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Thailand based TCC Land, which is the property arm of beverage tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, has formed two separate subsidiaries to focus on its retail and leisure businesses. The restructuring that happened this month is expected to help increase the…
Thailand’s leading mobile operator, Advanced Info Service (AIS), is partnering with Transaction Network Services (TNS) to enhance its product portfolio to address the specific PCI DSS needs of its merchant customers. The new ATM and retail store…
Thai property developer Magnolia Quality Development Corporation has unveiled a stunning, futuristic mixed use development plan for Sukhumvit 101. Whizdom 101 is a massive 30 billion baht US$883 million project which when complete will comprise 340,000 sqm of…
Private-equity firms such as MBK Partners and the Carlyle Group are among the short-listed bidders for Homeplus, a local discount retailer owned by the U.K. grocery chain Tesco, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Affinity Equity Partners and…
Go Watanabe, CEO, Asia-Oceania at Mitsubishi UFJ said that we’re looking for a bank that is very strong in both corporate and retail consumer finance akin to Bangkok-based Bank of Ayudhya Pcl. Photo: Bloomberg Singapore: Two years after spending about $5…
Regardless of the shortage of clear indicators of a restoration in shopper spending, The Mall Group expects 10% retail gross sales progress within the first half of this yr. Government vice-president Chamnarn Maytaprechakul stated the group’s retail gross…
Lawson Thailand, a three way partnership between the Japanese comfort retailer operator and an area Thai listed firm, says it plans to open 1000 shops throughout the nation. At present it has simply 40 buying and selling underneath the brandname Lawson 108,…
Thailand has maintained in its position as eBay’s largest market in Southeast Asia thanks to the appreciation of the US dollar and the variety of Thai products, says the world’s largest e-marketplace. The California-based e-commerce operator is gearing up to…
A joint venture of Thailand’s Saha Pathanapibul Pcl and Japan’s Lawson Inc aims to boost the number of ‘Lawson 108’ outlets in the Southeast Asian nation to 1,000 over the next three years from 40 now, a Saha executive said on Friday. Saha Pat, part of Saha…
PT Sari Gemilang Makmur has gained the franchise rights to Jamba Juice Indonesia. The US smoothie chain Jamba Juice has launched into an aggressive worldwide enlargement technique with some 600 new cafes now within the improvement pipeline in South Korea,…
Smartphone maker Huawei says its determination to concentrate on Southeast Asia is already bearing fruit. With the profitable Southeast Asia regional launch of the Huawei P8 and wearable units in Bangkok Thailand in late Might, Huawei is retaining the…
Bangkok’s newest shopping showcase The Em District has commissioned a stunning 3D Mapping performance to mark its formal launch on Sukhumvit. The Emporium Group, managers of The Emporium and The EmQuartier, said the company invested 200 million baht (nearly…
After its recent acquisition of a minority stake in the home-appliances distributor SINGER (Thailand) PCL, Thailand’s mobile phone retailer JayMart PCL (JMART) is in negotiations to acquire one another retailer this year, and the company is working towards…
Starbucks Asia has been ranked Asia’s 15th prime model – the very best rating of any quick meals retailer or restaurant. The highest 5 corporations on the record in Asia are Samsung, Sony, Nestle, Apple and Panasonic. Marketing campaign Asia-Pacific’s annual…
Central Group, the Thai retail conglomerate, will purchase a majority stake in three German department shops – together with the nation’s largest, the historic KaDeWe in downtown Berlin. For a number of months, Central has been reporting it was in…
Warakan Srinualnad, chief executive officer of Thailand Post Distribution, said yesterday that the company aimed for Bt400 million in revenue in 2015 and expected to keep growing at 10 per cent per year. The company will expand to cover the whole Indochina…
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