Singapore

 German luxury brand MCM has opened its first MCM HAUS in South-east Asia. Located at the Paragon along Singapore's shopping belt Orchard Road, the 2,160 sqft store offers a full range of products including leather goods, ready-to-wear apparel as well as shoes and accessories.

 The Singapore series of the UN Environment’s #BeatPlasticPollution campaign organised by real estate development company City Developments Limited (CDL) and event management company Global Initiatives, Singapore, joins 11 other Asia-Pacific cities that have created recycled plastic art installations for the UN Environment’s campaign.

 Singapore shopping mall The Cathay has commissioned London-based artist Whatshisname and local creative studio Mighty Jaxx to create four super-sized balloon dog sculptures, in an effort to creatively integrate contemporary art into the shopping landmark.

 Singapore-headquartered software as a service (SaaS) technology company Anchanto has raised US$4 million in the first round of its on-going Series C investment, led by MDI Ventures, Telkom Indonesia’s corporate venture capital arm.

 Owned by real estate investment trust company CapitaLand Mall Trust and managed by real estate company CapitaLand, Funan unveiled its digital blueprint encompassing customer analytics comprising transaction and demographics data, robotic automation that includes Singapore’s first deployment of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and robotic arm in a retail setting, and a 24-hour click-and-collect drive-through supplemented by warehousing facilities within Funan.

 Vehicle telematics company Skyfy Technology announced it has expanded its offering to include a last mile logistics management system built by Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) based on Artificial Intelligence (AI).

 B2B business solutions provider Fibre2Fashion has added a new feature Analysis of Brands and Retailers in TexPro -- a user interface service. The new feature provides access to downloadable data on top brands and retailers in the form of structured reports.

 Singapore-based e-commerce company Shopmatic has announced its expansion into the Middle East, its third regional market.

 

 The fifth #MYCYBERSALE 2018 online sale event, which will offer shoppers in Malaysia various deals and promotions, will be back from September 3 to 7 this year.

 Four electronics retailers -- Best Denki, COURTS, Gain City and Harvey Norman -- have joined DHL, StarHub and TES’ RENEW programme to further encourage electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) recycling in Singapore. Under the collaboration agreement, the four companies will place the RENEW bins in 20 of their retail stores. These include seven COURTS stores, five Best Denki and Gain City stores each and three Harvey Norman stores.

 International delivery and logistics services company Aramex has partnered with IMG Solar, a daughter company of Jordanian-based Izzat Marji Group, and inaugurated a 3.2-megawatt solar photovoltaic plant for its new logistics facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

 

 Warehouse and logistics systems solutions provider SSI Schaefer continues to expand its comprehensive shuttle portfolio for small load carriers with the new SSI Flexi Shuttle.

 

THE world’s 100 largest luxury goods companies generated sales of US$217 billion in FY2016 and the average luxury goods annual sales for a Top 100 company is now US$2.2 billion, according to the fifth annual Global Powers of Luxury Goods report by Deloitte.