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HM Store Opening
Fashion
1 min read

H&M disclosing to customers where their clothes were made

Swedish fast fashion retailer H&M announced it will add more information to its products on its website later this month as part of a move to create greater product transparency. The new information will allow H&M customers to find out which factory produced…

m1 blg
Telecom
1 min read

M1 taps UOB for QR code payment

Singapore operator M1 has partnered with the nation’s United Overseas Bank (UOB) to offer PayNow as a payment mode for M1 customers. Under the agreement, M1 customers can now make mobile payments for purchases via PayNow at all M1 Shop outlets, as well as…

singtel
Telecom
1 min read

Singtel targets Millennials with all-digital mobile plan

Singtel has announced the launch of an all-digital mobile service plan targeted at technology-savvy Millennial customers. The new product, GOMO Mobile, offers functionality including immediate online sign up and same-day SIM card delivery, 24/7 live chat for…

Asos
Fashion
1 min read

Asos’ US warehouse struggles to cope with demanding customers

UK digital fashion store Asos said its new US warehouse struggled to cope with demand last quarter, hitting sales there and causing delayed shipments. Asos CEO Nick Beighton said the unexpected high demand in the Atlanta warehouse caused a significant…

Starbucks
Food
3 min read

Starbucks Plans To Step Up Digital Marketing Efforts

Starbucks saw strong growth in its loyalty program and mobile transactions over its second fiscal quarter of 2018, the company announced ahead of its earnings call. The coffee chain added 1.6 million new U.S. members to its Starbucks rewards program. In…

Online shopping with card ecommerce
Fashion
3 min read

Retailers find winning strategy in online-only

Retailers have long been using online channels to make up for sluggish sales at their brick-and-mortar stores, but recently, they have taken the shift to another level, introducing products exclusively for online. The trend-conscious fashion and cosmetics…

Topless Vietnam
General
2 min read

Hanoi shops employ topless men to lure customers

The trend started at a restaurant on Thai Ha Street. The images of young men without a shirt on and hot body made many curious and went to the restaurant to see for themselves. Tran Thai Linh, a local in Dong Da District, said she also went to the restaurant…

Korea Airport Retailers
General
1 min read

Customer traffic dropping fast at Korean online shopping malls

Online shopping malls are fast losing customer traffic, industry data showed , compounding their massive business losses last year. According to the data, the number of unique visitors to the six top online shopping sites totaled 84.86 million last month.…

APEJ
General
2 min read

APEJ consumers more wary of sharing personal data

Almost four in five (78%) of consumers in the APEJ region will not choose to purchase from a brand again if their data had been used without knowledge, according to the latest SAP Hybris Consumer Insight survey Despite that fact that more than 83% of…

indian telco register
Telecom
1 min read

Indian cellcos told to re-verify all customers

The Indian government has instructed the nation’s mobile operators to re-verify all their mobile subscribers with a system that uses biometric authentication by next February. All existing subscribers will need to be re-verified using the Aadhaar-based…

Chivas Regal Ultis Fine St Blend Cocktail
Food
1 min read

House of Chivas pours Regal Ultis to Qantas First Class customers

To celebrate the launch of Chivas Regal Ultis, Pernod Ricard Travel Retail Asia Pacific is offering the blended malt Scotch whisky to Qantas First Class customers until March. Chivas Regal Ultis features on the summer menu in the Sydney and Melbourne First…

VIB Vietnam
Finance
2 min read

Banks expand networks to attract more customers

Along with promotion programmes, banks have been expanding their networks in an aim to reach their annual targets. In recent months, more bank transaction offices and branches have opened to welcome both individuals and enterprises as customers. For instance,…

Digital Banking Roadmap
Finance
2 min read

Cisco sees doubling in digital banking clients

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…

mobile data
Research
1 min read

Aussie mobile customers’ private data up for sale

Private information on Australian mobile subscribers are being sold off by unscrupulous members of offshore call centers, according to an investigative report. The private details of customers from the market’s three operators – Optus, Telstra and Vodafone –…