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Online fashion retailer Zalora recently announced the appointment of Elias Pour as chief marketing officer. Pour will lead a team of over 150 people, overseeing the full marketing operations of Zalora Group.

Social media management platform Hootsuite recently released its Social Media Barometer Report, a global survey on the importance and use of social media within small, medium and enterprise (SME) organisations across industries.

 As growth in South-east Asia’s online economy gains pace, investment management company JLL projects that technology companies will drive office occupancy, potentially accounting for 15 to 25% of annual gross office leasing volumes in the next decade, compared to about five to 10% three years ago.

 For the first time ever, a multi-million dollar tokenised artwork, Andy Warhol’s 14 Small Electric Chairs (1980), has been sold to 100 qualified participants on Maecenas, an art investment platform built on blockchain, in the private beta launch of the platform.

 In order to meet the increasing demand for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), warehouse and logistics systems solutions provider SSI Schaefer is expanding its product portfolio in this future-oriented area by co-operation with and investment in the Austrian AGV specialist DS Automotion.

 Consumer preferences on different product attributes vary in very specific ways across product categories, geographic regions, age groups and at stages of the value chain, according to a study of the consumer products industry entitled Cracking the code on consumers’ health-and-wellness preferences by global consulting firm AlixPartners.

 

  Apparel retailer Uniqlo will be presenting a travel-themed theatre play entitled “Modest Travels” this month where guests will be taken through a guided theatre play followed by a showcase of travel essentials, housed in the compounds of 18 and 20 Temenggong in Singapore.This theatre play is Uniqlo’s first-of-its-kind, organised as part of the 2018 Winter Travel campaign which aims to inspire travel and demonstrate how travels can be made better with the brand.

 South-east Asian e-commerce company Lazada recently celebrated the official launch of LazMall which has over 1,000 brands, and tens and thousands of product listings.

 

 

 

A NEW study has found that 39% of young people in Asia feel more connected to another country’s popular culture than that of their own country.

More online merchants are choosing to utilise drop-shipping — a retail fulfilment method where an e-store purchases merchandise from a third party and ships directly to the customer — according to online payments company PayPal gets more insights from Rahul Shinghal, managing director, PayPal South-east Asia and head of Merchant Support, PayPal APAC, on why some Web retailers have transitioned into this business model as their primary method of order fulfilment. 

In the era of the digital revolution where bricks-and-mortar shopping is affected by e-commerce and new purchase habits from millennials and Generation X. Bruno Zysman, founder and CEO, GoToMalls.com, shares with  on how the platform is bringing shoppers back to malls and stores.The retail industry is constantly reinventing itself to stay competitive to drive customers to their stores. One way to achieve this is to focus on providing customer experience and timely information through a convenient channel. Developed by Singapore-based tech firm Dominopos and founded in July 2016, online-to-offline (O2O) platform GoToMalls aims to do that by connecting online shoppers with offline malls’ stores.