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Retail Asia06/10/2017
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Global beauty giant Sehpora has today announced its next store location, continuing its extensive retail expansion in Australia, opening at Highpoint Shopping Centre this November. It’s the beauty retailer’s 13th Australian store and third in Victoria, (Melbourne Central and Chadstone), and follows hot on the heels of the cosmetic’s chainslatest opening at Erina Shopping Centre on the […]

Retail Asia05/10/2017
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Hong Kong-based YP Basics has launched an online store, YPbasics.com, designed to take its basic caps to the world. Since 1974, YP (short for Yupoong) has created and refined a series of headwear styles embracing sport, action and street fashion. Its products have included the Snapback, Dad Hat, and Flexfit. YP Basics is the curated […]

Retail Asia04/10/2017
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Hong Kong retail sales continued their steady but sure recovery in August, rising 2.7 per cent year-on-year. The Census and Statistics Department (C&SD) estimates retail sales totalled HK$34.8 billion. After taking into account the revised estimate of 4 per cent for July, retail sales rose 0.3 per cent during the first eight months of this […]

Retail Asia03/10/2017
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High-fashion brand Emporio Armani Hong Kong has launched its first-treasure hunt app, with augmented-reality technologies to enable users to track down a special quarry, Shanghai actor Hu Ge. Until October 17, the EA Collector app can be downloaded to scan AR images on four Hu Ge posters scattered around Harbour City. Users will then be […]

Retail Asia02/10/2017
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To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Canadian burger chain Triple O’s plans a five-year expansion that includes four more outlets in Hong Kong. Created by restaurant chain White Spot in 1997, Triple O’s already has six locations in Hong Kong since arriving in 2004, and this month will launch in Macau. “We are looking for more […]

Retail Asia29/09/2017
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British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver will open the first Asia branch of his casual concept, Jamie’s Deli, in Hong Kong next month. A fast-casual delicatessen, its menu will feature fresh, sustainably sourced dishes including salads, artisan pizzas, sandwiches and pastries, available for dine-in or takeaway. Jamie’s Deli will debut inside Harbour City, under the same […]

Retail Asia28/09/2017
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Three fashion pop-ups will be in full swing in Hong Kong next month. Already open is a Prada pop-up store in Harbour City offering a special selection of men’s travel goods and accessories including backpacks, pouches, wash bags, luggage tags, eyewear cases and leather patches. The space features urban graphics inspired by the avant-garde black-and-white […]

Retail Asia28/09/2017
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A new AlipayHK digital wallet joint venture aims to promote a more efficient cashless society in Hong Kong, its partners say. Conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings and Ant Financial Services Group, the parent company of Alipay, say the move will further integrate online and offline payments for consumers. Dedicated to local-currency payments in Hong Kong, AlipayHK […]

Retail Asia28/09/2017
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Deliveroo Hong Kong has launched a delivery-only kitchen so restaurants can work off-site and cater to more customers across the city. Dubbed “Deliveroo Editions”, the kitchen concept is in Wan Chai and already caters for six restaurants on the Deliveroo platform. Each restaurant is allocated space in the kitchen, which Deliveroo has fitted out with […]

Retail Asia26/09/2017
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A Harry Potter cafe has opened in Hong Kong, named 9¾ Cafe after the hidden Hogwarts Express platform at King’s Cross Station in London. On Yin Chong Street in Mong Kok, the cafe features wall-mounted wands and broomsticks, stuffed owls, portraits of witches and wizards, and candlelight (electric). There is even a half-disappearing luggage trolley, […]

Retail Asia25/09/2017
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There has been no shortage of ink spilt in recent years about the negative impact of China’s anti-corruption crusade on Hong Kong’s retail sector. Visitor arrivals from the PRC represented 76 per cent of all tourists in 2016, when those numbers fell 6.7 per cent. Taken with aggressive campaigns to lure mainland tourists elsewhere — […]

Retail Asia22/09/2017
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Mon Purse’s explosive growth has become somewhat of a textbook example of ecommerce disruption in the industry after founder Lana Hopkins started the personalised handbag offer in 2014. Since then the company has expanded overseas and into bricks-and-mortar, becoming a well known retail brand amongst digital natives. Behind that success has been a robust social […]

Retail Asia22/09/2017
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Daniel Wellington Hong Kong has opened a pop-up store at Yoho Mall 1 in Yuen Long. The Swedish watch company took back the business from its from its distributor in March and now has four self-run stores in Hong Kong, at Festival Walk, Harbour City, IFC Mall and Lab Concept. Regional manager Jay Lam says […]

Retail Asia22/09/2017
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TNG FinTech Group has extended its global money transfer partnership with Tranglo Europe to cover the UK. TNG will invest $20 million to launch a local electronic wallet in the UK, becoming the first Asian FinTech company to access the European market with a next-generation financial services offering. With the service launch, TNG users will be able to […]

Retail Asia21/09/2017
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Paying off its HK$1 million (US$128,000) rent arrears, Hooters restaurant has staved off legal action and eviction from its Lan Kwai Fong premises. Hooters Asia president Daniel Yong says he paid off the debt, amounting to about three months’ rent, the day before the court deadline after lawyers issued a writ on behalf of the […]

Retail Asia20/09/2017
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Three thieves fled on a motorbike with HK$24 million (US$3 million) worth of jewellery after smashing Chow Sang Sang Jewellery’s store window with hammers in one of Hong Kong’s busiest shopping districts about 10am yesterday. Police have mounted a citywide manhunt following the 10-second Tsim Sha Tsui smash-and-grab raid at Silvercord shopping arcade on Canton […]

Retail Asia20/09/2017
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Food and lifestyle concept Treats at Cityplaza has launched a pop-up store for MinMinDim at its pop-up stage PopTreats. Running until December 3, it is a first ever for neighbourhood chef and “food jockey” Kitty Yuen Siu Yee, who owns the budget eatery with partner Stephen Chong. It features cart noodles and typical street food. […]

Retail Asia20/09/2017
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Alibaba Cloud has launched a new big data processing service named MaxCompute in Hong Kong to help meet rising demand for scalable computing services. The new platform will allow enterprise customers to store and process up to a petabyte of structured and unstructured data, with a single MaxCompute cluster scalable up to 10,000 servers. The platform […]


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