
Indonesia Seeks Bigger Role in Asia-Pacific Retail Industry
Homegrown brands look to use a domestic market of over 275 million people to drive cross-border store networks across Southeast Asia.
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Homegrown brands look to use a domestic market of over 275 million people to drive cross-border store networks across Southeast Asia.

Rising shipping costs and changing customs rules squeezed profits even as orders and active customer numbers grew.

A BCG survey of 12,000 consumers shows 70 percent halted purchases over price hikes, shifting spending toward beauty.

South Korea’s dominant e-commerce operator faces thin 0.6 percent net margins and regulatory pressure after generating 208 million dollars in full-year profit.

Downdetector recorded disruption reports peaking at 9.20am in Singapore on Monday (Sep 21) as users faced issues accessing platform websites.

About 75 per cent of the gig workers filed their income tax returns for the first time through an in-app chatbot service.

The Singapore startup plans to direct fresh capital into its machine-learning tools and cross-border regional expansion.

Regular marketplace sellers pay commissions between 1 and 2 per cent while Shopee Mall brand rates reach 6 per cent.

Rapid fulfillment reshapes grocery baskets across Asia while North American adoption languishes at just 3 per cent.

Short shoppable video clips drove 63.8 per cent of total European platform sales across four major markets.

The banking software company is joining up with the Chinese internet giant on cloud-based services. The deal opens a huge new potential market for Geneva-based Temenos: it is joining Alibaba’s cloud services, the company said in a statement on Thursday. In…

A senior Amazon official says the firm sees Vietnam’s potential but has not decided on a time to launch services for Vietnamese buyers. Bernard Tay, head of Amazon Global Selling Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, said at an event Thursday that the…

Honda has announced it is offering Key by Amazon In-Car Delivery service for subscribers of its HondaLink Remote Services connected-car system. Through the Key by Amazon app, owners of select Honda vehicles with compatible HondaLink Remote Package and Amazon…

Shopee, the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, wraps up a record-breaking year with its highly successful Shopee 12.12 Birthday Sale. On 12 December, Shopee saw over 12 million orders across the region, surpassing all past records…

Retail executives looking to understand the future of retail should take a close look at Asia, where retail is booming as Asia is leading in terms of retail growth. The growth rates are twice the rate of the rest of the world, and e-retail growing at three…

Chinese tech firm LeEco has put a Beijing shopping centre up for auction on Chinese e-commerce platform Taobao. Experiencing financial difficulties, yet determined to uphold its online trading practices, the firm has listed the 50,000sqm Beijing Shimao…
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