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Taiwanese bookseller Eslite is shifting its focus into smaller community stores in its home market after struggling due to Covid-19 last year. According to Eslite’s chairwoman, Mercy Wu, 100 small-format stores will be rolled out within the next three years…
Eslite Spectrum Corp (誠品生活), which runs the Eslite bookstore chain in Taiwan and abroad, yesterday inked an agreement with Malaysia’s YTL Corp Bhd to open a branch in downtown Kuala Lumpur in 2022. The two sides signed the partnership via a teleconference to…
Taiwanese bookstore chain Eslite is preparing to launch in Kuala Lumpur. Although final details have yet to be released, the new 3300–6600sqm store will likely trade in downtown Kuala Lumpur. The opening, scheduled for next year and potentially delayed due to…
Taiwan’s Eslite bookstore chain is set to launch its first outlet in Tokyo this week. The store opening marks Eslite Spectrum Corp’s 30th anniversary as well as the first time for the firm to start-up business in a territory where Chinese is not spoken. The…
Eslite Taipei, the world’s first 24-hour bookstore, is scheduled to shut down next year. The popular Taiwanese bookstore chain will discontinue its flagship location in Dunnan, upon the expiry of its lease next year after 19 years of trading. The firm’s…
Taiwanese bookstore chain Eslite is planning to expand into Japan. The prominent bookstore business is using the move to build its international profile, and has announced its plans as amounting to a “new starting point for cross-culture ventures”. Eslite’s…
Taiwanese bookstore operator Eslite Corporation has opened its first shop in Mainland China. The Eslite China store has opened in Suzhou in a high profile event featuring some of China’s most famous writers and artists, including Lin Hwai-min. Eslite has…
The ranks of English language bookshops in Hong Kong may be dwindling, but someone forgot to tell Taiwanese retailer Eslite. The second store will be themed ‘Travellers, Taiwan, Diversity and Culture’, spread over two floors of Star City at 3 Salisbury Rd. It…
Three Greater Chinese bookstores have been ranked amongst ‘the world’s coolest’ by US-based global news organisation CNN. In a newly-released selection posted online CNN observes that old or new, all of the stores round the world its editors selected for the…
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