Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in Singapore, updated continuously by our newsroom.
Kyoto-headquartered coffee chain % Arabica Coffee is to open its first store in Singapore. The company has revealed the location on Instagram: 56 Arab Street. With a fit-out yet to be completed, the store may not open until the end of the year. The company…
Singaporean police have found $1.03 million worth of fake goods at Sim Lim Square. The counterfeit products were seized from four retail outlets in the high-profile shopping centre. Some 6000 pieces of trademark-infringing items including laptop power…
Singapore online retailer Ezbuy has expanded, opening Ezbuy Pakistan. And already local media are tipping the site to be twice the size of Pakistan’s existing online retailer Daraz.pk, offering 3 million products, ranging from apparel through to electronics.…
Metro Holdings’ Singapore retail business posted a 7.6 per cent decline in sales during the first quarter of this year amidst “difficult trading conditions”. Metro has three Metro-branded department stores in the city and another 10 department stores in…
June Singapore retail sales remained static in June, rising a mere 0.2 per cent after motor vehicles were excluded from the data. Month on month, retail sales excluding cars fell by 1.8 per cent. Considering higher fuel prices drove a 9.3 per cent increase in…
Bora Aksu, the London-based, Turkish fashion designer, has opened his first standalone store in Asia, at Singapore’s The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands. Aksu’s Autumn-Winter 2018 collection launches the brand there, with pieces priced from S$500 to $2000.…
Continuously ranked as one of the best in the world, Singapore Changi Airport is an experience rather than a simple stop towards your destination. The award-winning airport offers its visitors a wide range of attractions, from shopping to dining and…
Filipino fast food chain Potato Corner has launched at Somerset Mall in Singapore. Popularly known for its flavoured fries, the new takeaway stall on Orchard Road is the latest notch on the global belt of a franchise that has more than 1000 stores worldwide,…
Raffles City is hosting a Mickey Mouse pop-up store celebrating the cartoon character’s 90th birthday. Dubbed ‘Mickey Go Local’, the store is a partnership with the Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia and features more than 80 souvenir products ranging from…
Singapore-based Grab said on Thursday (02/08) that it has secured $1 billion in fresh funding and will consider raising further cash, as the ride-hailing firm aggressively expands in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. The latest fundraising comes…
The retail industry is competitive, it’s relentless and the success of brands and retailers depends on how firmly they deal with their competition. One way to stay ahead of the curve is the incorporation of technology in a brand’s operating model. Technology…
Singapore-headquartered F&B group BreadTalk has announced US$148.8 million in total sales for the second quarter, an increase of 0.8 per cent over last year. Henry Chu, BreadTalk Group CEO said the company ended yet another quarter of core earnings…
Bekraf, the Indonesian Creative Economy Agency, has joined with the Indonesian embassy in Singapore to open a pop-up store showcasing Indonesian fashion startups. Joshua Puji Mulia Simanjuntak, Bekraf’s marketing division deputy head, described Singapore as…
In order to help combat the shipping and transport of illegal wildlife products, TRAFFIC, through the the USAID-funded Wildlife Trafficking Response, Assessment and Priority Setting (Wildlife TRAPS) Project, delivered a capacity building workshop in Bangkok…
Fashion label Ralph Lauren sales reached US$1.4 billion for the first quarter of this fiscal year, driven by sales in Asia and Europe. Ralph Lauren sales in Asia increased 19 per cent to US$248 million on a reported basis and by 16 per cent in constant…
Singapore-listed restaurateur Jumbo Group has opened its first Ng Ah Sio Bak Kut Teh restaurant in Taiwan. The new venue, which specialises in peppered pork soup, is situated in a 1400sqft space in Taipei’s Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Mall, seating 86 guests. It is…
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