Market research: Asia (page 110 of 125)

In 2010, on-trade sales of tea experienced higher growth than off-trade in volume terms. Over the review period, more tea shops sell varieties of bubble tea and other tea-based drinks. Recently, drink...

This databook provides key data and information on the baby drinks market in Malaysia. This report is a comprehensive resource for market, category and segment level data including value, volume, dist...

Consumers are becoming more sophisticated, due especially to increasing internet penetration and economic recovery in Malaysia. Department stores had been considered the place to buy more classic and ...

In 2010, international chained retailers such as GCH Retail, Tesco Stores and Carrefour Magnificent Diagraph expanded aggressively in Malaysia. Some of them expanded not only within hypermarkets, but ...

2010 was a good year for most leisure and personal goods specialist retailers in Malaysia. Demand for leisure and personal goods remained strong despite the slow economic recovery. Pressure from the r...

Over the review period, homeshopping players came and went without much success in Malaysia. Consumers remained cautious and sceptical about the value of homeshopping, especially because there is no w...

Most store-based retailers in Malaysia agree that internet retailing is still in its infancy in Malaysia. Over the forecast period it is unlikely that internet retailing will become a major force with...

More Malaysians are adopting urban lifestyles, and convenience is becoming more valuable. Consumers want to do things faster and save as much time as they can, and buying drinks from a vending machine...

In April 2010, Malaysia’s Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry amended the Direct Sales Act 1993, imposing greater penalties for any cheating, or unethical or illegal direct selling a...

Revamped shopping malls and the opening of new malls such as Nex at suburban Serangoon stifled the growth of direct selling. Also, consumers are becoming more familiar with technology, and thus turnin...

Direct selling in Taiwan posted its sixth consecutive annual decline in value during 2010. Competition from new entrants in homeshopping such as U-Life and internet retailing newcomers such as Tao1sho...

Increasing numbers of unemployed people and consumers who would like to earn extra income have entered into the direct selling business during economic downturn since 2009. Leading direct selling comp...

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There was an increase in the number of vending machines in 2010, due to a shift in buying trends. Consumers are becoming more familiar with technology, and place high importance on convenience, making...

Vending continued to decline during 2010 as a result of the rising threat posed by convenience stores. The numbers of convenience stores outlets continued to increase in Taiwan during 2010 and this co...

Vending is still a niche channel that was only able to capture only 7% of total sales value of non-store retailing in 2010. Penetration of vending machines is still low. Most vending machines are stil...

Internet retailing is increasing in popularity as consumers become more familiar with technology. Consumers are not just connected to the internet via laptops, but are using their phones to stay conne...

Tuan gou, which translates into English as group purchase, is a popular practice in China and the Far East through which consumers consolidate orders across the internet in order to make one single bu...

Internet retailing accounts for an approximately 20% share of total value of non-store retailing and has continued to show healthy growth driven by increasing numbers of internet users in Thailand. Cu...

The influx of new retail space and the opening of new shopping malls had a negative impact on homeshopping. New shopping malls included Nex at Serangoon, Bedok Point and Clementi Mall. The completion ...

For the first time in Taiwan, real estate was promoted through television homeshopping in 2010. In July new entrant U-Life spearheaded the launch of this new type of homeshopping. While consumers did ...

Although homeshopping was still showing healthy growth in 2010, its growth slowed down compared to that seen over the review period. This is due to the economic downturn, which forced many Thai consum...

In 2010, the improvement in the economy and consumer confidence had a positive effect on leisure and personal goods specialist retailers. The opening of the two integrated resorts – Resorts World Sent...

Leisure and personal goods specialist retailers declined by 1% in value during 2010, although this was an improvement on the 2% decline registered in 2008 and the 4% decline recorded during 2009 as th...

Leisure and personal goods specialist retailers registered slow growth at 3% in current value terms in 2010. This is partly due to the economic downturn which limited consumer spending towards leisure...

Almost all grocery retailing channels enjoyed strong value growth in excess of 5% in current value terms during 2010. The exception to this was other grocery retailers. Growth in 2010 was driven by a ...

New retail space such as Triple One Somerset at Orchard Road and Nex shopping centre at suburban Serangoon gave retailers opportunities to expand. The shift in consumers’ tastes and shopping patterns ...

Growth in grocery retailing in Taiwan was largely driven by the economic recovery which occurred in the country during 2010. Consumers had more disposable money and more confidence in the macroeconomi...

In 2010, grocery retailers overall showed improving performance as observed from ongoing expansion, store renovation, increasing product varieties, as well as strong promotions and introduction of loy...

Department stores still faced strong competition from other retail channels in 2010. For instance, hypermarkets went beyond groceries and sundries, aggressively promoting clothing and health and beaut...