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Often the most elegant and successful business ideas are the most straightforward ones. PopUp Immo is looking to address two pressing, basic needs – brands’ need for visibility with customers at minimal financial investment and commercial real-estate owners’…
So far there are reasons to be bullish, says Alan Jiang, who is in charge of launching Uber in each new country it enters and is currently working as acting general manager of Uber Indonesia as it searches for more staff. Since launching in Jakarta last…
QIN Guoying, Common Secretary of the China Ladies’s Improvement Fund, and Zhang Huaying, Vice President of Coca-Cola China and Korea, joined representatives from a number of native authorities businesses to collectively inaugurate two new Mama’s House…
Indonesia’s National Nuclear Energy Agency (BATAN) and Russia’s State Nuclear Energy Corporation Rosatom have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on development of peaceful use of nuclear energy.The two organisations signed the MoU at the ATOMEXPO, an…
NYSE-listed China Nepstar Chain Drugstore has introduced a similar retailer gross sales improve of 13.6 per cent for the primary quarter. Complete income elevated by 11.9 per cent to RMB759.1 million, or US$122.5 million and it posted a lack of $500,000, only…
Leading Japanese hospitality company Fujita Kanko Inc. will open two new overseas offices in Bangkok, Thailand and Jakarta, Indonesia in June. The openings are intended to accelerate the globalization of its business, one of the key goals the company has set…
Ika plans to build two stores every five years until 2025 after opening its first Indonesian store in Alam Sutera, Tangerang, in October 2014. Ikea, the world’s biggest furniture seller, will produce more in Indonesia as it has set its sights on boosting its…
US-based digital video games big Razer has opened a singular flagship retailer in Taiwan’s capital metropolis, Taipei. Razer was created by CEO and Min-Liang Tan, a Singaporean, and specialises in merchandise marketed particularly to players. The Razer model…
September 26, 2014 marked the first launch of Cale parking terminals in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, a country with a population of 250 million people. An initial number of around 10 terminals were installed in Sabang Street, one of the busiest…
Thai jeweller Jubilee of Siam claims its new retailer in Bangkok is Asia’s largest diamond boutique. The huge retailer – for a jeweller – includes 1500 sqm unfold over 4 flooring within the coronary heart of Bangkok’s Silom Rd retail precinct. Jubilee of Siam…
A Philippines property developer has raised US$112 million to assist fund the formidable improvement plan for 100 purchasing malls throughout the nation. DoubleDragon Properties Corp plans to roll out the 100 CityMalls-branded centres by 2020 – the primary 25…
Whereas Ho Chi Minh Metropolis hogs the limelight in Vietnam’s financial growth, additional north the nation’s third largest metropolis is nicely on its method to its objective of turning into ‘the Singapore of Vietnam’. Over the previous 5 years, Da Nang…
Carrefour Taiwan has opened its 72nd retailer, a ‘mini-hyper retailer’ within the nation’s central area. The shop, within the metropolis of Hu Wei is the second Carrefour outlet in Yun-lin County. With a complete gross sales space of 1800 sqm and the Hu Wei…
Southeast Asia’s economic boom is resulting in the emergence of a new middle class, heralding vast opportunities for global wealth management. Since the 1970’s, growth in this region was primarily driven by exports and manufacturing. Today, the Association of…
Lifestyle company Osim has posted a 53 per cent profit drop for the first quarter on declining sales. The retailer of massage chairs and other remedial devices, says sales fell 13 per cent quarter-on-quarter, blaming a lack of new products and a drop-off in…
Indonesia is planning to impose a higher luxury tax for imported retail goods in its latest attempt to dampen domestic consumption in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, an official at the finance ministry said today. The G20 economy has been struggling to…
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