Think Football 2018: "Corporate community has embraced us very well in China" (M. Gandler, Inter)

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"Suning is the third largest private appliance retailer in China with 1600 locations, as well as an online platform with hundreds of millions of customers, so as you can imagine, the corporate community has embraced us very well in China. Therefore, the opportunity itself (for us) just by virtue of being a part of the Suning group has been significant," said Michael Gandler, chief revenue officer of FC Internazionale Milano (Serie A TIM), at Think Football 2018 at the University of Paris-Dauphine on 01/02/2018. Suning became the majority shareholder of Inter with the acquisition of 68.55% of the capital of the club on 06/06/2016.

These comments were part of the final panel, titled 'Super Clubs: Innovative Strategies for Commercial Growth', during the second edition of Think Football, a day of exchanges and discussions focused on innovation, and hosted by News Tank Football and its partners on 01/02/2018.

"Prior to the Suning acquisition we had already developed a strong international footprint, particularly in Asia. In fact China is actually our largest fan base, even more so than…

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