Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in Singapore, updated continuously by our newsroom.
One year after a “garage” pop-up store in Paragon Singapore, British men’s luxury brand Alfred Dunhill has opened its first-ever concept store. Its fourth outlet in Singapore brings to life the brand’s heritage of motoring, saddlery and gentlemanly inventions…
2 in 3 Singaporeans prefer retailers with e-commerce and mobile app. There are only a few days before Christmas and Singaporeans are surely busy shopping around, finding the perfect gift. But what do retailers need to do to keep up with the shopping hype this…
Singapore has appointed Tan Kiat How as chief executive of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) from January 1, 2017. Tan, currently deputy secretary (cyber and technology) at the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI), succeeds Gabriel…
Singapore’s BHG department store group has opened its seventh outlet as it trumpets sold sales growth across its network. Apparently defying the city state’s widely publicised retail downturn, BHG is achieving solid growth through a focus on refreshing its…
Singapore Airlines is ramping up flights to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in 2017, a year which marks the airline’s 50th anniversary in Australian skies. Melbourne will see a fifth flight appear on the schedule from 17 July 2017, with the new SQ247/248…
Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba Group has been given the go-ahead by Singapore’s stock exchange (SGX) to raise its stake in Singapore Post (SingPost). Alibaba Investment, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding, has received in-principle approval from the…
Lazada Group’s Online Revolution, also known as 12.12, has again proven to be the biggest online shopping event in Southeast Asia, ringing up US$40.5 million in sales. About 60 per cent of the gross merchandise value (GMV) of the December 12 event came from…
Real Singapore retail sales rose in October month-on-month – but slipped year-on-year. According to official Statistics Singapore data released Thursday, seasonally adjusted retail sales rose 1.5 per cent (excluding motor vehicles) on September’s figures. But…
Apple fans who have been looking forward to the tech giant’s first brick-and-mortar store in Singapore may have to wait a while longer, with the completion date of construction work at its expected location along Orchard Road apparently pushed back. According…
Mancunians will be able to sample Singapore Airlines (SIA) latest A350 from January 17. SIA’s new three-class (business, premium economy and economy) twin-jet enters enters service on the Singapore-Manchester-Houston route. It will replace the larger…
Australian fixed line operator TPG Telecom has won the new entrant spectrum auction to become Singapore’s fourth mobile network operator. TPG submitted the winning bid of S$105 million ($72.8 million) for a provisional allocation of 60 MHz of spectrum in the…
Singapore Post subsidiary SP eCommerce has worked with lingerie brand Triumph to launch two optimised online stores, for Singapore and Malaysia. The online stores have been redesigned and enhanced in areas such as product categorisation and recommendation to…
Thailand’s Greyhound Cafe has opened its 13th international outlet, marking its debut in Singapore. It has 14 cafes in Bangkok plus outlets in Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai. For Greyhound, the cafe was actually an afterthought to complement to…
Having established Datacloud as Europe’s foremost networking and deal-making forum for data center and cloud players, the widely acclaimed event is now scheduled to take place in the growth markets of Asia on February 23, 2017. BroadGroup, the consulting,…
One of the five largest banks in Singapore has tested a blockchain-based payment service, with an eye to develop commercial products around the tech. OCBC Bank used the tech to send funds between its operations in Singapore and Malaysia, as well as transmit…
When it comes to Christmas shopping, Singaporeans prefer retailers with a physical store, coupled with both e-commerce and mobile app. Singapore shoppers want cross channel options more than new age services like digital wallets and augmented reality store…
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