the logo of fashion house chanel is seen on a store in paris france june 18 2020 reuterscharles platiau paris may 24 reuters  chanel is confident it will deliver another year of solid growth despite a decline in sales in china because of a new round of lockdowns since march its finance chief told reuters on tuesday philippe blondiaux said in an interview that around a third of chanels beauty and perfume stores in china were currently closed as well as 5 of its 16 fashion and jewellery shops in the country due to the anticovid restrictions but he added that in the month of april despite a doubledigit decline in chinese revenues the company had reported a doubledigit increase in sales worldwide with other asian countries and the us market performing strongly blondiaux was speaking after chanel reported revenues of 156 billion for 2021 up 496 compared to the previous year