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Furla Singapore has launched its Made For You personalisation service – available only in its Marina Bay Sands flagship store. The Italian luxury brand says the service is designed to “further enrich the relationship with customers”. Overall, the mix of…
Hermès and Nike have revealed new collaborations with Apple, to produce exclusive co-branded Apple Watches. Hermès introduced new Apple Watch styles and an expanded assortment of wristbands that incorporate its signature palette alongside a series of bold new…
The Singapore F&B sector is set for a radical transformation under the government’s Industry Transformation Maps, aimed at getting industry “future-ready”. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, deputy PM and coordinating minister for economic and social policies, revealed…
Singapore’s Maybank has joined the Samsung Pay bandwagon to help meet its goal of strengthening its digital presence across the region. Launched in partnership with Samsung Electronics Singapore, the deployment will enable customers to use their Maybank…
Japanese casual-clothing chain Uniqlo’s new store in Singapore takes up three floors – and marks its biggest gamble in Southeast Asia yet. In the Orchard Road shopping precinct, the 2700 sqm Uniqlo Singapore flagship is the brand’s largest store in the…
M&S Singapore has opened a table-service restaurant at Wheelock Place. As well as the M&S Cafe, the flagship store has introduced M&S chilled food, making it the first Asian outlet outside of Hong Kong to offer the range of more than 600 products. With 60…
Singtel has revealed plans to extend its free unlimited out-of-home WiFi offer to new and existing fiber broadband customers. The operator has been providing Singtel WiFi services for free for the operator’s mobile customers, and has decided to expand access…
Italian luxury leathergoods brand Furla has reported a 38 per cent increase in travel-retail sales for its first half, with Japan being its strongest market. Furla has 223 travel-retail points of sales in 52 countries, the latest openings for Furla Asia…
Singapore ISP ViewQwest has expanded into the Malaysian market, entering a high-speed fiber broadband joint venture with Malaysian telecoms engineering services company Televenture. ViewQwest has launched fiber and managed services for enterprises within…
Malaysia’s Axiata Group is considering increasing its stake in Singapore’s M1 as a strategic investment. Axiata CEO Tan Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim told that the company would “seriously consider” lifting its stake in M1 “if the price is right”. Axiata is already…
Singapore’s M1 has added three cybersecurity vendors to its list of managed security partners, as part of efforts to enhance its suite of cloud-based cybersecurity offerings. The three vendors are Red Sentry, Palo Alto Networks and Proficio, who join Trend…
Wealthy investors in Singapore may soon be able to choose to be covered by the same protections as retail investors under proposals from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Mas). First announced by the regulator in September 2015, Mas intends to table…
Many of Singapore’s five million people are covering up and staying indoors to avoid mosquito bites as health experts warned that the outbreak of the Zika virus in the tropical city-state would be difficult to contain. One of the world’s leading financial…
UnionPay, the Official Card for The Great Singapore Sale (GSS) 2016, has revealed that total spend in Singapore by UnionPay Cardholders grew 15 percent during the 10-week-long event held from 3 June to 14 August 2016. The increase was contributed by the surge…
Ksubaka today announced that it has broken through the 5,000 barrier of installed playSpots across China. Ksubaka has the fastest growing direct-to-consumer media network in China with over 10 million shoppers engaging with the network each month. Importantly…
Indonesians have become Asia’s foremost online buyers of luxury goods, according to the latest Asia Luxury Index. Amid difficult economic conditions, online sales of luxury goods in Indonesia have grown by 84 per cent, according to the index, which draws…
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