Fresh

Retail Asia20/01/2022

For the longest time, we’ve been hearing the same tagline from Subway: Eat Fresh! Since its inception in 1965, it’s what the brand wants us to associate with when consuming their footlong subs: only the freshest and the healthiest ingredients are used to make them. And it works! After all, we can’t help but cave into the […]

Retail Asia24/09/2020

Convenience store chain 7-Eleven in Taiwan has partnered with a restaurant and a hotel to offer fresh-cooked meals to consumers. The service, launching this week at the Dongxing Road outlet in Taipei, will retail assorted boxed meals targeting office workers following seven different menus prepared for the venture by Regent Taipei chefs and restaurant Su/food. […]

Retail Asia26/07/2019

Alibaba’s grocery-store network Hema Fresh (Hema Xiansheng) is targeting at least 2000 stores across China by 2022. With the current network at 160, expansion of the two-year-old chain is now being ramped up after Alibaba worked to refine the format. According to senior executives of Alibaba, quoted in Chinese news media reports, Hema Fresh will […]

Retail Asia21/06/2019

Amazon Japan is partnering with local supermarket operator Life Corp to sell fresh foods online. The project will commence in parts of Tokyo later this year and provide a range of produce to Amazon’s Prime Now subscribers in Japan, offering order times as prompt as two hours for delivery. It is the first time the […]

Retail Asia05/06/2019

Supermarket chain Foodstuffs will soon allow customers to bring their own containers to use for seafood, over-the-counter butchery, delicatessen and bakery items in an effort to eliminate waste. The BYOC (bring your own container) policy will be made available at Foodstuffs supermarkets and Foodstuffs-affiliated stores, including New World, Pak n Save and Four Square North […]

Retail Asia10/05/2019

Coles is encouraging customers to reduce food and plastic waste at home with its latest promotion, which is this time aimed at adults. The Coles Fresh Food Container Program, offers ‘container credits’ when customers spend $20 or more using flybuys online or in-store. The credits can be redeemed for a range of five reusable containers from 600mL to […]

Retail Asia07/05/2019

Link’s Fresh Markets have partnered with Hello Kitty creator Sanrio in a campaign to have the adorable characters greet customers at seven designated markets. The collaboration celebrates the fresh new look of Wo Che Market in Shatin, which has recently undergone asset enhancement. “The event is as much a delightful surprise for the public as […]

Retail Asia12/04/2019

Subway has struck a deal with Uber Eats to offer delivery from more than 100 restaurants in select New Zealand cities. Chris Churchmichael, country director for Subway New Zealand, said the agreement would allow Subway restaurants to tap into the rapidly growing delivery market in New Zealand, at breakfast, lunch, dinner and anytime in between. […]

Retail Asia04/04/2019

Hong Kong dessert shop Hui Lau Shan has opened in the Philippines. It is the first time for the franchise to open in the very region from which its special variety of mango is sourced. Its soft launch on March 17 at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong city was well-attended by local fans of the brand’s […]

Retail Asia31/01/2019

The world’s largest luxury retailer LVMH shrugged off broader market pessimism overnight reporting record revenue of €46.8 billion last year, up 10 per cent over 2017. Excluding the closure of the unprofitable Hong Kong airport duty-free business in December 2017, the group’s organic growth was 12 per cent. Every business division delivered what the company […]

Retail Asia04/02/2017

The online retail market in China is booming, as are sales of perishables. Ahead of the curve is Tmall (part of the Alibaba Group) which, through Tmall Fresh and Mr. Fresh, has created some of the first B2C platforms that caters for fresh produce online sales and delivery. Alibaba’s Tmall is the biggest domestic online […]

Retail Asia26/01/2017

On January 13, HEMA Fresh, a start-up O2O fresh produce retailer, launched its seventh store in Shanghai, one week after its sixth store was opened for business in the city. Emerged in early 2016 and quickly captured a lot of attention in China’s retail trade, HEMA is apparently speeding up its expansion. It has indicated […]

Retail Asia05/10/2015

Food retailers in some of Asia’s fastest-growing economies are expecting solid growth this year as expanding populations and rising income levels drive up demand, according to research commissioned by DHL Supply Chain. The logistics operator surveyed more than 300 industry decision-makers in India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam for its report, Hungry for Growth: Logistics Trends […]

Retail Asia09/06/2015

Online retail giant Amazon has expanded its fresh food offer – Amazon Fresh – into China through partnerships with local distributors and suppliers. The new platform will offer fruit and vegetables for home delivery, alongside other groceries including meat, seafood and confectionary across a total of 600 fresh food SKUs, news outlet Tech in Asia […]

Tag: Fresh

How Subway keeps it fresh

7-Eleven in Taiwan to offer restaurant grade fresh meals

Hema Fresh eyes 2000 stores by 2022

Amazon Starts to sell fresh produce online in Japan

Foodstuffs Allowing customers to bring own containers

Coles launches reusable container for at Home

Hello Kitty welcome Link’s Fresh Market shoppers

Subway strikes delivery deal with Uber Eats In New Zealand

Hong Kong dessert shop Hui Lau Shan Launched in Philippines

Record results for LVMH in 2018

Direct access to China’s online market through Alibaba’s Mr. Fresh

O2O Start-up HEMA Fresh Opening 2 Stores in January

Asia’s food retailers forecast fast-expanding business, DHL finds

Amazon Fresh expands into China