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Australian furniture business King Living has opened its first showroom in Canada, continuing the brand’s global roll-out which has seen stores open in Shanghai, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand. Located in a newly renovated 1000sqm heritage building in…
Innisfree Canada has chosen Toronto for its first standalone store. The South Korean natural cosmetics brand’s new store will cover around 2500sqft of Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre according to designs. It will use a direct-to-consumer retail model…
Tableware firm Sagara Inc has opened a global website after setting up a retail store in New York to market its environmentally conscious tableware for children. The firm’s Reale brand, made from a new bioplastic raw material blended with native Japanese…
Luk Fook Canada has opened a new shop in CF Richmond Centre in Metro Vancouver. The new store is the first Oriental jewellery shop in the mall. “Adhering to the corporate vision of ‘Brand of Hong Kong, Sparkling the World’, the group has been actively…
Premium outdoor lifestyle brand Roots Canada has opened its first Hong Kong store this month, at Harbour City. The store was opened with Fung Retailing’s Branded Lifestyle Group, its Asian retail partner. Roots Canada’s brick-and-mortar debut in the territory…
Premium outdoor lifestyle brand Roots Canada has opened its first Hong Kong store this month, at Harbour City. The store was opened with Fung Retailing’s Branded Lifestyle Group, its Asian retail partner. Roots Canada’s brick-and-mortar debut in the territory…
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said on Thursday it will eliminate one shift at its Windsor, Ontario, assembly plant where it builds minivans, resulting in the loss of 1,500 jobs. The Italian-American automaker said in a statement the elimination of a shift,…
Korean cosmetics firm VDL is expanding in the Canadian market with the launch of the brand’s first flagship store in Toronto’s Queen West neighborhood. VDL, which stands for Vivid Dreams come to Life, was founded by LG Household & Health Care Corp in 2012.…
Canadian firm Sunrise Records has emerged as the buyer of collapsed music chain HMV, beating competition including Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley. The firm will buy 100 stores out of administration, securing 1,487 jobs. But 27 stores will close, resulting in…
Brandon Truaxe, the founder of Canadian skincare company Deciem, has died at the age of 40, the firm announced in an Instagram post. Truaxe launched the brand, best known for its affordable skincare line The Ordinary, in Toronto in 2013. Since then it has…
Taiwanese bubble-tea brand Chun Yang Tea is launching its first store in Canada. With operations across Taiwan as well as in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Malaysia, the brand is now planning two new store locations in Toronto and one in Vancouver.…
Sears chairman Eddie Lampert’s last minute plans to save the bankrupt retail chain are set to be terminated on Friday afternoon, New York time, should they be determined to not be a “qualifying bid”. The first plan, a US$4.4 billion offer to purchase Sears,…
Winter clothing firm Canada Goose has finally opened its first Mainland Chinese store in Beijing. In a launch rumoured to be delayed due to political tensions between China and Canada – and dismissed by the firm as the result of construction delays –…
Miniso Canada is on the brink of bankruptcy after an action brought against it by its Chinese parent company alleging fraudulent business dealings and the transfer and hiding of assets. The extraordinary situation was revealed by Canadian website which in its…
Japanese discount retailer Oomomo has launched in Canada with plans for stores in most major cities. The first store opened in West Edmonton Mall in Alberta last month and was followed by another in Toronto this week, which attracted queues of customers to…
Canadian founder of yoga-apparel retailer Lululemon Athletica Inc., Chip Wilson, is close to joining the Chinese investor group pursuing a takeover of Amer Sports Oyj. The billionaire is in talks to take around a 20 per cent stake as part of the consortium…
