Slow birth rate poses challenge for A2 Milk

Slow birth rate poses challenge for A2 Milk
The number of possible mothers in China is declining and many are choosing not have children at all. (Photo: Joseph Chan/Unsplash)
Dan Brunskill
Declining birth rates in China could make it difficult for A2 Milk to achieve its aspirations to return to $2 billion in annual revenue by 2026, says a Jarden research note. To promote economic growth in the 1980s, the Chinese government put in place its now infamous ‘one child’ policy which blocked families from having several children.That policy is now coming back to bite the world’s second-largest economy, because the outcome is fewer women aged 18 to 39 and a culture that doesn’t want large families. Birth...

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