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China’s second-ranking e-commerce company continues to expand its online empire into the offline world as JD.com’s founder and chief executive vowed late last week to open 1,000 stores every day this year.
“As of last month, JD.com opened 1,000 convenience… Read More>>
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com continues to expand its brick-and-mortar empire, building on its existing ventures in physical supermarkets and convenience stores by taking a cornerstone stake in the IPO of one of the mainland’s largest outlet mall chains.
JD.com is… Read More>>
China’s Sanpower Group is poised to sell a majority stake in troubled UK retailer House of Fraser, less than four years after the Nanjing-based conglomerate bought an 89 percent interest in the department store chain.
Sanpower subsidiary Nanjing Cenbest (Nanjing… Read More>>
Leading today’s Hong Kong real estate news, Link REIT has completed its HK$23 billion sale of a horde of shopping malls to a consortium led by Gaw Capital. Also in the headlines, the government is weighing action to rein in… Read More>>
Chinese consumers bought RMB 4.88 trillion ($760 billion) in products online during the first three quarters of last year — roughly equivalent to the annual GDP of the Netherlands — as many shoppers now routinely buy groceries and other daily… Read More>>
Chinese retail developer and operator Sasseur Group, which is backed by Ping An Real Estate and Warburg Pincus, plans to cash in on its collection of four mainland outlet malls by listing a real estate investment trust on the Singapore… Read More>>
One of the best-known retail centres from Shanghai’s 1930s heyday may soon be pulling China’s post-millennial shoppers back to what was once China’s hippest retail centre. As part of a revival of a heritage department store on Shanghai’s historic East… Read More>>
While artificial intelligence and facial recognition may be the road ahead for physical retail, the promise of online efficiency and future growth may not yet have made it to Chengdu, at least for one retailer.
GOGO unmanned market, the first… Read More>>
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is deepening its partnership with top Chinese developer Longfor Properties by investing RMB 4.2 billion ($662 million) in two new mixed-use projects in the cities of Chengdu and Shanghai, the pension fund manager… Read More>>
Wanda boss Wang Jianlin has been selling properties in the UK, Australia and mainland China to help lessen his debt load, and now the owner of China’s biggest commercial developer is selling off nearly 14 percent of his flagship commercial… Read More>>
