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S’pore Retailer Naiise To Close Its Last Outlet At Jewel Changi Airport Due To Financial Woes

Homegrown multi-label retailer Naiise will be closing its last and largest outlet at Jewel Changi Airport this Sunday due to an “ongoing struggle to pay its vendors.” This news came following a spate of outlet closures last year. In the first half of 2020, it has apparently shut down three …

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Growing From Mistakes Made: How FortyTwo Became S’pore’s Largest Online Furniture Retailer

FortyTwo is the largest online furniture retailer in Singapore, boasts co-founder Naveed Lee. When the 42-year-old worked as a retail executive in a furniture showroom back in 1998, he noted the low efficiency of the traditional furniture business, which in turn caused high mark-ups in product prices. In 2002, he …

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An E-Commerce Boom: How S’pore Gaming Retailer Qisahn Saw 40% Sales Increase During COVID-19

Video games and gadgets retailer Qisahn traces its roots all the way back to the early 2000s. Founder Soon Qishan shared quite matter-of-factly that they are the online pioneers of the video gaming industry in Singapore. He started selling online when he was still a second-year junior college student, peddling …

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