Retail

Burned: License revoked after retailer sold cigarette to student in uniform

Ten other retailers face six-month suspension and fines for selling cigarettes to underage youth.

Burned: License revoked after retailer sold cigarette to student in uniform

Ten other retailers face six-month suspension and fines for selling cigarettes to underage youth.

Metro profit down to $81.9 million

But they have higher revenue as the property and retail segments bring a whopping 16.1% increase in revenue to S$175.2 million.

Record monthly sales for Tamil Murasu

Looks like the revamp in 2010 is behind the sales surge to 18,700 copies a weekday.

Retail sales surge 0.8% in March 2011

Motor sales held back the growth of retail sales as retailers of motor vehicles reported a sales decline of 15.3 percent.

Meetarbhan, Bajpai join SMX Advisory Board

The SMX Advisory Board at SMX advises the Board of Directors and helps create a charter as well as roadmap to enable SMX to become the pan-Asian...

SMX CEO Thomas McMahon resigns

Thomas McMahon has decided to move on to pursue his personal interests within the industry.

OSIM net profit jumped 150% in 1Q 2011

They reported a PATMI of $20 million which exceeded street estimates.

SPRING Singapore invests $86mln to boost retail sector

The retail productivity plan aims to raise the nominal value-added per worker by about 25 % by 2015.

Strong labor market to boost retail sales in 2011

Retail sales will this year find support from good job prospects and rising wages, said HSBC.

Retail sales decreased 12.1% year-on-year in February 2011

On a month-on-month seasonally adjusted basis, retail sales decreased 3.6 per cent.

Singapore Mercantile Exchange to launch cash-settled gold, silver, copper futures contracts

This will be in contract sizes of 100 troy ounces for gold, 5,000 troy ounces for silver and 5 metric tons for copper.

Govt sets new parameters to define SMEs

The Government of Singapore declared new parameters for what defines a Small and Medium Enterprise.

Singaporeans and tourists are scaling up spending:HSBC

The January retail sales numbers was one of the surprises Singapore has delivered over the past few months.

Seasonally adjusted retail sales decreased 2.9% in January 2011

However, January still showed strong retail sales in nominal terms with an increase of 2.9 per cent compared to January 2010.

Retail sales may have expanded 2.5% in January 2011

The January retails sales is due later today, said OCBC.

Spendthrift Singaporeans helped push retail sales up 2.7% in December 2010

Favorable labor market conditions and booming tourism is keeping retailers happy.

The future is bespoke for luxury

The rising perception of luxury will have a lasting effect on the retail landscape.