South Korea’s online-to-offline, or O2O, market burgeoned last year with the food delivery sector seeing a massive surge in demand largely driven by Covid 19 restrictions on restaurant dining, governm…
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Musinsa : Online shop creates offline opportunities
Online shop creates offline opportunities : Fashion retailer Musinsa makes space for brands to grow their businesses.…
Vashi redefines the fine jewellery model
The online jeweller is dispensing with display cases and security guards as it expands into brick-and-mortar shops, betting a more-relaxed experience will draw millennial customers.…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with GFG : The future of fashion retail in the emerging markets
Retail in Asia met Romain Voog, Former CEO, Global Fashion Group, just before he stepped down, and we asked him to share with our readers what are the success factors for fashion brands in the emergin…
From clicks to bricks
While the established offline retailers are concentrating on building out their online businesses, we have recently seen the original pure-play e-tailers such as Amazon, Alibaba and JD.com venturing o…
Luxury brands adopt Wechat Mini Programs
Many well known luxury brands have become early adopters of Wechat Mini Programs. Here, three case studies.…
What is the future for brick-and-mortar stores?
Despite the attention that eCommerce attracts, according to eMarketer, 90% of retail spending worldwide still occurs via bricks-and-mortar stores. So why is this the case?…
Alibaba to open its first physical mall
Alibaba, the pioneer of Chinese e-commerce, is reportedly embarking on its first brick-and-mortar mall.…
Chow Tai Fook turns failing China shops into logistics hubs
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group, one of the largest publicly listed jewellery chains in the world, is turning its struggling stores in China into logistic hubs for handling e-commerce orders.…
3 Reasons O2O startups are never dead in SEA
Alongside Internet companies, venture capitalists also have an eye on companies that own offline sales channel.…