Category: E-Tailing

Retail Asia29/03/2022
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E-commerce and gaming firm Sea said on Monday it is withdrawing from India’s retail market just months after starting operations there, the second pullback this month in an overseas expansion drive, as the loss-making firm faces a weak growth outlook. The withdrawal, effective beginning March 29, comes weeks after its e-commerce arm Shopee said it […]

Retail Asia29/03/2022
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Alibaba Group’s marketplace Taobao Deals launched a 10-Yuan Store this week for China’s bargain hunters seeking daily necessities. Goods are priced below RMB10 (US$1.57) each at the digital stores, which are similar in concept to dollar stores in the US or pound shops in the UK. Taobao Deals also unveiled 100 Store, a marketplace for higher-value products, […]

Retail Asia24/03/2022
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Amazon Singapore has today launched a new mental health benefits package that provides its employees and their families with personalised, convenient, and confidential mental health and well-being support. The new service provides holistic mental well-being support with services such as life coaching, legal and financial support, and mindfulness resources available in addition to the traditional […]

Retail Asia21/03/2022
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The Vietnam Pavilion was launched on Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba.com Friday to globally promote the country’s products and success stories. The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency and the tech giant signed a deal for the purpose. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai said the site would be used for advertising and taking Vietnamese […]

Retail Asia15/03/2022
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Twenty-four Amazon investors are urging the tech giant to step up transparency in tax disclosures and adopt a new reporting standard, the Financial Times said on Sunday. Asset managers Nordea, Royal London, and several large European and U.S. pension funds are among those pushing for Amazon to issue a transparency report in line with Global […]

Retail Asia08/03/2022
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Google Cloud and Flipkart, India’s homegrown consumer internet ecosystem, have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership to help fast-track Flipkart’s innovation and cloud strategy. This partnership will propel Flipkart into its next phase of growth and advance its vision of onboarding India’s next 200 million shoppers and lakhs of sellers. Working together, Google Cloud will […]

Retail Asia03/03/2022
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On 1st March, India’s fashion e-commerce platform, Myntra, announced its partnership with Zalora, Southeast Asia’s online fashion destination catering largely to the South East Asian markets, including, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines and Indonesia. As a house of brands with numerous private labels, Zalora offers an ever-expanding range of popular fashion trends and collections, […]

Retail Asia25/02/2022
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Vietnam e-commerce startup OpenCommerce Group has raised $7 million in a Series A funding round led by internet company VNG and venture capital firm Do Ventures. The Hanoi-based company, which provides tech solutions for sellers to create and manage their online stores with no inventory costs required, said it has supported 86,700 small and medium […]

Retail Asia23/02/2022
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According to statistics for Buy2Sell’s Google Analytics in 2021, the platform recorded over half a million visits and 140,000 registered users. In 2020, the platform reached about 400,000 visits and 56,000 registered users. In two years, it has recorded one million hits and more than 200,000 registered users. According to Buy2Sell’s importation data for the […]

Retail Asia21/02/2022
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The global winter sports gear market continues to boom in 2022 thanks to the thrilling Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the rising popularity of winter sports around the world. Sales data from AliExpress, a global retail online marketplace under the Alibaba Group, shows a growing demand for winter sports products particularly for the winter sports […]

Retail Asia07/02/2022
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Online luxury fashion platform Cettire said it has penned a new deal to enter mainland China through a partnership with e-commerce giant JD.com, sending its shares up by more than 21 percent. Mainland China is expected to be the world’s largest market for personal luxury goods by 2025, representing around 25 percent of the $600 […]

Retail Asia03/01/2022
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With Covid-19 forcing people to stay at home and spend time online, e-commerce has been thriving. When Tet, the Lunar New Year, was a month and a half away e-commerce platforms had already achieved a strong increase in revenues during their December-12 promotion program. Lazada said sales doubled from the same period in 2020, while […]

Retail Asia20/12/2021
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Alibaba Group will aim to achieve carbon neutrality in its own operations and slash emissions across its supply chains and transportation networks by the end of the decade, the Chinese e-commerce giant pledged on Friday. Alibaba promised to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 in its own direct emissions – known as “scope 1” – as […]


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