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Retail Asia01/03/2019

CapitaLand has topped out the eighth and final skyscraper of Raffles City Chongqing, expecting to launch it in phases from the second half of this year. This follows the completion of the 200m-high bridge The Crystal which connects six of the towers. “The successful topping out of Raffles City Chongqing represents a new milestone in […]

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Retail Asia27/02/2019

At over VND3 trillion ($129.21 million), foreign buying in the local bourses from February 1-25 is three times the January figure. Foreign investment since the beginning of the year has been worth over VND4.3 trillion ($185.16 million). They have been focusing on blue chips like Hoa Phat (HPG), one of Vietnam’s leading steel producers. The […]

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Retail Asia26/02/2019

Most Vietnamese banks fall short of international capital adequacy norms and have to focus on attracting foreign capital this year, Moody’s has said. The credit rating agency said in a release Monday that “the underdevelopment of the domestic capital markets” means the banks would have to look to foreign investors to meet the capital requirement […]

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Retail Asia25/02/2019

Gold prices edged higher on Friday as optimism over U.S.-China trade talks pressured the dollar, but signs of the U.S. Federal Reserve raising interest rates again this year capped gains. Spot gold inched 0.1 percent higher to $1,324.59 per ounce at 0408 GMT. The metal was headed for a second straight weekly rise, up almost […]

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Retail Asia25/02/2019

Allianz Malaysia Bhd’s earnings increased by 15.3% in the fourth quarter ended Dec 31, 2018 (Q4) to RM100.04 million, from RM86.78 million in the previous corresponding quarter mainly due to higher underwriting profit from motor business arising from lower claims and management expenses. For the quarter under review, the general insurance segment recorded a profit […]

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Retail Asia25/02/2019

Foot Locker has announced a US$275 million capital expenditure program for this year, with Asia singled out as a target market. The investment is $75 million more than the US-headquartered sports-shoe and apparel retailer allowed for last year. “The capital spending planned for this year reflects increased investments in the company’s store fleet in all […]

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Retail Asia20/02/2019

Samsung Electronics will expand investments to develop youth education programs, it said Monday. The company’s three division heads sent an in-house broadcast to employees that day to share a newly set mission: “Enabling people,” which means to help people discover and develop their innate potential. A particular target will be put on developing programs for […]

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Retail Asia20/02/2019

The property market is expected to remain flat this year before picking up again next year, said Rahim & Co International Sdn Bhd. Executive chairman Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman said the property market will remain flat across all sectors this year, except for the warehousing sub-sector, which will be driven by growth of […]

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Retail Asia15/02/2019

SoftBank Ventures announced Tuesday it invested 4.5 billion won ($4 million) in Trevari, a Korean book club operator. Fast Investment, another venture capitalist firm, invested an additional 500 million won in Trevari’s first publicly-announced funding round. “While adults today are reading less and less, the Trevari team has proven the success of its business model […]

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Retail Asia14/02/2019

Singapore online fashion market Zilingo has achieved capital investment of $226 million in a Series D funding round. The investments were made by the firm’s existing backers, including Sequoia Capital, as well as newcomers Temasek Holdings and EDBI, and will support the business’s expansion into fresh markets in the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia, as well […]

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Retail Asia13/02/2019

Logivan, a web platform that helps trucks connect with potential customers, said it has raised $5.5 million in the latest funding round. The investment comes from two Asian angel investors and Indonesian venture capitalist Alpha JWC Ventures. One of the angel investors is David Su, a founding managing partner at private equity firm Matrix Partners […]

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Retail Asia13/02/2019

Sears Holdings chair Edward Lampert’s US$5.2 billion bid to save 425 Sears and Kmart stores and roughly 45,000 jobs from liquidation was approved by a US bankruptcy court judge last week. Lampert’s bid, which he made through his hedge fund ESL Investments Inc., was approved by Judge Robert Drain after a hearing spanning several days in […]

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Retail Asia13/02/2019

H&M profit dropped in the year to November 30, the Swedish fast-fashion retailer blaming investment in its online business for the decline. The world’s second largest clothing retailer embarked on a transformation program last year, investing heavily in logistics and digital technology aiming to improve the shopping experience and product range. This included an upgrade in its […]

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Retail Asia08/02/2019

South Korea’s largest carmaker Hyundai Motor is hoping to revive its flagging fortunes by building more hydrogen-powered cars, as part of the country’s bid to become a leader in hydrogen technology by 2040. Last October in the United States, the company launched Nexo, an SUV that goes 609km on a single charge, has no battery, […]

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Retail Asia06/02/2019

Vietnamese companies are branching out into new areas, in line with the government’s goal of establishing the country as a manufacturing powerhouse by 2020. Real estate conglomerate Vingroup has started manufacturing electric motorbikes and smartphones and is set to enter the car industry in June. VinFast, a Vingroup unit, began selling its first electric motorbike in November. […]

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Retail Asia05/02/2019

Foreign funds snapped up RM146.8 million net of local equities last week during the holiday-shortened week. “Foreign funds resumed their entry into stocks listed on Bursa for the fourth consecutive week albeit at a slower pace compared to the preceding week,“ MIDF Research said in its weekly fund flow report. It said last Monday saw […]

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Retail Asia05/02/2019

Vietravel is nurturing a plan to launch its own airline to meet the demand that it predicts will keep rising in the future. The company’s CEO Nguyen Quoc Ky said the domestic aviation market is still “full of potential.” With a population of more than 100 million and the number of foreign visitors rising steadily […]

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Retail Asia31/01/2019

FDI pledges for new projects, increased capital and stake acquisitions in Vietnam rose 51.9 percent year-on-year to $1.9 billion in January. In a statement Monday, the Ministry of Planning and Investment said the manufacturing sector attracted the most interest from foreign investors, accounting for $1.19 billion or 62.4 percent of the total FDI. Science and technology ranked […]

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Retail Asia30/01/2019

Singapore-based Keppel Corp will sell 70 percent stake in a waterfront township project to a Vietnamese investor for $100 million. The company said in a release Monday that, pending certain developments, it will sell its stake in the Dong Nai Waterfront City Company (DNWC) to Ho Chi Minh City-based Nam Long Investment Corp for VND2.31 […]

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Retail Asia30/01/2019

Vietnamese fintech firm Finhay has raised $1 million in seed funding from Singapore’s Insignia Ventures Partners and other foreign investors. “Finhay will use the $1 million investment to expand its user base 10-fold to 100,000,” said founder and director of Finhay Nghiem Xuan Huy. Finhay was established in 2017 with capital of $100,000 as a […]

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