Sales of watches and jewellery, which comprise a major segment of Macau’s retail business, fell 10.4 per cent last year, fuelling the territory’s first annual retail sales decline since 2000.…
A strong Hong Kong dollar and fewer tourists to Hong Kong and Macau hit profits for Hong Kong-listed fashion group Bossini International Holdings for the six months to December 31.…
Hooters Thailand has doubled its network with two new locations: one more in Bangkok and the other in Pattaya – the group’s largest outlet. Hooters Pattaya and Hooters Nana join…
Cosmetics company Sephora has launched a one-stop online shop in Malaysia following its acquisition of independent beauty eTailer Luxola. Luxola founder and CEO Alexis Horowitz-Burdick says the move allows Sephora…
A parade of 1,600 papier-mache pandas will be touring Bangkok this month as part of a worldwide campaign for the conservation of the endangered species. Campaigning in a country that…
Danish toy giant Lego A/S will open its largest retail store in the world near the Shanghai Disney Resort, the company said on Tuesday. The 1,000-square-meter store will be located…
KerjaDulu, an Indonesian social recruitment portal for job seekers and employers, today announced a strategic investment from local media conglomerate MNC Group. The startup said its post-investment valuation is at $5…
Department store Sogo expects a gloomy year ahead due to a strong Hong Kong dollar and weak mainland tourists numbers. Its iconic Causeway Bay outlet recorded a 4.5 per cent…
February 29, 2016: SM Investments Corp (SM), the holding company of Philippine-based conglomerate SM Group of Companies, is merging its retail arm SM Retail Inc with related retail firms earning…
Singapore on Monday announced it had begun to feed solar power into its retail electric grid for the first time, as it seeks to reduce emissions and prepares to fully…
China this month became the fifth country where consumers can use smartphones to pay with Apple Pay, and Chinese shoppers quickly embraced the Apple Inc. payment system. In the first…
TheWellDressedSociety.com began with one dream– to evolve the Singapore fashion scene by bringing the best of Australian designers to Singapore and the rest of Asia. The site has launched with…
The Republic’s economy expanded by 2 per cent in 2015, the weakest annual growth since 2009 when the economy was hit by the global financial crisis, according to figures released…
Watsons has kicked off an initiative for selling and delivering cosmetics and groceries as takeaway via Baidu Waimai (takeaway in Chinese). Expanding online to boost sales The initiative has been…
The Philippines’ biggest retail property developer is not at all bothered by the emergent e-commerce, not even considering the latter as a latent competitor but more as a shot in…
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