3 stories in this topic
While customers continue to make purchases across various channels, several retail businesses struggle with outdated and disconnected systems. These systems were designed during a simpler time and are now proving to be inadequate in handling the dynamic…
Pop Mart, a Beijing-based producer of ‘blind box’ collectible toys, recently announced that their imminent profit margins are expected to be impacted by escalating production costs. The increase in production costs is the result of surging raw material…
IPMG members – including Novartis, Merck, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Pfizer – have invested more than USD $1 billion in Indonesia’s pharmaceutical industry over the past few years, particularity for the construction of factories and clinical research…
Evergreen guides that explain the mechanics behind this topic.
Unit economics
Four-wall margin, occupancy cost ratio, payback period and contribution per square metre — the small set of numbers that decides whether a store network can…
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E-commerce
Ship-from-store, click and collect, marketplace fulfilment and live commerce — what each model demands from inventory accuracy, staffing and systems, and whe…
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KPIs and definitions
Plain definitions and formulas for the retail metrics that appear in Asian earnings calls, investor decks and operating reviews — with notes on how each one…
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Market entry
The four ways brands enter Asian retail markets, what each one costs in control and capital, and the questions that decide which is right for a given country.
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