Category: Food

Retail Asia27/08/2019
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Grocery retailer New World has unveiled a new online platform, in partnership with design agency AKQA, designed to offer New World customers an optimized customer experience, designed to give them more choice, convenience and value, as well as encourage healthier food choices. Rather than simply acting as a traditional e-commerce portal, the New World website […]

Retail Asia26/08/2019
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Luxury confections boutique Sugarfina has teamed up with specialty-coffee chain The Coffee Academics in a collaboration targeting lovers of premium candy and fine coffee. The Cold Brew Coffee Collection by Sugarfina presents the world’s first coffee-infused gummy bears in three flavours – Cold Brew Bears, Bourbon Cold Brew Bears and Iced Vanilla Latte Bears. The […]

Retail Asia26/08/2019
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Jollibee Canada is continuing its expansion, opening its first store in Alberta this Friday, (August 16) at Edmonton. The store will be the Philippine-founded fast-food group’s fifth store in Canada, as it sets out to build a network of 100 outlets there within five years. The chain recently opened other locations in Winnipeg and the […]

Retail Asia26/08/2019
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Tokyo restaurant brand Kikanbo is to open its first Hong Kong restaurant in Causeway Bay, its third international market. From today, Hong Kong customers can enjoy a taste of the restaurant known as Tokyo’s “perennial long queue store”, and which sells 27,000 bowls of ramen each month Kikanbo, described as a karabishi miso ramen restaurant, […]

Retail Asia23/08/2019
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Blue Bottle Coffee’s first South Korean cafe which opened in Seoul’s artsy Seongsu neighborhood earlier this year, features an industrial-style design with steel surfaces and red-brick fixtures. The cafe was designed by Schemata Architects, which has already created several of the brand’s branches in Tokyo, Japan. South Korea is the second international market for the […]

Retail Asia23/08/2019
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Subway has said it could terminate franchisees that fail to meet their financial responsibilities amid an investigation launched by the Fair Work Ombudsman into the underpayment of its workers. The sandwich retailer said franchisees are required to meet regulatory, financial, workplace and employment requirements, and failure to do so could lead to disciplinary action. “Failing […]

Retail Asia22/08/2019
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Starbucks India plans to ramp up its store rollout. The global coffee chain opened 25 new stores in the last financial year and 30 new stores this year with local partner Tata Global Beverages – but plans to open a far greater number of new stores in the near future, according to Tata Starbucks CEO […]

Retail Asia22/08/2019
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FMCG giant Nestle started selling Starbucks-branded coffee in Mainland China today, seeking to tap growth in a market where it says coffee consumption per capita remains low compared to global standards. Nestle last year paid US$7.15 billion for exclusive rights to sell the US chain’s coffees and teas globally and began selling Starbucks-labelled products in […]

Retail Asia22/08/2019
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Australians top priorities in grocery shopping are convenience, quality and pricing – with the latter surprisingly coming in third. Dunnhumby’s latest Australian Grocer Retailer Preference Index found that Woolworths is the go to “one-stop-shop” for wide product variety while rival Coles is the chosen grocery for promotions and rewards. However, discount grocer Aldi beats them […]

Retail Asia21/08/2019
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Southern Taiwanese restaurant The Salted Plum has opened its second outlet in Suntec City. The outlet features a spacious dining area with a street ambiance, a self-service system and new dishes exclusive to the venue. The brand, which serves tapas-style Taiwanese dishes, began as a pop-up called FiveTen before launching its first permanent location on […]

Retail Asia21/08/2019
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Chinese restaurant operator Xiabuxiabu says the impact of the new International Financial Reporting Standard 16 (IFRS 16), which changes the way leases are treated in financials, will seriously impact its profit this year. The Hong Kong-listed company issued a profit warning yesterday saying profit attributable to shareholders for the six months to June would decrease “significantly” compared […]

Retail Asia20/08/2019
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Jumbo Group profit fell 24.8 percent in the third quarter to S$1.7 million (US$1.2 million) as new restaurant openings added to expenses. The Singapore-listed restaurant group opened three new outlets in Singapore: a Jumbo Seafood at Jewel Changi, along with Zui Yu Xuan Teochew Cuisine and Chao Ting Teochew Pao Fan eateries at Far East […]

Retail Asia19/08/2019
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Jollibee’s Smashburger and Red Ribbon business units significantly dragged down the restaurant operator’s first-half profits. Jollibee Foods Corporation says the company’s net income attributable to shareholders was P1.1 billion (US$21.1 million) in the second quarter – half that of the preceding three months. First-half profit was down 34 percent on the same period last year. […]

Retail Asia19/08/2019
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The Habit Restaurants is set to expand its Habit Burger Grill franchise throughout Cambodia in partnership with Amory F&B in a 25-store development agreement. The first outlet is expected to open in Phnom Penh in spring next year. “We quickly developed a passion for The Habit Burger business when we saw how much focus there […]

Retail Asia19/08/2019
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Upmarket Japanese coffee businesses are expanding into other Asian markets in an attempt to win over customers from global leaders such as Starbucks. Specialty brands Sarutahiko Coffee and Hoshino Coffee are among those reaching into major Asian markets, with Sarutahiko entering Thailand and Hong Kong, and Hoshino moving to Taiwan. “Consumers who frequent Starbucks are […]

Retail Asia16/08/2019
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Expansion-related costs saw Singapore-listed BreadTalk Group’s quarterly profit more than halve despite rising sales. According to a stock-exchange filing, net profit was down by 57.9 percent to S$1.02 million for the June quarter, but sales rose 9.8 percent to $163.3 million. Besides its namesake brand of bakeries, BreadTalk’s portfolio includes Toast Box, Food Republic, and […]

Retail Asia16/08/2019
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Dairy Farm sales surged by 13 percent in the first half of the year to US$13.8 billion. The Hong Kong-headquartered company said the improved top line was largely due to its investment in Robinsons Retail and a strong performance by Chinese supermarket business Yonghui, but it is clear that early signs of the company’s five-year […]

Retail Asia15/08/2019
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London-based food company Just Eat posted its half-year results on Wednesday, including the latest results from its Australian subsidiary Menulog. The takeaway food platform, which launched its own delivery service in 2018 (previously it only catered to restaurants that could ‘self deliver’), reported a 29 percent increase in revenue on a constant currency basis in […]


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