Retail

Hong Kong will top the world in retail rents

Hong Kong will top the world in retail rents

Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay is now the second most expensive shopping district in the world, behind New York’s Fifth Avenue and ahead of Tokyo’s Ginza...

Fung buys French high-fashion house, Sonia Rykiel

Sonia Rykiel, one of the last family-owned French luxury brands founded by one of the world’s 10 most elegant women, has severed its continental...

Houston and Hong Kong look to more trade

Hong Kong and the largest port city and city in Texas have a lot in common.

HSBC continues retail banking restructuring

The banking giant sells off four units in just two days.

A premium brand backed by history and tradition

For over more than a century, RIMOWA’s products have had a special status in the sector. It is one of the few manufacturers producing luggage in...

How the ‘lion rock spirit’ has propelled Sa Sa International into a Hong Kong Legend

Hard work, endurance, and not giving up easily are the words to live by for Dr Simon Kwok, who, together with his wife Dr Eleanor Kwok, founded Sa Sa...

Extended dry spell for Chinese grocery retailers

Another quarter of weak sales foreseen after six months of hardship with recovery likely to start only by 2Q12.

Asia’s retail and consumer industry maintains growth momentum

Online retailing to experience phenomenal growth during forecast period to 2015 amid global economic uncertainty.

3D-GOLD Jewellery and Bank of Beijing join forces

Hong Kong Resources Holdings Company Limited (“HKRH”) is pleased to announce that 3D-GOLD Jewellery has signed a cooperative agreement with the Bank...

AEON Stores’ Kowloon flagship store opens in Lai Chi Kok

The store becomes the largest GMS in Kowloon and the new territories.

Total receipts in retail trade reach $359.5b

Gross surplus increased to $32.6 billion in 2010.

FreshKon Airis 1-Month contact lenses recalled for silicon oil residue

The Department of Health endorsed the recall of another contact lens product, FreshKon Airis 1-Month contact lenses, by its local distributor Oculus...

Shop raided for misrepresenting chilled meat as fresh meat

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department raided a fresh provision shop in Ngau Chi Wan, Wong Tai Sin, which has been complained of for selling...

DoH warns against slimming products with banned and undeclared ingredients

The Department of Health has again appealed to members of the public not to buy or consume slimming products of unknown or doubtful composition as...

Ka-ching!: Retail sales in September up 24.1%

The volume of sales of electrical goods and photographic equipment increased the most with 33% growth.

Lunar New Year fair stalls to open for auctioning

1,171 wet goods stalls, 817 dry goods stalls, eight thematic stalls and 16 fast food stalls will be put up for auction.