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After 2016, Lao Gan Ma's sales in China declined for two years in a row. According to reports, Lao Gan Ma's annual income reached 4.549 billion RMB in 2016, 4.447 billion RMB in 2017, and 4.389 billion RMB in 2018. It was speculated that this was due to a change in the recipe in 2011, where after the
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through commercial cooperation. In this contract, Lao Gan Ma needs to pay
Tencent the company's promotion fees. Tencent subsequently urged Lao Gan Ma to pay the outstanding debt many times, but was unable to obtain a response. On April 24, 2020, Tencent requested the seizure of a total of 16,240,600
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Chinese government turning down Lao Gan Ma's application to trademark the product. After the trademark request was denied, counterfeit Lao Gan Ma came to prominence. Tao
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Guiyang, Guizhou; when she noticed the popularity of her hot sauces, she converted the restaurant into a specialty shop to sell her sauces, particularly chili oil sauce. In 1994, she borrowed two houses of the
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January 2011 that the company's assets were 1.3 billion RMB (US$ 190 million) and that the company had 2,000 employees at that time. The sauce is produced commercially by Laoganma Special Flavour Foodstuffs Company, which was established in 1997. By 2022, the condiment became
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Company (approximately US$ 2.26 million). After investigation, Laoganma discovered that someone had used the company's seal to forge contracts to defraud Tencent of promotion fees. On July 1, 2020, all three scammers were arrested and the case was solved. Lao Gan Ma and
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Guizhou chilies are large in size, full in body, and contain more water, making them more suitable for making hot sauce, lending the sauce an aroma other than the spicy flavor. According to some, Lao Gan Ma lost its unique flavor after the change to Henan chilies. In 2019, Tao Huabi became the
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Beijing ruled that other similar products could not use the "Lao Gan Ma" name nor imitate its packaging; Tao received 400,000
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