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20-Feb-19 Korea-based beauty company Amorepacific has entered into a global strategic partnership with health and beauty giant AS Watson, with wide offline and online distribution in Asia and Europe. AS Watson has 14,900 stores under 12 brands in 25 markets. [image: Watson]
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01-Feb-19 Indonesian ride-hailing company Go-Jek has now raised more than USD1 bn with the close of its Series F funding round. Investors included tech giants Google and Tencent as well as Chinese e-commerce player JD.com and Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. [image: afif c. kusuma / iStock Editorial / Getty Image]
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22-Jan-19 Cross-border e-commerce platform NetEase Kaola will open 15 brick-and-mortar stores during 2019 in a bid to keep up with the Chinese new retail boom. The latest store sells over 3,000 SKUs including cosmetics, maternal and child, luxury, electronics and sportswear. [image: NetEase Kaola]
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10-Jan-19 One of Europe’s leading online sports and outdoor platforms enters into a strategic partnership with Aeon Co. from Japan and Central Group from Thailand. According to Signa, both are “Asia’s largest retailers”. [image: Signa Sports United]
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08-Jan-19 The US government is concerned about India’s revised e-commerce regulations and has said the policy will hinder the Indian investment plans of Amazon.com and Walmart Inc. The rules ban companies from making exclusive deals with sellers. [image: Reuters / Mike Segar]
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