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Four retail trends that emerged in Asia during Lunar New Year

Retailers such as JD rolled out products catering to a rising eat-at-home trend.

Four retail trends that emerged in Asia during Lunar New Year

Retailers such as JD rolled out products catering to a rising eat-at-home trend.

E-commerce to dominate retail sales in China in 2021

The rise of social commerce contributed to this global historic first.

British fashion house Burberry banks on APAC to stay afloat

Strong performance in the region helped offset its weak Q3 sales.

Apparel brand Canada Goose picks Scott Cameron as APAC president

Cameron was previously the president of its Greater China operations.

VF Corp moves centre of Asia operations to Shanghai

It is also relocating its product supply hub from Hong Kong to Singapore.

Dufry to co-develop duty-free shop in Hainan

The first phase is planned to open before the Spring Festival in 2021.

Tencent invests $100m in online grocery startup Xingsheng

Analysts expect the startup’s current funding round to be followed by an IPO.

China's FMCGs suffer lower selling prices in 9M 2020

Leading e-commerce players have focussed more on bargain-conscious consumers.

Huawei sells Honor business to consortium of agents, dealers

Its consumer business took hit from an unavailability of needed technical elements.

Strong recovery ahead for Asia's luxury sector

Majority in Asia have plans for leisure travel in the next 12 months.

Sa Sa's turnover down 55.3% to $89.75m in Q2

The lack of tourists affected its sales to mainland customers.

How Alibaba addressed international merchants' hurdles of accessing the China market

They rolled out an English-language customer-service and self-service registration system.

Alibaba's income doubled to $6.74b in Q2

Its China retail and cloud computing businesses boosted revenue growth.

China's retail sales down 1.1% to $463b in July

Goods saw positive growth for the first time, but the catering sector remained weak.