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Retail Asia07/03/2019

Coles on Wednesday started selling a range of ‘everyday essentials’ on eBay, in a bid to reach some of the marketplace’s 11 million unique monthly visitors. The offering includes perishable and non-perishable items in Coles’ everyday essentials range across several categories, including select pre-packaged fresh food, pantry, personal care and household items. The items at […]

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Retail Asia06/03/2019

E-commerce giant Amazon is plotting a new grocery business in the US. The online retail giant is planning to strengthen its supermarket brand by purchasing local grocery chains that operate at least a dozen stores, the report claims. The first store is expected to open in Los Angeles by the end of the year, with leases signed for […]

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Retail Asia19/02/2019

The close relationship between luxury e-tailer Farfetch and Browns, the physical store that it acquired back in 2015, has become even closer with Browns’ CEO Holli Rogers having taken up a new role at the parent company. Rogers will stay on as the senior manager at Browns but has also become chief fashion officer at Farfetch, […]

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Retail Asia03/01/2019

SoftBank-backed Grofers aims to garner $2.5 billion (approximately Rs 17,500 crore) in revenue by 2020 as it scales up its private label offerings in the country and focusses on expanding repeat purchases in its platform. The company, which has recently completed five years of its operations, has a revenue run rate of $360 million (about Rs 2,500 […]

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Retail Asia24/12/2018

Growing consumer trust and confidence in online buying has helped e-commerce platforms expand their share in India’s total FMCG retail sales by as much as three times, according to market researcher Nielsen. This has led to online purchase of a broader range of categories, with a particularly interesting upswing seen in fresh and packaged groceries, Nielsen […]

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Retail Asia21/12/2018

Valentino, whose name is synonymous with high fashion across the globe, has opened a flagship store on Tmall Luxury Pavilion, Alibaba Group’s dedicated site for premium brands. The online store features selected products from the Rome-based fashion house’s womenswear and menswear lines, as well as five limited-edition items available only to Tmall shoppers including sneakers, pants […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2018

Discount Chinese merchandise chain Miniso has partnered with e-commerce platform Shopee to open its first online flagship store in Singapore. Shopee will exclusively host the Miniso Singapore online offering in the territory as a part of the retailer’s omnichannel strategy for Singapore in the coming year. The partnership will offer home delivery, special promotions and […]

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Retail Asia19/12/2018

Up to 98 percent of internet users in Vietnam have made purchases online, up one percentage point over 2017. Increasing effectiveness of the online retail ecosystem in meeting the convenience of its shopper base has strengthened the online shopping habit, according to the 2018 Nielsen Connected Commerce Report. Fashion, travel, books and music continue to […]

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Retail Asia18/12/2018

U.S. e-commerce giant Ebay announced plans to extend its product authentication program to cover luxury jewelry, in a bid to stem the resale of counterfeit jewels across its global marketplace. Dubbed “EbayAuthenticate”, the luxury jewelry category is the newest addition to Ebay’s new verification platform, which first launched in 2017 with the resale of luxury handbags. Following its success, […]

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Retail Asia13/12/2018

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Chinese online retail platform JD has launched a joint lab with Intel that will explore the use of IoT in smart retail solutions. The Digitised Retail Joint Lab will develop next-generation vending machines, media and advertising solutions, and technologies to be used in the stores of the future, based on Intel architecture. Scientists at the […]

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Retail Asia12/12/2018

South Koreans are spending more at Chinese online stores, according to credit-card spending data. Purchase records from November 1-26, compiled by the big data centre at Shinhan Card, showed a 9.8 per cent increase from last year in the value of goods bought from overseas internet sites. The number of transactions was up 16.6 per […]

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Retail Asia07/11/2018

Alibaba Group’s Tmall and Swire Properties are launching a New Retail initiative creating tailored retail experiences at Swire Properties’ five shopping malls in Mainland China. The partnership will bring benefits to customers in time for Alibaba’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival on Sunday with Taikoo Li Sanlitun in Beijing the first brick-and-mortar shopping mall in Mainland […]

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Retail Asia06/11/2018

Alibaba’s second-quarter revenue grew 54 per cent year on year, reaching RMB 85.1 billion ($US12.3 billion). Net income attributable to shareholders was RMB 20 billion ($2.9 billion), a 13 per cent year-on-year increase. “Alibaba had another strong quarter of rapid growth,” said Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang. “Annual active customers increased by 25 million to […]

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Retail Asia20/06/2018

More Australians visit Ebay in an average four week period than do Amazon and Kogan combined, new Roy Morgan research has revealed. New data put together from a sample of 50,000 Australians aged 14-plus has shown that Ebay is by far the most popular local online marketplace, with 9.4 million visitors in an average month. […]

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Retail Asia18/04/2018

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As 50,000 people apply each day to be franchisees, JD.com promises to open more than 1000 stores a day this year. It started the journey last month, with founder/CEO Liu Qiangdong saying almost every store will be a franchise, according to local media reports. The ambitious aim is a part of a plan the e-commerce […]

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Retail Asia10/11/2017

China online spending is set to account for almost 50 per cent of the country’s total retail market this year. According to fresh data from Mintel, this year’s figure will be 45.7 per cent of “total per capita retail spend”. In many categories, already more is spent on goods online than in physical stores in […]

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Retail Asia08/11/2017

ShopBack the one-stop lifestyle portal that powers smarter purchase decisions, raised USD25M in its latest funding round, bringing the company’s total funding raised to date close to USD40M. The round was led by Credit Saison, the largest credit card and retail finance company in Japan. More than 10 institutional investors participated in the round, including new […]

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Retail Asia18/07/2017

Ensogo Philippines will be closed down along with the online retailers’ other sites across Southeast Asia. Following the resignation of its co-founder Kris Marszalek, the Singapore-based tech company said it will cut its financial support to its sales and marketplace business units in Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines. “These business units will be […]

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Retail Asia12/07/2017

The tax man is threatening to shut down social media accounts, but savvy retailers know that it’s an empty threat. Ho Chi Minh City sent out tax demands to nearly 13,500 Facebook retailers over a month ago, but a representative from the city’s Tax Department told that so far only around 1,000 of them have responded. […]

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Retail Asia10/07/2017

Gucci has launched gucci.cn, its e-tail site for the Chinese market. In the words of the Italian luxury label, it will be Gucci’s only official Chinese website, created to “allow consumers a better access to Gucci products, without the limitations imposed by store location or opening hours. To optimise service speed, goods are shipped from local warehouses, […]

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