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Retail Asia29/10/2020

Japanese department-store chain Tokyu is to exit Thailand, the third Japanese retailer to withdraw from the country this year. Tokyu aims to close its last store at Bangkok’s MBK shopping center next January, ending 35 years of trading in the city. The retailer closed its second, newer store at Paradise Park last year. The department […]

Retail Asia16/08/2017

Thai shopping mall MBK Center has launched a “Bangkok Buddy” service aimed at providing a memorable customer experience for local and international shoppers. Available from 2pm every day, the two-hour experience starts with an exclusive hip hop and contemporary dance production combining electronic music with Thai instruments. The Bangkok Buddy team then walks around the […]

Retail Asia07/10/2016

Central FamilyMart plans to double the number of its convenience stores in Thailand from 1116 to more than 2000 within five years. President Chiranun Poopat says the company will continuously expand the number of FamilyMarts to cater to a growing market and increase access to consumers in specific locations. The expansion will be achieved by […]

Retail Asia11/08/2016

Thai developer MBK plans to spend 500 to 800 million baht (US$14 to 23 million) building a community mall in Pathum Thani province next year. President/chief executive Suvait Theeravachirakul says the mall will be opposite Bangkradi Industrial Estate in Pathum Thani. It is the company’s second community mall following The Nine Center in Bangkok. The […]

Retail Asia14/12/2015

Japanese retail initiative Animate Co will open a store in Bangkok’s MBK shopping centre in the second quarter of next year, part of a program to help spread anime and manga culture throughout Southeast Asia. According to Japanese news media, the store will be run by Animate JMA, a Japan Manga Alliance subsidiary formed in […]

Retail Asia11/07/2015

Private-equity firms such as MBK Partners and the Carlyle Group are among the short-listed bidders for Homeplus, a local discount retailer owned by the U.K. grocery chain Tesco, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Affinity Equity Partners and Goldman Sachs’ private equity arm have also been short-listed, while the local snack maker Orion, […]

Retail Asia25/06/2015

It’s taken 30 years, but Japanese department store Tokyu has finally opened its second store in Thailand’s capital Bangkok. Tokyu Thailand has operated a lone department store in the city’s ageing MBK shopping centre in the heart of the main urban retail precinct and adjacent to National Stadium since 1985. Now it has opened a […]

Retail Asia24/06/2015

Tesco’s obvious technique to attract out bidders for its Korean Homeplus operation is already paying off. Whereas personal fairness gamers have been apparently despatched invites to bid, the best way the information of the as but formally unconfirmed sale plan has unfold, has drawn two public declarations of curiosity. One is decidedly mischievous – from […]

Retail Asia09/02/2015

MBK Plc, the SET-listed operator of MBK shopping centre in Bangkok, is negotiating with local partners to co-develop a lifestyle shopping complex in Tak province to attract Myanmar shoppers. The 20,000-square-metre project will be used as a prototype to develop other malls in border towns to cash in on opportunities arising from the ASEAN Economic […]

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Tokyu department store leaves Thailand

MBK launches “Bangkok Buddy” service

Central FamilyMart set to expand

MBK plans second community mall

Animate Japan to open in Bangkok

Orion is out in bidding for Tesco’s Korea operations

Tokyu Thailand opens second store

Tesco Korea technique paying off

MBK plans lifestyle mall in Thailand’s Mae Sot to cash in on AEC