Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in Thailand, updated continuously by our newsroom.
Hermes Thailand has opened a store in Phuket, within the Central Phuket Floresta mall. The 172sqm outlet, Hermes’ first in the country outside of the capital, Bangkok, signals the brand’s increasing confidence in the market and willingness to expand in the…
South Korean food manufacturer Daesang is reportedly exiting the convenience store business, selling its stake in the Ministop chain. A cut-throat industry in the territory, competition between players has become so intense that legislation is now in effect…
The swing excitement has recently revisited Hua Hin as Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin welcomed Biggles Big Band to delight Thai fans with hits from the golden era of jazz. The beautiful city of Hua Hin was in excitement as an Amsterdam-based…
Vibrant stationery retailer Smiggle is expanding within Asia following a record global performance reaching 34.8 per cent sales growth in the territory. Brand owner Premier Investments will be pushing Smiggle in South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, and the…
NTT Docomo and its Singapore subsidiary NTT Docomo Asia have commenced a trial of an IoT monitoring system to improve the manufacturing performance of a synthetic-fibers factory in Thailand. In the trial, Docomo Asia is deploying the IoT Solution Platform to…
Competition is increasing in the Bangkok retail-property market, according to international property consultant CBRE. The competition is focused on the bricks vs clicks sector as e-commerce grows, and the bricks vs bricks market, as developers build new…
The makeover of the L’Oréal Paris store in King Power Downtown II Srivaree is the latest in a series of important openings at L’Oréal Travel Retail Asia Pacific. Unlike anything Bangkok has ever seen before, the expanded flagship store is the biggest L’Oréal…
V-MORE, an e-commerce supply chain management platform, has revealed its intention of expanding into Thailand. V-MORE aims to recruit new Thai e-commerce merchants as part of its expansion strategy and has rolled out onboarding programs for new merchants and…
Telenor Myanmar has expanded its unlimited international data roaming service to Malaysia and Singapore, one month after the launch of the new service in Thailand. The company’s non-stop data roaming pack offers unlimited data in the three international…
Bangkok-headquartered omnichannel fashion company Pomelo has appointed Jim Boland, former RedMart CFO, as its new CFO. Boland has successfully led finance organisations in fast-growing e-commerce businesses for more than 19 years in leadership roles at…
Hong Kong-headquartered retail technology company Yo-ren has secured US$11 million in a funding round it plans to use to expand into Thailand and Malaysia. Yo-ren designs, develops, and operates smart phone-based customer management programs and provides…
V-MORE, Asia’s leading e-commerce supply chain management platform, has announced its plans to expand into Thailand. Over the pasts 12 months, the fast-growing one-stop e-commerce platform which has already garnered 500,000 users in the region. V-MORE aims to…
SilkAir, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, will add a sixth daily service between Phuket and Singapore from May to meet growing demand for travel between Singapore and Thailand. SilkAir currently operates five flights per day on the popular…
Footwear brand Dune London is planning to expand into Singapore and Bangkok this year. The brand says expansion into new international markets is one of its core strategies for this year. In the UK, the brand will expand its standalone store network by…
Thailand’s fourth-largest bank by assets – by loans and deposits it also ranks fourth – has set some eye-catching targets. Take its K-Plus mobile banking offering. Already K-Plus has 10 million customers; that in itself is an already impressive number, given…
A newly-graduated college student in Vietnam makes one-sixth the income of his Singaporean counterpart, a report says. The minimum base salary of an entry-level position in Vietnam for the first six months last year was $250 a month, according to job…
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