The new store is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Singapore – Circle K opens its 8th finest concept store across Lexington County Public Library. The store will offer fresh, gourmet foods prepared on site including handcrafted pizzas, sandwiches, burgers, wraps, salads, baked pastries and croissants, burritos[Read More…]
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US researchers to develop app for treating eating disorders
The new app will allow clinicians to track and assess a patient’s response to treatment quickly by using computer-adaptive technology. A research team at the University of Kansas is developing a smartphone app for clinical use with patients receiving treatment for an eating disorder. The app is motivated by a[Read More…]
Clas Ohlson buys stake in MatHem
For Clas Ohlson, the collaboration provides opportunities to reach new customers via MatHem’s digital platform. Swedish retailer Clas Ohlson has planned to buy a 10 percent stake in one of the country’s largest online grocery stores, MatHem, seeking to adapt to changing consumer behaviour and a weak sales development in[Read More…]
Soft Bank to invest $300 M in food delivery firm
DoorDash also competes with firms like Deliveroo, Amazon Restaurants, GrubHub, and Postmates. Soft Bank Group is planning to invest $ 300 million in San Francisco based food delivery startup DoorDash. The investment will be made from Soft Bank’s Vision Fund, which has raised close to $100 billion to invest in[Read More…]
Japan’s Donki enters Singapore market
apan’s Don Quijote, which is already popular among Asian tourists, has opened its first store in Asia outside of Japan in Singapore under the name “Don Don Donki.” Japan’s Donki is coming to town on hopes that Singaporeans, keen on a bargain, would embrace the discount chain. Japan’s Don Quijote,[Read More…]
Vietnam seeks $6.5b in country’s biggest sale
The govt will offer 53.6% of the state-run brewer in Dec 18 sale Vietnam is seeking to raise at least US$4.8 billion (S$6.5 billion) in the country’s biggest stake sale as an offering in a state-run brewer attracts potential bidders including Anheuser-Busch and Asahi Group Holdings. The government, which owns[Read More…]
McDonald’s opens its first branch in Hanoi
The restaurant is the first outside of the southern commercial hub Ho Chi Minh City. McDonald’s opened its first branch recently in the historic heart of Hanoi, a conservative city renowned for its traditional and inexpensive Vietnamese staples. People lined up for Big Macs and Chicken McNuggets at the Vietnamese[Read More…]
Ginnybakes of Miami closed down
The company’s products were made and packaged in Miami. Ginnybakes, maker of cookies, bars, crumbles and baking mixes that were organic, gluten-free and kosher, has closed and is liquidating its assets, court records show. Founded by Ginny Simon of Miami Beach, Ginnybakes looked to be a family business on the[Read More…]
KDB raises alarm on contamination in milk
Samples tested over the past one year discovered milk that was unfit for human consumption. Concern has been raised by the Kenya Dairy Board (KDB) over unsafe milk sold by dairy farmers that contain high residues of drugs such as antibiotics, pesticides and preservatives. Samples tested over the past one year[Read More…]
Coca- Cola to introduce stevia- sweetened soda
The new product will be introduced in a small market outside of the U.S. in the first half of 2018. Coca-Cola has created a stevia-sweetened soda that not only has no sugar and zero calories, but lacks the aftertaste prevalent in many products containing the ingredient. The company had looked[Read More…]
