Cafe Amazon

Retail Asia20/12/2022

Thai coffee chain Café Amazon, which entered Vietnam two years ago, has been slow in expanding due to intense competition and the Covid-19 pandemic stymieing its plans. With 15 outlets mostly in Ho Chi Minh City and some southern localities, it remains a world away from its biggest competitor, Highlands Coffee, which has 573 across […]

Retail Asia15/09/2022

Thailand’s Café Amazon has launched in Saudi Arabia, opening its first store in the region at Riyadh’s InterHealth Hospital. PTT Oil and Retail Business (PPTOR), which operates the Café Amazon coffee shop chain, said it is targeting expansion to 150 stores in Saudi Arabia by 2032. Marking the opening of the Riyadh store, Jiraphon Kawswat, […]

Retail Asia13/04/2021

Thailand’s leading coffee chain Café Amazon plans to expand in Vietnam after five months of establishment in the country. A spokesperson said recently the chain sees long-term potential in Vietnam and will expand in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces this year, but did not reveal specific figures. The chain opened its first outlet […]

Retail Asia18/12/2019

Thai gas-stations operator PTT plans to open up to 20 new Cafe Amazon outlets across the Philippines next year, as part of the company’s non-oil expansion plans. PTT Philippines President and CEO Thitiroj Rergsumran said the company is allotting 80 million pesos (US$1.6 million) to expand the Cafe Amazon network, which currently stands at about […]

Retail Asia15/10/2019

Thai coffee chain Cafe Amazon has launched its first outlet in China. The new cafe has opened at a Sinopec-branded petrol station in the Guangxi provincial capital of Nanning. Cafe Amazon is owned by Thai petrol firm PTT Oil and Retail Business (OR), which is aiming to expand the chain globally. The Chinese operator is […]

Retail Asia04/12/2018

Thai oil company PTT plans to spin off its Cafe Amazon division and build a coffee chain it says will one day rival Starbucks. The company says it will open 20,000 cafes globally, nearly 10 times the current network of 2300 outlets in Thailand, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Japan. PTT will invest US$1.3 […]

Retail Asia30/08/2018

Thai petrochemicals and retail group PTT has opened its first Cafe Amazon in the Middle East. The launch of the Cafe Amazon Muscat store, in partnership with Oman Oil Marketing, will help PTT to study local market preferences for coffee, food, decor and atmosphere before making expansion plans. PTT currently operates 2557 branches of Cafe […]

Retail Asia13/12/2017

PTT Philippines expects to spend PHP500 million (US$9.9 million) on beefing up its retail network, including a foray into the Japanese market. President/CEO Sukanya Seriyothin says that while the bulk of the expansion for the Thai oil and gas giant PTT subsidiary will be gasoline stations, it includes about 12 Cafe Amazon outlets, mainly in […]

Retail Asia16/11/2016

Rather than a big city, Thai coffee-shop chain Cafe Amazon has chosen a village for its launch into Japan. More than 200km from Tokyo, Kawauchi in the Fukushima prefecture has fewer than 2000 residents, and the community is still struggling to recover from the 2011 nuclear disaster. Kawauchi is about 25km away from the Fukushima […]

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Thai coffee chain Café Amazon struggles to expand in Vietnam

Cafe Amazon plans 150 stores in Saudi Arabia

Thailand’s top coffee chain to expand in Vietnam

PTT Philippines to open more Cafe Amazon outlets

Thai Cafe Amazon opens first China outlet

Cafe Amazon preparing Coffee Shop concept to challenge Starbucks

Cafe Amazon makes debut in Middle Eastern

PTT earmarks P500 million for coffee-fuel expansion mix

Village for Cafe Amazon’s Japan launch