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Food
3 min read

Starbucks opens its largest coffee store in Thailand

Starbucks today celebrates 20 years of delivering the Starbucks Experience to customers throughout Thailand with the recently opened Central World store– its largest store in Bangkok. Located on the first floor of CentralWorld, the store features a Starbucks…

luxury fashion
Fashion
1 min read

Thailand’s Supersports stores rebranded as fashion shops

Thailand’s CRC Sports has rebranded its Supersports business as a sports fashion store in a move targeting millennials. Last month’s rebranding modernises the business’s image and transforms the performance store model into the fashion world. The logo has…

Mr. Charnchai Cherdchoowongthanakorn Senior Executive Vice President for Siam Piwat8714
Living
3 min read

Now tourist can claim VAT refund in downtown Bangkok

According to the announcement by the government’s Reveue Department regarding ‘Downtown VAT Refund for Tourist’, the campaign has kickstarted an initiative to set up counters in numerous locations across central Bangkok to help tourists proceed with VAT…

Dotlife
Electronics
1 min read

Copperwired adding .Life stores next year

Gadget retailer Copperwired is set to invest THB165 million (US$5.036 million) opening 30 new .Life stores by the end of next year. The new .Life stores include a new 310sqm flagship at CentralWorld, described as the “largest gadget lifestyle shop featuring…

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Electronics
1 min read

Long queues in Apple Bangkok store opening day

The first official Apple Bangkok store is now trading, located in the heart of the new US$1.6 billion IconSiam project. Queues formed overnight as Thai Apple fans vied to be among the store’s first customers and the company says “thousands” of shoppers…

skechers
Fashion
1 min read

Skechers launched biggest Southeast Asia flagship store in Bangkok

Bangkok’s CentralWorld shopping centre is home to the newly opened Skechers Thailand flagship store. The North American footwear company says Thailand represents its fastest-growing market in the region which is why the store, at 275sqm, is its largest yet in…

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Electronics
1 min read

Apple is opening its first flagship store in Bangkok soon

Various Thai media outlets are reporting that not one but two Apple Bangkok stores are under construction. The US tech giant is notorious about not commenting on its store plans anywhere in the world, even when branding appears on barriers covering its…

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Fashion
1 min read

Casio G-Shock Bangkok CentralWorld opens door

Watch brand Casio G-Shock Thailand has opened a store in CentralWorld Bangkok. The opening marks the brand’s 35th anniversary and features innovative technology and interactive zones filled with exclusive rare collaborative pieces. The interactive areas…

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Real Estate
2 min read

Thai retail developer Central Pattana to rejuvenate Central World

Thai shopping centre owner Central Pattana says it is revitalising its premium malls to “pioneer future trends of retail and tackle the digital era”. Under a “five-year vision” it calls ‘Co-creating Center for Life” – a name which appears to have lost its…

Starbucks Thailand
Food
1 min read

Thailand’s biggest Starbucks opens at CentralWorld Bangkok

After months-long renovation, Starbucks on the 1st floor of CentralWorld is now back in operation and, this time, becomes Thailand’s biggest store with the area spanning over 600 square meters. Decked out with curvy, bright-colored wood and artsy details, the…

muji
Fashion
1 min read

Muji expansion in Thailand at Siam Discovery in Bangkok

Muji Thailand has opened another store in Bangkok, its second in little more than a month. On Wednesday, Muji opened its doors in the Siam Discovery shopping centre. Yuki Yamamoto, director and GM of Muji’s parent Ryohin Keikaku Co and Naratipe Ruttapradid,…

maxmara coat
Fashion
1 min read

MaxMara Thailand opens two spin-off stores

Max&Co and Weekend MaxMara stores have opened at CentralWorld, joining the MaxMara Thailand store at Gaysorn Shopping Centre. They have been opened by the Italian fashion house’s sold distributor for Thailand, Pacifica Group. On the second floor of the Groove…

11street
E-Tailing
1 min read

11street Thailand launched by SK Planet

Korean-headquartered online marketplace 11street has launched in Thailand. Parent company SK Planet says 11street Thailand is the first Korean-owned eCommerce marketplace to open in the Southeast Asian nation. An opening ceremony was held at Bangkok’s…

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Real Estate
1 min read

Central Pattana plans to enter Malaysia

Shopping mall developer Central Pattana, which runs 29 malls in Thailand, plans to open its first foreign outlet in Malaysia in 2018. It will work through a joint venture with a Malaysian company in which it holds a 60 per cent stake. The new mall, under the…

isetan
Food
2 min read

Isetan Thailand unveils Washoku Gallery food concept

Isetan Thailand has converted its fifth floor into a food concept called Washoku Gallery, which opens today (December 18). Washoku Gallery will, in keeping with the department store’s heritage, feature food products imported from Japan. Japanese food and…