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Malaysia Airports Holdings has launched a travel retail e-commerce platform shopMYairports, aiming to recover some US$67 million from sales lost through its airport network due to passenger volumes plummeting. Still smarting from the loss of $671 million in…
Japanese tax-free store operator Laox plans to raise US$94 million to expand its activities in China and boost its e-commerce footprint. The company will issue shares to Granda Galaxy (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Suning Appliance Group), and Global Worker (a…
Alibaba’s Tmall has announced that it expects international and domestic cosmetics brands to open 1000 online cosmetics stores this year to meet burgeoning demand from Chinese consumers. At its annual beauty summit, Tmall announced that seven international…
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Regulation
The licences, product registrations, labelling rules and import requirements that decide when you can actually start trading in Brunei.
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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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