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Founded by mates James Bruce and Stafford Fox in 2013, the adult soft drink, premium mixer and mineral water business “set out to revolutionise the Australian soft drink market with eclectic, sophisticated flavours and local ingredients”. StrangeLove claims…
UBS is teaming up with a network of alternative investment firms in the US that manages more than $300 billion in institutional assets. The US National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC), the nation’s largest network of diversely owned alternative…
The US Wendy’s burgers brand is heading to Australia and is on the hunt for a master franchisee. The iconic brand is reportedly the world’s third largest quick service restaurant burger chain, with about 7000 outlets worldwide. Founder Dave Thomas opened the…
Miracle Coffee will launch a 90-day pop-up café kiosk at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands by the end of September 2022, ahead of a brick-and-mortar store launch in the museum’s lobby next year. Miracle Coffee said the kiosk will only…
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) is partnering with the University of California Berkeley (UCB), US, to develop methods of converting captured carbon (CO2) into sugar. The collaboration hopes its work will slash the emissions of some of the world’s most…
“Ediya Coffee will open an Ediya Coffee store in Guam, the U.S. autonomous territory, in December this year,” said Chairman Moon Chang-ki on Aug. 23. This is the company’s first overseas store. Ediya currently operates about 3,000 coffee shops in Korea.…
Axiata Group Berhad announced it was teaming up with Versa Networks to provide Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) technology for rapidly digitalizing Asian enterprises. Under this agreement, Axiata Enterprise – the Group’s B2B unit – will collaborate with…
Macau’s telecoms regulator has accepted the bids for the city’s first 5G licenses, including that of major telecoms firms CTM and China Telecom (Macao) Limited. According to the Macau Post and Telecommunications Bureau, the operators to be awarded the…
While Apple froze third-party advertising cookies on its platform, resulting in the first revenue dip of Facebook since its inception, the App Store application shop has been showing ads in its search results as well as the respective tab for a while now.…
Ho Chi Minh City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HDBank) has announced business results for the first half of 2022 with profit before tax of VND5.304 trillion ($227.25 million), up 26.5 percent year-on-year. First-half profit completed 54 percent of…
Lifestyle brand Hypebeast has collaborated with Jun Co, an apparel and lifestyle creation company, to launch the first Hypegolf store in Sarugaku-Cho Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. With nearly 50 years of experience in the field of golf, Jun Co claims it was…
Several banks have increased mortgage interest rates by up to 1 percentage point amid credit tightening. In mid-June Vietcombank hiked its from 9.2 percent to 9.8 percent for the first three years. At least three other banks have increased its rates. United…
Flight tickets to domestic destinations have become pricier than holiday fares, with rising global fuel prices adding fuel to high summer travel demand. For the past two weeks, Hoang Viet, who lives in Hanoi’s Ha Dong District, has been checking flight ticket…
In 2011, Venroy launched from Bondi Beach in Sydney with an offering of European-length swim shorts. It quickly garnered a cult following and has grown in the last decade to boast a seasonal offering of resort and leisurewear with stores also found in…
Odine, an award-winning global telecoms partner empowering network transformation with resilient, software-defined networks of the future, and HORISEN, a multi-award-winning SMS Platform provider specializing in feature-rich, vendor-neutral, cutting-edge…
India’s largest eyewear retailer Lenskart is buying an approximately 75% stake in Japanese eyewear chain Owndays. Lenskart will acquire all the shares held by a joint venture between an investment company affiliated with LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and a…
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