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Retail Asia30/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Rakuten to open on JD.com

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Rakuten, Japan’s largest eCommerce company, is to open an online flagship on Chinese cross-border eCommerce platform JD.com. The Japanese company says it aims to take “the best Japanese products to Chinese consumers”. It launched a beta version of the new marketplace on JD Worldwide earlier this month. Plans are under way to expand the merchandise […]
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Retail Asia29/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Woolworths plans to sell online in China

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Supermarket titan Woolworths considers taking advantage of China’s voracious interest for Australian food and grocery items.  Australia’s biggest general store chain has connected with China-based eCargo Holdings to construct and operate a Woolworths storefront on Alibaba’s Tmall business-to-customer online marketplace. eCargo will likewise facilitate Woolworths’ stock, packing and dissemination requirements, counsel on brand strategy and […]
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Retail Asia28/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Foodpanda HK axes Foodora after just two months

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Just two months after its launch, Foodora, the upmarket sister site of Foodpanda Hong Kong has been axed. Inside Retail Hong Kong broke news of Foodora’s launch in late September and the company officially unveiled the concept in early October, saying it had 100 restaurants signed up after a trial in two suburbs: Central and […]
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Retail Asia28/12/2015
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E-Tailing

WearYouWant Thailand sales soar

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WearYouWant Thailand – the Bangkok based online fashion marketplace – has reported a 150 per cent growth in revenue this year. “It has been an astounding year for WearYouWant,” says Julien Chalté, co-founder and Co-CEO. “We have outperformed our budget for the last 11 months and believe we will end this year on a strong […]
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Retail Asia24/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Shoppers catch Zalora online fever

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Asian online fashion retailer Zalora recorded sales six times higher than any day ever before during its December 12 Online Fever promotion last weekend. Zalora sells in eight Asian markets: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The 12.12 Online Fever promotion was positioned as Asia’s answer to North America’s Cyber Monday, […]
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Retail Asia24/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Singapore’s Honestbee launches in Japan

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Honestbee, the fast-growing on-demand grocery concierge and delivery service company founded in Singapore just last July, has launched its service in Japan. The first Japan stop of many to come, visiting tourists can now enjoy the convenience of grocery shopping via the online portal honestbee.jp in Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan, from now until February 29. Honestbee’s […]
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Retail Asia18/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Foodpanda Vietnam gobbled up by rival

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Days after announcing it was shutting down, Rocket Internet’s Foodpanda Vietnam has been bought by local rival Vietnammm. Vietnammm, the original online food delivery service in the commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City, has paid an undisclosed amount to acquire Foodpanda’s customer base and 1000 restaurant partners. “This deal enables Foodpanda’s customers and listed […]
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Retail Asia18/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Le Saunda sales slip

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Footwear retailer Le Saunda says same store sales in its own stores slipped eight per cent in the third quarter. But the company’s online turnover soared 26.7 per cent reflecting rising popularity of online shopping across Greater China. Total sales declined 6.1 per cent year on year. As at the end of November Le Saunda had […]
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Retail Asia14/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Foodpanda Vietnam to shut down

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Foodpanda – relentlessly marching its way across Southeast Asia, gobbling up rival food delivery businesses and creating monopolies – has shocked the online community by closing its Vietnam business. According to a report in online business news website Deal Street Asia the Rocket-Internet backed company has told its Vietnamese partners the operation will close on […]
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Retail Asia14/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Fashion etailer SuperGurl apologises for rape gaffe

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Singapore online fashion retailer SuperGurl has apologised online and on social media for a homepage banner inviting rape, described by at least one shopper as “absolutely vile”. The banner featured a young woman with her arms up in submission and a button users could click on to gain discounts inviting them to “rape us now”. […]
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Retail Asia12/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Indonesian eCommerce boom

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Indonesians are embracing online shopping at an astonishing rate. The Indonesian eCommerce Association expects the total online market to treble between 2014 and 2016, worth Rp 283 trillion (US$24 billion) in 2016. According to Bank Central Asia, Indonesia’s largest private lender, an Indonesian eCommerce boom will see spending rise an estimated 127 per cent this […]
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Retail Asia11/12/2015
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E-Tailing

mCommerce boom raises cybersecurity risk

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Asia’s mComerce boom is creating a growing target for online fraud and cybersecurity risks, according to fraud consultancy Fico Group. Criminals who used to focus on ATM skimming are turning their attention online in an effort to compromise credit and debit card data. These attacks can be far more lucrative, with more details stolen and […]
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Retail Asia09/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Lazada sees opportunities in upcountry expansion

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Lazada, Southeast Asia’s largest online shopping website, is pushing its business development in Thailand in a drive to capitalise on the lucrative and rapidly growing e-commerce market. The company has set up two subsidiaries: Lazada Express, the logistics arm; and helloPay, the mobile payment arm. Having logistics and mobile payment services will help Lazada facilitate […]
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Retail Asia08/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Kakao Bank, South Korea first internet-only banks

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The country’s Financial Services Commission said Sunday it awarded a preliminary license to Kakao for a business to be named Kakao Bank. “An Internet bank is meant to give non-financial players, including IT firms, chances to enter the banking sector if they have feasible business plans to improve the financial market and customer rights”, the […]
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Retail Asia05/12/2015
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E-Tailing

China Jo-Jo Drugstores turns a profit

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Chinese pharmacy retailer China Jo-Jo Drugstores has finally turned a profit, thanks to booming online sales and partnerships with health insurers. The US-listed retailer achieved second quarter sales of US$22.6 million, up 22.4 per cent on the same period last year. And it turned a loss of $40,000 last year into a $150,000 profit for […]
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Retail Asia04/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Asian eCommerce boom reshaping logistics sector

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The Asian eCommerce boom is driving major changes in logistics developments and networks across the region, according to CBRE’s latest Global & Emerging Logistics Hubs report. “With a trickle-down effect to inventory management, this is leading to changes in the global supply chain network,” said Dennis Yeo, regional head, industrial & logistics services with CBRE […]
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Retail Asia04/12/2015
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Fashion

BCBGMaxAzria opens Tmall store

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BCBGMaxAzria, the US premier lifestyle fashion brand has partnered with B2C cross-border eCommerce solutions provider VoyageOne to expand its online footprint in China. “We are pleased to launch of BCBG on Tmall. We are very optimistic about the opportunity in China,” says Max Azria, founder, chairman and CEO of BCBG Max Azria Group. BCBGMaxAzria’s flagship […]
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Retail Asia04/12/2015
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General

7-Eleven Taiwan in MyDay eCommerce partnership

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Taiwan’s largest convenience store chain, 7-Eleven, says it will work with local shopping website MyDay to have online purchases from overseas delivered to its 5000-plus stores around Taiwan. The convenience store introduced the delivery service on Wednesday (November 25), allowing shoppers on the MyDay website to have their purchases delivered from Japan, the US and South […]
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Retail Asia04/12/2015
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E-Tailing

Sa Sa plans new store concepts

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Hit by falling sales in the tourist downturn, Hong Kong beauty retailer Sa Sa plans new store concepts and diversification to restore growth. Reporting a 10.6 per cent decline in sales to HK$3.778 billion in the first half of the current year, and a 55 per cent plunge in profit to $153 million, Sa Sa […]
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