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Retail Asia27/01/2017

Korean eyewear retailer Gentle Monster is creating jaw-dropping retail executions across Asia and beyond. The images accompanying this story are of the equally unique Beijing flagship store, located in the Sanlitun retail precinct. Each Gentle Monster flagship features a completely different design format, inspiration and execution – it is the utmost opposite to traditional retail […]

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Retail Asia27/01/2017

China Mobile Shanghai has teamed up with Ericsson and bike-sharing service startup Mobike to conduct a cellular IoT trial on the Chinese operator’s live network in Shanghai. During the trial, Ericsson’s latest cellular IoT technologies were used to more accurately locate the IoT-enabled bikes of Mobike, providing a more convenient and enhanced bike-sharing experience to […]

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Retail Asia27/01/2017

Located along Nanjing Road (West), one of the world’s busiest shopping destinations, the Roastery will be part of the soon to be built HKRI Taikoo Hui Project, Shanghai’s newest premium world-class retail, office, and hotel area. Scheduled to open in late 2017, the new Starbucks Roastery and Tasting Room in Shanghai will be inspired by the […]

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Retail Asia11/01/2017

Mexican-inspired restaurant chain Taco Bell has opened its first outlet in China, near Shanghai’s landmark Oriental Pearl Tower in the Lujiazui business district. The restaurant has opened in conjunction with Yum China Holdings, which is the licensee of Yum! Brands in Mainland China. “Leveraging our deep insights into Chinese consumer preferences, developed from close to […]

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Retail Asia16/12/2016

Luxury Italian fashion house Max Mara hosted its first runway show in Shanghai yesterday. It is presenting its pre-collection for fall 2017, as well as a capsule collection conceived in collaboration with Chinese artist Liu Wei, who also created the set for the runway show. With the capsule collection, the label is test driving its “see […]

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Retail Asia12/12/2016

DJI, the world leader in unmanned aerial vehicle technology, will open the doors of its Shanghai flagship store to the public on December 10, giving residents of China’s largest city the opportunity to explore the creative and professional possibilities that drone technology has brought to the world. Located at the center of Shanghai’s busiest shopping, […]

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Retail Asia24/11/2016

China Telecom Shanghai and Huawei have successfully jointly implemented access network slicing at a trial site. The trial solution involves slicing the access network into home, enterprise and campus connections, which will potentially allow the operator to use a single network to deliver all types of services. OLT hardware is shared by services, and all […]

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Retail Asia21/11/2016

Beiyang Jiamei Seafood, a Chinese processor switching its business from exports to imports, plans to expand into re-fresh products for the domestic market. The company, which is based in Qingdao, hopes to start processing re-fresh, packaged cod products for retail in Shanghai early next year, said Peng Song, its general manager. “We have in mind […]

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Retail Asia04/11/2016

Luxury eyewear brand Gentle Monster from South Korea has opened a flagship store, The Artisan, in Shanghai. It is on a tree-lined stretch of Huaihai Zhong Lu, an artery road in the former French Concession. Gentle Monster has opened several flagship stores in the past two years, in Seoul, Beijing, Hong Kong and New York […]

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Retail Asia29/10/2016

Chinese tycoon Li Ka-shing has sold the Century Link office and retail complex in Shanghai for 20 billion yuan (US$2.95 billion). Li’s Cheung Kong Property Holdings (CK Property) and the Li Ka Shing (Overseas) Foundation agreed to sell their combined 100 per ownership of the complex, in Pudong’s Lujiazui district, to a company set up […]

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Retail Asia20/10/2016

Lotte Department Store has signed on to a joint venture with Citic Group, a state-owned Chinese company, to operate a shopping mall in Shanghai and to build three more in the region between 2017 and 2019, the Korean company announced Monday. The joint venture will operate the already-existing Citic Square Mall in the bustling commercial […]

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Retail Asia18/10/2016

Asia is home to more than half the world’s most dynamic retail hubs, according to new research that reinforces images of the region’s mall-strewn megacities. The research, by professional services and investment management company JLL, says 12 of the fastest-growing retail cities are in Asia, with eight in China alone — another indication that global […]

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Retail Asia17/10/2016

Shanghai Laiyifen, the owner and operator of a chain of snack food stores in China, has completed an IPO in Shanghai, listing on Wednesday. Laiyifen is the first Chinese company specialising in snacks to go public. On the same day its massive advertising hoarding in New York’s Times Square was unveiled. After 17 years, the […]

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Retail Asia27/09/2016

Saturday mornings appear to be ideal for fitness-crazy Shanghai groups to have fun in the form of dance-like workouts outdoors. Some 500 lined up last Saturday to join a one-hour event. The venue was disco-like. Les Mills, one of the world’s largest developers of group workouts, kicked off its global tour for 2016 beside the […]

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Retail Asia26/09/2016

Appointed as the masterplanner, architect and interior designer, Benoy Shanghai has revealed its design for the mixed-use Gala Avenue Westside development in Shanghai. The project is part of the major Lujiazui Harbour City development, scheduled to be complete in 2018. It covers 250,000 sqm of riverside land being redeveloped into an iconic future destination. Combining […]

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Retail Asia23/09/2016

French fashion brand Lacoste China has opened a duty-free corner in downtown Shanghai’s Yueda Plaza 889, run by CNSC. China National Service Corporation for Chinese Personnel Working Abroad is a state-owned enterprise of international trade and economic co-operation established in 1983. Lacoste says the point-of-sale is in line with the a Chinese duty-free policy that […]

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Retail Asia24/08/2016

Designer outlet malls are sprouting up all over mainland China, even as department stores find themselves struggling amid a slump in retail sales. At least 17 new outlet malls are scheduled to open in China in the second half of 2016, according to a report by Outlet Sight, which tracks the industry. Some developers are […]

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Retail Asia12/08/2016

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State-owned China National Service Corporation (CNSC) opened its ambitious Shanghai downtown duty free store on 8 August. The corporation aims to invest heavily in the burgeoning downtown duty free sector in China. The store opening attracted thousands of shoppers on opening day. It houses an initial 100 brands from the region and worldwide over two […]

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Retail Asia20/07/2016

Today’s Chinese kids are increasingly being dressed to a fashion. “The demand for the children’s wear in China has shifted from fulfilling basic needs to pursuing fashion and style,” says marketing director Aber of Shenzhen Perseus Brand Management, an exhibitor at Cool Kids Fashion Shanghai this week. “Nowadays, Chinese kids want to look ‘cool’ and […]

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Retail Asia19/07/2016

lukstudio’s ‘modular lilong’ was developed at the behest of value retail china to showcase ‘chuang x yi’ — a fashion platform for chinese designers. the 150 sqm site, located in yioulai shanghai village, is organized around meandering lanes, or lilong, a system that allows creative displays in areas with spatial constraints. this concept, in part, […]

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