Retail

As luxury retail goes big, can Singapore’s Orchard Road keep up? 

Rival cities with stronger tourist pull and more real estate are drawing larger stores and more investment

Some industry watchers wonder if Orchard Road can hold its own next to competing retail destinations, both global and local.

What’s wrong with Orchard Road? Experts weigh in on the street’s cachet and its future

Top malls there are doing well, but observers ask if Singapore’s premier retail belt can still shine

World Cup fever has arrived.
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Football fever: Fifa World Cup merchandise to get your hands on

Fans can show their support with everything from jerseys to plushies

Unlike Masan’s US$650 million offshore borrowing in 2023, the new facility marks a transition to senior unsecured funding.

Masan wins record US$750 million offshore loan facility as lenders re-rate credit risk

The group says this is the largest international corporate borrowing of six-year tenor for a Vietnamese private enterprise

DMX CEO Doan Van Hieu Em sees EraBlue as a key pillar of its next growth cycle.

Vietnam’s electronics retail king DMX aims to repeat its feat in Indonesia ‘in half the time’

Beyond its own ongoing domestic IPO, it hopes to list joint venture EraBlue in Indonesia within five years

Victoria’s Secret has revived its popular annual runway show after a six-year hiatus.

Victoria’s Secret soars as turnaround powers upbeat annual forecasts

Shares of the lingerie retailer have nearly trebled in the past 12 months

Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Low Yen Ling says it is important to build a "vibrant, competitive and future-ready" retail sector amid rapid advances in AI.

EnterpriseSG, IMDA launch refreshed Retail Industry Digital Plan to help retailers adopt AI

The road map aims to address immediate pressures and build resilience for future growth

KSL's Khoo Lee Feng says it is "not so much what you study, but how you learn".
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Johor property old hand KSL readies family handover amid market boom

The Khoo family’s younger members take on larger roles ahead of at least RM3.8 billion in launches this year

Central Kuala Lumpur’s retail squeeze is about to get livelier, with about 1.3 million sq ft of new mall space coming onstream.

Retail overload: KL and JB set to flood Malaysia’s already saturated mall scene

Some 34 complexes are in the pipeline, mostly in the country’s key urban and cross-border retail hubs

ECQ's outlet concept spans about 20,000 sq m of GLA and houses around 100 brands.

Frasers sells retail complex in West Sydney to Vicinity Centres for A$400 million

The sale is consistent with its capital recycling strategy, says Australian unit’s CEO