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Don Don Donki Singapore’s second store has begun trading at 100AM Mall on Tras Street in the CBD. The 1186sqm store will trade from 8am to midnight seven days a week, selling a wide range of fresh and packaged foods, liquor, cosmetics, stationery and other…
Large-scale specialty stores such as Daiso and Ikea may be subject to mandatory closings every two weeks as the South Korean government studies the validity of such a regulation. Research on the appropriateness of the regulation on large-scale specialty…
Millennials do not care much for car or home ownership, but for smaller purchases like fashion they have tended to follow the habits of generations past. With mobile technology making sharing so much easier and the practice more familiar, more are turning to…
Japanese retail chain Daiso Taiwan is expecting to face a second import ban. It was earlier slapped with a six-month ban for illegally importing food products from areas affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and selling them with falsified labels of…
Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten is to buy Curbside, an app which offers shoppers mobile ordering from brick-and-mortar stores for outside pickup. Curbside says after the acquisition it will continue to operate as an independent company, with its products,…
Major Vietnamese plastics firms are being taken over in a big way by foreign firms from Thailand, Japan and South Korea. In April, Thai business conglomerate Siam Cement Group (SCG) acquired over 50 percent of shares in Binh Minh Plastics (BMP), a big player…
The Outnet, the discount sister brand to Net-a-Porter, has launched in Japan. It lets customers shop and read fashion content in their own language. They can also pay for purchases in yen or pay in cash upon the delivery of their order. Yoox Net-a-Porter…
Japan-listed cosmetics review media and retail company Istyle Inc today opened its first cosmetics @cosme Store in Hong Kong. In Tsim Sha Tsui, the outlet offers Japanese cosmetic brands with rankings and testers for almost all products. Istyle executive…
Convenience store group FamilyMart Uny Holdings has stepped up co-operation with Japan’s largest discounter, Don Quijote Holdings, to open a joint store. Like other Japanese convenience stores, which are open 24 hours and sell everything from underwear to…
7-Eleven Japan and Toyota Motor Corporation have agreed on a joint project to reduce CO2 emissions. The idea is to conserve energy and reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the store’s distribution and business activities. Toyota has been investigating the use…
Japanese discount retailer Don Don Donki will open its second Singapore store next week at Tanjong Pagar’s 100AM mall. Don Don Donki’s product range of about 30,000 items was curated for Singapore and spans fresh and processed foods, vegetables, meat, sushi,…
Miniso Vietnam plans to open 50 more stores by the end of this year and reach 400 by 2022. The discount retail chain plans to enhance its distribution system in Vietnam with a 10,000 sqm warehouse in Ho Chi Minh City which will open within a few months. That…
An experiential concept store opened by beauty brand SK-II in Tokyo incorporates face authentication technology and AI. The Future X Smart Store by SK-II will trade in the trendy Harajuku district until June 28. (Scroll down for a video of the store from…
Retro games such as Pacman and Pong take on a new twist at the Coco Game Center in Pacific House until June 18. After last year’s hit Coco Cafe, Chanel Beauty has followed up with another fun beauty concept. With previous stops in Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai and…
UNIQLO last week announced that it will begin rolling out the special KAWS x SESAME STREET UT (UNIQLO T-shirt) collection on Friday, June 29. Items will be available at all UNIQLO stores and UNIQLO.com. The collection showcases contemporary artist KAWS’s…
Continued momentum in Asia has helped boost revenues for US clothing brand Guess Inc for its first quarter, to May 5. As the company continued to take advantage of its infrastructure investments in China and Japan, its operating margin in Asia improved by 430…
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