Singapore

A Global habit survey by Hakuhodo has shown some interesting — and not so similar — traits among women shoppers in South-east Asia.

AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS (AEO) has made its debut in Singapore as an anchor tenant at VivoCity via its Singapore partner — Star 360 Holdings Pte Ltd (STARTHREESIXTY).

Asia’s food and hospitality industry is clearly on the rise. Investments are continually being poured into hotels, restaurants and other F&B establishments to cater for the growing demand for good food, and Asia is also home to some of the best restaurants and chefs in the world.

Rising costs, manpower shortages, intense competition and food supply challenges are some of the roadblocks experienced by many F&B SMEs.

Techi – the robot waiter

TRADITIONAL laser scanners read linear barcodes at the point of sale — a technology that greatly simplified checkout. But today’s highly developed area-imaging scanners enable greater capability and flexibility, putting far more productivity into the hands of retail employees and allowing for revenue-generating mobile marketing initiatives.

For more than 40 years, Honeywell’s mobility and scanning products and solutions have helped customers to improve their retail workflow processes, thus increasing their productivity and profitability. As e-commerce is reshaping the retail, logistics and supply-chain industries, Honeywell has been adapting to customers’ evolving needs and providing innovative technologies and proven workflow solutions to help retailers and logistics companies to win.

True, ‘disruption’ may be an over-used word these days.

Kingsmen Creatives Ltd, a Singapore-based communication design and production group, with over 20 offices worldwide, has risen to hit the big 40 in 2016. Achieving its mission to revolutionise design and visual communication for almost four decades has not made Kingsmen’s founders Simon Ong and Benedict Soh battle weary but energised them in that they are nurturing a team to continue their work ethos and culture of being ‘Kingsmen’ to all their clients. Over a cup of tea, group managing director Simon Ong shares his reflection with Retail Asia’s managing editor Vanessa Ching …

LAUNCHED in March 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has given e-commerce a shot in the arm with its dynamic and ever-evolving Cloud marketplace which is enabling businesses of all shapes and sizes to quickly procure and manage their IT assets.

While Tesco may be on the ropes in the UK — it is not on the canvas. Like any retailer hoping to succeed globally, Tesco now needs to rebuild its original position of secure dominance in its home market in order to be able to focus on international expansion, especially in high-potential markets such as Asia.

How to be ready for the tipping point 

"Mobile Internet is the fundamental element to the ‘Internet of Things" 

Retailers and brands looking to establish an online presence quickly and efficiently without having to invest in heavy infrastructure and set-up cost can do so by outsourcing this to an e-commerce enabler.

In an interview with Retail Asia at the recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit, Rajesh Lingappa, co-founder and CTO of RedMart, shared the company’s startup journey. The online grocery was birthed out of necessity by two investors, Roger Egan and Vikram Rupani, who moved from New York to Singapore and found that the city did not offer the convenience of a full-fledged online grocery service that the time-crunched executives were used to in New York. 

The tainted meat scandal in China has affected US fast-food giant Yum Brands’ fourth-quarter results. The parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurant chains reported a net loss of US$36 million in the October-December quarter, compared with a net income of US$321 million a year ago.