Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in Taiwan, updated continuously by our newsroom.
Asus has chosen the Philippines to launch its Zenfone Concept Store, in Glorietta 2, Makati City. Tech brand Asus has chosen the Philippines to launch its Zenfone Concept Store, in Glorietta 2, Makati City. More Zenfone concept stores will follow throughout…
Taiwan’s Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) is nearing 100% take-up of 4G services among existing customers, and expects nearly all its subscribers to have migrated to 4G by the end of Q1. APT only has around 100,000 3G users left to migrate to 4G, around 6% of the…
Control of the Foodpanda business has been sold by parent Rocket Internet, including the remaining Asian operations. German-based online food-ordering service Delivery Hero Holding, which is active in 33 countries, has acquired Rocket Internet-backed Emerging…
Mulberry Asia, a new joint venture between the British fashion brand and Challice Limited, has announced plans to open four stores in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan and a Chinese language eCommerce site. The move was announced along with the company’s half year…
Credit-card use in Singapore is set to fall by 40 per cent in less than five years, according to new research from global payment company Worldpay. For its Global Payments Report 2016, Worldpay analysed 30 eCommerce markets including Australia, China, Hong…
As Southeast Asia eCommerce merchants set benchmarks in a booming industry, their efforts are about to be celebrated with the launch of annual awards. Based in Kuala Lumpur, online shopping aggregator iPrice Group has launched the iPrice eCommerce Merchant…
Southeast Asian pure-play mCommerce operator Shopee says it has reached US$1.8 billion in annualised GMV just a year after its launch. App-based Shopee operates in Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and and Taiwan. The…
VMware, Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry (III) and the USA’s Methode Electronics have become the latest members of the Broadband Forum. The latest additions highlight recent developments within the Broadband Forum to address the constantly changing…
Taiwanese restaurant chain SheenHo has awarded a master franchise to Myanmar company Creation Strength to open outlets in the frontier market. About K1.3 billion (US$995,000) will be invested in opening up to 20 branches over five years, starting in Yangon.…
Fashion group Moiselle International has strengthened its margins but still posted a loss in the last half year. While its loss of about HK$35 million (US$4.5 million) was about 10 per cent more than its loss of about HK$32 million for the same period last…
The low-cost carrier’s Philippine subsidiary started flying direct from Manila to Taipei on 21 November, and then on 25 November it commenced flights between Cebu and Taipei. “We are aiming to go further across Asia by strengthening AirAsia’s presence in…
H&M Taiwan held a high-profile fashion party to launch its new Ximen flagship store, gathering Taiwanese fashion’s finest. Yoga Lin, Nick Chou, Gemma Wu, Nikki Hsieh, Puff Kuo, Jasper Liu, Jian Man Shu and Lien Yu Han were amongst the stars joining this…
Sa Sa profits took a hit of 37.3 per cent for the six months to September 30. The Hong Kong-listed beauty products retailer’s interim results show turnover easing by 4 per cent to HK$3.628 billion (US$467.7 million) for the period, with retail sales in Hong…
BreadTalk Group has signed a franchise agreement with the parent of the Din Tai Fung brand of restaurants to take the Taiwanese concept into the UK. BreadTalk Group says the deal with Fairy Rise Development, the owner of Din Tai Fung, will see the first…
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…
It’s rare to call anything “absolutely stunning,” let alone a blue and slightly orange phone of all things, but Samsung managed to extract that statement out of him when he had some hands-on with the Galaxy Note 7 (RIP). And I wasn’t the only one to think…
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