Famous Chinese hostess Yang Lan and Canadian diva Celine Dion
announced yesterday in Beijing that they would collaborate on
founding a jewelry accessories company in China, Beijing
Morning Post reported.
Yang Lan's?interview
with Celine Dion in May
Yang Lan's Her Village Multimedia Co. Ltd., Celine Dion's Les
Productions Feeling Inc. and Neoglory Holdings Group Co. Ltd. said
in a press release that the three parties will co-establish a new
company named HVLove Ltd. to design and sell accessories made of
diamonds and precious metals via the Internet and chain stores.
Yang Lan, a famous TV hostess in China and chairwoman of Sun
Media Investment Holdings Ltd., owns the Her Village Online
Community. It is one of the biggest women's multi-media communities
in the world, visited by 40 million individuals per month and its
e-magazine is downloaded on average 180 million times a month.
According to Analysys International, the leading advisor on
technology, media, and telecom industries in China, 84.2 percent of
the members' monthly salaries are above 3,500 yuan, well enough to
afford fashionable jewelry pieces.
Celine Dion, the best selling female recording artist of all
time worldwide, will surely help the new company's international
influence and promotion with her fame. The new company will start
full-scale operations in the fourth quarter of this year, the press
release said.
According to Beijing Morning Post, Yang Lan's initial
idea of cooperating with Celine Dion was born right after she
interviewed the superstar backstage at Dion's Las Vegas show at
Caesars Palace hotel-casino in May, where both were surprised to
find out that they share the same birthday.
(China.org.cn by Zhang Rui, August 13, 2007)
