Singapore Retailers Should Take Note of this Advice: “Disrupt Yourself Before Someone Disrupts You”

13 Jul 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There are some annual reports I like reading. This includes Hour Glass Ltd’s (SGX: AGS) annual reports. The reports contain chairman and co-founder Henry Tay’s letter to shareholders. These letters often provide insight to the world of retailing. As Hour Glass is a luxury watch retailer with a long track ...
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24 Numbers to Size Up the Huge Potential of ASEAN Retail

12 Jul 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Retailers in Singapore may be feeling the pinch, but there are still signs that the potential for ASEAN’s retail scene could be huge. ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, was established in 1967 with aims that include the acceleration of economic growth, social progress, and cultural development ...
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Metro Q4 net profit plummets nearly 85% to S$1.1m

26 May 2016 - Channel NewsAsia
SINGAPORE: Property and retail group Metro on Thursday (May 26) posted a nearly 85 per cent plunge in its fourth-quarter net profit, hurt by a decline in revenue and currency fluctuations. Net profit for the quarter was S$1.1 million, an 84.9 per cent decline from S$7.6 million during the same period ...
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The Week In Five Numbers: Gold Fever

18 Mar 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The US Federal Open Market Committee has had another bout of the yips. It has left US interest rates unchanged at 0.5%. This time it said the United States continues to face risks from an uncertain global economy. It also said it remains to be seen whether a recent firming in US core inflation would ...
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Valentines Day Gift Guide on February 14th: Top 20 Pretty Pink-Red Colored Smartphones To Buy - Gizbot

22 Feb 2016 - Gizbot

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Singapore’s Big Winner Of The Week: Metro Holdings Limited

14 Feb 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Shares of Metro Holdings Limited (SGX: M01) have gained 6.3% in price since last Friday to close at S$0.935 this week. Given that the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), Singapore’s market barometer, had slid by 3.2% over the same period, Metro Holdings is clearly a big winner in the stock market for the ...
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Metro posts S$55.9m net profit for Q3

11 Feb 2016 - Channel NewsAsia
SINGAPORE: Property and retail group Metro Holdings posted a net profit of S$55.9 million for the three months ended Dec 31, 2015, the third quarter of the 2016 financial year, it announced in a media release on Thursday (Feb 11). This is a drop from the S$63.9 million net profit in the previous corresponding ...
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Metro appoints acting CEO following Jopie Ong's death

3 Feb 2016 - Channel NewsAsia
SINGAPORE: Metro's Group Chief Operating Officer Lawrence Chiang has been appointed the Acting Group Chief Executive Officer, the company's Board announced on Wednesday (Feb 3) in a media release. This comes after the death of Group Managing Director Jopie Ong on Tuesday night, which the Board also ...
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Metro halts trading of shares pending announcement

3 Feb 2016 - Channel NewsAsia
SINGAPORE: Metro Holdings on Wednesday (Feb 3) halted the trading of its shares on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) pending an announcement. The halt comes after the company’s managing director Jopie Ong, who was in his 70s, died on Tuesday night. Mr Ong, the son of Metro founder Ong Tjoe Kim, joined the ...
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Can Metro Holdings Limited Hold Up in a Recession?

22 Jan 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Singapore is no stranger to recessions. As such, a recession scenario can be something to think about before we invest. Like much of the world, the Lion City’s economy suffered during the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009. In the third-quarter last year, Singapore had narrowly missed entering a technical ...
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