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Consumers hold grudges after getting bad customer service: report

About 47% displayed negative buying behaviour two years or more after going through a bad experience.

Share buybacks hit 9 month high of $131.1m in May

DBS led the buyback spree after re-purchasing $65.68m worth of their shares. Buyback considerations more than tripled to $133.1m in May from $35.1m the previous month with a total of 24 SGX-listed stocks reporting buybacks of about 39.1 million shares, according to SGX. The latest figure marks a nine-month high since August when total buybacks hit $245.4m. Also read: Share buybacks plummeted 69.23% to $36m in April

Chart of the Day: Industrial property supply to crash in 2022

The decline will be partially countered by the launch of data centres in the coming years.

ST Engineering forms subsidiary in the US

The new unit will work on the upgrade and repair of drilling rigs, military, para-military and commercial ships.

Changi Airport Group forms six-party partnership with South Korean firms

Traffic rights will be given to three airlines to operate on the Singapore–Busan route.

High-priced industrial property transactions crashed 57% to $424.3m in Q1

The largest transaction was the $227.5m sale-and-leaseback deal with LTH Logistics.

Blackstone buys GLP's US logistics assets for record US$18.7b

Its real estate arm will get 115 million sqft for US$13.4b.

Funan to open doors on 28 June

It will open two months ahead of schedule with a 92% commitment for its retail leasing.

Keppel Data Centres invests $21.5m in Series C round of Luxembourg data centre developer

Etix has a network of data centres across Europe, Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Chart of the Day: New office supply pipeline to hit 7.6 million sqft by 2023

Office rents are expected to rise 8-10% amidst low vacancy levels of 3%.