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Retail Asia27/08/2018

WeChat, China’s most popular social media app, has launched its digital payments platform in Malaysia. It is the platform’s first market in Asia beyond China and Hong Kong. The digital payment feature of WeChat allow its users to transfer money among themselves and make payments to offline merchants in ringgit. Rather than taking the common […]

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Retail Asia01/08/2018

Earlier last week, the rumor of Facebook’s comeback to China was spreading fast. Banned since 2009, the technology giant was apparently trying to gain a foothold into the country with the establishment of an innovation hub. The word spread as screenshots of the subsidiary’s registration in Hangzhou were released on the Internet. By Thursday, the filing had […]

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Retail Asia24/07/2018

The influential fashion blogger is also collaborating with Montblanc on a limited-edition collection of women’s handbags, a new category for the brand. Tao Liang has an unapologetic love for handbags. And he also knows how to sell them to his over 3.5 million readers on China’s biggest social media platform Weibo and more than 850,000 […]

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Retail Asia25/05/2018

France’s Givenchy is revamping its retail reach in Asia, with the rollout of a WeChat store in China. Bowing 15 May 2018, the new WeChat boutique store is an extension of Givenchy’s premium offline service, and aims to offer a convenient yet immersive shopping experience for wealthy Chinese consumers, according to a statement from the Paris brand. Via […]

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Retail Asia21/05/2018

WeChat parent Tencent Holdings has achieved a 48 per cent increase in revenue during the first quarter of this year. Revenue from Smartphone games, payment-related services, digital-content subscriptions and sales, and social advertising were key contributors overall growth in the three months to March 31. Operating profit grew by 59 per cent and operating margin […]

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Retail Asia01/05/2018

Singaporean brands have been promised access to more than 1 billion Chinese consumers through a new cross-border e-commerce app which runs on the WeChat ecosystem. Kinofy Group has launched its plug-and-play, cloud-based, platform which is designed to allow international brand owners and small- and medium-sized businesses to sell goods and services in China. The platform […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2018

China’s popular messaging app WeChat now counts 1 billion monthly active users (MAU) worldwide, up 12% from 889 million MAU in Q4 2016, according to Tencent CEO Pony Ma. Ma said the platform reached the record figure during last month’s Lunar New Year Festival. However, it’s important to note that Tencent refers to MAU as user accounts, […]

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Retail Asia16/03/2018

WeChat has tightened its anti-counterfeit measures with 38 improvements to its Brand Protection Platform revealed in its annual Brand Owner Protection report released yesterday. WeChat claims more than 72,000 vendors were punished last year for attempting to sell counterfeit goods on its platforms. WeChat has also standardised the online infringement complaint system to make it […]

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Retail Asia13/03/2018

Fashion brand Cue Clothing Co. has staked a claim as the first Australian retailer to offer WeChat and Alipay payment services in every one of its standalone store sites, nationwide. In a statement, Cue said its three fashion brands, including Cue, Veronika Main and Dion Lee, will be using RoyalPay, a software platform that allows customers […]

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Retail Asia07/03/2018

WeChat Pay and Alipay, China’s two biggest mobile payment platforms, have recently forged partnerships with tax refund companies to enable Chinese tourists to obtain rebates on their purchases via their respective mobile apps. Within this year, WeChat also plans to offer instant refunds in-store overseas as it competes for a larger share of rising Chinese tourist spending […]

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Retail Asia07/02/2018

Tencent’s WeChat Pay is now linking to non-Chinese credit cards for mobile payments. This means expats in China and foreign residents of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan can now bind and activate WeChat Pay accounts with credit-card services provided by JCB, MasterCard and Visa. Tencent says it is the first time WeChat Pay users do […]

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Retail Asia01/02/2018

Today, China leads the world in technical innovation and WeChat is its most iconic ambassador. With more than 900 million daily active users (as of September 2017) and close to 40 billion messages exchanged daily, WeChat is now more than ever the daily life tool for Chinese netizens. On the business front, Chinese consumers represent […]

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Retail Asia26/01/2018

Tencent has expanded its WeChat Pay user base to Hong Kong residents, who now will not need to have a Chinese bank account or credit card to take advantage of the Mainland’s popular cashless payment system. With the announcement, Hong Kong residents can now bind and activate their WeChat Pay accounts with any international credit […]

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Retail Asia24/01/2018

Chinese messaging app WeChat has launched its first cashierless pop-up store in Shanghai. The Tencent company has teamed with more than 300 merchants, including EasyGo and Elle, as well as shopping mall The Mixc to build up its first “flash retailing” pop-up store. By scanning a QR code via WeChat, customers can enter the store. […]

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Retail Asia17/01/2018

Danish fashion retailer Bestseller has opened smart stores in Shenzhen and Guangzhou for its Jack & Jones and Vero Moda brands. Facial-recognition technology from Tencent’s Youtu Lab is used to register shoppers in store, enrolling them in WeChat Pay’s AI Club. This means they can pay without the need for wallets or phones. And the […]

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Retail Asia08/01/2018

Dealers are now turning their attention to the release later in the day of key U.S. jobs data, which is expected to show the world’s top economy continuing to improve. A forecast-smashing reading Thursday on private take-ups boosted optimism, which had already been bolstered by U.S. tax cuts, healthy corporate profits and strong manufacturing figures from around […]

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Retail Asia08/01/2018

WeChat may soon become an indispensable part of the Chinese citizens after a report emerged claiming that the Tencent-owned messaging app will be used to officially ID people. The Guangzhou government has reportedly initiated a pilot program which creates a virtual ID card through WeChat account of registered users. This Virtual ID card has the […]

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Retail Asia15/12/2017

On 24 November 2017, LANCÔME Travel Retail Asia Pacific, leading French luxury beauty brand, unveiled the brand’s latest 2020 retail concept at its newly revamped No.1 Point-of-sale (POS) at Haitang Bay, China. The latest in line to celebrate the brand’s ‘Declaring Happiness’ global campaign across Asia, the grand opening event was graced by international celebrity […]

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Retail Asia13/12/2017

Seoul will have one of six Chanel flagship stores being launched next year, with the brand also about to open in Beijing’s China World mall. “These will be either brand new stores or major re-openings, which will be very impactful,” says Chanel fashion and accessories divisions president Bruno Pavlovsky. On December 1, Chanel opened a […]

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Retail Asia12/12/2017

Malaysian people’s love for mobile shopping has led to more transactions generated on mobile platforms. The data compiled from Malaysia’s three major online marketplaces — Lazada, 11street and Shopee — revealed that 70 percent of the online transactions on Single’s Day and MyCyber sales were done through mobile devices, said iPay88, a leading regional payment […]

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