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The Camões Portuguese Cultural Centre in Bangkok and the Embassy of Portugal in Thailand, in partnership with Arte Institute in New York and Siam Piwat present the “NY Portuguese Short Film Festival ’17” in Thailand for the second year between September…
Suripong Tantiyanon (second left), Visa Country Manager, Thailand, together with Athip Sinpagekan (second right), Senior Vice President, Head of Marketing – Consumer Financial Services, Ayudhya Capital Services Co., Ltd, and Dr. Piyawan Piyapong (left),…
Mall company The Platinum Group is banking on Chinese tourism to support a retail shopping centre it plans to open next year. With a wholesale fashion mall in Bangkok that attracts about 15 million people annually, the group is investing about THB6 billion…
Retail property developer Central Pattana (CPN) has set up a JV with British retail giant Tesco to co-develop property in the Thai market. The Central Group subsidiary has told the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) that the new company, Synergistic Property…
ShopBack Thailand, the cashback platform that rewards consumers for shopping online, has declared next Saturday as the nation’s first Cashback Day. Five days of savings kick off today with sneak-preview deals between 9pm and midnight. Until Friday, shoppers…
Korean-owned 11street may be exiting Indonesia, but the e-commerce platform remains bullish about its opportunities in Thailand. Yun Chang-sung, 11street Thailand VP of sales, says the company is working towards being the largest e-commerce player in the…
As consumers become more tech savvy, Thailand internet shopping has boomed. Online retail sales in Thailand are more than doubling annually, whereas traditional stores are seeing only about 10 per cent growth. This is attributed to a combination of stronger…
Korean fashion retailer Aland, known by millennials in its homeland for its styles influenced by K-pop, has opened a store in Bangkok. It has a network of shops across Seoul and also in Hong Kong. Like these, its new Siam Center outpost offers young and…
A Jim Thompson flagship store will open in Bangkok’s Siam Paragon tomorrow as a preliminary step in a five-year global expansion plan. Similar flagship stores have been announced for Hong Kong and Singapore, and other major international retail destinations.…
Thai state-owned operator TOT is calling on the government to use its legislative powers to force telecoms and broadcasting companies to move their overhead cables in Bangkok into TOT’s underground pipes. The operator has argued that the move will accelerate…
David Bolton Director – Global Licensing, Sunkist Growers Inc (left) and Apirak Kosayodhin Chairman & CEO, V Foods Corporation Co Sunkist Growers Incorporated, a US-based citrus growers’ non-stock membership cooperative, has expanded its Sunkist Freshie brand…
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) and Thai Canal Association for Study and Development (TCA), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the international conference on Technology for Sustainable Paths to Thailand’s Future, THAI…
Kerry Logistics Network Limited (‘Kerry Logistics’ or together with its subsidiaries, the ‘Group’; Stock Code 636) today announced the Group’s interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2017. The Group’s Financial Highlights Turnover surged by 31% to…
Tesco Lotus plans a major marketing push for the remainder of this year as it tries to boost sluggish sales. A core plank of the plan is a four-day Tesco Lotus Expo to be held at Impact Muang Thong Thani from November 9-12, the first time the retailer has…
Kasikornbank has taken a 9.99% stake in Bank Maspion Indonesia for US$20 million to help strengthen its regional presence, the bank said on Monday. The price paid was 615 rupiah (S$0.06) per share, nearly 62% premium to the stock’s closing price on Friday.…
Expansion by 7-Eleven Thailand has outpaced Japan, with the convenience store network reaching 10,007 by the end of June. It took CP All, under Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group, 28 years to reach the 10,000 mark since its first outlet for the Japanese…
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