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CX Daily: East Buy’s earnings fizzle with the exit of one livestreamer

Published: Sep. 3, 2025  8:42 a.m.  GMT+8
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In Depth: East Buy’s earnings fizzle with the exit of one livestreamer

Chinese e-commerce company East Buy Holding Ltd. may have had too many eggs in one basket.

Plummeting sales and profits in its latest annual report reveal just how much the company had come to rely on a livestreamer who had become its public face and then parted ways with it last year after a public spat with the then-CEO.

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