RETAIL TECHNOLOGY

07 December 2021

Straddling Europe and Asia and awash with history, Turkey offers exporters in Hong Kong and Mainland China a large, young and willing-to-spend population, a recent Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) webinar heard. More

Market Opportunities

Online fast-track for SMEs

18 August 2021

Hong Kong-based e-commerce platform SHOPLINE began in 2013 with a rented desk in a shared workspace. In just eight years, the firm has expanded into a team of more than 600 people and extended its office network from Hong Kong to Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Singapore and Bangkok, becoming an international team serving more than 250,000 companies in Asia. (This story is the first in Hong Kong Means Business’s ”Powered by HSBC – Bridging the GBA” series.) More

Market Opportunities

Harnessing social marketing

26 July 2021

Riding the digital transformation wave that crested across swathes of industries during the COVID-19 pandemic, two innovative Hong Kong entrepreneurs teamed up in 2020 to establish a salestech platform that enables companies to develop their own on-demand virtual sales team, thus helping them promote products and build a sustainable prospects database through social networking. More

Market Opportunities

Americans turn to cybermalls

15 July 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended economic activity across the globe over the past one and a half years, but one obvious beneficiary has been e-commerce which has grown in leaps and bounds as customers stay away from shops and restaurants. This change has been marked in the United States, home of the shopping mall. More

Tech & Innovation

Start-ups reach out

02 July 2021

The serial information technology revolutions – transistors (1950s), integrated circuits (1960s), personal computers (1970s, 80s), Internet (1990s) and mobile devices (2010s) – had a profound effect on the global economy because of their breadth. The jump in communication, data processing and storage capacity transformed every field from accounting to zoology. More

Tech & Innovation

Northern giant goes shopping

03 June 2021

The biggest country in both Europe and Asia, Russia is recovering following a sharp recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic last year, giving Hong Kong-based exporters attractive opportunities. More

Market Opportunities

Asian E-tailing Summit

30 November 2020

The Asian E-tailing Summit (AES) is a one-stop platform for business professionals to network with renowned online retail experts and obtain the latest sourcing trends and market intelligence, as well as learn about success cases and best-practices of e-tailing. More

Tech & Innovation

Bespoke jewellers win online

06 November 2020

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution diminishes economies of scale and boosts artisanal production, e-commerce is aiding the trend by bringing producers and buyers closer together. More

Market Opportunities

Start-up ensures happy returns

13 October 2020

Online shopping has been growing in popularity for many years and the COVID-19 pandemic, which kept consumers around the world at home, turbocharged the trend. More

Market Opportunities

Putting detail into retail

30 September 2020

Retailers designing selling spaces need to decide which items to put in the most conspicuous positions, how to place regularly priced products and which customer group to target. More

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