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Hong Kong Newsletter - September, 2007

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Spotlight on Dominant Local Restaurant Directory
Openrice (www.openrice.com), an online food and restaurant guide featuring restaurant and recipe reviews, has maintained the number 1 rank in the Food and Beverage - Restaurants and Catering industry for a consecutive 11 weeks ending 15/09/07, among Hong Kong Internet users.

Openrice accounted for 35.50% of the market share of visits in the Restaurants and Catering industry for the week ending 15/09/07, which represents a market share increase of 13.7% over the 11 week period it held the number 1 rank.

Yahoo! HK Where (hk.where.yahoo.com), an online channel which also offers reviews and a directory of Hong Kong restaurants, was OpenRice's nearest competitor accounting for 16.54% of market share in the Restaurants and Catering industry as of the week ending 15/09/07. Furthermore, Yahoo! HK Where was the only website to have outranked Openrice over the past 12 months, achieving the number 1 rank and 29.77% of market share during week ending 31/03/07.

Other websites to feature among the top 5 in the Restaurants and Catering industry as of the week ending 15/09/07 include McDonalds Worldwide (www.mcdonalds.com), KFC (www.kfc.com) and Pizza Hut Hong Kong (www.pizzahut.com.hk).

Food and Beverage - Restaurants and Catering » All sites » Weekly rankings for the week ending 22/09/2007
  Rank Name Domain Market Share
1. Openrice www.openrice.com 36.03%
2. Yahoo! HK Where hk.where.yahoo.com 19.18%
3. McDonalds Worldwide www.mcdonalds.com 7.26%
4. KFC www.kfc.com 6.67%
5. Pizza Hut Hong Kong www.pizzahut.com.hk 5.33%
6. Pacific Coffee www.pacificcoffee.com 5.15%
7. Pizza Hut Hong Kong Online Ordering order.pizzahut.com.hk 4.51%
8. Maxims www.maxims.com.hk 3.53%
9. KFC Hong Kong www.kfchk.com 2.98%
10. McDonald's Hong Kong www.mcdonalds.com.hk 2.35%


FastBooking - www.fastbooking.com
During the one week period ending 15/09/07, FastBooking (www.fastbooking.com), a travel reservations website, experienced a market share increase of 98% among Travel - Destinations and Accommodation websites as visited by Hong Kong Internet users. During the same period, FastBooking's ranking jumped from 27th to 13th among Destinations and Accommodation websites, accounting for 1.47% of the market share of visits. Yahoo! Hong Kong was the most popular website visited after FastBooking, accounting for 6.01% of visits during the week ending 15/09/07.

Shopping and Classifieds - Books
This category includes sites whose primary focus is the sale of books, magazine and periodicals. It incorporates both online and offline vendors. The data below is based on All sites » Weekly rankings for the week ending 22/09/2007 » Ranks by 'Visits'.
Shopping and Classifieds - Books » All sites » Weekly rankings for the week ending 22/09/2007
  Rank Website
1. Books.com.tw
2. Myfreshnet.com
3. CrossMedia.com.hk
4. CP1897.com
5. DangDang
6. YLib
7. Joint Publishing
8. KingStone
9. Crown Publishing
10. Eslitebooks.com
      
Local Competitiveness Index
18.4%
of traffic to this category was directed at domestic sites.
Top 10 Upstream Industries
1. Computers and Internet 51.95%
2. Search Engines 19.64%
3. Net Communities and Chat 15.02%
4. Entertainment 13.69%
5. Shopping and Classifieds 7.58%
6. Lifestyle 5.99%
7. Portal Frontpages 5.70%
8. Email Services 5.51%
9. Business and Finance 4.56%
10. Education 4.50%

      
Top 10 Downstream Industries
1. Computers and Internet 43.18%
2. Net Communities and Chat 16.67%
3. Entertainment 15.74%
4. Search Engines 9.21%
5. Shopping and Classifieds 8.21%
6. Portal Frontpages 6.17%
7. Lifestyle 6.08%
8. Education 5.06%
9. Business and Finance 4.48%
10. Blogs and Personal Websites 4.46%


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