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Australian gelato chain Gelatissimo has opened five new stores – including in Thailand and Singapore – taking its international store network to 70. One store has opened in Sunny Laguna in Phuket, Thailand, another in Hawaii’s Royal Hawaiian Center at Waikiki…
Social media-based food-ordering platform Gobble has shut down in Singapore after more than 18 months of operations. The company’s founders announced the closure on their LinkedIn page. One of them, Ashwin Purushottam, cited the company’s inability to raise…
OCBC’s private banking arm, Bank of Singapore, officially announced the successor to chief executive Bahren Shaari who retired in December. According to a statement, Bank of Singapore appoints Jason Moo as chief executive officer, effective March 6. Moo will…
E-Mart’s convenience store chain Emart24 has opened its first store in Singapore, becoming the first Korean convenience store chain to operate in the city state amid the retailer’s push for overseas expansion. The first store is located in the Jurong Point…
Levi’s will be launching new stores and rolling out existing store refreshes as well as new in-store services throughout the East Asia Pacific (EAP) region. New stores are expected to launch this year in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, and…
Located in the “prime location” of the Ion Orchard shopping center, the new store features an enhanced shopping experience “so that consumers can enjoy Desigual from a new perspective,” as stated by the brand. Over this fiscal year, the company has redesigned…
7-Eleven is usually a place where people pop in and out in a jiffy. However, this isn’t the case at the convenience stores’s first 7Café concept store at Jewel Changi Airport. The 7Café concept store at Jewel Changi Airport is located in Basement 2. It has an…
AirAsia announced the launch of its newest international route from Sibu, Sarawak’s quaint town to the ‘Lion City’ Singapore. The inaugural flight is set to take off on 16 December 2022, with an initial frequency of 4 times weekly. Earlier this year, AirAsia…
Online entertainment company Yeah1 said profits for the third quarter nearly doubled from the previous one to VND14.8 billion (US$597,000). The profits for the first nine months topped VND22 billion, as against losses of over VND253 billion a year earlier, on…
Porsche Singapore will bring a new experience studio to the city-state, under the partnership with real estate developer GuocoLand. The location will open in the second half of next year, at the new Guoco Midtown integrated mixed-use development on Beach…
An Indonesian-based online restaurant startup, Dailybox, opened a new kitchen in Singapore. Various Indonesian dishes can now be ordered through GrabFood delivery service in Singapura. Dailybox Group CEO Kelvin Subowo explained that they decided to expand…
Southeast Asian omnichannel fashion retailer Love Bonito has acquired Singapore-based activewear brand Butter and a minority stake in healthcare startup Moom Health for an undisclosed sum. The activewear line will be rebranded as ‘Cheak’, a play on the word…
Singtel has announced the deployment of Singapore’s greenest radio cell, the Ericsson AIR 3268, to its 5G network. This is part of Singtel’s ongoing sustainability and decarbonization measures towards achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 and paves the way for…
Ikano Retail has recorded its highest turnover yet for the financial year to August 31, reaching US$1 billion across the five markets in which it operates Ikea stores – Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Mexico, equivalent to 41.2 per cent…
First opened in 2019 at Marina Square, Singapore, Kiztopia is a massive indoor playground that’s designed for the little ones to both play and learn at the same time. Now opening its first ever overseas flagship outlet at New Town Plaza’s new Play Park, the…
While international travel has officially picked up this year, it’s important to note that passengers departing from Singapore’s Changi Airport will now have to pay extra airport fees and levies starting November 1, 2022 to Mar 31, 2023. Changi Airport…
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