Motorola said it plans to launch a smartphone in South Korea using Google’s Android operating platform, a move aimed at taking on Apple and market incumbents Samsung Electronics and LG Electroni…
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Why outsourcing may be better for your business in the long run
Expanding store and franchise operations into new markets, or even expanding into known markets, can present a number of challenges for the Brand Owner.
Almost without exception, these challenges and…
Korean giant takes 15 percent in Home Shop 18
GS Home Shopping, South Korea’s largest and the world’s third largest home shopping network, has picked up a 15 percent stake in India’s 24-hour home shopping network, Home Shop 18.…
North Korean-made jeans dropped from Stockholm store
A Stockholm store dropped a line of North Korean-made jeans launched by three Swedish entrepreneurs who hope to help break the communist nation’s isolation by joining the handful of foreign manu…
Sony voted region’s no. 1 best brand in 2009
Top advertising-industry publication Media, in conjunction with leading market-insight company TNS, today released its list of Asia’s top 1,000 brands for 2009.…
Wal-Mart Nets Mostly Positive Q3 Results
Discount retailer Wal-Mart reported gains in net sales and operating income for its Q3 fiscal 2010 (ended October 31, 2009), but experienced decreases in comparable store sales. Analysis of selected t…
SKorea’s economy grows at fastest pace in 7 years
South Korea’s economy grew at its fastest pace in over seven years in the third quarter amid strength in manufacturing and capital spending, the central bank said Monday, as Asian countries lead…