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SM Investments Corporation (SMIC) is on a mission to reshape the retail landscape in the Philippines by transforming malls into vibrant experience hubs. With millennials and Gen Z leading the charge for prioritizing experiential engagement, SMIC is ramping up…
Japanese eyewear retailer Jins has opened its first store in the Philippines. Located at SM Aura Premier in Taguig, the Jins Philippines store will offer up to 1000 styles of frames and match them with lenses within about 30 minutes. Jins has about 350 stores…
Property giant SM Prime Holdings aims to open four shopping malls with a combined gross floor area of 292,000 sqm in the Philippines this year. SM Prime ended last year with 60 malls across the country, as well as six malls in China. President Jeffrey Lim…
The mall business of SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SM Prime), the country’s largest integrated property developer, reported its recent certification by the International Organization for Standardization. The ISO 22301 certification affirms the company’s commitment…
SM Malls shopping centres – now a 56-strong network across the Philippines – have evolved into sustainable structures that are proving to be valuable investments in the event of the frequent natural disasters which strike the nation. In the last few years, SM…
SM Retail of the Philippines has reported a 6.5 per cent increase in sales over the first nine months of the year to PHP145.3 billion (US$3.1 billion). Profit rose 21 per cent to PHP4.6 billion (US$98.2 million). Reviewing its operating divisions over the…
On her first visit to SM Aura in Taguig, Michelle Dabuet, 38, an IT project manager, noticed that it had an “odd” shape. “It’s clean and classy and not like the other SM malls that are boxed-shape,” Dabuet noted. Gail Dacquel-Perez, 39, and a mother of three…
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