The Chinese manufacturing and retail giant saw its bottom line turn red last year, with a net loss attributable to shareholders of $90,791,000, against a profit of $300,546,000 in 2019. Revenues were down 16% overall to $8,444,935,000 from $10,105,387,000, but while Pou Sheng retail sales came back after lockdowns lifted in the PRC, YY’s footwear manufacturing business continued to struggle. It incurred about $107 million in one-time expenses when the pandemic hit, mostly for severance and other costs for closing its manufacturing facilities in Hubei, and for temporary adjustments at its other Southeast Asian factories.

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