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Retail Asia11/09/2023
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Food

Belgium toasts its beer riches with new visitor centre

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Belgium is promoting its centuries of beer-making and 430 breweries with a new visitor centre in Brussels that recounts the history of Belgian production and aims to show what is unique about the country’s beer and beer culture. Belgian Beer World will open on Saturday in the neoclassical former Brussels Stock Exchange, renovated at a […]
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Retail Asia25/03/2022
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Food

Barry Callebaut expands NSW chocolate plant

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Barry Callebaut has completed the expansion of its Campbellfield factory in Melbourne, after the 11,000 m2 site was acquired in 2020. The expansion will cater for local industrial food manufacturers with new production lines to increase the total operating capacity and its range of chocolate offerings. The range will now include liquid chocolate, compound, buttons and chips, […]
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Retail Asia13/01/2022
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Finance

Revolut Expands as a Bank

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Europe’s most valuable fintech has already amassed 18 million app users worldwide. Some of those are about to become bank customers. The London-headquartered neobank is launching as a bank in ten additional European markets, lifting the number of countries it operates in to 28, it said in a statement. The challenger bank can now protect client […]
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Retail Asia04/03/2021
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General

Steel industry expected to recover this year

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Vietnam’s steel industry is expected to recover this year with rising export orders, thanks to improved global demand and surging domestic consumption. Market leader Hoa Phat Group last month exported over 12,000 tonnes of products, mostly cold-galvanized steel, to North and South America. This followed an export of 10,000 tonnes in January to Belgium and […]
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Retail Asia12/03/2020
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Automotive

Volvo Inaugurates Battery Assembly Line In Belgium

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Volvo Cars inaugurated a brand new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. The inauguration of the assembly line is in line with the company’s ambitious electrification strategy and its climate action plan. Ghent is […]
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Retail Asia30/07/2019
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Fashion

Belgian fashion chain Jean Paul Knott to enter China

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Belgian designer brand Jean Paul Knott will open its first Chinese flagship in Beijing next month. The designer behind the eponymous label, which emphasises high-quality fabric and minimalist design, revealed the plans at a recent conference marking the brand’s 2019 Autumn/Winter collection, inspired by the classic French 1960s romantic film A Man and a Woman, and […]
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Retail Asia26/06/2019
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Food

Godiva completes sale of APAC operations

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Belgian manufacturer of gourmet chocolates, Godiva Chocolatier, has completed the sale of selected assets of its Asia Pacific business to South Korea’s MBK Partners. Godiva, a subsidiary of Turkey’s Yildiz Holding, said the deal with the private equity firm includes Godiva’s retail and distribution operations in Japan, South Korea and Australia as well as the […]
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Retail Asia31/01/2019
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Fashion

Diamanti Per Tutti makes debut in Singapore

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Belgian jewellery brand Diamanti Per Tutti has launched its first standalone store in Singapore at Raffles City Shopping Centre. Positioned as an affordable luxury label, Antwerp-based Diamanti Per Tutti retails 925 Sterling Silver items gilded with 18 carat pink or yellow gold vermeil or white rhodium, set by hand with real, ethically-sourced natural diamonds and […]
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Retail Asia12/12/2018
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E-Tailing

Alibaba to open e-commerce hub in Belgium

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has signed an agreement with the Belgium government to launch an e-commerce trade hub, which will include investments in logistics infrastructure. The project is part of Alibaba’s Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP), and Belgium is the first European country to join the project following similar agreements in Malaysia and Rwanda. Alibaba’s logistics arm, Cainiao, […]
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Retail Asia27/03/2018
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Logistics

DHL Express officially opens its new Brussels Hub

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DHL Express, the worldwide leader in logistics and express delivery, today opened its new regional hub at Brussels Airport. The state-of-the-art hub is equipped with the most recent logistics technology and will almost quadruple the capacity of DHL Express in Brussels to 42,000 shipments per hour. The hub, an investment of over 140 million euros […]
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Retail Asia06/12/2017
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Food

Stella Artois launches a new pack and limited-edition design

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AB InBev has developed limited-edition packaging for Stella Artois to coincide with the Christmas period. The four-pack tote is designed to provide a new unwrapping ritual, with an easy-open tab running around the centre of the pack. The rounded edges and curves create a sleek, premium aesthetic, whilst the eye-catching red handle makes it easier to carry the tote […]
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Retail Asia27/04/2017
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Food

Vietnam fish exporters aim to crack Europe

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The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) is showcasing Vietnamese seafood products at the Seafood Expo Global, which is being held in Brussels, Belgium, from Tuesday to Thursday. In a 264sq.m. booth, the association introduced Viet Nam’s seafood specialties, including tra fish (known as pangasius), shrimp, tuna and tilapia fish, as well as cattle […]
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Retail Asia14/09/2016
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Food

Belgium brewery apologizes to Hindus for using Lord Ganesha as beer icon

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Belgium brewery, The Musketeers, has apologized for using Lord Ganesha as icon representing its Jack’s Precious IPA beer. The translation of the brewery’s (headquartered in Ursel, East Flanders) statement in Dutch, responding to criticism by Hindu community, published on their website, said: “The brewery wants to apologize when they unwittingly hurts a community”; and added that the […]
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Retail Asia02/09/2016
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Food

Minister sees off organic rice export to Belgium

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Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman here on Thursday saw of the shipment 40 tons of organic rice produced by a farmer group of Simpatik in Mekar Wangi village, West Java to Belgium. The shipment marked eight years of organic rice export from the farmer group to Belgium. The exported rice was packed in airtight plastic […]
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Retail Asia31/05/2016
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Logistics

Kerry Logistics Appoints New Managing Director

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Kerry Logistics Network Limited has appointed Daniel Hegwein as the new Managing Director for Belgium and the Netherlands. Effective immediately, Hegwein will oversee the company’s activities in the Benelux region from the Kerry Logistics office at Brussels Airport in Zavantem. Hegwein has more than 30 years of experience in the logistics sector, having previously worked […]
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