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Decathlon Singapore is opening a new experience store in Orchard Rd, the brand’s fifth experience store in the city. Located at the Centrepoint shopping mall, Decathlon Orchard spans two floors, occupying a 3200sqm area. The store will feature some 5000…
Apple Store Singapore is not likely to open in time for Christmas, according to an updated information board outside its site in Orchard Road. Outside Knightsbridge mall, the sign now shows an expected completion date of January 30 – a three-month delay. No…
The Singapore retail rent decline gathered pace in the last quarter according to data from Edmund Tie & Company. In the second quarter, retail rents across the board fell by 3.9 per cent quarter-quarter. That was double the 1.9 per cent decline of the…
Apple products retailer Epicentre Asia plans to raise S$11.45 million (US$8.44 million) by issuing 45.8 million private shares to new buyers. KGI Fraser Securities is the placement agent for the issue, with the price being not be less than 25 cents per new…
Singapore retail is now “a tenant’s market”, realtors warn in the wake of official data showing further decline in boath rental rates and occupancy levels. According to URA data out today (April 22), retail rents fell by 1.9 per cent in the first quarter of…
Have you walked down our Garden City’s famous shopping belt, Orchard Road, recently? I was not expecting to see the sheer number of people I did on Orchard Road when I was there recently. The amount of foot-traffic on this famous road seems to move only in…
Food and beverage has overtaken fashion as the primary driver of demand for retail real estate in Singapore. In its Third Quarter Retail Index covering Asia-Pacific, property company Jones Lang LaSalle says that despite declining retail sales and consumer…
The recently opened cafe inside the Muji Singapore store on Orchard Rd has had a huge impact on the store’s overall trading. In an extensive feature written by the Straits Times and published online by Asia One, which details the trend of merging dining with…
Singapore based Starhill Global REIT has posted a 16.8 per cent increase in revenue in the first quarter, to September 30. YTL Starhill Global REIT Management, the manager of the trust, says revenue rose to S$56.8 million and net property income rose 10.2 per…
Buro 24/7 has popped up in Scotts Square…. for six months. The Buro 24/7 Singapore pop up store is the second in the city for the international brand, opening five months after an earlier one at Clifford Pier. Whether a store with a life span of six months…
European cosmetics brand Stenders is about to open its first store in Singapore as part of a concerted push into new international markets. Stenders Singapore will open in Plaza Singapura shopping centre on Orchard Rd this month. The opening will be followed…
MANGO has opened its largest store in Singapore. The capital of Singapore is the location for the store which, with over 1,200m2 distributed on a single floor, becomes the company’s largest store in the region. The store, located in the busy Wisma Atria…
Coach Singapore has unveiled its new generation store on Orchard Rd in the Wisma Atria shopping centre. The New York-headquartered brand describes the new store format as its “next generation retail concept”. So important is the new outlet to the brand, South…
Japanese department store operator Isetan has reported mounting losses in Singapore as sales fall and rents rise. Group sales for the three months to June 30 were $71.467 million, a decrease of $10.819 million or 13.15 per cent over the same quarter a year…
Orchard Road remains the top destination for shoppers during the recent Great Singapore Sale, according to a new report, debunking calls that Singapore’s prime shopping belt may be losing its shine. The premier retail strip attracted the highest footfall…
Fast-growing Hong Kong-based online fashion business Grana has opened a pop up store in Singapore. The Grana Singapore pop up is its second – and this one is located in the heart of the city’s retail zone, on Orchard Rd. Grana is the creation of Australian…
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