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Hong Kong shoe retailer On Pedder has launched an eCommerce site featuring a curated mix of luxury footwear. It is centered around the retailer’s Pedderzine, a seasonal art-fashion hybrid magazine distributed to customers. Complimentary shipping is being…
Apple Inc’s online book and film services have gone dark in China, after Beijing introduced regulations in March imposing strict curbs on online publishing, particularly for foreign firms. Attempts by Reuters on Friday to access Apple’s iBooks Store and…
Forget stairs and elevators – a Shanghai mall has installed a five-storey enclosed slide for shoppers. Spiralling down some 54 metres, the 76cm wide chute at the Printemps mall in the Pudong New Area is covered in bright patterns and is named The Happy Slide.…
Ikea’s first pick-up and order point in China is currently being built in Wenzhou and is expected to officially open at the beginning of this summer. Ikea PUP store is a new model established by the company in 2015. With an area of about 1,800 square meters,…
Local food manufacturers looking to expand into China will now have an easier time with the help of a new initiative by IE Singapore and the Singapore Food Manufacturers’ Association (SFMA). Dubbed “Singapore Pavilion”, it is an online store on Alibaba’s…
Benoy has been commissioned to work on the design of the Xuhui Vanke Center in Shanghai. This is developer Vanke’s first large-scale commercial real estate project with a mixed-use program in Shanghai. Benoy, a global studio of architects, masterplanners,…
After 58 per cent growth last year, Chinese tax-free shopping has gone into reverse gear, according to the Global Blue China Shopper Report. However, China has retained its position as the number-one global shopper market, accounting for a third of tax-free…
Gold demand in India improved this week as jewellery retailers reopened stores after a strike, but the world’s second biggest bullion market remained at a discount to the global benchmark as purchases across the region were curbed by higher prices. Indian…
Jewelry retailers Chow Sang Sang Holdings (00116.HK) and Luk Fook Holdings 00590.HK) are said to be waiving the craftsmanship fee on their gold products in a bid to spur sales during the upcoming Labor Day holidays. The promotional period will last for six…
Yum Brands, the parent company behind fast-food chains KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, has reported a surprise 8% rise in first-quarter net operating profit. One-time gains in the quarter from a Chinese New Year chicken bucket promotion helped boost sales in…
Brings together local and international retailers and suppliers. The CE China exhibition launched in Shenzhen this week, created by the organisers of the annual IFA Berlin exhibition, has brought together retailers including Alibaba and Amazon China with…
Starbucks Corporation posted its second quarter financial results for the fiscal year 2016 (2QFY16), after the closing bell yesterday. The world’s leading coffee chain posted a 16.3% growth in earnings, as it continued to benefit from rapid expansion and…
Shanghai Fashion Week was bigger than ever this year – almost too big, in fact. While it is the range of events beyond the catwalk shows that has made it such a success in so short a time, this year’s edition spread over a very long nine days and, for all its…
BMW expects its car sales in China to rise by a mid-single-digit percentage this year, in line with the overall growth of the world’s biggest passenger car market, board member Ian Robertson said on Monday. Last year, BMW sold 460,000 cars in China, marking a…
Food retailer Spar Asia had “significant” developments during its latest financial year. In a partnership with Ramayana, the Amsterdam-based group opened 15 stores in Indonesia in nine months, had rapid growth in India after re-entering the market in 2014,…
An Issey Miyake China boutique has opened in Chengdu, at the open-air shopping complex Sino-ocean Taikoo Li. Covering two floors, the Japanese fashion store has a white interior with modular displays and sleek metal racks that makes the products stand out.…
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