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Retail Asia31/01/2019

Yuraku Confectionery has opened a Black Thunder pop-up store in Tokyo, selling chocolate to women for the men they’re not attracted to. The “obligation chocolate” business goes to the Japanese expectation that women should buy chocolate for male coworkers on Valentine’s Day and to express gratitude at other times of the year, without hinting at […]

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Retail Asia24/10/2018

Nestle Japan has opened a permanent made-to-order Kit Kat store in Osaka. The new specialty store is the first and only permanent location in Japan where personalised Kit Kats can be made. It offers customised creations chilled on-the-spot with liquid nitrogen, with customers choosing from three types of chocolate and nine toppings. The store is […]

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Retail Asia10/10/2018

Neuhaus has launched its first praline and coffee food pairing ritual in Asia in an exclusive Travel Retail partnership with Gebr. Heinemann. The pairing is solely available in selected Sweet Dreams by Heinemann shops at Hong Kong International Airport. The Neuhaus Coffee & Pralines Collection showcases six pralines and two types of coffee from Brazil […]

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Retail Asia31/05/2018

Solid growth in Japan and China compensate for subdued sales in Hong Kong for fashion retailer I.T Limited. While Hong Kong sales slipped 5.1 per cent to HK$3.28 billion, much of that was related to store network rationalisation, with like-for-like sales down just 0.9 per cent. Mainland China sales rose by 10.9 per cent to […]

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Retail Asia15/05/2018

The Dark Gallery has launched a second cafe and boutique on Orchard Road, featuring a menu that differs from its debut outpost at Millenia Walk. In the basement of Takashimaya Shopping Centre, The Dark Gallery is set up to tempt window shoppers with its showcase of ice cream, bon bons, cakes and pastries. Its 40-seat […]

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Retail Asia26/01/2018

Improved consumer sentiment across Greater China and strong sales growth in Hong Kong helped boost third-quarter business for Hong Kong multi-brand fashion group I.T Limited. With fewer discounts offered, the group also enhanced its gross margin for the three months to the end of November. However, store closures continued in Hong Kong in the face […]

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Retail Asia29/09/2017

Offering more than 70 different sweets and chocolates, The BonBonist will launch in Pacific Place next month. It is the brainchild of French confectionery expert Olivia Niddam, the former GM of French chocolatier Jean-Paul Hevin Hong Kong. Presented in 10 themes, each with a virtual character, the treats are sourced from all over Europe, ranging […]

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Retail Asia02/05/2017

While the global chocolate confectionery market posts slow growth, new research from global market intelligence agency Mintel reveals that India is defying the odds. Indeed, India is now one of the world’s fastest growing chocolate confectionery markets. Sales of chocolate confectionery in retail markets grew by 13% between 2015 and 2016 in India, followed by […]

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Retail Asia03/04/2017

Indonesia’s growing middle class and its fondness for Western food has prompted Japanese food company Nisshin Oillio Group to start producing chocolate in the country. Daito Cacao, a unit of Nisshin Oillio, embarked on a joint venture in February with Salim Ivomas Pratama, a cacao plantation unit of Indonesian conglomerate Salim Group. Daito Cacao will […]

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Retail Asia22/03/2017

One of Barry Callebaut’s primary goals in Forever Chocolate is to lift more than 500,000 farmers out of poverty. To get there, we can improve farm productivity and increase the yield of high-quality cocoa. Doing this will enable farmers to sell their cocoa at higher prices and gain access to a better quality of life. […]

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Retail Asia17/03/2017

Singapore-based confectioner Delfi today announced plans to pull out of PT Ceres Meiji Indotama (CMI) – a confectionery manufacturing joint venture in Indonesia with Japanese pharma-to-food group Meiji Holdings. Delfi said the proposed sale of its 50% stake in CMI for US$8.3m will allow Delfi to “re-deploy financial and human resources to focus on growing our business, both in […]

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Retail Asia20/11/2016

Every time Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Russia, he asks for some Russian ice cream. As a result of this craving, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a whole box of ice cream to his Chinese counterpart at the G20 summit. Chinese tourists share their leader’s love for Russian ice cream so much that there are rumors […]

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Retail Asia09/10/2016

Months after popular ice-cream brand Ben&Jerry opened their first shop in Bangkok, looks like we will be able to continue to binge on new, sweet treats at Godiva. Godiva, the Belgian luxury chocolate store, announced it will launch its first shop in Bangkok at Groove, in CentralWorld. Selling an assortment of premium chocolates, biscuits and […]

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Retail Asia07/10/2016

Swiss chocolate producer Barry Callebaut has expanded its operations in Indonesia with the grand opening of its first chocolate factory in the country. Through a long-term outsourcing agreement with GarudaFood Group, one of the largest food and beverage companies in Indonesia, Barry Callebaut built its three-story, 43,000-sq.-ft. factory on the premises of GarudaFood’s biscuit plant […]

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Retail Asia13/09/2016

Multinational chocolatiers have spent almost 20 years trying to crack Indonesia’s booming confectionary market, only to build a share that pales in comparison with other emerging economies as long-established local producers fend off foreign incursions. Nestle, Cadbury’s owner Mondelez International, Mars Inc and Ferrero SpA together hold just one-tenth of a $1 billion market led […]

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Retail Asia05/04/2016

Lindt & Spruengli AG wants to overtake Godiva and become the world’s largest premium chocolate retailer by 2020. In pursuit of the goal, Lindt plans to open 20 to 30 shops each year, the Kilchberg, Switzerland-based maker of Lindor balls said in a statement Tuesday as it reported full-year profit growth in line with analysts’ […]

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Retail Asia19/03/2016

International Travel Retail in partnership with DFS Group today opened the largest M&M’S outlet in travel retail at Hong Kong International Airport. The 35sqm store is located in Terminal 1 and, according to DFS, is designed to offer “chocolate lovers a unique, entertaining and fun travel experience, driving travellers into the store”. With interactive retail […]

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Retail Asia18/06/2015

Barry Callebaut and Indonesian food and beverage company GarudaFood Group have reached agreement on a long-term supply agreement under which Barry Callebaut will supply 10,000 tonnes of compound chocolate per year to GarudaFood’s biscuit facility in Gresik in the Province of East Java. Under terms of the agreement, which will begin the middle of next […]

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Retail Asia21/04/2015

French confectionery brand La Cure Gourmande has chosen Korea for its Asian market debut. The sweets specialist has opened its first outlet in the continent inside the Lotte Department Store Sogong-dong downtown Seoul. The 36 sqm bright yellow coloured store offers more than 30 kinds of candies, cookies, caramels and chocolates, all imported from France. […]

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