In just a few weeks, the lives of The People have changed in ways they had never imagined. People can no longer meet, work, eat, shop, and socialize as they used to. The working world moved rapidly from business as usual to cautious travel, office closures, and work-from-home mandates. Instead of traveling and going out to […]
$KORS To stay on trend, Italian fashion houses are refashioning themselves for future growth. Luxury label Ermenegildo Zegna, which opens Fall/Winter menswear previews at Milan Fashion Week Friday, made its 1st move to expand abroad with the Zegna Group’s Summer acquisition of American brand Thom Browne. The Gianni Versace house’s entrance into the group owned […]
$DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $RUTX, $VXX Stocks finished higher Monday, and wrapped up the month and year. Buying conviction was reserved during the session with no news catalysts or economic data to drive investors, that until the last minute buyers came in to drive the indices to near session highs. The trading session is over and so […]
$DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $RUTX Stocks finished higher on the week, and wrapped up a disappointing month and year. The S&P 500 is off 7% in Y 2018 after peaking with a 10% YTD gainer in late September prior to the consolidation. The Fed’s tightening and heightened uncertainty into Y 2019 have brought valuations on the […]
Retailers Vs e-Commerce This Holiday Season $AMZN, $TGT, $LOW, $KSS, $JWN, $KSS The Big Q in this strong US economy this holiday is: Will retailers may have to spend heavily to win? Steep discounts are as familiar during the holidays, but this year retailers are after a piece of the e-Commerce market as Amazon.com Inc. […]
Dubai Launches e-Commerce Freezone The project is being developed in the Umm Ramool area by DAFZA and wasl A new $740-M freezone dedicated to e-Commerce has been launched in Dubai, in a bid to attract more DFI (foreign investments) and further diversify the emirate’s economy. Called Dubai CommerCity, the project is being developed as a […]
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) HEFFX Highlights Amazon is getting almost no revenue from its bookstores Amazon broke out “physical stores” sales for the first time in the third quarter. Amazon has been expanding its physical presence, with Whole Foods, bookstores, and pop-up stores. Almost all of the revenue in the category comes from Whole Foods. Amazon.com, […]
e-Commerce Boosts China-ASEAN Trade One of the Key solutions is to expanding business in China is online. e-Commerce can add billions of RMB Yuan companies sales every month. An increasing number of companies in ASEAN are seeing e-Commerce as a new growth engine for China-ASEAN trade. e-Commerce giants are also trying to tap into a […]
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Cuts Whole Food Prices By Nearly 50% Amazon.com Inc. spent its first day as the owner of a brick-and-mortar grocery chain cutting prices at Whole Foods Market as much as 43 percent. In a sign of how the retailer is changing, the Amazon Echo, a voice-activated electronic assistant, was also for sale, […]
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) HEFFX Highlights With an eye on the future of online retailing, Walmart and Google are teaming up to go after rival Amazon in a play that also targets the growing market for voice-activated shopping. Starting next month, Walmart customers will be able to access hundreds of thousands of products from the company’s […]
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Ranks Among Top Apparel Sellers Amazon, Stitch Fix already rank among the top online apparel sellers There is increasing interest from shoppers in clothing subscription services, such as those of Trunk Club and Le Tote, The NPD Group said. Amazon is planning to roll out an apparel subscription service of its own, […]
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Moving Into Pharmaceuticals As Seattle-based tech giant Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) demonstrates its capacity to enter and disrupt every market from food retail to cloud computing, the health care space is not free of danger. After reports came out in May suggesting that the ecommerce giant was on the prowl for a general […]
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Brings 900 New Jobs in Boston In 2016, the total value of the U.S. apparel market — both online and offline — was $200 billion, with Amazon claiming about $3.4 billion of that, a new report from One Click Retail has found. While total U.S. apparel sales climbed 3 percent last year, […]
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Prime Day, Wine, 1500 New Jobs The company recently announced that it helped develop this new wine brand produced by King Vintners, a subsidiary of Oregon’s King Estate Winery, and had started selling it on Amazon.com. In a press release, the new wine brand is described as “the first wine ever developed […]
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) HEFFX Highlights Amazon has launched a new rewards and cash-back program for Prime members, the company announced Tuesday, an incentive for users to purchase more items through its e-commerce site. Prime members who add funds to an online gift card are rewarded 2 percent back on any Amazon purchase in the form […]
The Future of e-Commerce in the UAE Ulugbek Yuldashev outlines the changes on the horizon for the UAE’s online shopping market It’s no secret that e-Commerce is gaining immense popularity by the minute in the UAE and throughout the GCC, with the retail sector witnessing a steady shift from brick and mortar to online shopping. […]
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) the e-Commerce Giant Marked Another Milestone $AMZN, $WMT, $TGT, $MSFT Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), the e-Commerce giant that is changing the retail marketplace has marked another milestone. Amazon stock hit 1,001.20 shortly after Tuesday’s opening bell, up about 40% from a year ago and more than 2X the 15% gainer of the S&P 500 Index […]
Emaar Malls’ Souq.com Bid to Limit Amazon’s Regional Growth $AMZN Emaar Malls has submitted an $800-M bid to acquire Souq.com Emaar Malls’ “competitive” bid for UAE-based e-Commerce retailer Souq.com could help the traditional retailer prevent Amazon’s immediate entry into the regional market, according to an analyst. Dubai-listed Emaar Malls confirmed Monday that it had submitted an […]
Globalization, a New World or a Dead End Economic globalization is at a Crossroad, the next step to be taken by major players will lead to either a New World or a Dead End. The world is a place in time when protectionism, populism and isolationism are on the rise in the developed countries, as […]
Donald Trump Will Pour “Cold Water” on Alibaba’s American Dream $BABA Alibaba Group Holding Inc. (NYSE”BABA), China’s biggest online retailer is now facing an unexpected challenge with the election of Republican Donald Trump as US President. “Trump is figuring out which campaign promises to carry out,” the magazine reports. “His charge that China is ‘killing […]
China’s Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) Targets Australia in Global Expansion Tuesday, Chinese online retailing giant, Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) announced that it will open its 1st local office in the Australian city of Melbourne later this year, after flagging its intentions to expand outside of China. Alibaba’s global President Michael Evans said Australia was a “huge part” of the […]
China: Deep Pockets and Digital Trends Drive Consumption For foreign companies targeting the deep pockets of China’s growing middle class, understanding demand and consumption habits are Key. The future of consumption in China is digital, consumer-driven and aided by safe and secure mobile payment systems, according to attendees of the 3-day annual World Economic Forum […]
China’s Exporters Implement “Plan B” Against Headwinds China’s exporters are turning to an “alternative plan” aka Plan B, to underpin exports as foreign trade continued to be affected by weak demand, experts said Monday. “Plan B” involves manufacturing high-tech and innovative products amid ongoing supply-side structural reform to replace labor-intensive products, according to an article […]
China: Online Growth in “Fast-Expanding Market” Mode $BABA China’s online market with rapid development is at the “take-off” stage, corresponding to the “Fast-Expanding Market” (FEM) model. This is the main conclusion in the article “Fast-Expanding ‘Online’ Markets in South Korea and China: Are They Worth Pursuing?” published by Associate Professor Adrian T H Kuah and Dr. […]