Tag: china

Retail Asia05/01/2017
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Starbucks today launched its first Starbucks Single-origin Yunnan coffee to usher in the New Year in China. Available for a limited time across all Starbucks retail locations in Mainland China, the new Starbucks Single-origin Yunnan coffee pays tribute to four years of close collaboration between the Starbucks China Farmer Support Center and local coffee farmers in […]

Retail Asia04/01/2017
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Korean group CJ Foodville has opened two Tous Les Jours cafes in Chongqing with plans to expand further into China’s inland cities. CJ Foodville is running its Tous Les Jours business in China in the form of direct ownership and master franchise. It already has stores in Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Suzhou, Tianjin and Weihai. […]

Retail Asia04/01/2017
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Singapore seafood restaurant company Jumbo Group has signed a franchise agreement to introduce its brand in Vietnam. Known for its chili crab, the F&B chain has granted franchise rights to Vietnam’s Nova Bac Nam 79 Joint Stock Company for it to run Jumbo Seafood restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang. Vietnam’s first […]

Retail Asia04/01/2017
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Scavolini, a leading kitchen manufacturer, aims to continue to grow by double digits in China and is preparing to launch a new investment plan in the first half of 2017 as it seeks to turn its strongly-domestic brand into an international one. At a recent trade show, Chief Executive Fabiana Scavolini announced the company’s expansion […]

Retail Asia04/01/2017
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Taiwan’s National Communications Commission has launched a new awareness campaign urging the nation’s remaining 2G subscribers to migrate to 3G or 4G before the 2G licenses expire on June 30. The regulator has produced two TV commercials to spread awareness of the advantages of 4G and the necessity of migrating. As of November there were […]

Retail Asia04/01/2017
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Maersk Line has announced that effective from 1 January 2017, Mike Fang will take up new responsibilities in Shanghai as Head of Maersk Line Greater China. Commenting on his new position, Mike Fang said: “I feel privileged that I can take on this new role. Greater China Cluster contributes around 30% of Maersk Line business […]

Retail Asia03/01/2017
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The Alibaba Group has complained about the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) inclusion of the Taobao marketplace in its latest “notorious markets” list. The Chinese e-commerce giant said the inclusion ignores the action Alibaba has taken against counterfeiters in recent years. “In 2016 alone, we proactively removed more than double the number of infringing product […]

Retail Asia03/01/2017
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Chinese smartphone maker Oppo may currently dominate China’s smartphone market with almost one-fifth market share, edging out previous leader Huawei, but the company is already looking to expand even more aggressively into markets such as Vietnam, Indonesia and India. Four years ago, Oppo was competing with a sea of rivals, struggling against smartphone giants like […]

Retail Asia03/01/2017
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UK fashion chain Topshop is the latest British retail company attempting to tap into China’s market by opening its first standalone store in 2018. The British high-street retailer has agreed a deal with Chinese partner and online fashion retailer Shangpin.com. The e-commerce business had already started to push Topshop into the Chinese mainland by selling […]

Retail Asia02/01/2017
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A senior director at Lotte Duty Free said the Korean retail giant has lost customers recently. “I don’t think the situation will get any better this year,” the director said. The duty-free company saw its customers decrease by at least 10 percent in December compared to the same period last year. This year will be […]

Retail Asia31/12/2016
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Despite all his contentious campaign rhetoric, Chinese retail has embraced Donald Trump in a big way. Take the Trump-rooster statue just erected at a shopping mall in Taiyuan, the capital city of China’s Shanxi province, for example. The enormous effigy —  to celebrate 2017, the Chinese Year of the Rooster — stands 32 feet tall, […]

Retail Asia29/12/2016
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 LeEco may be one of the best-known Chinese smartphone vendors globally after Lenovo, Huawei and Xiaomi, but the company has been in severe financial stress in recent times. The Beijing-based firm recently ventured out of China to establish a global footprint, and towards that end, have entered quite a few new markets over the past […]

Retail Asia29/12/2016
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Apple is turning to manufacturing partner Foxconn to facilitate efforts to expand both research centers and business further into Southeast Asia, and open up facilities in China and Indonesia, according to recent reports Foxconn has been manufacturing for Apple for over a decade. While Apple’s Indonesian presence is somewhat limited at the moment, Foxconn has […]


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