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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plans to split into two businesses – one for prescription drugs and vaccines, the other for over-the-counter products – after forming a new joint venture with Pfizer’s consumer health division. The revamp is the boldest move yet by Emma…
Dragon fruit, which accounts for 40 percent of Vietnam’s fruit and vegetable exports in value, is facing the biggest challenge as China, which used to buy 80-90 percent of Vietnam’s dragon fruit mainly through border gates, has tightened the import through…
Korean sandwich chain Isaac will open its first store in Singapore next month. Over the last 15 years, Isaac has built a network of more than 700 stores across South Korea and expanded into Taiwan, Macau and – most recently – Malaysia, where it has a store…
Established eight years ago, Singapore food brand SaladStop! is about to launch into Korea. It opens in Seoul next month, about the same time as its first non-Asia location, in Barcelona. The brand has 19 outlets across Singapore, 12 in the Philippines, three…
Now bound for wider Asia, a fresh-food restaurant concept focusing on expats has caught the imagination of more than 1 million mainland Chinese. Salads, organic food and superfoods are not usually the first types of cuisine one considers staples in Mainland…
Health fast food brand and coffee chain, Soul Origin, has recorded 12 per cent same store sales growth and continued to achieved double digital growth in its coffee sales. The fastfood chain has also continued its expansion with the opening of its 75th store…
KFC Japan is to open a new healthy food retail concept called The Table by KFC in Sendai City on August 5. The Table by KFC aims to offer deli-style foods, including salads, along with versions of its traditional favourites – like a full-size KFC chicken –…
The Ministry of Information and Communication urged enterprises to collaborate with the Government in efforts to build a healthy Internet society through advertising only on online channels which comply with established laws. Minister Trương Minh Tuấn issued…
Thousands of farmers under East Kalimantan farmers group Gapoktan find it unfortunate that people outside Indonesia are missing out on their home-grown fresh and juicy mini papayas, bananas and dragon fruits. So far, most of their fresh fruit products are…
