This year’s theme is Inspiring Possibilities

MarketingPulse and eTailingPulse to shine spotlight on emerging trends

Seminars, consultancy services focus on e-commerce pain points for SMEs

HKTDC unveils expanded Hong Kong Shopping Festival programme

Platform costs and exchange rates form main concerns

Online exporters see good sales ahead

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.

Hong Kong products make their mark in the world’s largest online retail market

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

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.

A month-long HKTDC festival helps Hong Kong SMEs expand their online business in Mainland China.

Opening up giant e-commerce market

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.

Sharp rises in electronics trade and stronger markets across the world take almost all indices above the 50 benchmark.

Confidence rallies on export jump

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.

Hong Kong SMEs have a chance to learn how to monetise mainland e-commerce traffic.

Opening vast cross-border market

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

Pavilion at Consumer Goods Expo showcases distinctive products and brands.

Hainan has taste of Hong Kong style

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.

Parallel marketing, e-tailing conference draws 1,600 industry professionals

MarketingPulse and eTailingPulse come to a close

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.

Two start-ups from Thailand are tackling waste in the textile and fashion industries.

Textile start-ups leading the way in sustainability

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.

Programmes lead the way to bring ‘Made in Hong Kong’ back into the sunshine.

Smart technology revives industry

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

InnoClub helps SMEs digitise to streamline business operations.

Digital technologies transform SMEs

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.

A proptech entrepreneur won Start-up Express laurels by creating a regenerative economy through its Zero2 app.

Taking ESG into public square

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.

Tough start in restaurant business leads entrepreneurs to develop point of sale order processing, payment and inventory tracking system.

Start-up tackles dining pain points

Consumer research uncovers advantages for Hong Kong products and brands

ASEAN’s promising e-commerce markets

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The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Office co-organised the inaugural GoGBA Day (22 September). This business support event aims to engage members of the international business community in Hong Kong that are currently underserved in terms of up-to-date business information on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). The physical part of the hybrid on-site/online event was held at the HKTDC SME Centre at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.<br /> <br />The half-day event featured a series of seminars offering practical business tips and updates on the latest developments in the GBA to prepare international enterprises to "go GBA" via Hong Kong. The event received an overwhelming response with more than 160 participants attending the seminars at the venue while 260 participants joined the online webinar. At the same time, 65 business advisory sessions and one-on-one consultation meetings were arranged for 47 companies at the venue to facilitate business partnerships and opportunities.<br /> <br />The joint seminars welcomed officials from various authorities in the GBA, along with industry leaders and market experts from banking and other sectors, to share their insights and business know-how with international medium-sized enterprises and start-ups, helping them get equipped to set up business and succeed in the GBA via the Hong Kong platform. A wide range of topics was discussed, including the business landscape in the GBA and key incentives and subsidies for start-ups and businesses in the areas of tax, banking and investment.

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