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Retail Asia29/03/2021

As part of a three-year strategic plan to focus its four largest brands — Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta — Gap Inc. said it will sell its children’s business to investment firm Go Global Retail on Thursday. Gap bought Janie and Jack in 2019 for $35 million from Gymboree Group Inc. It has a […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

VICTORIA’S Secret owner L Brands raised its current-quarter profit forecast for the second time this month as customers use stimulus checks to buy everything from scented candles to lingerie, sending its shares to a three-year high. The company on Friday also cited the unusual shifts in spending patterns and relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions for the upbeat […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

H&M, Burberry, Nike and Adidas and other western brands have been hit by consumer boycotts in China since last week over comments about their sourcing of cotton in Xinjiang. The growing rift comes as the United States and other Western governments increase pressure on China over suspected human rights abuses in the western region. Chinese […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

Just a few days ago, we told you that Google had added a new collection of photos for the Memories feature on the Google Photo app. These photographs all included images of beer; beer in glasses, beer in cans, beer in bottles and more. The photos show up in a collection called “Cheers.” The latest Memories collection […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

Mercedes-Benz has entered into a green power supply contract with energy supplier Enovos and the Norwegian energy producer Statkraft. This means that from 2022 onwards, the company will purchase electricity in Germany which comes exclusively from renewable sources. A green power supply contract ensures the purchase of electricity from renewable energy sources at all times. […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

Hanoi market authorities found more than 2,000 fake Samsung power banks in a store in Thanh Tri District on Friday. They all had ‘20+ Samsung’ printed on the surface, and 836 said made in China while the rest had no indication of origin. Hoang Dai Nghia, head of the Hanoi Market Surveillance Department’s Team 1, […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

Citi will hire up to 1,700 for its Hong Kong unit, partly in anticipation of the upcoming Greater Bay Area opportunities. Citi will add 1,500 to 1,700 in Hong Kong, according to a report citing Hong Kong and Macau chief executive Angel Ng Yin-yee. The expansion follows a 44 percent surge from net new money in Hong Kong and […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

Popeyes has its sights set on China. On Monday, the American fried chicken chain officially announced that it would open its first China-based store right here in Shanghai sometime next year. But that’s just the beginning. Popeyes has big plans to become China’s most popular fried chicken joint. No easy feat considering KFC – the […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

DHL has announced that it is expanding its green fleet in the US with the help of EV maker Lightning eMotors. It will acquire 89 more Lighting eMotors this year after a successful pilot run of nine EV vans. The DHL Green Fleet expansion is part of a larger sustainability roadmap launched by the DHL […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

The Harley-Davidson Pan America has started rolling off the production line from Harley’s York, Pennsylvania Vehicle Operations Plant. And it’s soon to make its way not just across the Atlantic to Europe, but to India and the rest of Asia as well. Back in the US, the action around the Pan America is heating up. A new […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

Post drafts have been part of Instagram for years, but the useful feature has never made its way to the app’s popular Stories section. Soon that will change, as Instagram itself announced on rival platform Twitter. Instead of being forced to choose between posting Stories immediately or saving them to your device for later, an upcoming Instagram […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

Disney+, which as of this month has 100 million subscribers, is nothing short of a global phenomenon thanks to its huge catalog of Disney, Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and National Geographic content. That catalog keeps growing in size, though, so Disney+ has decided that now’s the right time to raise its prices in the United States, after […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

Remember that controversial switch from Favorites to Likes on Twitter in 2015? Well, soon the social media platform could introduce another big change to the way people interact with Tweets, and this time it’ll to take some inspiration from Facebook. Twitter is considering the introduction of emoji-style reactions to Tweets. Users can only ‘heart’ tweets at […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

Some Instagram users have caught on lately that parent company Facebook had something up its sleeve when they started seeing a strange notification in their feed titled “preparing for life after prison with community support.” It turns out Facebook has been experimenting with a brand new app concept called Re-Entry, whose sole purpose is to facilitate […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

According to the findings of Synergy Research Group, enterprises are continuing to spend heavily on cloud infrastructure. In fact, this spending grew by 35% in 2020 to reach almost $130 billion. On the other hand, enterprise spending on data center hardware and software dropped by 6% to under $90 billion. “This continued a decade-long trend […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

OCBC outgoing group chief executive will maintain ties with the Singaporean lender as an advisor to the board. Samuel Tsien has been appointed advisor to the board upon retirement from his CEO role on April 15, according to a regulatory filing. Tsien will be succeeded by former Greater China CEO at HSBC Helen Wong who rejoins after first […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

Malaysia’s AirAsia Group and Aimia Holdings UK II have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a $25 million stock-swap deal, for the latter’s 20% equity interest in the airline group’s loyalty program. The parties inked a share sale and purchase agreement for Aimia to sell 1.67 million ordinary shares in BigLife to AirAsia Group for a […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

The Malaysian lender is revising its strategy to emphasise sustainable growth, in line with the group’s vision to be a «leading focused Asean bank.» CIMB Singapore is laying off staff and will close its Orchard Road branch as part of a restructuring exercise, which will see it optimise its functional set-up and leverage its group strengths […]

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Retail Asia25/03/2021

William MA, Group Managing Director of KLN Group, said, “The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to everything from global public health to people’s livelihoods. The stop-and-go momentum of the global economy has caused severe disruption to the global supply chain. With human mobility severely curtailed, the role of logistics has become ever more paramount. […]

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Retail Asia25/03/2021

Some new features are being created by Google for the latter’s Assistant virtual helper. While the original version of Assistant was designed to work with voice commands, eventually smart display-styled visuals were included and now Google wants Assistant to take advantage of the smartphone’s form factor to help improve the virtual assistant. Google is reportedly […]

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