen & Bath Original Hall officially landed in Pengcheng, upgrading the new standard of Huaihai living with original kitchen and bath aesthetics. On the day of the grand opening ceremony, Yu Julin, General Manager of the Kitchen & Bath Business Division of HIGOLD Group, came to the scene with the core team, and together with Li Huaijun, General Manager of the Xuzhou Kitchen & Bath Original Hall, Deputy General Manager Ding Tao, and important guests, cut the ribbon for the new store, marking the official commencement of operations of another important stronghold of HIGOLD’s kitchen and bath strategy in the East China market.
Lonsi Sanitary Ware Participates in the 2026 2nd “Good Bathroom Cabinets, Made in Foshan” Industry Summit
On June 23, the 2026 2nd “Good Bathroom Cabinets, Made in Foshan” Industrial Production Area Development Summit, themed “Let the World See Foshan’s Good Bathroom Cabinets,” was grandly held in Foshan. As a core member of the Foshan bathroom production area and an important participating enterprise of the Foshan Sanitary Ware and Fittings Industry Association, Lonsi Sanitary Ware was invited to attend this grand event, gathering together with numerous industry elites and upstream and downstream enterprises to discuss the future blueprint of “Foshan’s Good Bathroom Cabinets” and to showcase the hardcore strength of Foshan sanitary ware to the world.
CRW Helps Build the “Good Bathroom Cabinets · Made in Foshan” IP
On June 23, the 2nd “Good Bathroom Cabinets · Made in Foshan” Industrial Production Area event was grandly held. Facing a period of deep industry adjustment, this summit focused on the high-end breakthrough strategy, gathering the leading forces of the production area to jointly explore the path of upgraded industry development. CRW actively supported the convening of the conference, engaging in in-depth dialogue with representatives from all parties to jointly build a new pattern of high-quality development for the Foshan bathroom cabinet industry.
Xiwu Integrated Bathroom Wins Bid for Dormitory New Construction and Renovation Projects at Shanghai Zhongqiao University and Shanghai Institute of Technology
Recently, Xiwu Technology successfully won the bid for the integrated bathroom projects of Shanghai Zhongqiao University and Shanghai Institute of Technology under Shanghai Zhida Group, with a winning amount of nearly ten million. Behind this figure is an eight-year deep cooperation between the two sides from 2017 to the present—having cumulatively provided more than 3,000 sets of integrated bathroom products for several universities of the group. From the initial pilot to large-scale application, Xiwu, with stable quality and efficient service, has won customers’ long-term, repeat-purchase trust.
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Major Events in Home Furnishing/Real Estate
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Red Star Macalline Responds to Che Jianxing’s Entrepreneurial Remarks
Recently, Red Star Macalline gave a concentrated response on the investor interaction platform to market discussions about the relevant public statements of founder Che Jianxing and the “Aegean” expansion plan. In its reply, the company clearly pointed out that Che Jianxing had resigned from the positions of general manager and other management roles in July 2025, and currently serves only as a non-executive director, not participating in daily operations and management; at the same time, the listed company and the second-largest shareholder, Red Star Macalline Holding Co., Ltd., maintain independent operations in business, assets, finance, personnel, and institutions. Regarding the externally watched expansion goals of Che Jianxing such as “fighting another 30 years” and “800 Aegeans by 2050,” the company attributed these to personal development plans at the shareholder and founder level, with no direct connection to the listed company’s operating system.
Judicial Auction of 120 Million Shares Held by Grandland Group’s Shareholder Holding Over 5% Fails to Sell
On June 25, Shenzhen Grandland Group Co., Ltd. issued an announcement that the judicial auction of the 120 million shares held by Grandland Holding Group Co., Ltd.—a shareholder holding more than 5% of the company—had concluded, and the auction failed as no one bid within the stipulated time. In terms of shareholding, Grandland Holding holds 574 million shares of the company, a shareholding ratio of 15.29%; its concerted action party Ye Yuanxi holds 192 million shares, a shareholding ratio of 5.12%. The two together hold 766 million shares of the company, accounting for 20.41% of the company’s total share capital. The 120 million shares that failed to sell in this auction account for about 20.92% of the shares held by Grandland Holding.
Smart Lighting Leader Zhiyan Technology’s IPO Accepted
On June 24, Shenzhen Zhiyan Technology Co., Ltd.’s ChiNext IPO application was accepted by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, with plans to raise 1.214 billion yuan. The prospectus shows that Zhiyan Technology, centered on the smart home ecosystem, has built a product matrix composed of smart ambient lighting and smart small home appliances, and has developed into a leading smart ambient lighting enterprise. The company relies on its two major brands, “Govee” and “GoveeLife,” to lay out the global market, enjoying high visibility in major overseas markets such as North America and Europe.
Sichuan Lifehome Furnishing Group Co., Ltd. Renamed “JD Home Decoration Group Co., Ltd.”
On June 23, Qichacha information showed that Sichuan Lifehome Furnishing Group Co., Ltd. was officially renamed “JD Home Decoration Group Co., Ltd.” Lifehome Furnishing was established in July 2011, with Shi Yonggang as the legal representative and a registered capital of about 17.91 million yuan, and its business scope covers residential interior decoration, construction engineering, the first category of value-added telecommunications business, etc. The company’s shareholders include Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., Ltd. and Lifehome Furnishing Group Holding (Hainan) Co., Ltd. This renaming comes about one year after JD’s acquisition of Lifehome Furnishing’s equity was approved by the State Administration for Market Regulation (June 4, 2025). The acquisition entity, Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., Ltd., is a core business carrier under JD Group, wholly owned by JD Hong Kong International Limited.
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Industry / Policy Developments
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The Kitchen & Bath Standards Committee, Fujian Plumbing, Sanitary Ware and Valve Association, and Others Conduct Research at 5 Enterprises
In order to thoroughly implement the work requirements of industrial standardization empowering high-quality foreign trade development, recently, the National Kitchen & Bath Hardware Standardization Technical Committee (Kitchen & Bath Standards Committee), the Fujian Provincial Plumbing, Sanitary Ware and Valve Industry Association, and the association’s standards committee jointly carried out a special enterprise visit and empowerment action. The research group successively went deep into 5 sanitary ware valve enterprises, including Shengli Valve Co., Ltd., Fujian Jianuo Valve Co., Ltd., Quanzhou Rentai Sanitary Ware Co., Ltd., Quanzhou Xinlide Sanitary Ware Co., Ltd., and Fujian Teci Sanitary Ware Industrial Co., Ltd.
23 Ceramic and Sanitary Ware Enterprises Make Foshan Patent Rich List
Recently, the Foshan Intellectual Property Association, through the HimmPat patent database, ranked the comprehensive patent situation of the city’s enterprises in 2025, and ultimately selected the top 50 enterprises in each of the four major industries—home appliances, building materials, equipment manufacturing, and others—forming four industry patent rich lists. This ranking adopts a comprehensive score ranking of invention patent quantity (70%), utility model patent grants (20%), and design patent grants (10%), with key emphasis on invention patents. In terms of the ceramics industry, 20 building ceramics and sanitary ware enterprises including Arrow, Monalisa, Dongpeng, Oceano, Overland, and Xinpearl made the top 50 of the building materials patent rich list, and 3 ceramic equipment enterprises—Keda, Henglitai, and Delitai—made the top 50 of the equipment manufacturing patent rich list.
Foshan Offers 22 Million in Subsidies for Hotels to Install Smart Toilets
Recently, the Foshan Hotel and Accommodation Industry Smart Toilet Promotion and Application On-Site Meeting, hosted by the Foshan Municipal Bureau of Commerce, with participation of over a hundred people from the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, the Bureau of Finance, as well as hotels, sanitary ware enterprises, and industry associations, was held at the Arrow Headquarters Building. The municipal and district levels coordinated about 22 million yuan in funds to support hotel stock renovation and new construction projects. Among them, for stock renovation, the maximum subsidy per unit is 1,800 yuan, and the maximum per single entity is 500,000 yuan; for new construction projects, the maximum subsidy per unit is 1,200 yuan, and the maximum per single entity is 300,000 yuan. At the same time, Foshan linked up 13 enterprises including Arrow, HEGII, and Dongpeng to launch 46 compatible products, with procurement discounts as low as 26% of the original price. Driven by the policy, within three months the whole city reached an intended procurement of 6,473 smart toilets, with more than 3,000 actually completed. Taking Yife Hotel as an example, the renovation of 234 guest rooms cost about 400,000 yuan, with subsidies saving more than 80,000 yuan.
Originally published in WeChat by Chu Wei Tou Tiao on 2026-06-27. Translated and edited for English-language readers.