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Retail Asia16/08/2022

Amazon.com will invest in istyle, the company behind the @cosme review and retail site, gaining access to the Japanese beauty product vendor’s trove of user reviews. Under the agreement announced Monday, istyle will issue 2.5 billion yen ($18.7 million) in convertible bonds as well as 11.5 billion yen in warrants to Amazon on Sept. 6. […]

Retail Asia20/12/2018

Tokyo retailer Istyle will open its fourth @Cosme store in Hong Kong this Friday. The new outlet will be launching as a specialty cosmetics store in East Point City mall in Tseung Kwan O, which has recently emerging as a shopping spot across a range of age groups. The first of Istyle’s four stores to […]

Retail Asia17/08/2018

Japanese company istyle cosmetics is partnering with Siam Piwat to open @Cosme stores in Bangkok. The joint venture in which istyle holds 70 per cent is called istyle Retail Thailand and will operate five @Cosme stores in the country. The first Thai @Cosme store is set to open at the new development IconSiam by the […]

Retail Asia11/06/2018

Japan-listed cosmetics review media and retail company Istyle Inc today opened its first cosmetics @cosme Store in Hong Kong. In Tsim Sha Tsui, the outlet offers Japanese cosmetic brands with rankings and testers for almost all products. Istyle executive officer Hajime Endo, who is also president of Istyle Retail (Hong Kong), says the Hong […]

Retail Asia02/03/2017

Japanese online cosmetic store @Cosme is to open a brick-and-mortar store in Taiwan in May. It is the spearhead of a plan by its owner, Istyle, to open stores across Asia. Istyle began opening @cosme stores in Japan in 2007, bringing together drugstore and specialty store brands. The chain grew from a website that gained […]

Retail Asia22/10/2015

The Japanese online beauty retailer @Cosme has bought a stake in Singapore website Vanitee, described as a “digital marketplace for beauty artists”. Neither the value of the investment, or the size of the stake acquired was disclosed by either party. Vanitee was founded just 12 months ago by Douglas Gan, Kuik Xiaoshi and Choy Peng […]

Retail Asia19/05/2015

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Cosme.com has launched an English language model of its web site, increasing the most important cosmetics and wonder portal in Japan to a broad overseas market. @cosme, a subsidiary of istyle Inc, has developed right into a full-scale cosmetics portal reaching overwhelmingly giant numbers of girls – one in each two ladies in Japan of […]

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Amazon to invest in Japanese beauty retailer Istyle

iStyle opens Fourth Hong Kong @cosme store

@Cosme cosmetics debuts in Bangkok

@Cosme arrives in Hong Kong

@Cosme hitting debut in Taiwan

Japanese beauty e-tailer takes slice of Vanitee

Cosme.com breaks out of Japan