MARKET SPOTLIGHT

Fashion retailers flock to cyberspace

The already fiercely competitive garment industry is coming under pressure from external pressures, accelerating the move online.

28 April 2020

The fashion retail market has become fiercely competitive in recent years, and pressure from external factors such as the Sino-United States trade dispute has aggravated the challenge. More

Topics: Garments, Textiles & Accessories, Hong Kong, fashion, e-commerce

Russian retailers go online through mergers

The link between a leading high-street retailer and online giant adds to a run of bricks and clicks deals, potentially offering new opportunities for international suppliers.

27 April 2020

Russia’s already crowded and highly competitive online market has had to make room for a new player. More

Topics: Russia, Hong Kong, digital marketing, e-commerce

Helping SMEs to market

The Hong Kong government enhances marketing and insurance schemes for smaller enterprises.

21 April 2020

An ability to adapt to challenges and move forward to seize the opportunities that inevitably appear during worldwide shake-ups is a feature of Hong Kong’s nimble, world-facing economy. More

Topics: Association & Government, Finance & Investment, Hong Kong, Mainland China, insurance

Back-end providers ride data wave

Next-generation ICT firms operate in almost every sector but share one attribute – all create a flood of information which calls for nimble hardware and software.

20 April 2020

The most recent edition of XTech, Japan's primary information and communications technology (ICT) event, drew on the sense of national optimism occasioned by the since rescheduled Olympic Games, while also being bolstered by a number of trends that have rejuvenated the sector overall. More

Topics: Hong Kong, Japan, Innovation and Tech, start-ups

Innovators will drive recovery

As the post-COVID business environment takes shape, SMEs win further support to expand their technological toolboxes.

14 April 2020

Keeping Hong Kong businesses afloat during the COVID-19 outbreak is at the top of many to-do lists at the moment but looking to the post-outbreak world, and making sure companies can thrive in that new environment, is also receiving attention. More

Topics: Business Management & Consultancy, Association & Government, Hong Kong, Innovation & Tech, digital marketing

Launch pad for start-ups

This HKTDC programme helps Hong Kong entrepreneurs find partners and customers around the world.

07 April 2020

Hong Kong has a vibrant start-up ecosystem, with inventive entrepreneurs creating innovative solutions in artificial intelligence (AI), fintech, biotech, smart city and much more. More

Topics: Association & Government, Hong Kong, Mainland China, start-ups, Innovation & Tech

Robots move into smaller factories

Cyborgs are taking on more human characteristics – but the reverse can also be true, a Japanese automation show indicates.

06 April 2020

Discerning attendees at the most recent edition of Nepcon Nagoya, a major Japanese biannual electronics exhibition, no doubt came away with a fairly firm grasp of the key automation, robotics and smart technology trends that are set to reshape their respective sectors in the year to come. More

Topics: Hong Kong, Japan, Robotics, automation

Express lane for start-ups

Hong Kong entrepreneurs have an opportunity to ramp up their network through the HKTDC’s “Start-up Express” programme.

31 March 2020

Technology is driving the rapid changes sweeping across the world and is itself evolving rapidly to help companies and people adapt to these changes – a vast, global virtuous circle. More

Topics: Information Technology, Hong Kong, start-ups, Entrepreneur Day

Innovation rules at BioJapan Expo

With biotech offering famously narrow market windows, many manufacturers need to go to great lengths to remain truly competitive.

30 March 2020

Viewed as very much a new frontier, the defining characteristics of the biotechnology sector appear to be the sheer breadth of its potential applications and the need for in-depth specialisation to make good on any of its myriad possibilities. More

Topics: Health & Beauty, Japan, Hong Kong, Innovation and Tech, health

Exhibitions go digital

Hong Kong SMEs are set to roll out their goods and services at a cyber-expo.

30 March 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak has impacted business activity across the globe, with hundreds of exhibitions worldwide being postponed or even cancelled, depriving many companies across the board of opportunities to promote themselves. More

Topics: Hong Kong, digital marketing, e-commerce

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