Greenpeace campaigners abseiled into Nestle’s annual shareholders meeting last Thursday to urge the food giant to stop using palm oil harvested from rainforest destruction.
The environmental gro…
Greenpeace campaigners abseiled into Nestle’s annual shareholders meeting last Thursday to urge the food giant to stop using palm oil harvested from rainforest destruction.
The environmental gro…
Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd announced its 2009 annual results and its fourth quarter key performance indicators on 4 March. In 2009, the group reported strong subscriber growth in i…
Four billion people live on less than two dollars a day in the developing world. These people represent a huge and growing market for goods and services. For those of us who are familiar with the soph…
While consumers across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa are feeling more optimistic about the six months ahead, many are not letting up in terms of stocking up their coffers. According to the …
After 11 and a half years of discussions, planning and development, Hong Kong’s Wellcome supermarket chain – one of the two largest in the territory – opened its first store in the r…
Surf and boardsports retailer Billabong International has hit back at an AUD168 million (USD153 million) lawsuit launched against it by its former Indonesian licensee, claiming the action is without f…
Indonesian subsidiaries of Japanese electronic company Sanyo Electric are upbeat they will still be able to maintain a 15-percent growth rate in the Indonesian electronics market despite an expe…
Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd, Hong Kong’s second biggest retailer, will increase spending on hypermarkets in Southeast Asia and its health and beauty chain in China.
Capital spending ma…
The road to hell is supposedly paved with good intentions, and in Indonesia’s capital, one of these may very well be the half-hearted move by authorities, retailers and consumers to reduce the u…
Thirsty drinkers in Australia and across the Pacific have helped propel Coca-Cola Amatil’s full-year earnings 16.4-percent higher to a record AUD449 million (USD403 million), as the beverage gro…