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When 23-year-old Chinese student Aaron Huang started his hunt for an Android replacement for his Apple iPhone in April this year, it was clear which brand was trying hardest to win him over. Promotional campaigns by Huawei Technologies and from local…
A Sephora data breach has been confirmed, spanning customers from Hong Kong across Southeast Asia and into Australasia. The LVMH-owned company has emailed online customers who may have been affected confirming some of their data may have been accessed and…
Users of shopping apps users are becoming increasingly purchase-happy in what is poised to be mobile commerce’s biggest year so far, according to a recent study by Liftoff. The report by the mobile-app marketing and retargeting platform also uncovers key…
Tmall, China’s largest B2C platform under Alibaba Group, has formed a strategic partnership with VF Corporation (“VF”) to expand the global leader’s offerings of branded lifestyle apparel, footwear and accessories in China. Under the agreement, Tmall…
Farfetch China has opened a flagship store on JD, one of its strategic investors. The move follows Farfetch China’s purchase of Toplife announced in February and gives the global luxury-fashion technology platform access to more than 300 million customers in…
Hong Kong online retailers are ignoring Gen Z consumers, according to a new report on the local payments market by unified commerce platform Tofugear and financial technology firm Wirecard. The research found that the territory’s e-commerce sites are not…
United Overseas Bank on Monday launched Singapore’s first online utility marketplace by a bank, as part of the Open Electricity Market initiative. United Overseas Bank (UOB)’s utility marketplace will add to an existing array of comparison websites under…
O2O fashion brand Pomelo has launched its first cosmetics line, Beet, solidifying its identity as a one-stop lifestyle brand. Created with women on-the-go in mind, Beet comprises 17 products across four categories – Liquid Blush, Liquid Lipstick, Lip Gloss…
The fiber network unit Reliance Jio Infocomm is reportedly planning to raise around 270 billion rupees ($3.89 billion) in syndicated loans to help expand the newly created infrastructure business. Jio Digital Fiber plans to use the proceeds to expand its…
China’s coffee craze has gained pace with the growth rate in consumption on premise 25 per cent higher last year. According to research from Mintel, China’s on-premise coffee market value reached RMB64.7 billion (US$9.6 billion) last year, up 7.5 per cent on…
Online reviews sound good in theory. In practice, however, they don’t work so well. Reviews were initially important as proxies of trust for e-commerce businesses, but they have now well and truly spilled over to bricks-and-mortar businesses, where the…
Four in five Thai consumers (78 percent) have tried going cashless in 2018, compared to only fifty percent in previous year as confidence in digital payments grew, according to the 2018 Visa Consumer Payment Attitudes study (the “Study”). The study tracks…
The Vietnam retail sector is forecast to record double-digit growth from 2019 to 2024, according to a report by ResearchAndMarkets. While a number of Vietnamese consumers still choose to shop in traditional markets as they can buy ingredients in smaller…
Retailers must recognise consumers are in control and they are looking for experiences above all else, according to US trend expert Tom Mirabile. Speaking at the International Housewares Association’s annual show in Chicago, Mirabile said housewares suppliers…
While several retailers have talked about conditions improving since a somewhat dismal holiday trading period, the Australian Bureau of Statistics have released a more muted view of month of January, with retail sales having improved by 0.1 per cent. This…
Consumers worldwide are watching more online video than ever, with average consumption growing to of 6 hours and 45 minutes per week, according to a new survey. This figure is even higher in Singapore, with the average Singaporean watching eight hours and 13…
