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A KitKat flagship store has been launched in Shinsegae’s Gangnam department store in South Korea. It has been opened by Swiss food giant Nestle’s Japanese unit, which has developed special flavours for the chocolate wafer snack in collaboration with chef…
Forget a diamond ring for Valentine’s Day – this has been trumped by a ruby KitKat chocolate snack by Nestle Japan. Its Sublime Ruby KitKat has been unveiled with due ceremony in Tokyo, and has been rolled out in KitKat Chocolatory boutiques across Japan, a…
Blue Bottle Coffee has opened its latest flagship café in Tokyo, the sixth one to open in the Japanese capital, as the American coffee outfit expands its retail footprint in Japan. Located in Sangenjaya, the San Francisco-based café is situated in a 50-year…
JD.com profit soared 50 per cent after a 39 per cent increase in sales during the Chinese online retailer’s latest quarter. Its unaudited results for the three months to the end of September show revenue of RMB83.7 billion (US$12.6 billion), with a record…
US brand Blue Bottle Coffee is expected to open in South Korea soon, followed by other Asian countries including China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. “We’re developing our contact here,” CEO Bryan Meehan said while attending the World Coffee Leaders Forum at the…
Chocolate wafer snack Kit Kat is to have a flagship store in Seoul, being launched by Nestle Japan in co-operation with Nestle Korea. The Swedish snack company’s Japanese branch is known for its exclusive “chocolatory”, which offers special flavours and…
Lazada Singapore has unveiled three new shops on its online marketplace, in a bid to bolster its e-tail offering and win consumers during its ‘birthday sale’. Lazada has launched ‘shop-in-shops’ for international heavyweights Coca-Cola, Nestle and Redmart,…
Shopify, the cloud-based, multi-channel platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses, has reported a 90 per cent increase in revenues for 2016. GMV rose 99 per cent to US$15.4 billion, figures which “speak to the enormous opportunity in retail…
Amazon India has applied to the government to invest US$500 million in a wholly owned venture that will allow the US eCommerce giant to stock locally produced food items and sell them online. If successful, it would become the first foreign retailer to enter…
Nestle Japan will open its first stand-alone Kit Kat Chocolatory store in Tokyo’s Ginza district on February 2 – and marking the occasion with gifts of special sushi Kit Kats. Since the first Kit Kat Chocolatory opened in January 2014 as a specialty store…
Nestle Japan has extended its offering from coffee to music as part of a promotional event for its Nescafe Gold Blend Barista instant coffee. It has launched a wooden musical instrument, the “Pythagorean”, which plays Christmas melodies. It is the only Rube…
Nestle’s travel retail unit is a US$100m-plus business, which generates the lion’s share of its revenue from confectionery. Stewart Dryburgh, who heads the company’s travel retail business, says the sector, while a small part of the Nestle empire, presents a…
Nestlé (Malaysia) Bhd expects to increase its e-commerce contribution to its revenue from the existing one per cent to 10 per cent within the next three to four years. This 10 per cent, according to its managing director, Alois Hofbauer would translate to…
Thai police have busted a fake Nestle instant coffee factory in Bangkok’s northern suburbs. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police descended on a business premises in Pathum Thani on Thursday armed with a search warrant. Inside they found 2 million THB worth…
Nestlé has strengthened its global capabilities in e-commerce by signing a partnership with Alibaba in China, to grow online sales, build key brands and offer new products to millions of consumers. Nestlé has introduced products including Nido milk powder,…
Nestle SA, among the biggest food companies in the world, launched the investigation in December 2014, after reports from news outlets and nongovernmental organizations tied brutal and largely unregulated working conditions to their shrimp, prawns and Purina…
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