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One of the cases where aunts joined in a bid to raise banners against the union for the loss of a family's property is moving forward.

According to reports from the Southern Daily News, the Security Times and others, the new tea brand aunty indicated that Wang Xiao, a member of the association who had filed a banner in October 2024, had been sentenced to three years' imprisonment and three years' probation and a fine of 250,000 yuan for producing and selling fake “Taiwan auntie” brand bags.

On 30 May, a reporter of the Nandu Bay Financial Association interviewed the relevant director of the above-mentioned case, as well as the association, and as of 31 May, no response had been received, and the press called the association but the call was not made.

This goes back to 2024. According to a report by the Nandu Bay Treasury in October 2024, a Zhejiang Ningbo ' s aunty member, who had quickly raised concerns about the display of a banner “Be careful to join the union and have been dispossessed”, had said to the Nandu Bay Bank reporter that she had refused to pay a fine because she had been discovered from outside, and had therefore forced her three stores to close. On 1 November of the same year, the aunt indicated that she had effectively communicated and reached a consensus with all the parties involved, that the relevant issues had been properly addressed and that she was committed to further strengthening doorshop management, improving the system process and ensuring strict compliance with operating standards.

It's a banner that the enthusiast used to hang at the store.

According to various media reports, the official response to this case indicated that in the course of a routine inspection, the manufacturer had found that the association had repeatedly violated the procurement of raw materials from non-company-designated sources, contrary to the contracts entered into by the parties and to the regulations governing food security in the brand, and had to take a decision to terminate the cooperation and close the door after the association had repeatedly violated the rules and refused to cooperate with the reorganization.

In January 2025, the company further discovered the production and sale of counterfeit and false brand bags in Ningboeyama; in March 2025, the incident was reported to and received by the Weinzhou police; and in May 2025, the police captured Wang at Ningboeyama's fake nesting site and seized large quantities of counterfeit material. At the time of the crime, it was found that the defendant Wang et al. had sold bags bearing the above-mentioned registered trademark in a total amount of over $1 million.

According to Aunt Yu, food safety has always been the lifeline of the catering industry, and brands have strongly resisted frauds involving food and security risks.

In the new tea industry, the front-runners, such as Meek Ice City, Guangcheng, Teng Tao, Auntie Niang, and Chi Ji Hwang, are all profit-oriented by B, i.e., selling materials and providing services to affiliated vendors.

According to data from the financial statements for 2025, the income from affiliated companies increased by 35.91 per cent to $4.307 billion in 2025, representing approximately 96 per cent. By the end of 2025, there were 6,974 affiliated businesses, an increase of 1,519 and 11449, representing an increase of 24.8 per cent, including 26 direct and 11423.

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In recent days, on social platforms, a Facebook post has been posted that Zhejiang Ningbo has a banner "Be careful to join the union and have lost everything". On 23 October, the company unilaterally closed three of its stores, as a result of which she had placed banners, after the company had refused to pay a fine when it discovered that the goods it sold to the consortium had been sold at a high price.

On 23 October, an official guest service of Aunt Yu said to the South Door Press correspondent that feedback had been recorded. On the same day, a reporter of the Nandu Bay Bank Society sought confirmation from the relevant person in charge of her aunting and had not received a response as of the date of the submission. According to media reports, the manager of the association responded that the company had made a loan to open a shop and that the company had prohibited such conduct. However, the association denied this to journalists, stating that it had no loan to open the shop.

I've been told that the banner was closed for refusing to pay a fine.

"The price of fruit sold to Unionists is almost twice as high as the market price."

Ms. Yao (alias) said to the Nandu Bay Bank News Agency that she had joined her aunt in August 2022, “when it was felt that there were fewer aunties and brands developing, I think they should be making money”. Ms. Yao indicated that she had opened four aunties in the past two years, each at Ningbo, where she had been transferred to other allies by October of this year, while the remaining three had been unilaterally closed by the company on 11 October, so she had placed banners on three stores.

Ms. Yao indicated to a journalist at the Nandu Bay Treasury that the company had closed three of her shops because she had refused to pay a fine. She stated that the company had expressly prohibited the association from purchasing external materials and that, if discovered, a fine of $5,000 would be imposed on each shop, but that the company's material prices were high, such as the sale of fruits to affiliated companies, which was almost twice the price of fruit on the market, and that “the company had just changed its rules last month and a door shop was now fined $20,000”. Ms. Yao stated that she had been fined a total of $15,000 in three shops because she had imported goods from outside the company, although she believed that other allies would sneak in from outside the company and that “the company has turned the association into a vicious circle by forcing it not to earn any money”.

She revealed that, in the boom season, she could perform up to 120,000 a month in a shop, but that 60,000 dollars were spent on company orders alone to remove rent, utilities and labour, with little or no Maori. The Nandu Bay Bank reporter learned from the landlord of one of the Union ' s stores that the Union pays approximately 170,000 rents per year, i.e., 10,000 per month, plus about $5,000 per month for utilities. In addition, according to the association, Aunt Yu has now launched a number of one-for-one activities, which have never been agreed upon or subsidized.

Uploading file shows that the company has previously issued a related bulletin

The Union's manager responded that the closed shop was opened for breach of the law.

The association provided SFA journalists with a cut-off for the purchase of materials inside the company, such as: a box of 12 boxes (1L/box) of pure milk, at an enterprise price of $120, or $10 per case of milk; a box of 12 bottles of raw coconut milk (freezing) of $210; and a box of 30 bags (40g/pack) of cinnamon tea of $199.

Unionists have provided journalists with a cut-off for the purchase of insider materials.

In addition, the Nandu Bay Press reporter noted that an internal document published on 9 September by Aunt Taki, published on a social platform, mentioned that, in order to further regulate the conduct of the door shop, serious treatment had been given to the QSC and food and security-related stores. On 3 August of this year, the company had issued a special handling announcement on “the strict prohibition of the procurement of third-party raw materials”, but that some of the stores had committed irregularities despite consumer, brand and store interests. According to Aunt Taki, all affiliated parties are warned not to touch consumer rights, food security regulations and red line compliance.

It's an internal document posted on September 9th. Screenshot

According to a report of 22 October by Phoenix Network Technology, aunt Yusei responded that the main reason for the closure of the union was poor business. The union manager stated that the union had opened a shop by way of credit card, and that the aunt had been banned from using the loan, and that she was unable to keep up with it because of her management capacity, which had resulted in three shops being closed and had no direct connection to the brand.

However, the association denied this to journalists, stating that it had no loan to open the shop. According to it, since the door shop did not earn money, she needed a loan to pay rent, etc., rather than to open a new shop.

Most of the new head tea business is based on B.

The price of the first raw materials is highest.

In fact, behind the complaints of the coalition was the current pattern of profitability of most new tea brands — mainly through the sale of equipment and raw materials to the consortium. In 2022, the four enterprises earned 98 per cent, 81 per cent, 77 per cent and 95 per cent, respectively, of their earnings from sales of goods and equipment to affiliated companies, in terms of their performance as disclosed to the outside world.

In the case of the new tea-drinking enterprises, alliances are both a major source of income for them and an important partner for the enterprises. And what about the fees paid by each of us to join the alliance? On 23 October, the South Doughside Bank reporter, based on the officially published membership policy query of the head tea brands, found that the fees of enterprises were concentrated on four items: brand fees, equipment charges, initial material charges and renovations. If you look only at the first material charges, the maximum charge is $100,000 for the King's Taki, and the maximum charge for the equipment is $250,000 for Nashe. In addition, there are various additional fees, such as market promotion fees, operating services fees, training fees, etc.

Meice Ice City, Koo-Chu, Aunt Kao-Chu, Tea-Chi, Tea-Chi, Tea-Chi, Naishi's Union Cost Statistics

This means that it would take at least 200,000 starters to invest in a well-known milk and tea shop without calculating the cost of labour, shop rents, etc., and whether the new tea and drink industry really earns money or is it being treated as a herring? The narrow eye shows that, in the past year, the front-runner businesses, such as Miyuki City, Koo Yu, Auntie Tsai, Tsai Bahado and Chi Jie, have slowed down, while as of 15 October this year, the total number of milk and tea shops nationwide was approximately 390,000, with approximately 120,000 new and 17,000 closed in the last year.

In September this year #the milk and tea recycler spent 670,000 recycled equipment for scrap metal # and #books burning too many second-hand equipment demurrages at the sacrament store # . In October of this year, Nandu Bay Bankers noted that Guo-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Chu-Khu-Chu-Khu-Khu-Chu-Khu-Chu-Khu-Khu-Chu-Khu-Kou-Khu-Khu-Khu-Khu-Khu-Khu-Khu-Kou-Khu-Khu-Khu-Khu-Khu-Khu-Khu-Khu-Khu-Kwan, a platform for official second-hand equipment trading platform, which was set up to ensure the security, ease and ease of business transactions between the new and the old allies, was not mandatory. However, it has also been analysed that this move has also lowered the threshold of membership. However, it appears from the financial statements that about 4 per cent of the revenues of Guangcheng in 2021 and 2022 were contributed by the sale of equipment, i.e., it was formed at the expense of part of the profits of the enterprise.

Lin Yue, the chief analyst of Ling Goose, said to the Nandu Bay Bank reporter that it was true that the market had reached a saturation stage, particularly in the urban core business circles, with head-links competing with local small brands, and with a large number of unionists opening up and closing their shops, which had been swept up in price wars. For branders, they should not be seen as the object of money, but rather as the community of interests, which must be sufficiently involved in their success, from site selection to business management, and many of the union’s failures are largely due to the neglect of the brand.

According to Lin, this is not to say that it is not feasible to make profits through B, and that many of the existing branders are making money by providing raw materials and equipment to Unionists, but they cannot simply consider making money because the Unionists ' success or failure has somewhat affected brand reputations, ultimately reflected in C-side consumption experiences and C-end perceptions of brands. “The reason for joining is that this cooperation will not last long if it does not make money, or even become a brander's money-shaping tree, because of the brand effect of the company.”

Script: Nandu Bay Bank