Gu Ming was founded in Wenling, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province on April 20 10. It is a mid-range tea brand, which has expanded rapidly through joining mode. Narrow-door catering shows that as of June 30th, there were 7,473 stores in Gu Ming, mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. Among the new tea brands, the number of ancient tea stores ranks second in the country, second only to the stores that broke through the 23,000 honey ice and snow city.

According to public information, Gu Ming has received two rounds of financing since its establishment. The first round was in July, 2020, when Gu Ming obtained financing from China of Sequoia Capital and Dragon Ball Capital of Meituan. The second round will be invested by American hedge fund Koutu in the second half of 2020.

Brand history

20 10, the first ancient tea shop opened; 20 1 1 The first cooperative store opened, and Gu Ming started chain operation. After a year and a half of rectification and taste upgrading, Gu Ming was upgraded to the second generation, and the number of cups produced in a single store exceeded 1000. 20 12 has 27 branches, and began to go out of Taizhou to face the whole country, carry out the second reform and upgrade the third generation smoothly. The daily number of cups produced by a single store exceeds 1500 cups.

There are 100 branches in 20/0/3 years, covering Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Henan and other places. 20 15 has 300 branches, and the daily production of cups in a single store exceeds 2 100 cups; In 20 16, the number of stores nationwide exceeded 700; In 20 17, the number of stores nationwide exceeded 1000.

On June 365438+February 3 1, 20 17, in Luo Zhenyu's New Year speech of Friends of Time 20 17, an innovative speech mentioned a "tea shop" which was born in Wenling, Taizhou, Zhejiang.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Gu Ming