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Retail Asia23/03/2018

Fila Korea has collaborated with Japanese VR game franchise Pokemon on a range of colourful sneakers. Available via Fila South Korea, the limited-edition shoes feature Pokemon characters including Bulbasaur, Charmander, Jigglypuff, Pikachu and Squirtle. The shoes are wrapped in a Pokeball-themed box with a badge and sticker of the corresponding Pokemon. There are just two […]

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Retail Asia23/03/2018

Japan’s largest eyewear chain Jins plans to open in Metro Manila this summer. Brought in by Suyen Group, the parent of fashion brand Bench, Jins will add a broad variety of eyewear design to the Philippines. Each Jins store regularly stocks more than 1200 frames, ranging from classical styles to fashionable. Jins offers a visual […]

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Retail Asia22/03/2018

Italian furniture brand Poltrona Frau has opened its first showroom in Tokyo. Covering two floors, the 366sqm store’s design is inspired by the firm’s Via Manzoni showroom in Milan. Its opening in the culture/fashion/design district of Aoyama represents an important step for the company’s strategy to expand in Asia. It already has a distribution presence […]

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Retail Asia22/03/2018

Cross-border e-commerce platform Ippin Japan Mall has launched one of the internet’s largest sake collections. Ippin, which specialises in direct sales internationally of quality items from Japan, has made available more than 1350 varieties of sake, with direct delivery within a week from supplier warehouses. Ippin Japan Mall is a part of the C-Connect Corporation, […]

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Retail Asia21/03/2018

Issey Miyake Japan has established a boutique in Kyoto, in a preserved traditional machiya (townhouse). Inspired by the classic japanese sumi, or ink colour, the interior has been created by designer and longtime collaborator Naoto Fukusawa. The retail setting is understated, balancing the structure’s original elements with modern interventions across two levels. Included in the […]

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Retail Asia21/03/2018

Apple will launch a new store in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo on Saturday, April 7. It will be the company’s eighth retail outlet in the country. Shinjuku is a special ward that’s a major commercial and administrative centre, housing the Northern half of the busiest railway station in the world (Shinjuku Station) and the […]

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Retail Asia20/03/2018

Japan Tobacco has agreed to buy Donskoy Tabak, Russia’s fourth-largest cigarette maker, for $1.6 billion in a bid to reinforce its leading position in the country. One of the world’s biggest tobacco companies, whose global brands include Winston and Camel, Japan Tobacco (JT) has set its sights on international markets to counter slowing sales at […]

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Retail Asia20/03/2018

Japan, one of the global leaders in implementing the 4.0 industrial revolution, is witnessing strong investment from Vietnam’s information technology (IT) firms. Currently, there are some 20 IT companies in Vietnam with branches in Japan. The Japanese market holds tremendous potential for Vietnam’s information technology (IT) sector, said Trương Gia Bình, chairman of FPT Corporation. He […]

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Retail Asia20/03/2018

Tiffany & Co worldwide has finished its latest year with solid sales growth, both geographically and across product categories, says CEO Alessandro Bogliolo. Strong sales growth in Mainland China was offset by lower sales in most other countries. “We are focused on six strategic priorities,” says Bogliolo, as the American luxury jewellery revealed it fourth-quarter/full-year […]

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Retail Asia19/03/2018

Japanese fans can step into a whole world of Pokemon in a new experiential store in Tokyo. The Pokemon Center brings the game franchise to life with a range of Pokemon merchandise on sale. This is the Japanese franchise’s third Pokemon Center, and by far its largest with 1300sqm of floor space. It is also […]

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Retail Asia16/03/2018

Korea’s It’s Hanbul Cosmetics plans to expand into Japan by partnering with a local retailer. The company has brought its flagship brand It’s Skin to Japan via two pop-up stores inside ‘Niko and…’ stores in Tokyo and Funabashi, and plans to open eight more this year. About 500 items from the It’s Skin range will […]

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Retail Asia16/03/2018

Furla Asia sales soared a stunning 50 per cent last year, powering the brand’s global sales to €499 million (US$618 million). Revenue from Asia-Pacific now accounts for 24 per cent of global sales and that share is steadily rising. Sales in Japan, a separate reporting division, increased by 15.4 per cent, while sales in its […]

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Retail Asia16/03/2018

Samsonite Asia sales lept 16 per cent last year, a rate slower than the Hong Kong-listed company’s global growth, and predominantly driven by the acquisition of Tumi. The world’s largest travel luggage company achieved global sales of US$3.49 billion, up 23.3 per cent, with Asia accounting for $1.19 billion of that. Samsonite Asia sales excluding […]

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Retail Asia16/03/2018

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) is considering funding the Block B&52/97 project of the Việt Nam Oil and Gas Group (PetrolVietnam) with loans without a government guarantee. General Director of PetroVietnam Nguyễn Vũ Trường Sơn recently worked with JBIC representatives on the financial arrangements for the project. According to PetroVietnam, the project, worth […]

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Retail Asia14/03/2018

Japanese casualwear manufacturer Fast Retailing will open a Uniqlo shop on Sumatra Island, its first outlet outside Indonesia’s most populous main island of Java. The shop will open at the Sun Plaza shopping mall in Medan this week, in the northern part of the island. It covers about 2000sqm. Fast Retailing Indonesia president Michiaki Tanaka […]

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Retail Asia14/03/2018

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Fast-food chains in Japan are launching the biggest expansion wave in decades and adopting strategies that would have been unthinkable in the early 2000s, when hamburgers were a prime symbol of deflation. McDonald’s Holdings (Japan), the biggest player, is emerging from a prolonged slump and on Tuesday announced it is planning the first net store […]

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Retail Asia13/03/2018

After stopping car exports to Việt Nam for more than a month, Japanese auto giant Honda Motor suddenly decided to import around 2,000 vehicles from Thailand in early March. This is the first batch of automobiles exempt from import tax under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) to be imported into Việt Nam. ASEAN […]

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Retail Asia13/03/2018

Việt Nam’s real estate sector has witnessed significant participation from Japanese investors through cooperation with Vietnamese businesses recently, promising to bring benefits to the real estate market. According to real estate company Savills Việt Nam, over the past years, Asian investors, including Japanese ones, were only involved in commercial real estate like commercial centres, serviced apartments […]

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Retail Asia12/03/2018

Asian private equity firm The Longreach Group has agreed to totally acquire Japanese coffee shop chain Kohikan Corporation from UCC Foodservice Systems (UFS) for an undisclosed amount. In a statement on its website, Longreach says it has reached an agreement with UFS to buy 100 per cent of its subsidiary Kohikan. The deal is expected […]

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Retail Asia09/03/2018

Japan’s financial regulator will this week slap several cryptocurrency exchanges with administrative punishment notices and is considering forcing some to suspend their business. The Financial Services Agency may also tell Coincheck Inc – the exchange targeted by hackers in a US$530 million (RM1.96 billion) theft of digital money in January – to raise its standards, […]

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