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Retail Asia08/04/2020

Honda Motor Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said on Monday they hope to restart U.S. and Canadian auto production in May amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Japanese automaker halted production on March 23 and said it will extend the halt through May 1. Fiat Chrysler said Monday it “intends to progressively restart its […]

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Retail Asia06/02/2020

With the coronavirus claiming the life of 490 people and infecting 24,324 at last count, a number of businesses in China have cut back their operations or have closed altogether. This hits Apple right in the solar plexus since the company depends on contract manufacturers located in China to produce many of its products including […]

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Retail Asia13/11/2019

German carmaker Audi will increase the production of engines at its Hungarian factory to 2.25 million units next year, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday. An Audi representative at the premium carmaker’s Ingolstadt headquarters in Germany declined to comment on internal planning. “They plan to manufacture 2.25 million engines next year, and so […]

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Retail Asia31/10/2019

Harley-Davidson has resumed the production of the all-electric LiveWire motorcycle after determining that an issue with charging was limited to a single motorcycle. The company has now said that Harley-Davidson LiveWire owners can now resume charging their motorcycles at home. Harley-Davidson had previously advised customers to the only charge at dealerships until the charging issue […]

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Retail Asia20/07/2019

Steel is a durable material and the main structural material for engineering. It represents an alloy of iron with carbon, the content of which in its structure contains 0.01–2.14%. The composition also includes insignificant amounts of silicon, manganese and sulfur. This material has exceptional mechanical properties: hardness and malleability, thanks to which it is considered […]

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Retail Asia15/07/2019

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Vingroup JSC, Vietnam’s biggest listed firm by market value, said on Monday it has started work on a second smartphone factory with a capacity to produce 125 million units a year. The new factory in the capital, Hanoi, will vastly increase Vingroup’s current capacity of five million units at its facility in the northern city […]

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Retail Asia02/07/2019

Maruti Suzuki India had cut cut its production by 9.6 per cent to 147,669 units in April this year from 163,368 in April 2018.The company has now announced a further cut in vehicle production by over 18 percent in May, according to a regulatory filing. It is the company’s fourth consecutive month of taking a […]

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Retail Asia01/07/2019

Michelin and General Motors presented a new generation of airless wheel technology for passenger vehicles. It’s called the Uptis Prototype (or “Unique Punctureproof Tyre System”) – at the Movin’On Summit for sustainable mobility. The joint research agreement will see both the companies validate the Uptis Prototype with the goal of introducing the Uptis on passenger […]

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Retail Asia27/06/2019

Samsung has been struggling in the Chinese smartphone market for quite some time. In fact, around six months ago the company shut down one of its factories in the region. Now, suggesting things have improved little, Samsung has confirmed that its scaling back production at its only remaining Chinese manufacturing plant. At its peak back in 2013, Samsung […]

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Retail Asia26/06/2019

There’s been much ado about Huawei’s tough road ahead as key US partners and major parts suppliers are prepared to turn their backs on the world’s second-largest smartphone vendor at the end of a 90-day reprieve granted shortly after President Trump’s announcement of a potentially business-ending ban. But although it’s pretty obvious the political tensions are already negatively impacting the […]

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Retail Asia04/06/2019

Honda has confirmed its western England car factory, which employs 3,500 people, will close in 2021. The Japanese carmaker announced Monday that the Swindon plant will shut in two years, “at the end of the current model’s production life cycle.” Honda makes its popular Civic model at the factory, 70 miles (115 kms) west of London. Reports […]

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Retail Asia13/05/2019

LG’s smartphone business has been struggling for quite some time, but the company is still hopeful of turning a profit. At this point, a sudden uptake in smartphone sales seems unlikely so LG has recently focused on cost-cutting measures, one of which seems to be suspending smartphone production in its home country. LG is planning […]

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Retail Asia19/04/2019

The country’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) cut vehicle production by around 21 per cent across its factories in March due to subdued demand. The auto major produced a total of 1,36,201 units in March, including Super Carry LCV, down 20.9 per cent from 1,72,195 units in the year-ago period, it said in a […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2019

A joint venture between Malaysia’s Proton Motors and Pakistan’s Al-Haj group will begin producing cars from June, officials said on Friday at a ceremony in Islamabad unveiling a series of business accords between the two countries. The Proton joint venture, first agreed last year, was the centerpiece of a series of agreements signed during a […]

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Retail Asia13/02/2019

Malaysia aims to double the palm oil content in biodiesel used for the transport sector to 20% next year, as Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy looks to cut record stockpiles and boost prices, a government minister said. The government will also raise the palm oil content in biofuel for the industrial sector to 10% next year […]

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Retail Asia13/02/2019

Korea’s auto production tumbled for a third consecutive year in 2018 amid weaker domestic and global demand, data showed Sunday. According to the data by the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA), Korea produced 4.03 million vehicles last year, down 2.1 percent from the previous year. The figure has been decreasing over the past three years […]

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Retail Asia22/11/2018

Vietnam’s total oil refining capacity will nearly quadruple by 2023 as two new refineries go on stream, market data provider Fitch Solutions reports. The Dung Quat refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai operated by the state-owned PetroVietnam’s subsidiary Binh Son Refinery Limited (BSR) remains the sole facility now, with a crude oil processing […]

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Retail Asia16/11/2018

Rice prices in India nudged higher this week as the rupee firmed, while Thai exporters eyed fresh demand from the Philippines. India’s 5 percent broken parboiled variety was quoted around $363-$371 per tonne this week, versus $362-$369 last week. “As the rupee has started to appreciate, we have to adjust export prices,” said an exporter […]

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Retail Asia06/09/2017

The recovery pace of the South Korean economy has remained feeble for months as an upturn in exports and private consumption was offset by weak industrial output, a government report said Tuesday. “The South Korean economy saw its exports and investment continue to rise and private consumption make a slight rebound, but its recovery pace […]

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Retail Asia04/04/2017

Made in Vietnam products score low in almost all product attribute categories. Vietnam has been ranked 46th on the Made in Country Index 2017 released by Germany’s Statista Market Research Co, which asked more than 43,000 people in 52 countries and territories to look at goods produced in 49 countries and the European Union as […]

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