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Japanese luxury jewellery Tasaki plans to open its first US standalone store in New York City next year. It will also be the retailer’s first directly run store in the US. Tasaki also has a directly run store in London, plus an outlet at Hong Kong’s Lee…
Restaurant group Jumbo Seafood has reported a full-year net profit of S$15.7 million (US$11 million) – up 17.9 per cent from the previous year. Overall group revenue grew 11.4 per cent to S$136.8 million, attributed mainly to revenue contributions from its…
Luxury watch brand Jaeger-LeCoultre Japan has staged a grand opening for its first flagship boutique, in Tokyo. Jaeger-LeCoultre CEO Daniel Riedo and brand manager for Japan Stefano Bossi welcomed 150 guests for the official launch of the store, on Ginza…
Japanese eCommerce giant Rakuten and its two partners – Docomo and Autonomous Control Laboratory – have trialled a drone-based delivery system. The Rakuten drone delivery system uses Docomo’s LTE mobile network when a customer places an order via a…
Women’s shoe retailer Manolo Blahnik Malaysia has launched its first store, in Pavilion KL. The 95 sqm store is part of an Asia expansion plan that includes the refurbishment of its Singapore store at Takashimaya, as well as the launch of a flagship store in…
DHL eCommerce, a division of Deutsche Post DHL Group, unveiled its plans to establish an outbound cross-border eCommerce distribution center in Narita, Japan by April 2017. The distribution center will be co-located with the Japan Global Distribution Center,…
Toyota Motor Corp said it was recalling about 838,000 Sienna minivans to fix an issue that may arise while operating sliding doors of the vehicles. The recall affects about 744,000 vehicles in the United States and nearly 4,000 vehicles in South Korea and…
As part of its aim to have digital strategy as the core of its business, Japanese department store company Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings is preparing to launch an online store. It has started tests leading up to its launch this month of its first online store on…
Customers of Rakuten Books can now pick up their online purchases at Lawson convenience stores across Japan. This follows the forming of a collaboration between Rakuten and the Lawson chain, which has 11,922 stores around Japan, plus 100 Lawson Store outlets.…
US steakhouse Smith & Wollensky, famously described by the New York Times as “the steakhouse to end all arguments”, is expanding its global presence, setting its sights initially on such cities as Bangkok, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo, as…
Forbes Japan, the Tokyo-based edition of Forbes, one of the world’s most authoritative business news medias, celebrated entrepreneurs and Start-ups today at the Annual “JAPAN’S STARTUP” Awards, and the winner of the ‘RISING STAR’ STARTUP OF THE YEAR 2017…
Japan’s e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. has opened an online flagship store on 11STREET, one of South Korea’s leading online marketplaces. It said store aims to provide South Korean consumers with popular Japanese merchandise and will feature a variety of…
Targeting global retailers who are looking to Asia to chart growth, CapitaLand Mall Asia has its biggest presence ever at international retail event Mapic in Cannes, France. It is the fifth consecutive year CapitaLand has exhibited at Mapic, one of the…
Mobile commerce conversion rates are highest in Japan, the U.K and South Korea for Q2 2016 states the State of Mobile Commerce Report released by performance marketing technology company, Criteo. The company claims to have studied 1.7 billion transactions…
Japan’s factory output and retail sales were flat last month, data showed Monday, painting a bleak picture for the world’s number three economy as the central bank kicks off a policy meeting. The lukewarm readings come on the heels of disappointing inflation…
Asia Pacific leads the world in mobile cross-border shopping, according to the third PayPal Annual Global Report, released in conjunction with global market research company Ipsos. With its investigation of the online domestic and cross-border shopping habits…
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