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Retail Asia05/10/2017

South Korean shoppers set a new record for the volume of purchases made through mobile devices during September. Government data says mobile transactions through smartphones and tablets reached a new high of 4.04 trillion won (US$3.5 billion) in August, up 29.5 per cent from a year earlier. Statistics Korea says the trend is being fuelled […]

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Retail Asia02/10/2017

New online made-to-order clothing shop Frilly allows customers to create bespoke clothing and see the effect in real-time. According to Springwise, the independent, innovation publisher, which scans the globe for the most promising innovations and new business ideas, Frilly is “an alternative for those who don’t want cookie-cutter clothing”. Unsurprisingly, it uses digital tools to transform […]

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Retail Asia12/07/2017

They’re still coming in droves — but no longer buying in spades. After propping up sales for overseas retailers over the past decade with a shopping-driven tourism agenda, Chinese visitors are no longer returning home with suitcases bulging like before. A new survey by consultancy Oliver Wyman shows Chinese tourist numbers and holiday expenditure continuing […]

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Retail Asia11/07/2017

The number of trips by outbound Chinese travelers is expected to reach 150 million this year, but while average trip spend is on the rise (up 3.5 percent 2015-2016), surprisingly shopping spend declined both in absolute and relative terms, to 33 percent of trip spend in the same period, according to a report released by […]

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Retail Asia23/06/2017

With shopping now a bigger driver of tourist spend than ever before in Malaysia, a luxury-dedicated component of the Malaysia Mega Sale Carnival was last week inaugurated by luxury retailer The Melium Group, in partnership with Tourism Malaysia and Pavilion Kuala Lumpur. Abdul Ghaffar Thambi, secretary-general, Tourism and Culture Ministry, said: “In 2015, for the […]

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Retail Asia13/06/2017

The trend started at a restaurant on Thai Ha Street. The images of young men without a shirt on and hot body made many curious and went to the restaurant to see for themselves. Tran Thai Linh, a local in Dong Da District, said she also went to the restaurant out of curiosity but then […]

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Retail Asia10/04/2017

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Global loyalty marketing agency ICLP surveyed 750 consumers in Hong Kong and asked them the brand that comes to their mind first of the retailers that they shop regularly. The survey reveals a correlation between characteristics of sectors and brand relationships, and found that the two “most named” retail sectors are supermarkets and fast-fashion retailers. The […]

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Retail Asia28/03/2017

China’s Alibaba Group has teamed up with online retailer Lazada to bring popular shopping site Taobao to Singapore, in a move to deepen the reach of the Chinese e-commerce giant into Asia ahead of US rival Amazon. Last year, Alibaba made headlines with a US$1 billion (S$1.4 billion) deal for control of Lazada, giving the […]

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Retail Asia13/02/2017

Online shopping is fast becoming a favourite activity of Singaporeans, research shows, as the country’s bricks and mortar retail sector continues to struggle. A survey, conducted by Edelman Intelligence and Criteo, revealed that 84% of Singaporeans love to shop online and nearly a third of respondents – especially millennials and wealthier Singaporeans – make at […]

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Retail Asia19/01/2017

Today marks the official U.S. launch of Azoya, an integrated turnkey e-commerce solution provider, which will help U.S. retailers and manufacturers break into the Chinese market with less risk in 2017 through fully-managed cross-border e-commerce. Azoya made the announcement to open the National Retail Federation (NRF) annual Big Show, January 15-17, 2017, at Jacob K. […]

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Retail Asia02/01/2017

It used to be widely known as the Pearl of the East, a shopping paradise beckoning residents of China. But these days, Hong Kong has lost much of its lustre and is finding it harder to attract big spenders from China. Tourists from China spent an average of HK$7,105 (S$1,300) in Hong Kong in the […]

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Retail Asia14/12/2016

When it comes to Christmas shopping, Singaporeans prefer retailers with a physical store, coupled with both e-commerce and mobile app. Singapore shoppers want cross channel options more than new age services like digital wallets and augmented reality store experiences, according to the SAP Hybris Singapore Christmas Shopper survey. More than 1,000 consumers in Singapore […]

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Retail Asia14/12/2016

They want more personalised reward programmes, not just the traditional point-based ones. Amidst Singapore’s retail doldrums, more than 75% of Singapore consumers indicate that the will buy more from retailers if they are better rewarded for their loyalty. According to a study by ICLP, this is despite the fact that many consumers are currently lukewarm […]

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Retail Asia01/12/2016

China’s consumers are by no means the wealthiest in the world. But they are years ahead of their counterparts in many developed economies in terms of how they shop and pay for what they buy. In this, they are revolutionising the way consumer finance is conducted in the world’s second-biggest economy. Like so many of […]

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Retail Asia21/11/2016

The extended season will lead to an eleven percent ($9.1 billion) increase in online sales to a total of $91.6 billion, according to Adobe’s 2016 Digital Insights Shopping Predictions report. Large retailers expected to account for the bulk of the growth, with an average growth rate of 16.6% compared to smaller retailers at 7%. “We […]

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Retail Asia21/11/2016

Julie Li is laden with Harrods carrier bags full of cosmetics, but they are not hers; the 30-year-old finance graduate from Beijing is a fulltime freelance retail consultant, something known in China as a daigou. “I worked as a daigou alongside my day job for about three years, but six months ago, I decided to […]

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Retail Asia09/11/2016

WearYouWant, Thailand’s leading online fashion and beauty marketplace, is launching a premium, Korean fashion range in Thailand, designed and made in Korea, to satisfy the ever-growing love of Korean brands in the Kingdom. Developing a close relationship with online fashion house, Atria International Style, WearYouWant is sourcing authentic Korean brands, importing these for the Thai […]

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Retail Asia04/11/2016

Building on the SPAR Brand awareness amongst shoppers in Hyderabad, the newest hypermarket situated in Paradise Mall, Nacharam has been enthusiastically welcomed by customers. This is the 18th SPAR Hypermarket to open in the country, spread over seven states and nine cities, and the fourth in Hyderabad. The newly built hypermarket is a total of […]

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Retail Asia19/08/2016

A global survey of 20,000 consumers by Worldpay has discovered that buying power in the internet age is highly concentrated within a group of high spending, high frequency Super-Shoppers. In China, Super-Shoppers make up just 5% of the general population yet accounted for an incredible 92% of all the money spent buying physical goods online […]

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Retail Asia19/08/2016

A select group of influential online celebrities from China will arrive in Australia next week for the ‘Walk Into Australia and New Zealand’ campaign, organised by leading turnkey e-commerce solutions provider Azoya and China’s leading online shopping guide SMZDM. The ‘Walk Into Australia and New Zealand’ campaign is focused on building the bridge between Chinese online shoppers and Australian […]

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