Online marketplaces, D2C brands and the platforms rewriting how Asia shops.
Under pressure from the US, the government might again be compelled to review the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy in multi-brand retail trading (MBRT). At the forefront is American retail giant Walmart, demonstrating a renewed interest in entering…
Online food delivery service foodpanda is partnering with HSBC in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Customers and cardholders in eight Southeast Asian countries – Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippines, and India – will benefit…
Ganesh Subramanian, Chief Operating Officer at Myntra.com, has been given a new responsibility as Head – New Initiatives with immediate effect. Confirming the development, Subramanian told BusinessLine: “As a company, we are thinking long term. Therefore, we…
Asia-Pacific will account for 41.4 percent of worldwide e-commerce sales and is set to overtake the US as the world’s biggest e-commerce market, the latest research by Worldwide Business Research (WBR) shows. The research was conducted as part of the 3rd…
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and its financial-services affiliate have agreed to jointly invest about USD575 million in India’s One97 Communications Ltd.’s online-payment and marketplace businesses, a person familiar with the matter…
Made-in-China.com, a global trade commerce company, has grown its website traffic over 2000 percent using a managed cloud portfolio. The dedicated hosting solution from Backspace, which is part of its managed cloud offering, allows the company to have full…
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has for the first time unveiled the trade details of its major global business unit Tmall Global, revealing a tenfold increase since it was founded 10 months ago, reports the Shanghai-based China Business News. Lees ook:…
Chinese popular chain restaurants, including Shanghai Min, Waipojia and Ajisen China, will upgrade their unified e-commerce platform this year to help cut cost and improve food safety standards. Lees ook: Deliveroo Hong Kong launches plan to feed the needy…
To help fuel its growth, Amazon.com is increasingly turning to the millions of businesses that use its site to sell their own goods. That’s a good thing for Amazon, because those third party sales tend to have higher margins, according to some analysts, and…
In order to steer clear of the war between online and offline retailers, consumer brands may soon ensure that their products on e-commerce platforms such as Flipkart and Amazon are different from those retailing at traditional brick-and-mortar outlets. For…
Luxury fashion brands sashayed their way to substantially more YouTube views in 2014. But they still have a lot of runway ahead for growth on the social media platform. According to a new report by think tank L2, conducted in partnership with YouTube ad…
Traders recorded a sale of VND154 billion (USD7.23 million) in the first ever Online Friday event in Vietnam, announced the Vietnam E-Commerce and Information Technology Agency (VEITA) on Monday. VEITA said that more than 1,000 traders who showcased 3,226…
E-commerce giant Amazon.com might be planning to launch local handymen services in the Indian market after having done it in the US a few months ago, but Snapdeal.com has already started providing plumbing, electrical and other household services in some…
Even as global active lifestyle brands are rushing into India, home-grown outdoor gear brand Wildcraft has said it is eyeing opportunities to take its brand to West Asian and South Asian markets. “We have designed our products keeping in view the local…
A recent Visa study found that 26 percent of Singaporeans shop online at least once a week – the highest in Southeast Asia. And analysts say that with mobile phone apps that allow consumers to hunt for bargains anytime in a city that is ranked most expensive…
Zalora, Asia’s online fashion destination, on Thursday announced its new same-day delivery service, making it the only regional online fashion retailer to offer such a facility. Its regional managing director Michele Ferrario said in a statement that…
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