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New online made-to-order clothing shop Frilly allows customers to create bespoke clothing and see the effect in real-time. According to Springwise, the independent, innovation publisher, which scans the globe for the most promising innovations and new…
They’re still coming in droves — but no longer buying in spades. After propping up sales for overseas retailers over the past decade with a shopping-driven tourism agenda, Chinese visitors are no longer returning home with suitcases bulging like before. A new…
The number of trips by outbound Chinese travelers is expected to reach 150 million this year, but while average trip spend is on the rise (up 3.5 percent 2015-2016), surprisingly shopping spend declined both in absolute and relative terms, to 33 percent of…
With shopping now a bigger driver of tourist spend than ever before in Malaysia, a luxury-dedicated component of the Malaysia Mega Sale Carnival was last week inaugurated by luxury retailer The Melium Group, in partnership with Tourism Malaysia and Pavilion…
The trend started at a restaurant on Thai Ha Street. The images of young men without a shirt on and hot body made many curious and went to the restaurant to see for themselves. Tran Thai Linh, a local in Dong Da District, said she also went to the restaurant…
Global loyalty marketing agency ICLP surveyed 750 consumers in Hong Kong and asked them the brand that comes to their mind first of the retailers that they shop regularly. The survey reveals a correlation between characteristics of sectors and brand…
China’s Alibaba Group has teamed up with online retailer Lazada to bring popular shopping site Taobao to Singapore, in a move to deepen the reach of the Chinese e-commerce giant into Asia ahead of US rival Amazon. Last year, Alibaba made headlines with a US$1…
Online shopping is fast becoming a favourite activity of Singaporeans, research shows, as the country’s bricks and mortar retail sector continues to struggle. A survey, conducted by Edelman Intelligence and Criteo, revealed that 84% of Singaporeans love to…
Today marks the official U.S. launch of Azoya, an integrated turnkey e-commerce solution provider, which will help U.S. retailers and manufacturers break into the Chinese market with less risk in 2017 through fully-managed cross-border e-commerce. Azoya made…
It used to be widely known as the Pearl of the East, a shopping paradise beckoning residents of China. But these days, Hong Kong has lost much of its lustre and is finding it harder to attract big spenders from China. Tourists from China spent an average of…
When it comes to Christmas shopping, Singaporeans prefer retailers with a physical store, coupled with both e-commerce and mobile app. Singapore shoppers want cross channel options more than new age services like digital wallets and augmented reality store…
They want more personalised reward programmes, not just the traditional point-based ones. Amidst Singapore’s retail doldrums, more than 75% of Singapore consumers indicate that the will buy more from retailers if they are better rewarded for their loyalty.…
China’s consumers are by no means the wealthiest in the world. But they are years ahead of their counterparts in many developed economies in terms of how they shop and pay for what they buy. In this, they are revolutionising the way consumer finance is…
The extended season will lead to an eleven percent ($9.1 billion) increase in online sales to a total of $91.6 billion, according to Adobe’s 2016 Digital Insights Shopping Predictions report. Large retailers expected to account for the bulk of the growth,…
Julie Li is laden with Harrods carrier bags full of cosmetics, but they are not hers; the 30-year-old finance graduate from Beijing is a fulltime freelance retail consultant, something known in China as a daigou. “I worked as a daigou alongside my day job for…
WearYouWant, Thailand’s leading online fashion and beauty marketplace, is launching a premium, Korean fashion range in Thailand, designed and made in Korea, to satisfy the ever-growing love of Korean brands in the Kingdom. Developing a close relationship with…
