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Retail Asia03/01/2017

Today’s consumers are increasingly looking for specific and engaging experiences while shopping, according to an analysis from Lotte Department Store’s research team for retail trends. The team proposed a set of guidelines to help retailers prepare next year’s business strategies. “For modern customers, shopping is not only about buying products, but a complex experience,” said […]

Retail Asia02/01/2017

Korean businesses’ quest to step closer to future industries is expected to accelerate in the New Year, regardless of the political scandal, the ongoing investigations into dubious business-political ties and the looming presidential election. The year 2016 was an opportunity for general consumers to familiarize themselves with the innovative concepts of technologies. And the year […]

Retail Asia08/02/2016

Retailers in Hong Kong preparing to welcome Chinese mainland tourists over the Lunar New Year festive period face a real crisis: Canny shoppers don’t think the special administrative region is cool enough. HSBC’s global co-head of consumer and retail research, Erwan Rambourg, said luxury goods are now cheaper in other markets, bringing the wealthy, sophisticated […]

Retail Asia27/01/2016

Micro-multinational businesses in the Asia Pacific are experiencing a business boom, according to new FedEx research. Its study shows that 63 per cent of these businesses are achieving annual revenue growth, a success rate achieved by only half of small- to medium-size enterprises (SMEs). A previous study last year revealed the greater potential for business […]

Retail Asia02/12/2015

#1 Majority of our customers are residing outside of Kuala Lumpur – There is an evident shift of customers shopping on Lazada with 81% of them residing outside of Kuala Lumpur – Reasons behind this shift include a) Affordability of products – Consumers from various backgrounds are able to purchase products from a wide […]

Retail Asia11/11/2015

The Asia Pacific region is experiencing a slowdown in the luxury retail sector, but new emerging trends are set to provide the retail sector with a solid new stimulus for demand in the coming years, according to the CBRE’s special report, ‘The Future of Luxury Retail in Asia Pacific: New Demand Drivers and Shifting Occupier […]

Retail Asia03/07/2015

Japan’s households opened their wallets a bit wider than anticipated in Might, with family expenditures leaping for the primary time in additional than a yr. Family expenditures rose four.eight % on yr in Might, topping a Reuters ballot forecast for three.four % and marking the primary on-year improve because the nation elevated its consumption tax […]

Retail Asia01/06/2015

China is the most important marketplace for pure & natural cosmetics in Asia, regardless of of many inexperienced manufacturers boycotting the Chinese language market, in line with a brand new research by Natural Monitor. Excessive-end manufacturers are coming into the Chinese language market, interested in the rising buying energy of its shoppers. Japan has the […]

Retail Asia28/05/2015

Conventional retailers and shopper items corporations want to vary the enterprise methods shortly within the realities of a “new normaI” in China. Worldwide shopper companies, particularly, have to be extra versatile and complicated with their offline and on-line propositions to be aggressive, in line with a brand new report by OC&C Technique Consultants. The New […]

Retail Asia22/05/2015

Reported sales from Japanese department stores suggest a significant improvement in spending in April. Japan retail sales, based on department stores data, lept 13.7 per cent on a same store basis compared with the same month in 2014. The Japan Department Stores Association said a major part of the reason for the increase is that […]

Retail Asia11/05/2015

From quick meals to smartphones, from luxurious items to groceries, the best way China outlets — and what mainland consumers need to purchase — is altering quickly. The modifications are leaving overseas grocery store and hypermarket chains struggling to maintain up by revamping retailer codecs and promoting extra groceries on-line, retail analysts say. On Wednesday […]

Retail Asia11/05/2015

One-third of the Vietnamese shoppers (34 per cent) love purchasing at hypermarkets, supermarkets, and different trendy channels, based on the newest Way forward for Grocery Report ready by Nielsen. The report is predicated on a web-based survey of greater than 30,000 respondents throughout 60 nations in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Center East, in addition […]

Tag: trends

Retail trends for 2017: AI shopping, mini stores

Korea braces for next industrial trends in 2017

Is HK still a ‘cool’ place for luxury shopping?

FedEx report: Micro-business boom in APAC

A Short Overview of Malaysian Shopping Trends

Saturation hits luxury retail, but new trends provide hope

Japan’s households begin opening their wallets

Pure & natural cosmetics manufacturers lunch idea shops to boost visibility in Asia

Retailers in China have to adapt to thrive within the “new regular”

Japan retail sales rebound

Overseas grocers wrestle in fast-moving China retail market

Buyers favor trendy retail codecs