Closed-door roundtables
Eight to twelve operators around one table, Chatham House rules, no vendors in the room. Pricing, shrink, store economics and the numbers nobody publishes.
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Read every article, listen to every episode of The Retail Brief, and unlock the full research desk, quarterly reports, the Deal & Expansion Tracker and the Retail Academy. Built for operators who need the complete picture of retail in Asia.
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Two membership levels
Read everything, or sit at the table.
Executive Membership is our digital tier: €250 a year, instant access, no review. The Retail Circle is the private room on top of it: US$2,500 a year, by application.
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- Unlimited articles
- 1 podcast episode a month
- Newsletter (Tue, Thu, Saturday Wrap) and My Retail feed
Executive Membership
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Instant access, cancel anytime.
- Unlimited podcast episodes — free accounts get one a month
- Complete Deal & Expansion Tracker with exports
- Research desk, quarterly reports and the Retail Academy
- My Retail Calendar with iCal and private feed
The Retail Circle
US$2,500/year
Includes everything in Executive.
- Closed-door roundtables, 8–12 operators, no vendors
- C-level dinners in six Asian cities
- Study trips and hosted store walks
- Vetted member directory and warm introductions
Circle membership is reviewed within five working days · seats capped per market
Executive Membership in full
Everything €250 a year opens up.
- Unlimited articles and unlimited episodes of The Retail Brief, no monthly cap
- Full Research desk, quarterly reports and the Retail Academy
- Complete Deal & Expansion Tracker with all available history
- Advanced search: type, company, sector, market, city, date, amount, status
- Company timelines and side-by-side comparisons
- Unlimited saved searches with immediate, daily or weekly alerts
- CSV exports of your result sets
- Premium monthly intelligence report
- My Retail Calendar with iCal downloads and a private subscription feed
- Enhanced My Retail personalisation and reduced advertising
- Self-service billing, invoices and cancellation
€250/year
Billed annually in EUR, VAT calculated at checkout. Cancel any time; access runs to the end of the paid period. A verified email address is required before checkout.
Membership is capped, reviewed and deliberately small.
The Circle exists because the most useful conversations in this industry never happen on a conference stage. They happen at a table of ten, after the slides are closed. We keep the room to operators, retailers, marketplaces, brands and the platforms they run on, and we keep the vendors out of it.
Every member is reviewed by our editors before joining. Seats per market and per category are limited so no roundtable turns into a sales pitch, and so the person sitting next to you is solving the same problem you are.
“One afternoon at a Circle table saved us two quarters of guesswork on Indonesian quick-commerce economics.”
What membership includes
Six things you cannot buy a ticket to.
Members-only events
Priority seats and a members' rate at every RetailNews Asia event, plus intimate briefings that never appear on the public calendar.
Industry travel
Study trips, Tokyo convenience, Seoul beauty, Shenzhen supply chain, Jakarta quick-commerce, with store walks hosted by the people who run them.
C-level gatherings
Small dinners and off-record salons with CEOs, country heads and founders in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bangkok, Seoul and Kuala Lumpur.
A working peer network
A vetted directory of members across the region and warm introductions made by our editors, not an inbox full of cold outreach.
Editorial access
Advance sight of our research, quarterly analyst calls and a direct line to the newsroom for background briefings.
Who joins
- CEOs, country managers and founders of retail and e-commerce businesses
- Heads of stores, merchandising, supply chain, digital and customer
- Brand and marketplace leaders operating in two or more Asian markets
- Investors and operators building the next generation of retail in the region
House rules
- Chatham House rules in every room, nothing said is attributed or published
- No selling. Suppliers and agencies are hosted through partnerships, not membership
- Seats are personal, reviewed annually and not transferable between companies
- Travel and event tickets are quoted separately at member rates
Apply for membership
Tell us who you are and what you want out of the room, then activate your membership. Your details land with our membership desk at [email protected].
Billing, access and the small print
Without an account you can read up to 10 articles per calendar month. Podcasts are only available once you create a free account.
A free verified account removes the 10-article cap entirely and adds one episode of The Retail Brief a month, published every Sunday, the newsletters on Tuesday and Thursday plus the Saturday Weekly Wrap, My Retail and saved articles. It costs nothing.
Articles are unlimited on any account, free or paid. A free account can play one episode of The Retail Brief a month; Executive makes podcasts unlimited and adds the full Deal & Expansion Tracker, saved searches, CSV exports and the Executive calendar.
On the first day of each calendar month. Only article reads without an account are counted; once you have an account nothing counts down.
No. The newsletters and The Retail Brief podcast are benefits of a free verified account. Nothing about the newsletter is behind a payment.
Verification protects the podcast audio and any paid entitlement from being handed to an address that is not yours. You cannot start Executive checkout, or stream The Retail Brief, until your email is confirmed.
€250 charged once a year through Stripe and renewed automatically on the same date. Card details are handled by Stripe and never touch our servers.
Prices are shown in EUR excluding tax. Any VAT that applies to your country or VAT number is calculated by Stripe on the checkout page before you pay, and appears on your invoice.
Yes, at any time from the Stripe billing portal linked in My Retail. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for; Tracker access continues until then.
No. Executive is a €250-a-year digital intelligence product. The Retail Leaders Circle is a separate, US$2,500-a-year application-reviewed network of senior operators built around roundtables, dinners and travel. One does not include the other.
Follow relevant retail events in one personal calendar, with iCal downloads and a private subscription for Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and Outlook. It is an Executive benefit and covers the retail events we have approved and published, nothing invented, nothing unsourced.
Stripe returns you to RetailNews Asia, our webhook activates your membership, and the full Tracker plus the Executive modules in My Retail unlock. If you were part-way through onboarding, you are returned to where you left off.
Reading RetailNews Asia stays free. The Executive Membership pays for the structured deal and expansion data behind it, and you can leave at the end of any paid year.