Eslite

Retail Asia16/08/2021

Taiwanese bookseller Eslite is shifting its focus into smaller community stores in its home market after struggling due to Covid-19 last year. According to Eslite’s chairwoman, Mercy Wu, 100 small-format stores will be rolled out within the next three years and one store is set to open in China in 2024. Eslite’s decision to change […]

Retail Asia19/11/2020

Eslite Spectrum Corp (誠品生活), which runs the Eslite bookstore chain in Taiwan and abroad, yesterday inked an agreement with Malaysia’s YTL Corp Bhd to open a branch in downtown Kuala Lumpur in 2022. The two sides signed the partnership via a teleconference to launch the Taiwanese bookstore brand in YTL’s mixed-use property The Starhill in […]

Retail Asia01/06/2020

Taiwanese bookstore chain Eslite is preparing to launch in Kuala Lumpur. Although final details have yet to be released, the new 3300–6600sqm store will likely trade in downtown Kuala Lumpur. The opening, scheduled for next year and potentially delayed due to Covid-19 concerns, will see Taiwan’s largest bookseller opening its first store in Malaysia. Earlier […]

Retail Asia10/10/2019

Taiwan’s Eslite bookstore chain is set to launch its first outlet in Tokyo this week. The store opening marks Eslite Spectrum Corp’s 30th anniversary as well as the first time for the firm to start-up business in a territory where Chinese is not spoken. The 50th Eslite location, it will trade in books and other […]

Retail Asia20/03/2019

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Eslite Taipei, the world’s first 24-hour bookstore, is scheduled to shut down next year. The popular Taiwanese bookstore chain will discontinue its flagship location in Dunnan, upon the expiry of its lease next year after 19 years of trading. The firm’s chairwoman Mercy Wu has admitted that no plans for the store are in the […]

Retail Asia19/10/2018

Taiwanese bookstore chain Eslite is planning to expand into Japan. The prominent bookstore business is using the move to build its international profile, and has announced its plans as amounting to a “new starting point for cross-culture ventures”. Eslite’s Japanese partner has yet to be named. The firm’s long-term plan is to expand into Southeast […]

Retail Asia10/12/2015

Taiwanese bookstore operator Eslite Corporation has opened its first shop in Mainland China. The Eslite China store has opened in Suzhou in a high profile event featuring some of China’s most famous writers and artists, including Lin Hwai-min. Eslite has opened two stores in Hong Kong, redefining the nature of the bookshop in the territory. […]

Retail Asia25/09/2015

The ranks of English language bookshops in Hong Kong may be dwindling, but someone forgot to tell Taiwanese retailer Eslite. The second store will be themed ‘Travellers, Taiwan, Diversity and Culture’, spread over two floors of Star City at 3 Salisbury Rd. It will feature more than 25,000 titles in Chinese and English and trade […]

Retail Asia12/08/2015

Three Greater Chinese bookstores have been ranked amongst ‘the world’s coolest’ by US-based global news organisation CNN. In a newly-released selection posted online CNN observes that old or new, all of the stores round the world its editors selected for the “World’s Coolest” list have fascinating stories, serving as “historic sites, sanctuaries, salons of culture and […]

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Eslite to open 100 small-format stores in Taiwan

Eslite opening mega store in KL, Malaysia

Taiwan’s Eslite to make Southeast Asian debut in Malaysia

Eslite Bookstore to open outlet in Tokyo

Eslite Taipei bookstore closing down

Eslite to open in Japan with partner

Eslite China makes debut in Suzhou

Eslite Hong Kong adds second store

Chinese bookstores rank among ‘world’s coolest’