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Exporters foresee business uptick

HKTDC’s revamped Export Confidence Index brings a more comprehensive outlook on export performance.

MarketingPulse and eTailingPulse come to a close

Rapid advances in technology, especially AI, are transforming the marketing universe. Industry players gathered in Hong Kong this week to find out about the latest developments.

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Textile start-ups leading the way in sustainability

The textile and fashion industries have focused on sustainability recently and among the 10 laureates at this year's Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) Start-up Express: International Edition are two green fashion start-ups from Thailand.

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Smart technology revives industry

In the 1970s, Hong Kong was a manufacturing powerhouse churning out everything from toy trains to microchips. Over the 1980s and 90s, the factories migrated north into Mainland China.

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Digital technologies transform SMEs

Many SMEs are creating diversified, flexible operating plans, deploying digital technology to transform traditional operations and marketing methods to seize market opportunities.

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Young talents see green

Young entrepreneurs were born into a world where the commercial internet was already an everyday reality, and mobile phones were ubiquitous.

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Taking ESG into public square

ESG is trending among companies globally, helping them go green and achieve sustainable development, but in the eyes of Arthur Lam, CEO and Co-Founder of Hong Kong start-up Negawatt, that is far from enough to make an environmental impact.

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Start-up tackles dining pain points

Staff and management costs are persistent pain points for the catering industry. Hong Kong start-up DimOrder has developed a system that covers everything from diners’ orders and check-out to restaurant management and ingredient procurement, letting restaurants implement digital management and streamline operations.

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Cyberspace user’s guide for SMEs

Cyberspace is rapidly supplanting physical space as a business environment. Even successful small firms need to put a lot of effort into navigating this setting, which is not only new, but growing and changing with amazing speed.

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Streamlined payments for retail SMEs

InnoClub, a one-stop platform jointly created by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Hang Seng Bank, recently held a seminar Connecting Upstream and Downstream: Building a Smart Supply Chain with Digital Technology. Supply chain, logistics, operations and procurement managers tackled the supply chain and payment system pain points of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

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Greenfield sites could yield green cities

The massive development projects in Hong Kong – Northern Metropolis (main picture) and Lantau Tomorrow Vision – will create a perfect prototyping environment for green con tech and prop tech, offering businesses ranging from start-ups to construction giants a chance to develop and deploy cutting-edge sustainable solutions for buildings and infrastructure.

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Think Business, Think Hong Kong concluded successfully

The two-day Think Business, Think Hong Kong (TBTHK) promotion in the Thai capital last Thursday and Friday received an enthusiastic response from Thai government officials and business leaders.

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Hong Kong, Ningbo deepen partnership

The Ningbo-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Forum 2023, jointly organised by the HKTDC and the government of Ningbo city, Zhejiang province, was held in Hong Kong last month. A Ningbo delegation comprising political and business leaders attended in-person, as the two cities explored collaborations to drive the nation’s high-quality development, as well as create new momentum for Hong Kong’s economy.

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APAC universities tackle green challenges

The atmosphere has no borders and the fallout from bad environmental practices – as well as returns on good ones – quickly spread across the globe.

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Start-up Express finalists make pitches

Start-up Express, the annual entrepreneurship development programme organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), has returned for its sixth edition.

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