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Valentino Hong Kong has unveiled its new flagship store in the heart of Causeway Bay. Spanning 382 sqm at Lee Garden One, the Italian fashion brand’s two-storey boutique was designed by British architect David Chipperfield. Steering away from a pure showroom…
Alibaba Cloud has more than doubled the capacity of its data center in Hong Kong to help the company meet glowing demand for cloud services in Asia-Pacific. The expanded Hong Kong data center will be used to meet enterprises’ demand for high availability and…
Over the next three years, Swire Pacific will increase the number of its bakery shops in Chongqing, Chengdu and Guiyang to 1,000 through its wholly owned Swire Foods subsidiary. The conglomerate believes the benefits from stable, long-term growth from the…
BetaSmartz, the B2B automated investment platform for all sizes of investors, from institutional to retail, today announced it had opened offices in Hong Kong. BetaSmartz offers ‘hybrid ‘ digital investment or ‘robo’ advice that combines automated and…
China Mobile Hong Kong has migrated its services to an NFV-based cloud core network provided by Huawei. The operator has migrated its legacy networks to cloud networks based on the 3GPP system. Working closely with Huawei, the migration took only around six…
SmarTone plans to soon launch its innovative anti-cyberattack software, ST Protect, to enterprises in Hong Kong in anticipation of growing security threats targeted at smartphones. “One of the interesting trends last year is that we started to see ransomware…
HKT has called on the HKSAR government to take action to prepare for the arrival of 5G, stating that the government has done nothing to advance 5G development in the city. In a discussion paper, HKT once again the government and criticized telecoms regulator…
Hermes sales rose 8 per cent last year for French high-fashion goods manufacturer Hermes International. In what it describes as a “difficult context”, the group’s consolidated revenue reached €5202 million (US$5.5 billion). Sales growth was sustained in the…
A Hong Kong supermarket is turning grocery shopping into an unbearably adorable experience with its Hello Kitty pop-up. The delightful shop will be officially open for business — operating within Sai Wan’s Yata Supermarket — from Feb. 12 to May 31.The pop-up…
Wong Lai-ngan hunches over a battered workbench, his electric rotary tool whining as he carves two phoenixes facing each other into a smooth white tusk. Decades ago, Wong’s canvas would have been elephant ivory. But since a 1990 ban on international trading,…
The retail sector in Hong Kong recorded the poorest annual sales in nearly two decades last year, according to a report by the ‘Nikkei Asian Review’. The Hong Kong government argues that this ‘annus terribilis’ partly responds to the declining number of…
Despite a return of mainland Chinese tourists to mark the start of the Year of the Rooster, it might be too early to celebrate for Hong Kong retailers. Sales will continue to fall this year, according to industry observers. Thomson Cheng Wai-hung, chairman of…
Online eyewear retailer SmartBuyGlasses has opened a physical store at Kennedy Town. Located beside the suburb’s MTR station, the store displays and sells well-known designer brands of eyewear. The store, the first in Hong Kong, marks a step from online to…
Katherine Brady, founder of online baby bouquet retailer Dotty Bee, is to sell the business ahead of leaving Hong Kong. Dotty Bee was established in 2011 and has since expanded into Singapore and Spain, with potential to add other markets. Beside online…
Hong Kong’s latest food truck may have found its sweet spot on Disneyland’s doorstep after its first location was deemed too remote. Mein by Maureen, which offers lo mein (noodles in seafood sauce), has made its new home on Park Promenade, the only…
New York design house Coach reports “notable strength” in Mainland China while reporting its second-quarter results for the quarter ended December 31. Coach China sales were roughly even but increased 6 per cent on a constant currency basis when the impact of…
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