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26/04/2024 Changi Airport Group awards OUE tender for lease and development of new hotel at Changi Airport Terminal 2 ( General )
26/04/2024 Korean Air to launch new route to Macau ( General )
26/04/2024 WhatsApp is working on an option to stop notifications when someone reacts to your status updates ( General )
24/04/2024 Puma to launch compostable shoes after a two-year pilot project ( Fashion )
24/04/2024 7-Eleven eyes 100,000 stores globally by 2030 ( General )
24/04/2024 Vietnam tops Southeast Asia in number of Apple suppliers ( Electronics )
24/04/2024 FPT and Nvidia to build $200M AI factory in Vietnam ( Electronics )
23/04/2024 Google Meet now lets users make annotations during presentations ( General )
22/04/2024 WhatsApp testing scheduling feature for easier event management in Communities ( General )
22/04/2024 EU set to approve Apple’s plan to open its NFC technology for rivals ( Electronics )
18/04/2024 Apple CEO Tim Cook says it is considering a manufacturing facility in Indonesia ( Electronics )
18/04/2024 Google Maps to show alternate transit and walking directions along with driving routes ( General )
17/04/2024 Apple releases iOS 17.5 beta 2 giving EU iPhone users more unique capabilities ( E-Tailing )
17/04/2024 WhatsApp rolls out new chat filters to help you locate unread and group conversations ( General )

Retail Asia01/03/2024

While the Apple Watch was not originally created to save lives, over the years some of the health-related features on the device have sent out timely warnings allowing users to get to the doctor or the hospital before it was too late. In other situations, the Apple Watch on a person’s wrist notified emergency services […]

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Retail Asia14/06/2023

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The watchOS 10 update will bring widgets to the Apple Watch that will be controlled via the timepiece’s Digital Crown. And with Smart Stack, Apple Watch widgets will bundle together based on the user’s typical schedule. For example, when the Apple Watch user gets up first thing in the morning, the weather widget will be on the […]

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Retail Asia27/09/2022

A total 22% of Vietnamese use the internet for more than nine hours a day studying, entertainment and shopping, with the majority on their smartphones, a report has found. This is a surge from 2020 when only 9% of respondents used the internet for more than nine hours a day, according to the Vietnam E-commerce […]

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Retail Asia02/09/2022

Swiss-made watch brand Norqain has made its debut in Singapore, as part of an expansion into the Asia market. The watch retailer has collaborated with Southeast Asia distributor Melchers, a Singapore branch of Melchers Group, for the launch. This is also the brand’s second global flagship store after the first opened in Zermatt, Switzerland, last […]

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Retail Asia18/08/2022

Surely no one in the wristwatch industry expected the Apple Watch to have an amazing success that it has experienced so far. First released in April 2015, Apple’s original plan was to promote the timepiece as fashionable jewelry. But it quickly became apparent to Apple that the wearable was selling as part of the Apple eco-system […]

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Retail Asia24/06/2022

Oriental Watch (398 HK)announced it is proposing to buy back a maximum of 83 million shares at 3 HKD (249M HKD). This represents a premium over 57% vs the average 30-day closing price on HKex. Once the shares are bought back they will be canceled which will reduce total shares outstanding from 570 million to 478 […]

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Retail Asia25/11/2021

Luxury watches online platform, WatchBox, has raised US$165 million of equity capital led by The Radcliff Companies and The Spruce House Partnership. The lead investors were also joined by CMIA Capital Partners together with other existing investors. The funds raised will be invested in scaling its digital platform and expanding into new markets, according to […]

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Retail Asia22/10/2021

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Many of us rely on Google Calendar for a huge portion, if not all, of our work schedule. Meetings, important calls, even coffee with a coworker or friend—for plenty of us, it’s all slotted in right there on our Google Calendar profile, with notifications reminding us at all the right times. But sometimes, it can […]

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Retail Asia14/07/2021

Industronics Bhd is tapping on the US$17 billion pre-owned luxury watch market through Ecgo International Ltd, its wholly-owned subsidiary in Hong Kong. This follows the launch of Industronics’ luxury watch e-commerce platform, watch-exchanges.com. Executive director Datuk Chu Boon Tiong said based on data and overall market performance, the pre-owned luxury watch market showed promising growth […]

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Retail Asia15/06/2021

Most readers would already be aware that Oriental Watch Holdings’ stock increased significantly by 37% over the past three months. As most would know, fundamentals are what usually guide market price movements over the long term, so we decided to look at the company’s key financial indicators today to determine if they have any role […]

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Retail Asia09/11/2020

Today is a happy day for Apple fans, as the Cupertino-based company is rolling out new software updates for three of its popular products: iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. If you’re rocking one of the first two, you should be able to download iOS 14.2 today. On the other hand, Apple Watch owners can download watchOS 7.1, a rather important update […]

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Retail Asia27/10/2020

Despite the pandemic, Swiss watchmakers believe in-store shopping will prevail over digital platforms. The majority of Swiss watchmakers believe that bricks and mortar stores will remain the preferred sales channels for their products and will prevail over online in the coming years. This, despite the recent impact of the pandemic and accelerated digitalization. In-store experiences […]

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Retail Asia11/09/2020

Back in 2017, Google Maps no longer worked with the Apple Watch. The reason why Google pulled it from the Apple Watch reportedly had something to do with the app’s limited capabilities on the watch compared to the iPhone app. At the time that Google made this announcement, it promised that Maps would return to the Apple Watch. And […]

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Retail Asia16/07/2020

Swatch Group has cut about 2400 jobs, its biggest cull in at least three decades, and will trim its store network as the Swiss watchmaker recorded its first-ever loss. The maker of Omega and Longines timepieces said Tuesday it accelerated plans to shut stores definitively in Hong Kong as well as shops that sell its […]

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Retail Asia30/06/2020

Listed Hong Kong timepiece retailer Oriental Watch Holdings has weathered the multiple crises of the last financial year to record a decrease in turnover of just 3.5 percent and a profit of US$12.9 million. While turnover was down to $303.6 million, gross profit was up by 7 percent to $83.2 million, “mainly due to the […]

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Retail Asia18/06/2020

Slow-moving stock and falling sales due to the Covid-19 pandemic have prompted listed Hong Kong timepiece retailer Oriental Watch to issue a profit warning. The company has advised the stock exchange that net profit for the year to March 31 will fall by about 20 percent. Furthermore, for the two months ended May 31, the […]

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Retail Asia24/04/2020

Hong Kong’s first Chinese Prestige Time Experience store has launched in Yue Hwa. Opened by Sun International Concepts, the outlet serves as a platform to showcase multiple Chinese watch brands, aiming to promote Chinese watch culture against the backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak. As the first platform for Chinese watch brands in the territory, consumers […]

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Retail Asia03/02/2020

The Philippines’ official Tommy Hilfiger distributor Take Wizer Industries has launched the world’s first Tommy Hilfiger watch store in Quezon City. The store opened on January 23 at the Upper Ground Floor (UGF), City Center, SM North Edsa, featuring an interactive photo booth for customers to try on the watches for sharing on social media. […]

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Retail Asia11/12/2019

Swiss luxury watchmaker Breitling has opened a new boutique at Hong Kong International Airport. The new outlet features the brand’s industrial loft concept, inspired by mid-20th-Century interior design. The boutique is located at the departure level of Terminal 1 East Hall at HKIA. “We especially opened our new boutique at the HKIA as it not […]

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Retail Asia28/11/2019

Oriental Watch has shrugged off the impact of ongoing Hong Kong protests, with sales down a mere 1.1 percent and improved gross profit in the half-year to September. Sales totaled HK$1.168 billion (US$149 million), gross profit rose 10.4 percent to $318.2 million and profit attributable to shareholders was down 3.6 percent to $61.7 million. “The […]

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