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Retail Asia01/08/2019

A Hong Kong-based private equity company has bought out restaurant operator Craveable Brands as the Australian company steps up its foray into Asia. PAG Asia has paid an undisclosed amount to acquire the business from Archer Capital and other minority shareholders. Craveable Brands owns the Red Rooster chain of fried chicken fast-food restaurants and Oporto, […]

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Retail Asia30/07/2019

Asia Pacific is poised for growth in data-driven marketing (“precision marketing”) given the increasing base of 2 billion online users and expected rise of advertising budgets in the next five to 10 years. The conclusions arise from the latest report by research company Nielsen, A Digital Giant Awakens, which surveyed marketing leaders across Asia-Pacific markets on […]

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Retail Asia12/07/2019

Southeast Asian e-commerce platform Lazada has launched a new brand campaign – Go Where Your Heart Beats. This is the first refresh of the Lazada brand in five years, representing an attempt to elevate the role of the company beyond a transactional shopping platform to a “lifestyle destination”. The move is underpinned by the brand’s […]

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Retail Asia09/07/2019

New Zealand skincare brand Antipodes has announced a strategic partnership with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. Announced at the Alibaba E-commerce Expo in Auckland last week, the partnership will see the two companies work together to bring a targeted range of skincare products to Chinese consumers via Alibaba’s Tmall Global e-commerce platform. Antipodes has been working […]

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Retail Asia08/07/2019

Shopline, the global smart commerce platform, has today announced the official expansion of its operations to Malaysia. The news follows the closure of a successful US$2 million funding round earlier this year, led by CDIB Capital Group and Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, and reaffirms SHOPLINE’s confidence in the Southeast Asia market. The start-up, originally […]

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Retail Asia28/06/2019

Visa (NYSE: V), the global payments leader, and LINE Pay Corporation, operator of digital wallet and fintech services on the LINE messaging app, today announced a strategic partnership that will see them create new financial services experiences for their collective user bases of millions of consumers and merchants worldwide[1]. The two companies will collaborate across multiple areas, […]

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Retail Asia27/06/2019

AirAsia is moving from the traditional model of owning aircraft to become an asset-light airline. The company plans to fully shift to the new model by completely withdrawing from aircraft ownership, a move that would bring the obvious benefit of lowering its financial liabilities. During AirAsia’s conference call with analysts last Wednesday, its management said […]

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Retail Asia25/04/2019

Fashion brand Ted Baker has formed a joint venture to expand its network in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. A new company will take over the three Ted Baker China stores already operating in Hong Kong and the six on the mainland. It will operate all Ted Baker future stores, concessions and online channels […]

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Retail Asia18/04/2019

We reported two weeks ago that WhatsApp Business might be finally coming to iOS devices, as many users from several countries found the app listed in the App Store. Initially launched on Android, WhatsApp Business is now officially rolling out for iPhone, the company announced in a blog post Of course, the app is available for free via […]

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Retail Asia11/04/2019

“Great ideas should be scary,” advocates Marcelo Pascoa, head of global brand marketing at Burger King, one of the keynote speakers at the recent MarketingPulse event in Wanchai. “When new things come to be, it is often associated with fear. So, my advice to marketers is: be very afraid! If you sleep well the night […]

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Retail Asia08/04/2019

Alibaba’s e-commerce platform Taobao has launched its home-and-living channel, Jiyoujia in Singapore. Marking the brand’s first foray into an overseas market, products are on show at Taobao Home store at NomadX store. “Singapore is an important market for Taobao, and we continue to witness strong and sustained demand for the home-and-living category here by shoppers,” said […]

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Retail Asia02/04/2019

Myer has cut a further 50 positions from its store management and store support team, including group general manager of marketing Andrew Egan. The cuts are the second round of large scale lay-offs for the department store in the last eight months, with over 30 executive positions cut last August, in order to reduce costs and […]

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Retail Asia20/03/2019

Bangkok-headquartered omnichannel fashion company Pomelo has appointed Jim Boland, former RedMart CFO, as its new CFO. Boland has successfully led finance organisations in fast-growing e-commerce businesses for more than 19 years in leadership roles at Amazon, Dell and Alibaba-owned RedMart. His appointment will see him aiming to build up Pomelo’s financial infrastructure to drive profitability […]

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Retail Asia19/03/2019

Hypebeast Ltd. is pleased to announce the official launch of Hypebeast Japan Ltd., grounding its cultural influence in the region and marking another step in furthering expansion in Asia. The Company is also pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Akihiro Wajima, former director of Farfetch Japan, as the new Managing Director of Hypebeast Japan […]

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Retail Asia12/03/2019

Digital platforms provide a host of challenges for governments. Questions about how to best protect privacy, democracy, and speech online become more pressing every year. But policies that affect online platforms also affect international trade. Many Australian small businesses rely on digital platforms to stay on par with their international competitors. As Australia starts tackling […]

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Retail Asia11/03/2019

While there have been a wave of female leaders breaking the glass ceiling, women still face challenges in the workplace and those in leadership positions are often seen as aggressive or difficult. In 2018, Malaysia was ranked the sixth lowest in East Asia and the Pacific by the World Economic Forum in its Global Gender […]

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Retail Asia08/03/2019

Some of the world’s most inspiring marketing professionals will gather in Hong Kong later this month. MarketingPulse is an integrated branding and marketing conference for global marketers, brands, advertising agencies, media, enterprises and innovation professionals to gather and share the latest marketing trends, exchange best marketing practices and explore new collaborations in Asia. From defining new […]

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Retail Asia24/01/2019

A one-year-old baby with an incredible mane of hair has been signed by Pantene as one of the faces of the brand in Japan. Instagram starlett Baby Chanco has stunned social media users over the last six months as her mother uploads images of her incredible, thick hair. Baby Chanco, who lives in Japan, was […]

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Retail Asia23/01/2019

Sporting goods retailer Decathlon has opened a landmark 5000sqm retail space at Kallang’s Stadium Boulevard, its largest store in Singapore. Designated the Decathlon Singapore Lab, the outlet includes a running area with four different surface types – including a gravel hiking path – for in-store shoe testing. Robotic inventory monitoring and a conveyor belt that […]

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Retail Asia22/01/2019

Eleven days ago, the anonymous Instagram account world_record_egg posted its first image, what appears to be a simple stock photo of a brown egg. “Let’s set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram,” the caption read. The photo has now reached that goal, with over 42 million likes as of […]

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