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HARVEY NICHOLS IN HONG KONG THINKS LOUIS VUITTON OPEN FLAGSHIP

SMALLER TO GROW BIGGER AND RESTAURANT IN JAPAN UNIQLO ADDS INDIA STORE
Japanese fashion retailer Uniqlo has opened
its third store in India at DLF Avenue in Delhi.
Harvey Nichols in Hong Kong has unveiled a retail Louis Vuitton jumped into the restaurant The retailer’s third store in Delhi’s Saket area
concept it believes will win favour from online business recently with the opening of Le is spread over 21,500sq ft of retail space
shoppers and enhance the customer experience of Café V and Sugalabo V inside its new flagship over two floords. The opening comes after its
those who want to shop in a brick-and-mortar store. store in Osaka, Japan. maiden store was opened back in October at
“We see the retail landscape changing alot in the The high-end eateries sit atop Vuitton’s Ambience Mall.
sense that online you have very strong competition latest east Asian venue, the Louis Vuitton
from the pure-play retailers who were obviously Maison Osaka Midosuji. The restaurants’
extremely aggressive, and a lot of them very menus were curated by chef Yosuke “Suga” H&M IN PLANS TO OPEN COS
successful now and engaging customers, especially Sugalabo whose self-titled 20-table Tokyo After opening about four dozen of its flagship
younger ones,” explains Pearson Poon, son of Dickson restaurant was named one of the best in H&Ms, Swedish fashion house H&M Group now
Concepts founder Sir Dickson Poon, and Executive the world by the French restaurant ranking plans to bring another fashion label, Cos, to India.
Director of Harvey Nichols. guide La Liste. The world’s second largest fashion retailer has in
That summarises the philosophy behind the new Louis Vuitton is the latest luxury line the past said it was exploring possibilities for its
Pacific Place concept store for Harvey Nichols in to debut a high-end eatery at one of its other labels to enter the country.
Hong Kong, designed by Studio Four IV and created flagships. Ralph Lauren opened its first
to optimise the synergies between online and offline restaurant, the RL, in Chicago in 1999 and
platforms for the brand. since then has opened locations in New LENOVO DOUBLES ITS STORES
York, Paris, Chicago and London. Tech brand Lenovo has opened its second Legion
VIVO INDIA OPENS LOTTE DUTY FREE TO concept store in the Philippines at SM City
Cebu. The outlet was launched near the mall’s
MUMBAI FLAGSHIP BUILD SYDNEY FLAGSHIP THE MUSE BY THE SEA - K11 MUSEA cyberzone area to showcase its gaming devices
IS AN EXPERIENCE LIKE NO OTHER and accessories and will also serve as an events
space for monthly gaming tournaments.
Chinese smartphone brand Vivo has opened an experiential flagship Lotte Duty Free is to open a flagship store in Sydney’s CBD early
store in Thane, Maharashtra as Vivo India eyes 250 new stores this next year, planning to tap into the four million visitors to the city Billed as “a unique blend of cutting-edge Greater China either complete or under
year. The 1,800sq ft outlet is the second of 20 stores planned for the each year. design fused with a celebration of arts construction. DON DON DONKI TO ADD SITE
territory. Vivo India currently operates an experiential retail store in The three-level 3,000sq m store will be built by Mirvac on a and culture,” K11 Musea on Hong Kong’s “Our vision is to reinvigorate the district Pan Pacific plans to open the world’s largest Don
Bengaluru as well. prime site at the corner of Pitt and Market Streets. It will stock waterfront is an immersive experience together with 100 creative powers hailing Don Donki in Guam next year. Construction of
“The offline channel has been an essential part of our go-to-market beauty and skincare brands, a prestige-watch boutique, a fine and primarily targeting millennials. from different disciplines and cultures, the 270,000sq ft store has already commenced
strategy and we would continue to invest in this channel,” said Vivo rare liquor and wine shopping experience, and a number of VIP Much more than just a place to shop, it to make K11 Musea the ‘Silicon Valley of with a ground-breaking ceremony in the suburb
India Director of Brand Strategy Nipun Marya. “We intend to launch services including concierge and limousine transfers to Sydney’s celebrates culture, art and design over 10 Culture’ and inject art, architecture, design, of Tamuning. The project’s retail space will be
more than 250 exclusive stores in 2020, taking the total number top hotels and dining. exquisitely designed floors. The visionary sustainability and all forms of cultures into 160,000sq ft and feature in-house restaurants.
to 600.” Showcasing Vivo’s entire range of devices and accessories, The store will be Lotte Duty Free’s first ground-up build in behind the development, 39-year-old Adrian the new consumer’s daily life,” says Cheng.
the store will also feature an interactive touch-enabled LED screen Australia and the upcoming store follows acquisition of JR Duty Cheng says his inspiration was for it to be The 1.2 million square foot centre
allowing customers to explore products in more detail, as well as Free in 2018 and the subsequent opening of its first airport store, “A Muse by the Sea”. features more than 50,000sq ft of living THE ENTERTAINER TO EXPAND
gaming, VR and customer interaction zones. in Brisbane. The cornerstone of a US$2.6 billion ‘green walls’, an urban rooftop farm, and a Toy retailer The Entertainer has signed a master
redevelopment of a vacated dockside area world-class art collection of more than 40 franchise agreement with Reliance Brands to
where cargo was once offloaded from pieces. Retail tenants have been encouraged enable it to enter India. The retailer will open
ships in the pre-containerisation era, K11 to create unique spaces and emphasise stores in Mumbai in the first half of 2020 before
Musea marks a significant amplification their design credentials as well as their rolling out new shops elsewhere in the country.
of the original K11 Art Mall concept stock. Many have launched their stores Founded in 1981 in Amersham, The Entertainer
launched nearby in 2009 which has since with limited-edition collections exclusively is still family owned and now has 172 UK stores.
spurned a network of nine centres across available at K11 Musea.

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