This new ranking focuses on Chinese brands across different product categories from automobile and fashion to sports and beverage, the list covers some key local changes and new retail components to k…
This new ranking focuses on Chinese brands across different product categories from automobile and fashion to sports and beverage, the list covers some key local changes and new retail components to k…
Hainan’s offshore duty free sector, fresh from a record-breaking 2021, got off to a positive start in 2022 with sales hitting CNY600 million (US$94.1 million) during the three-day New Year’s hol…
Hainan island’s offshore duty free stores generated sales of CNY60.17 billion (US$9.47 billion) in 2021, an 84 percent increase year-on-year. The results, first revealed by Hainan Business (controlled…
“Metaverse” is the latest technology industry buzzword as Facebook rebranded itself to Meta. Metaverse crypto tokens such as MANA soared high following the announcement. One day after, the…
Lotte Duty Free launched Charlotte Tilbury at the retailer’s flagship store in Myeong-dong, Seoul on 17th December, marking the British beauty brand’s offline store debut in Korean travel …
Mobile commerce (m-commerce) in Asia Pacific (APAC) has been growing steadily, fueled by a combination of rising smartphone ownership, faster mobile data speeds and – not least – savvier mobile retail…
From Japan’s Cabinet Office in November, more evidences showed that the pandemic has pushed more online consumption. As of June 2021, 51.3 percent of the population had shopped online, breaking …
B8ta, a US showrooming chain that is largely focused on gadgets, opened its third store in Shibuya in Tokyo, Japan in November. The new store has shifted to categories that draw in more Japanese consu…
Fuji Keizai released its annual report on the cosmetics market last month, estimating a 3.3 percent increase in value this year to JPY 2.84 trillion (USD 250 Billion)m while this is only a partial reb…
For years, people have been talking about e-commerce causing the downfall of brick-and-mortar stores. That chatter only intensified when Covid hit. But the reality is far from it and the shopping expe…