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Projecting the future of e-commerce with new media and video
How can video and new media content help online retailers? Muneerah Bee catches up with Ankiti Bose, CEO and co-founder of Zilingo, to find out more.
Projecting the future of e-commerce with new media and video
How can video and new media content help online retailers? Muneerah Bee catches up with Ankiti Bose, CEO and co-founder of Zilingo, to find out more.
What makes a company ‘iconic'?
Retailers generally grasp the challenges they face in achieving excellent customer experience levels and they understand how they can deploy technology and talent to sustain them. Erwann Thomassain, vice-president of Marketing, APJ, Genesys, shares a brief checklist of the strategies and perspectives distinguishing iconic firms in the retail industry that optimise their resources in service of their brands from those that do not.
Optimising online marketing with technology
With South-east Asia set to be the leader in the e-commerce space, it is important for retailers to know how to best reach their customers. Muneerah Bee finds out what multiple retargeting is all about and how it can boost the online shopping experience.
E-commerce transforming the use of retail space for retailing purpose
As of the third quarter of 2017, there are about 5.3 million sqf of vacant retail space in Singapore, according to the republic’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and e-commerce could have contributed to a substantial portion of that.
Three secrets of success in the snack foods industry in Asia
In a globally growing category, Asia-Pacific comes in as the world’s fastest-growing snack foods market. Very notably over here in Asia, where multinational companies (MNCs) have always led the way, the trend is shifting towards home-grown snack foods companies. According to Kantar Worldpanel’s Asian Brand Power report,local brands in Asia attract 74% of shoppers’ fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) spend and they are growing at twice the rate of multinational brands.
Reducing waste for retail gains
Going green within the retail industry is now more than just a social responsibility. It is also about meeting customer expectations for malls and brands to be environmentally friendly, especially when it comes to waste minimisation. What can be done to encourage malls and their retail tenants to recycle and reduce the amount of waste they generate? Muneerah Bee highlights some waste reduction plans by some malls and a store in Singapore.
Lunar New Year shopping in Asia has moved online: Criteo
To help commerce providers better engage shoppers during the festive Lunar New Year season, commerce marketing technology company Criteo has released seasonal data from 2017.
Havas expands global footprint of the Annex to Asia
With digital allowing culture to move rapidly, big brands that do not keep up get disrupted quickly by trends if they do not respond to it, according to digital agency Havas, which has developed a new Millennial-led model which crushes the divide between brands and the emerging marketplace.
Global Muslim population grows 18%, driving record demand of halal products
Global market research company Euromonitor International unveiled via webinar the latest trends shaping the halal market as companies race to benefit from a pool of untapped consumers.
Hawker centres to accept EZ-Link and concession cards on NETS terminals
NETS and EZ-Link recently announced they have joined forces to propagate e-payments with the acceptance of all EZ-Link and concession cards on all NETS terminals at hawker centres in Singapore.
NTUC FairPrice and Grab to launch new subscription service
Singapore’s largest supermarket chain NTUC FairPrice and South-east Asia’s on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform Grab signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to embark on a joint initiative to launch a new subscription service.
Qoo10 launches virtual supermart
Singapore-based e-commerce platform Qoo10 is holding its biggest ever offline event – Qoo10 Super Sale - CNY Edition at Suntec City Convention Centre Halls 401 - 403, from 25 to 28 January 2018 in Singapore.
BloomReach, Elastic Path launch global partnership
BloomReach recently launched a strategic global partnership with e-commerce software provider Elastic Path Software which will bring competitive advantage to enterprise businesses pursuing a best-of-breed approach to customer experience and commerce.
E-wallets set to boom in Asia-Pacific: Worldpay
The e-commerce market in Asia-Pacific (APAC) is one of the fastest growing as consumer appetite for online and mobile shopping continues to see extreme progress in the coming year and beyond.
Battling online fraud by leveraging data
Online fraud is on the rise and a new report from technology company Stripe unveiled several new patterns to assist online businesses as they combat fraudulent activities.
Rakuten announces accelerator programme powered by Techstars
Internet company Rakuten and Techstars, a worldwide network aimed at helping entrepreneurs succeed, recently announced the launch of Rakuten Accelerator powered by Techstars.
E-commerce is the fastest-growing global retail channel through 2022: report
Internet retailing is the fastest growing global channel through 2022 at 73% to become a larger channel than traditional grocery retail, according to global market research company Euromonitor International which released its new retailing industry data alongside the second annual What’s New in Retail: Emerging Global Concepts report.
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