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Retail Asia15/05/2020

South Korean beauty firm AmorePacific has acquired a substantial minority stake in Australian luxury skincare brand Rationale. The investment is aimed at boosting AmorePacific’s credentials in the high-end personalized cosmetics market and will help Rationale expand across Asia, focusing on South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore initially during the next five years. The deal also […]

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Retail Asia11/05/2020

DHL Global Forwarding has been selected to be part of new air freight network launched by the Australian government to bridge air freight capacity gap. The Australian Department of Agriculture has identified supply chain disruptions as the biggest threat to farmers and fishermen in the country, where around 65% of agricultural products are exported, with a majority going […]

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Retail Asia23/03/2020

Premier Investments has weathered a string of global crises, including Brexit, Hong Kong protests and Australia’s bushfires to post record sales and earnings in the first half of the financial year – but now it says the coronavirus pandemic is impacting trade across every brand in its portfolio. On Friday, the owner of major national […]

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Retail Asia23/03/2020

In the midst of an ongoing outbreak, Australian lenders help lighten the load for affected small businesses which are estimated to house 5 million workers in the country. The relief package will apply to more than A$100 billion of existing small business loans and provides a 6-month deferral of loan payments for those affected by […]

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Retail Asia23/03/2020

Australian probiotic yogurt brand Hey Yogurt is planning to launch 100 outlets in Malaysia this year following its Nasdaq listing in February. The brand – which combines Australian yellow peaches with grain and yogurt and is marketed as a low-sugar, low-fat health food – has been operating in Singapore since January, where it has already […]

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Retail Asia20/02/2020

The bank is expanding its local research team as it hopes to strengthen its research insights and provide tailored insights on the implications for Australia. Citi Australia is bolstering its research capabilities with the addition of Faraz Syed, the bank announced in a statement on Wednesday. Syed joins from Moody’s Analytics, where he was an economist […]

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Retail Asia07/02/2020

Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has carried out a major overhaul of its senior management, with two of its top executives resigning just a few days before the Federal Court’s ruling on its halted merger with TPG Telecom. Vodafone stated that both Kevin Millroy and Ben McIntosh, CTO and CCO of the company respectively, were already planning […]

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Retail Asia04/02/2020

The firm wants to offer its platform and services to a wider audience in APAC, following a number of strategic partnerships and business growth in 2019. Sydney-based cryptocurrency exchange Independent Reserve, announced its launch in Singapore this week as a separate entity, which will allow Singapore residents to buy, trade and hold digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, […]

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Retail Asia22/01/2020

Exacerbated by prolonged drought, intense heat and the overall global climate change, the bushfires have had catastrophic consequences on people, their livelihoods as well as the myriad of native animal species that call the Australian bush home. It is now estimated that billions of native wildlife have perished in the deadly blazes. Australian telco giant […]

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Retail Asia20/01/2020

Tigers has opened a new omni-channel facility in Yennora, Sydney, Australia to meet rising demand in domestic and cross-border e-commerce for B2B, B2C fulfilment and retail scan pack. The omni-channel warehouse is fitted with Tigers’ Automated Transport Sortation System and SmartHub: Connect (SH:C) technologies that enable customers to manage orders and view their inventory remotely. […]

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Retail Asia18/12/2019

Australian fashion brand Tony Bianco is launching its first international location in Beijing. The label is partnering with verteran Chinese retail specialist firm Shanghai Smile Commercial – which has ushered multiple foreign fashion brands into China – in a joint venture to launch the brand in the territory. “A few years ago there was a […]

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Retail Asia13/12/2019

Virgin Australia Airlines is exiting some domestic and international routes in a bid to cut costs and clawback savings for its bottom line. Flights from Sydney to Christchurch and Hong Kong to Melbourne will stop operating from April and February 2020. Domestic routes set to face the chop are Canberra to Perth from 6 December […]

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Retail Asia09/12/2019

Finantix, a global provider of trusted technology to the wealth management, insurance, and banking industries, opened an office in Sydney to further support its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. The Sydney-based office will be run by Martin McCabe who joins Finantix as sales country manager for Australia and Todd Yarrow, senior business development executive for Australia, according to a media […]

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Retail Asia06/12/2019

AirAsia has been asked to re-evaluate its safety briefing after an incident on a flight between Perth and Denpasar in October 2017. During the incident in which oxygen masks were deployed, not all masks did so and not all masks worked, causing a degree of confusion in the cabin and for passengers to ignore seatbelt […]

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Retail Asia05/12/2019

Collins Foods’ underlying half-year profit has risen 9.1 percent to $23.9 million, boosted by a 4.9 percent rise in same-store sales at its KFC Australia franchises. The fast-food franchisor says statutory profit for the 24 weeks to October 13 was up 12.1 percent to $24.1 million, as its revenue rose 9.2 percent to $448.8 million […]

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Retail Asia05/12/2019

Australia’s food waste problem is getting worse, like meal delivery services fuel further waste. The nation’s total food waste bill is now $10.1 billion, up from $8.9 billion dollars in 2018, making it the highest in four years of data collected by the Rabobank Food Waste report. Australia is the fourth highest food waster in […]

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Retail Asia04/12/2019

Tigerair has announced it will cancel flights from Whitsunday airport to Sydney in early 2020. Flights will still continue over the Christmas and New Year period, but anyone who has booked the service from Feb 2020 onwards will be notified by the airline. Direct flights will still continue to be available through Jetstar.

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Retail Asia27/11/2019

Australian fashion brand Cotton On is the latest foreign player to come looking for a piece of the action in the growing Vietnamese market. It opened its first store in the country at Vincom Thao Dien in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2 on November 15. It plans to open two more stores before December, including […]

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Retail Asia19/11/2019

Two months after entering the local market with food delivery services in Melbourne, DoorDash has expanded to Sydney and now covers more than 40 percent of the Australian population it says. Launched in the US in 2013, the platform is the market leader in America with 35 percent market share. But it has a long […]

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Retail Asia18/11/2019

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Chinese fashion group EP Yaying is planning to expand beyond Asia by launching in the US and Australia by next year. The group is bullish about the increasing popularity of the Chinese culture-inspired fashion and believes it will resonate with foreign consumers. EP Yaying started as a small garment factory in 1988 and in 2016, […]

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