Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in Thailand, updated continuously by our newsroom.
The Thai government rejects Toyota’s request to include hybrid vehicles in investment-incentive packages about to be offered for electric vehicles. Industry Ministry Permanent Secretary Somchai Harnhirun says the Board of Investment (BOI) will not include…
James Cronk, global director, Financial Services Industry, at US-based Cisco, said the banking and financial-services sectors were now “transferring their legacy environment into digital transformation to support digital payment”. Around 4.5 per cent of Thai…
Asia Pacific leads the world in mobile cross-border shopping, according to the third PayPal Annual Global Report, released in conjunction with global market research company Ipsos. With its investigation of the online domestic and cross-border shopping habits…
More than ever, consumers in Vietnam are looking for the ‘Made in Thailand’ label when purchasing consumer goods, and they’re willing to pay a premium for these products, according to experts. The high domestic demand for Thai products, they say, was the…
The new boutique was officially opened last Saturday ^ featuring Furla’s Autumn and Winter 2016 Collection. The outlet is well lit and easily browsed with aisle room for customers to browse the wall-mounted leathergoods collections, as light boxes reinforce…
Saranya Pipoppinyo (right), Vice President Marketing of AEON Thana Sinsap (Thailand) Public Company Limited, hands over keys to a Nissan March, valued at 451,000 baht, to Suthit Saisuwan from Sisaket, the lucky winner of the grand prize from the AEON…
Low-cost carrier (LCC) Thai AirAsia has plans to expand its fleet in China, revealing that it is planning to add five to six aircraft per year over the next few years. Thai AirAsia CEO Tassapon Bijleveld told that half of the additional aircrafts would be…
Rather than a big city, Thai coffee-shop chain Cafe Amazon has chosen a village for its launch into Japan. More than 200km from Tokyo, Kawauchi in the Fukushima prefecture has fewer than 2000 residents, and the community is still struggling to recover from…
Jamie’s Italian by Jamie Oliver is pleased to announce its opening head chef for the first Jamie’s Italian restaurant in Thailand, set to open in the fourth quarter of this year. Alex Barman, a dynamic and passionate chef with more than 11 years of culinary…
Citing challenging business conditions and weakening consumer confidence, luxury-watch retailer The Hour Glass reports that its net profit for the second quarter ended September 30 fell 14 per cent year-on-year to S$8.32 million (US$5.88 million). Revenue…
Expats’ favorite supermarket, Foodland, plans to expand lots over the next five years. The chain has doubled its yearly investment budget to THB500 million to open four or five new grocery stores and add three new types of restaurants to their roster. Some of…
Thai mobile service provider TrueMove has deployed Procera’s ScoreCard technology to monitor the quality of experience (QoE) its network is delivering to subscribers across 2G, 3G, and 4G LTE. ScoreCard is being used for raw QoE KPI intelligence and the…
Thailand’s Dtac has become the market’s first mobile operator to implement an SDN-ready IP/optical network using equipment from Nokia. Dtac is implementing the technology to replace its existing IP core routing and DWDM infrastructure, in order to achieve the…
AEON Thana Sinsap (Thailand) Public Company Limited will be offering information on its different financial services and special promotions at the 11th Money Expo Chiangmai 2016. Services include Personal Loan, Your Cash, Cash Withdrawal, AEON Credit Cards…
Thai state-owned operator CAT Telecom will cut its wholesale 850-MHz network leasing prices by 10% to help the companies using the network under an MVNO model improve profit margins. CAT plans to implement the price cuts by the end of the year, citing…
WearYouWant, Thailand’s leading online fashion and beauty marketplace, is launching a premium, Korean fashion range in Thailand, designed and made in Korea, to satisfy the ever-growing love of Korean brands in the Kingdom. Developing a close relationship with…
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