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The city-state will reopen its borders to fully vaccinated travelers from certain countries and is removing stay-home requirements for short-term visitors from several countries. Fully vaccinated travelers from Germany and Brunei will be able to come to…
Online marketplace YesAsia is set to raise US$17 million in an IPO launch in Hong Kong. The company aims to offer 39,540,00 new shares, 90 percent of which will be available for placing with institutional and professional investors while 10 percent will be…
PLBY Group is to buy racy Australian luxury lingerie brand Honey Birdette for approximately US$333 million. PLBY Group CEO Ben Kohn said he is “thrilled by the brand’s potential to become a multi-million-dollar luxury lifestyle franchise”. “Our plan is…
Soon, you’ll be able to wear Zara from head to toe and from face to toenails. Yesterday, the retailer unveiled Zara Beauty, the company’s first-ever comprehensive beauty collection. It will be launching online and in select stores on May 12. To help create a…
Café de Coral has promoted Piony Leung to managing director (Hong Kong) with immediate effect. In her new position, Leung reports to group CEO Peter Lo and manages business operations and provides strategic leadership across Café de Coral Group’s business in…
Tourism companies see a proposed plan to gradually resume international flights as a necessary first step for their sector to recover from the pandemic-inflicted slump. Nguyen Minh Man, head of marketing at the HCMC-based TST Tourist Co., said that a slow and…
Department store sales jumped 40 percent in February against a year-ago period in the biggest year-on-year gain since the data became available from 2005 to suggest a rebound in private consumption in South Korea. According to the Ministry of Strategy and…
Harley-Davidson is looking to increase focus on the used motorcycle market in the United States, in the brand’s latest efforts to increase customer base. And to do this, Harley-Davidson plans to roll out a certified pre-owned bike program, known as H-D…
H&M’s ‘Nordic lifestyle brand’ Arket has opened its first brick-and-mortar store in Seoul, South Korea. Located at Yeouido’s department store The Hyundai Seoul, the Arket South Korea store spans 8000sqft and features the brand’s collections of New Nordic…
Three years after we first got a glimpse, Harley-Davidson has launched its first-ever adventure motorcycle globally, the Pan America 1250. Harley will sell two variants of the Pan America, the Pan America 1250 and the Pan America 1250 Special. While the…
A Chinese-language bookstore from Wuhan opened its first overseas store today in Singapore. The Zall Bookstore, popular in the main city of China’s Hubei province, opened its doors to bookworms at the Wheelock Place mall on Orchard Road. The two-story space…
An important update is now rolling out to Alexa app users on iOS devices. The update adds support for both Light and Dark modes, allowing users to switch between them on the fly, as well as Dynamic Type support. The update is meant to further improve Alexa’s…
Apple surpassed VinSmart to become the fourth-largest smartphone brand in Q4 of 2020 as sales of iPhone 12 surged. With a market share of 11 percent, it was behind China’s Vivo (13 percent), which climbed two places from the previous quarter, Singaporean…
The Vitamin Shoppe, an omnichannel specialty retailer of nutritional products, today announced a partnership agreement with Kim Lien Group for the Vietnam market. Under the country license agreement, Hanoi-based Kim Lien Group will open and operate The…
French luxury goods group LVMH LVMH.PA plans to overhaul Tiffany & Co’s vast merchandise lineup to focus more on gold and precious gems while going more upmarket with its silver bangles after closing the $15.8 billion takeover of the U.S. jeweller this month.…
Japanese cosmetics firm Shiseido Co Ltd said on Friday it was in talks to sell its lower-priced skincare and shampoo lines to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners in a deal reported to be valued at over $1.45 billion. Shiseido said it was in talks to sell…
