Market Focus

E commerce

Shopping Festival helps Hong Kong SMEs expand into the mainland via e-commerce

The Mainland China e-commerce market has been the world’s largest online retail market for 11 consecutive years, with online retail sales surpassing RMB15 trillion last year, an 11% year-on-year increase.

E-commerce

Opening up giant e-commerce market

The massive market in neighbouring Mainland China has led many business people from Hong Kong and abroad to set up e-commerce enterprises in the city, but they often find the market hard to enter.

Marketing E-commerce Sourcing

Confidence rallies on export jump

A surge in exports over the first five months of this year has boosted Hong Kong traders’ confidence and led the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) to substantially raise the city’s 2024 export outlook.

Logistics Trade Commerce E-commerce

Opening vast cross-border market

The vast e-commerce market in Mainland China is unique as well as enormous, posing a challenge for Hong Kong SMEs that want to tap access it.

Technology E-commerce Marketing

Hainan has taste of Hong Kong style

Consumer goods makers in Hong Kong are eager to expand into the massive Mainland China market.

Logistics Marketing Trade E-commerce

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.

E-commerce Marketing Technology

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.

Green production Green industry E-commerce

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.

AI E-commerce Medicine

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.

Trade E-commerce

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.

E-commerce Marketing Education Industry 4.0

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).

Hong Kong E-commerce Marketing Fintech GBA