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World consumer spending gets a boost from lower petrol prices
15 out of 18 non manufacturing sectors grew through June, a sign that the world economy is back on track.
World consumer spending gets a boost from lower petrol prices
15 out of 18 non manufacturing sectors grew through June, a sign that the world economy is back on track.
Retail rent in Orchard/Scotts Road rises to S$40 psf
The gross rent of retail space in other city areas also grew by 0.6% to S$24.05 psf.
70% of Singaporeans are shopaholics
Shopping becomes a national pastime with 80% of Singaporeans unable to resist a good bargain.
Retail sales up 8.1% in April
But retailers of furniture and household equipment were not sitting pretty with sales dropping 1.4% compared to April 2010.
Charge it: Spending of MasterCard users in Singapore up 66%
Almost $50 million was spent by Singapore-based MasterCard cardholders during the first weekend of the Great Singapore Sale. This is a 66% increase...
Cheap Cheap: 98% of hawker stalls maintained prices in April
DOS’ latest Hawker Food Price Survey revealed only 32 surveyed stalls raised prices in April compared with March 2011.
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.
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