Retailers

Retailers, milk brands co-operate on vouchers

13 Apr 2013

Pharmacies and milk powder manufacturers are working on a plan to guarantee enough baby formula for local mothers in return for the government cancelling the export restrictions.

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Stores seek ways to get around dockers' strike

4 Apr 2013

Shops selling food are looking for alternative sources of supply and delivery options as a strike by dockers enters its second week. The work ban by staff at the Kwai Tsing container terminals has...

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Retailers could be blacklisted over milk formula shortages

26 Jan 2013

Retailers risk being blacklisted by infant-milk-formula suppliers if they use dubious sales practices that cause shortages, and prosecuted if they break laws, the health chief said yesterday....

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Starbucks open its first café in India, with more to come

22 Oct 2012

After years of delays, Starbucks will open two stores in India this week after launching its first cafe in the country last Friday.

Its first store, in Mumbai, features local design, Indian...

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Comic store opens door to anime culture

3 Aug 2012

Japan's biggest anime retailer hopes to raise the culture's profile in Hong Kong with the opening of a comic-book store yesterday in Mong Kok.

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Profits plunge at Dickson Concepts

22 Jun 2012

High-fashion retailer and distributor Dickson Concepts (International) saw a 46 per cent plunge in net profit for the year to March as costs rose and termination of distribution rights dragged...

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Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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Takings down, profits up as Dickson's concept pays

High-fashion retailer and distributor Dickson Concepts (International) saw net profits hit a 10-year high despite a fall in turnover after losing distribution rights for Polo Ralph Lauren in...

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Dickson Concepts, First Tractor seek HK$748m

Dickson Concepts (International), the Hong Kong upmarket retailer, and First Tractor, the mainland farm machine maker, seek to raise as much as HK$748 million combined from two separate share...

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Dickson's mainland expansion blamed for 10.7pc income drop

Dickson Concepts (International) planned to slow expansion on the mainland after investing heavily there last year to grow its retail network, chairman Dickson Poon said.

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Dickson to buy Hilfiger Asian units for $396m

Chairman denies selling business to bail out his Paris-listed firm ST Dupont

Luxury goods retailer Dickson Concepts (International) plans to buy Tommy Hilfiger's Asia business from...

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Lai See

dickson shareholders may wonder who benefits most from latest deal

The Dickson Concepts recipe for success in business is, as his stock watchers will tell you, a time-honoured one -...

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Dickson profits hit by disappointing sales in Taiwan

Luxury goods retailer Dickson Concepts (International) said annual profit climbed just 2.6 per cent as disappointing sales growth in Taiwan hurt earnings.

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