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Retail Asia12/09/2019

Hotpot-restaurant tycoon Zhang Yong has topped the latest Forbes Singapore Rich List. Zhang, the founder of the Haidilao restaurant business, has an estimated net worth of US$13.8 billion (US$19.2 billion) – enough to push last year’s richest Singaporeans, property magnates Robert and Philip Ng into the second spot with their combined wealth of US$12.1 billion. […]

Retail Asia18/02/2019

Pham Nhat Vuong is the first Vietnamese to enter the list of the world’s 200 wealthiest people. He has an estimated worth of $7.5 billion. Vuong, who heads the Vingroup conglomerate, is 198th on the real time billionaires ranking updated by Forbes magazine on Saturday. His net worth has increased by $3.2 billion over last year when […]

Retail Asia02/08/2018

Forbes Vietnam has released its third annual list of the 40 most valuable brands in Vietnam, putting their total value at $8.1 billion. The value is 50 percent up from last year. Dairy giant Vinamilk and military-run telecom firm Viettel remain the top two as they were in the two previous years. Forbes estimates Vinamilk’s brand value […]

Retail Asia27/07/2018

Forbes has released the 16th annual Forbes Global 2000 edition which lists the top 10 largest apparel retail companies in the world. The list includes publicly-traded companies from 60 countries and has been complied using data from FactSet Research systems to screen for the biggest public companies in four metric: sales, profits, assets and market […]

Retail Asia22/11/2017

Pham Nhat Vuong, Vietnam’s first billionaire and owner of giant conglomerate Vingroup, has leapt 97 positions to become the 543rd richest person in the world, released on Tuesday. The magazine’s real-time list of the world’s billionaires showed that Vuong’s assets had expanded by more than 14 percent to $4 billion in just 13 days. He’d already marked a […]

Retail Asia10/11/2017

Vietnam’s richest man and first billionaire has climbed past U.S. President Donald Trump on Forbes magazine’s real time list of the world’s billionaires. Pham Nhat Vuong, founder and chairman of Vingroup JSC., was the world’s 640th richest person with a net worth of $3.5 billion as of 5 p.m. GMT on November 8. Since the release of Forbes‘ […]

Retail Asia23/03/2017

Business tycoon Henry Sy topped Forbes’ list of richest Filipinos, with a 2017 net worth of $12.7 billion. This is his 10th consecutive time to top the list. However, this is lower than his 2016 net worth of $13.7 billion. Sy is the 94th richest billionaire in the world. The global billionaires’ list released by […]

Retail Asia02/02/2017

Hong Kong is known to be a melting pot of activities, yet there’s one pastime in particular that locals and visitors alike always gravitate toward: shopping. The big malls like Pacific Place and Times Square definitely give shopaholics a run for their money, yet in such a dense megalopolis with so many shops to choose […]

Retail Asia22/11/2016

The Chearavanont and Chirathivat families are among the 50 richest Asia families in 2016 as ranked by Forbes Asia magazine. Families in the top five of this year’s list are in businesses that span technology, livestock, real estate and oil and gas, the magazine reported in its latest issue published yesterday. Leading the list for […]

Retail Asia05/09/2016

Indonesia is set to host the Forbes Global CEO Conference for a second time. The gathering will see business players and thought leaders from around the world discuss possible solutions to the continuous global economic slump. Now in its 16th year, the conference will host at least 42 speakers and has received confirmation from 300 […]

Retail Asia31/08/2016

Three Filipino companies made it into Forbes’ list of 50 best-performing listed firms in Asia this year. Jollibee Foods Corp., Puregold Price Club, Inc. and Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc. were included among “Asia’s Fab 50 Companies,” compiled by Forbes Magazine. Companies are selected based on their record of revenues, operating earnings and return on capital […]

Retail Asia19/07/2016

I am admittedly an Amazon shopping addict, so it was interesting to have a long conversation recently with Chinese colleagues in Nanning about their own growing addictions to online shopping. They are big fans of Taobao, although they also use other e-commerce sites likeJD.com and Suning.com. My colleagues are representative of a larger trend of […]

Retail Asia19/04/2016

Two Asian retail leaders have been added to Forbes magazine’s annual list of 50 most powerful businesswomen in Asia – in The Philippines and Vietnam. They are Robina Gokongwei-Pe, the president and COO of Robinsons Retail Holdings, the second-largest multi-format retailer in The Philippines, and chairman/general director Cao Thi Ngoc Dung of Vietnam’s largest jewellery […]

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Zhang Yong Tops the latest Forbes Singapore Rich List

First Vietnamese to enter 200 richest people in the world list

Forbes lists Vietnam’s most valuable brands, Vinamilk, Viettel remain top

Top 10 largest apparel companies worldwide in 2018

Vietnam’s richest man makes huge jump up global billionaires list

Vietnam’s richest man leapfrogs Donald Trump on Forbes’ billionaires list

Henry Sy still Philippines’s richest man

The Five Best Shops For Men In Hong Kong

Two Thai clans stay on Forbes rich list

Indonesia to host Forbes conference

Jollibee, Puregold, Robinsons retail make it to Forbes ‘Fab 50’

China’s Growing E-Commerce Addiction

Asian retail leaders in Forbes most powerful businesswomen