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The Singapore Pinacotheque de Paris has been nominated Best Emerging Culture Destination in Asia at the 2015 edition of the Leading Culture Destinations Awards, a platform that celebrates the success of cultural institutions worldwide, while its 2015 edition…
Sands Resorts has launched the Macau Shopping Break promotion in a bid to lure tourists to the Cotai Strip and boost retail spending. Timed to coincide with the upcoming festive season, Sands Resorts Cotai Strip Macau has launched a special hotel package –…
Forward bookings from airlines and indicators from leading travel agents suggest that Chinese arrivals to Thailand will reach record levels in 2015, as the King Power International Group reports sales up by 47% this year. Speaking to TRBusiness in a detailed…
LVMH-owned Starboard Cruise Services has hired a seasoned luxury goods executive, Emily Wong, to the new role of Vice President/General Manager for Asia – signalling the possible direction its on-board cruise retail offer will take in the region. Wong joins…
Tina Priscilla Tam has resigned from Burberry, where she was Vice President of Travel Retail Asia, to set up her own company called Paccaya Resources Ltd in Hong Kong, where she is now pursuing new personal opportunities. Formerly with Celine, Lancaster, and…
Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) is preparing its systems in Myanmar for the launch of Central Bank’s (CBM) real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system. Launch is set for the end of 2015 and the development forms part of Myanmar’s move to modernisation. CBM…
Sinomax Group Limited (“Sinomax,” together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”) (stock code: 1418), a leading marketer, manufacturer and distributor of quality visco-elastic (“memory foam”) pillows, mattress toppers and mattresses in the United States (the…
Pororo Park Singapore will open at Marina Square next month, the first for the animated penguin in Southeast Asia. Pororo is South Korea’s most popular cartoon character. The award-winning animation is broadcasted over 130 countries, including Disney Junior…
Not long ago, Tupperware seemed to be a brand with a limited future. Tupperware’s background is selling products at relatively high prices through direct selling, or the party plan concept, rather than retail stores, a system dating back to the 1970s. In…
Hamleys – the world’s oldest toy retailer – has been bought by a Hong Kong investor. As rumoured last week, the business has been sold to interests connected with the Sanpower Group in China’s mainland, which last year acquired UK department store House of…
Samsonite Singapore plans at least two new stores in the city this year. Speaking in an interview with the Straits Times, Samsonite CEO Ramesh Tainwala acknowledged his business faces high operating costs and slower economic growth in Singapore, compared to…
Chinese like Shao, who were born in the 1980s and 1990s, when the one-child policy was most strictly enforced, say they were lonely growing up without siblings. The one-child policy was gradually eased in recent years as China experienced economic growth and…
Shares of companies that make nappies, prams and infant formula got a boost on Friday from China’s decision to scrap its one-child policy. But for the maker of a popular brand of condoms, it was not the brightest of days. Investors are betting on a bump in…
With the opening of the new Natuzzi Italia Store in Naples (Florida) – in addition to the new Miami and Philadelphia new stores – the Group has opened 3 new stores in the U.S. in 2015, bringing to 252 the number of mono-brand sales points in North America.…
Privately-owned French supermarket operator AuchanSuper has opened its first store in Vietnam, branded Simply Market. It plans 17 more before the end of 2016. The first store is trading in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5, a middle class Vietnamese suburb not…
Japan duty free sales soared in the first quarter of the current financial year as Chinese tourist ranks swelled. Major duty free retailers have reported sales on the mainland soared 20 per cent or more year on year, with brands preferred by Chinese shoppers…
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