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Hong Kong-headquartered healthcare and beauty retailer Watsons is to launch in Vietnam. The first Watsons Vietnam store will open on January 17, in the lower floors of the high-profile Bitexco tower in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The store will take up at…
“Underperforming” subsidiaries and rising rent and labour costs are disturbing the chairman of Hong Kong-listed multinational retailer Dairy Farm International – but those factors failed to prevent a solid second-half year performance. Dairy Farm’s total…
Next month’s Consumer Goods Forum to be held at the Marina Bay Sands will feature a ‘who’s who’ of international retail leaders. This year marks the first time in a decade the event is being held in Asia. Running from June 12-15, it is themed Consumer…
A Shake Shack Singapore store is reportedly planned for the Jewel Changi Airport shopping centre. Singapore food blog 8 Days, quoting an “industry source” says the chic American gourmet burger chain is in the final stages of preparation to launch in…
Poor trading by Dairy Farm International’s Southeast Asian grocery business hit the company’s bottom line last year, with underlying profit falling 13 per cent. But every other one of the company’s divisions traded strongly throughout the year, according to…
Dairy Farm sales were described as “flat” in the third quarter to September 30. The Hong Kong-headquartered company said improved performances in health and beauty, Ikea, restaurants and Yonghui were offset by lower sales in the food and grocery division.…
Ikea Hong Kong will open its fourth store in the second half of this year, parent Dairy Farm International has revealed. The new store will be located in Tsuen Wan. News of the new store was included in Dairy Farm International’s annual results released at…
Pan-Asia retailer Dairy Farm International Holdings reports “modest” sales growth for the six months ended June 30. Underlying profit was slightly ahead as higher contributions from food, home furnishings, restaurants and China hypermarket Yonghui offset a…
Dairy Farm International’s Indonesia operation continues to struggle in food – but Ikea trades above expectations. The Hong Kong-listed company holds a controlling 83.9 per cent share in PT Hero Supermarket Tbk, which operates Giant hypermarkets and grocery…
Giant Cambodia has opened its first store in the kingdom, in Phnom Penh’s Grand City Mall. It is part of a major expansion into Cambodia by the Malaysian wholly owned subsidiary of pan-Asian retailer Dairy Farm International, which also has a 70 per cent…
Convenience store and grocery retailer Hero Supermarket is to exit the troubled Starmart Indonesia business. Hero, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-headquartered Dairy Farm International, has announced the sale of 80 stores to Fajar Mitra Indah, a subsidiary of…
At least three major Asian retailers are mulling bids for control of the Big C businesses in Thailand and Vietnam. But they all start as rank outsiders behind Thailand’s Central Group, which already has a 25 per cent share of the Thai Big C business. In a…
Dairy Farm International has agreed to acquire a further 143 million shares in a placement by Yonghui Superstores for about US$210 million. The investment by DFCL is being made in conjunction with JD.com acquiring a 10 per cent interest for consideration of…
Dairy Farm Indonesia is reviewing the future of its Starmart convenience store chain after closing nearly a third of its stores in the latest half year. The chain has been hit hard by the Indonesian government’s moves to limit the sale of alcohol, banning…
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