{
  "id": 2134442,
  "title": "China’s Pop Mart to buy back shares worth up to US$740m as collectible-toy demand cools",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/chinas-pop-mart-to-buy-back-shares-worth-up-to-us-740m-as-collectible",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-20T12:07:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Business",
    "slug": "scmp-business",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3364719/chinas-pop-mart-buy-back-shares-worth-us740m-collectible-toy-demand-cools"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Chinese toymaker Pop Mart International will launch a share buy-back plan worth up to 5 billion yuan (US$740 million) over the next six months, it said after the market closed on Thursday. The buy-back of between 2 billion yuan and 5 billion yuan comes amid softer domestic sales and normalising demand following last year’s strong performance, which was fuelled by blockbuster toy character Labubu.…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}