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Singapore – August 31, 2020: Award-winning craft beer brewery Heart of Darkness from Saigon, Vietnam has relocated their taproom to a new space on Keong Saik Road.
With high demand for a bigger, better and badasser location, a major upgrade was needed. Heart of Darkness 2.0 brings the same good vibes and hospitality guests have come to expect, now just bigger and better! Guests can now enjoy 25+ craft beers on tap along with a wide variety of wines, creative beer cocktails and a full kitchen cooking up delicious western fusion tapas.
In the heart of the taproom, the centrepiece of the space, a large mural brings to life a Dragon and Merlion intertwined over a setting sun, emphasizing the collaborative nature between Vietnam and Singapore. A local Singaporean visual artist Tobyato (also known as Toby Tan) teamed up with the Heart of Darkness creative team in Vietnam to help bring the two countries identities together, paying homage to the iconic Vietnam brewery in the Singapore bar.
We hope to see familiar and new faces at Heart of Darkness 2.0 on Keong Saik Road for great food and even better beers. We ask everyone to get ready to #enterthedarkness in our new bigger, better and badasser location, cheers!
Heart of Darkness is a privately held company that was founded in 2016 in Saigon, Vietnam with the focus on becoming Asia’s premiere craft beer brand. Inspired by the American craft beer scene, Heart of Darkness produces over 100 new beers a year. All the while maintaining the highest standard of quality, consistency & availability. The Heart of Darkness brewery is located in Saigon, Vietnam and distributes throughout Vietnam as well as internationally in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Cambodia, Thailand and Finland. Additionally, Heart of Darkness operates two flagship gastropubs, one in Saigon and the other in Singapore.
Data reveals that e-commerce platform in Singapore experienced a two-digit growth (23%) in total web visits (desktop & mobile web) throughout the first half of 2020, signifying strong consumer confidence in the e-commerce retail and further growth in the digital economy.
Shopee saw a tremendous increase of 82% from Q1 to Q2 2020, garnering nearly an additional 5 million in average visitors in Q2 2020 alone. Meanwhile, Lazada played second fiddle, recording an average of 8.5 million visitors as of Q2 2020.
The dark horses to front-runners include Qoo10, Amazon.sg, and EZBuy. Further insights can be seen in the attached.
Looking at the first half of 2020, it seems that this could be a pivotal year for the e-commerce sector in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore, possibly due to the coronavirus pandemic.
While COVID-19 has caused major disruptions in Singapore, it has brought benefits to many e-commerce players in the country.
E-commerce received a surge in transactions for both essential and discretionary items in the past few months as the coronavirus pandemic forced most people to stay at home, according to a study.
Driven by high-value shoppers nationwide, iPrice recorded that Singaporeans spent an average of S$113 online during this unprecedented period from January to June 2020.
The average basket size increased by 51% when compared to the same period of 2019.
Given the current situation in Singapore, ASEAN’s most prominent e-commerce hub, iPrice Group and SimilarWeb updated the Map of E-commerce report to shed light on the biggest developments from the top e-commerce platforms in the Lion City.
Rank
E-commercePlatform
Q1 2020
Q2 2020
Percentage Increase (%)
1
Shopee
5,963,300
10,879,900
82%
2
Lazada
7,786,700
8,570,000
10%
3
Qoo10
6,646,700
7,447,400
12%
4
Amazon.sg
2,833,300
3,653,333
29%
5
EZBuy
1,031,900
1,681,800
63%
Who is at the king of the hill?
Data reveals that e-commerce platforms in Singapore experienced a two-digit growth (23%) in total web visits (desktop & mobile web) throughout the first half of 2020, signifying strong consumer confidence in e-commerce retail and further growth in the digital economy.
Based on the overall e-commerce traffic in Singapore, 5 of the top e-commerce players that emerged are Shopee, Lazada, Qoo10, Amazon and EZBuy.
The Singapore-based company, Shopee, took the crown as the most visited e-commerce platform in the city-state as of Q2 2020. The e-commerce company saw a tremendous increase of 82% from Q1 to Q2 2020, garnering nearly an additional 5 million in average visitors in Q2 2020 alone.
While it is no surprise that Shopee’s substantial backing from its parent company, SEA Ltd, has put the shopping site at an advantage in terms of acquiring additional visitors in H1 2020, the surge in a number of visits was also potentially driven by its constant marketing initiatives to promote and help value-driven shoppers during the circuit breaker period such as shop from home, 4.4 flash sale, super mart month, 6.6 – 7.7 great Shopee Sale, and many others.
With the recent news that SEA Ltd. has become the world’s best-performing large cap-stock and the first sole applicant for digitalfullbanklicensein Singapore,the company aims to engage shoppers and merchants through digital payments/lending for millennials and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore.
Meanwhile, Lazada played second fiddle to its key competitor with an increase of 10% in traffic when compared to Q1 2020, recording an average of 8.5 million visitors (desktop & mobile web) as of Q2 2020.
The Alibaba Southeast Asian arm retained a strong presence in the country as the platform acquired 23% of the web market share in Singapore, indicating its healthy growth in winning both customers and merchants.
Harnessing the power of its parent company, Alibaba, Lazada also aims to stand out from its competitor through its strong brand connections in engaging livestreams. Moreover, it assisted more brick-and-mortar stores to be part of its online platform.
This was reflected on Lazada’s sales of its online supermarket delivery business, Redmart. The company reported having 4 times jump in sales since the city-state implemented movement restrictions in early April.
Additionally, among the most important initiatives to support future business strategies was the recent appointment of Lazada’s new CEO as they aim to double down on tech investments in each market.
Given Lazada’s growth in numbers, its Group CMO, Mary Zhou, believes Lazada’s Super Brand Day (SBD) promotions are 2nd only to its 11.11 sales day, where 26 brands recorded sales of over $1 million across the region in 24 hours.
From dark horses to front-runners
Industry unicorns like Lazada and Shopee were not the only players that experienced growth during the pandemic; Qoo10, a homegrown e-commerce platform, landed strongly in 3rd place.
As the top 3 e-commerce players successfully maintained their positions in the Lion City, a surprising element emerges in the form of an International e-commerce giant, Amazon.sg. With its strengthening presence in the market since Q4 2019, Amazon.sg seems to be penetrating Singapore successfully.
Amazon.sg was thriving during COVID-19 as the company was the 4th most visited e-commerce platform in the first half of 2020. The company’s traffic surged to an average of 3.6 million from 2.8 million.
Its strong performance could probably be attributed to the company’s closure of many international retail stores not available in the city-state, providing consumers with a variety of options across the globe.
Given its constant growth and maturity in the e-commerce sector, Amazon may catch up fast especially with its innovations to increase its market share in the upcoming quarters.
Securing the 5th position as the most visited e-commerce platform, EZBuy had garnered over 63% increase of monthly visits from Q1 to Q2 2020.
Specialised in bringing wide varieties of consumer products from overseas, the company recorded 1.68 million in average visitors as of Q2 2020.
-End of Report-
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iPrice Group is a meta-search website operating in seven countries across Southeast Asia namely; MalaysiaSingapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, and HongKong. Currently, iPrice compares and catalogues more than 90 million products and receives about 20 million monthly visits across the region. iPrice currently operates three business lines: price comparison for electronics and health & beauty; product discovery for fashion and home & living; and coupons across all verticals.
Memberry, a new functional UHT milk has been launched in Thailand. This mixed berry flavoured milk is made from fresh milk and mulberry, strawberry and blueberries grown by the Royal Project by Thai farmers.
The berries contain anthocyanin and polyphenols, known to to help improve memory therefore making Memberry ideal for people from all age groups including students and the elderly. The berries also contain antioxidants and rich in vitamin C.
According to Memberry, among the ways you can take good care of your brain is to learn new things, manage your stress, social activities, engage in brain boosting activities such as games and finally drink Memberry.
To validate the efficacy of Memberry, the company claims the UHT milk has undergone clinical test with experts from the US and Thailand.
Memberry is available at selected outlets of MK and Yayoi restaurants in Thailand. MK scientists developed the milk drink help improve the memory and reduce stress levels.
The Coca-Cola system in Thailand comprising ThaiNamthip Co. Ltd., Haad Thip Public Co. Ltd., and Coca-Cola Thailand Ltd., is partnering with Sansiri PLC to pass on the vision of a ‘World Without Waste’ to the real estate industry by promoting waste separation at source through the ‘Coke Collects x Sansiri Waste to Worth’ project. Joining forces with Plus Property, a professional provider of comprehensive real estate services, this project will collect recyclable waste including beverage packaging generated from six residential projects in the T77 community and deliver those materials to proper recycling systems. This partnership reflects a mutual commitment of companies from different industries (non-alcoholic beverages and real estate) aimed at effective waste management to help minimize environmental impacts in a sustainable way.
‘Coke Collects x Sansiri Waste to Worth’ is another milestone for the ‘Coke Collects’ initiative that began with collaboration in supporting a source separation system for recyclable waste at Central Group’s restaurants in 2019. This project is also a continuing partnership between Coca-Cola and Sansiri after the social experiment on nudging waste sorting behavior in collaboration with the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economics (CBEE), Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University. The results of this experiment suggested that the critical success factor to promoting waste separation was making the experience less burdensome and less complicated, which led to the introduction of newly designed bins in the T77 Community, and new communications to change the residents’ perception towards waste sorting and drive implementation in the long term.
Pornwut Sarasin, Chairman, ThaiNamthip Company Limited, said: “One of the global goals from Coca-Cola’s ‘World Without Waste’ commitment is to collect and recycle the bottles and cans sold by the company and achieve 100% packaging recovery by 2030. The Coca-Cola system in Thailand is working closely with partners who have shared objectives in an attempt to accomplish this challenging goal, and Sansiri is a partner also committed to promoting source segregation, which is considered key to reducing waste and maximizing the recycling of recyclable materials. As it is necessary to make waste sorting less burdensome and less complicated (the two main factors that prevent source segregation), Coca-Cola has engaged GEPP, a start-up that has developed a modern online waste collection platform, to oversee the project and help create a successful seamless operation.”
In this collaboration, GEPP plays a role in supporting Sansiri’s operations through Survey-Simplify-Educate procedures starting with an online survey to learn and assess residents’ understanding of proper waste sorting. Sansiri has established a brand-new set of bins with basic illustrations and short messages designed from the findings of a social experiment to help simplify waste disposal among residents facilitated by Plus Property. GEPP is also responsible for educating staff and housekeepers about proper waste management and effective ways to communicate with the residents as well as liaising with the staff to make the waste collection schedule more specific. The data on waste collection by residential projects will be compiled by GEPP to further develop and standardize the system so that it can be adopted extensively in Sansiri’s other residential projects in the future. After being prepared in late 2019, the actual operation of the project started in January this year.
The Masita seaweed snack has partnered with Sukishi Japanese Sukiyaki chain to introduce a new co-branded seaweed snack featuring grilled pork rib flavour The new snack (15g), which is MSG-free, is priced at THB 39 and is available at 7-Eleven and at Sukishi outlets. One pack only has 100 calories.
The Beecomb 3D Virtual Food & Beverage Expo in Malaysia is an interesting way to explore the the feasibility of organising a food and beverage expo on a virtual basis. The expo, which runs over 4 days until 31 August 2020, is participated by leading brand names in the FMCG industry including Nestle, F&N, Unilever, QL, Ayam Brand, Spritzer and The Coca-Cola Company. The opening hours are 10am to 10pm.
Just download the app and logging in is easy with Facebook. Once you have gained entry, it will bring to you to a real exhibition hall in a virtual setting where you can roam freely by controlling a “robot”. If you have found an interesting booth, you can click “i” to obtain more information.
The problem i have encountered over the course of 2 sessions over 2 days was after clicking “i”, the information displayed did not correspond with to the booth. Beecomb did send out an email on day one with an answer to this issue. However, personally i feel this issue hasn’t been rectified.
3D virtual food and beverage expo is still in its infancy stage and hopefully the technical issue is solved and there will be more interactive sessions with the participants.
QminC is a new functional healthy beverage in Thailand with curcumin, lemon (vitamin C), vitamin B6, B12 and L-Glutathione. QminC claims to offer antioxidant, immunity-boosting and detoxification benefits.
Curcumin is a naturally-occurring chemical compound found in the spice turmeric. Curcumin is often extracted from turmeric, which is a great source of curcumin. L-Glutathione acts as an important antioxidant in your body and helps combat free radicals.
This functional drink, which offers 200% the daily dietary requirement of vitamin C, is available in 7-Eleven for a price of THB 25.
Thailand’s Boonrawd has introduced a new non-alcoholic drink Singha Lemon Soda to meet consumer interest in healthy drink. The 330ml can drink, which is fortified with vitamin C, is free from sugar and calories. Consumers now have a heightened interest in vitamin C to boost their immunity driven by growing the awareness to supplement their diet with vitamin C following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nestle Malaysia has launched Milo Activ-Go Plus Fibre offering high fibre content of up to 2.5 times compared to the regular Milo powder. Like the regular Milo Activ-Go, this new variant maintains the goodness of Milo made from malt barley, milk and cocoa, essential vitamins and minerals – all with the familiar great Milo taste.
Milo Activ-Go Plus Fibre contains only about ½ teaspoon (2.9g) of added sugar (sucrose) per serve (30g).
Each serving (30g) of Milo Activ-Go Plus Fibre meets 12% of fibre needs per day, based on 30g of fibre per day. RNI 2017 recommends 20-30g fibre per day.
The drink meets the criteria of the Healthier Choice logo.
A 900g pack of Milo Activ-Go Plus Fibre is selling on Nestle’s official store on Shopee for RM 21.40, which represents a slight premium over the normal Nestle Milo Activ-Go Chocolate Malt Powder (1kg) selling at the same price prior to promotion.
Milo has done a lot in the past fortifying the drink with calcium, fibre or protein. One possible route to take is to offer consumers with a tasty drink with the benefits of mental concentration.
Click here to purchase the new Milo Activ-Go Plus Fibre from Nestle’s official store on Shopee and Lazada.
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