The increase of unique visitors to Sunway Pyramid was due to the opening of several flagship shops and new brands, plus the co-hosting of Artbox Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 (Bernama) -- Amidst a more cautious economy and GDP growth, Sunway Malls reveals that the brand’s flagship mall, Sunway Pyramid, has been enjoying higher footfall since Q42018. In general, malls in Malaysia has at least 4 peak cycles; the Lunar New Year, Hari Raya, Christmas and May-June school holiday weekends. To remain relevant yet sustainable, Sunway Malls executed the strategy to create another peak cycle for footfall through international collaborations. “2018 was indeed an interesting year for us. Cautious consumer sentiments encouraged us to think out of the box on creating more purposeful visits to our malls. As a mall owner-operator for over 20 years, we knew there is an upside to capitalise on the non-peak periods for traffic arrivals for sustainability of the business. So for 2018, we co-hosted Artbox Malaysia, the first in the country, to attract new shoppers and fulfil the potential of Sunway City simultaneously,” says HC Chan, CEO of Sunway Malls & Theme Parks. In comparison to the festive seasons of Lunar New Year and Hari Raya in 2018, Sunway Pyramid saw a 30% increase in footfall during the Artbox Malaysia weekends in November. The mall also registered a general 20% growth in sales during that weekend. “International attractions like Artbox has proved to be able to draw good footfall, and there was tremendous spill-over effect to Sunway Pyramid. Our observations showed good patronage pre and post ArtBox visits where there was higher frequency of dining activity,” Chan adds. The mall also picked up greater spending which saw a 20% sales growth throughout fashion, beauty and F&B trade categories. Since then, Sunway Pyramid has seen an increase of 12% growth for January 2019 as compared to January 2018. Chan believes there are several factors that contributed to this growth. “The trigger is Artbox Malaysia. It brought us new visitors or shoppers who have not visited us for the past 1 year. Following weeks after, we have been opening flagship stores and F&B outlets such as Pull & Bear, Ippudo, Din Tai Fung and Family Mart. We also brought in Tiger Sugar and Moomin Bubbles, their first stores in Malaysia. We will also be seeing the opening of the first in Malaysia, Hai Di Lao which has a strong following in Q22019. It was a holistic strategy to re-introduce Sunway Pyramid to new potential shoppers,” says Chan. Sunway Pyramid recently completed a refurbishment exercise that spanned 500,000 square feet including the revamping by its 3 main anchor tenants – Aeon, Parkson and Pyramid Ice Rink. The refurbishment equivalent to 25% of its total net lettable area was one of the mall’s largest exercise to date with the intended strategy to keep its retail offering abreast in the face of intense industry competition. The year-long refurbishment exercise also involved the rejigging of its trade zones to allow better space optimisation notably in the beauty and F&B categories. As a result, the development saw the opening of Laniege concept store that offers personalised do-it-yourself products and travelling kits uniquely to the mall, Innisfree superstore, Sulwahsoo store from Korean cosmeticss giant AmorePacific Group. Sunway Malls is gearing to be amongst Malaysia's largest mall owner-operator as existing projects and those in the pipeline now stand at 7.7 million sqft NLA and that figure is planned to be increased to 10.2 million sqft NLA in the next few years to come. The malls are:- Sunway Pyramid, Bandar Sunway Sunway Velocity Mall, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur Sunway Carnival Mall, Penang Sunway Putra Mall, Kuala Lumpur Sunway Big Box Village, Iskandar, Johor Sunway Giza Mall, Kota Damansara Sunway Citrine Hub, Iskandar, Johor SOURCE: RHB Trustees Berhad (As Trustee For Sunway Reit (Pyramid) FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: Name : Ms Jessica Teng Wan Ying Manager, Branding & Comm. Sunway Malls Tel : 03-7494 3035 Fax: 03-7492 6333 Email: [email protected] Name : Mr Darren Chear Associate Director, Branding & Comm. Sunway Malls Tel : 03-7494 3083 Fax: 03-7492 6333 Email: [email protected] --BERNAMA
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 (Bernama) -- Osaka-based Santen Pharmaceutical Co Ltd (Santen) will be sponsoring glaucoma awareness-raising activities around the world as part of its efforts to raise public awareness on the eye disease during the World Glaucoma Week from March 10 to 16, 2019.
Glaucoma damages the optic nerve, resulting in progressive visual field loss. Early treatment often allows patients to maintain visual field throughout their lifetime, a statement said. The World Glaucoma Association, of which Santen is an Associate Glaucoma Industry Member, defines a week every March as the World Glaucoma Week and hosts various events globally to encourage people to detect and seek early treatment of glaucoma. Santen has also implemented various initiatives to increase public awareness of the importance of early detection and continued treatment of glaucoma. Among the activities held by Santen to this effect was an event billed ‘Recommendations for Continued Treatment and Care’, held in Nagoya on Nov 17 last year, targeting glaucoma patients in the municipality. The company would also continue to regard the World Glaucoma Week as a period for employees to learn about glaucoma on their own initiative and impart their learning to family members and friends. The company would devote further efforts to encourage employees, including those working around the world, to deepen their understanding about glaucoma. More details on https://www.santen.com. -- BERNAMA BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan 29 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TOMI Environmental Solutions, Inc.® (“TOMI”) (OTCQX:TOMZ), a global company that specializes in disinfection and decontamination essentials using its premier Binary Ionization Technology® (BIT™) platform through the manufacturing, licensing, servicing, and selling of its SteraMist™ brand of products, a hydrogen peroxide-based mist and fog, has entered into an exclusive global co-marketing and supply agreement with Arkema Inc.. Arkema Inc. is a global leader in the hydrogen peroxide industry. The agreement provides that the parties will develop the market for TOMI’s Fogging Technology using the TOMI SteraMist Technology for food safety applications. Arkema Inc. will manufacture and supply the food grade hydrogen peroxide for use in an EPA-registered solution. Together, the companies will address the need in the industry for a non-bleach, quick and effective food safety process and bring it to Arkema’s global food clients who currently use its hydrogen peroxide for organic-certified products.
http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=33701 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 (Bernama) – Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) and Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) cosmetics company, Hoshi Corporation, has received a licence from the Okinawa Regional Customs to operate Japan’s first bonded cosmetics factory, a statement today said.
The license enables the company to fully use its high manufacturing technology to reduce costs and realise swift production, thereby offering affordable manufacturing plans thanks to reduced tariff and storage costs. By operating the bonded factory in the Okinawa Global Logistics Center (GLC) area neighbouring Naha International Airport, Hoshi can undertake filling, packaging, assembling operations and material storage. The added advantage of being in Okinawa, the southernmost island of Japan, is that it is less than fours hours’ travel by air to major Asian cities and right in the middle of a mass Asian market of two billion customers. Hoshi has four manufacturing plants (incuding Tokyo, Gunma and Saitama), and decades of experience dealing with over 700 clients and 20,000 product types. The business is driven by growing international demand for made-in-Japan cosmetics, mainly to Asian and Oceania countries. For details, visit http://hoshicorp.jp. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28 (Bernama) -- Amper Music launched Amper Score – the world’s first end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI) music composition platform for enterprise content creators – and a developer application programming interface (API), today.
Using the Amper Score platform, content teams can create and edit music to accompany videos, podcasts and many other types of content. Music created using Amper Score is royalty-free and comes with a global, perpetual license for subscribers when synched to content. With Score’s fine-grained control, video editors -- who typically work with stock music libraries -- have reported greater than 90 per cent time savings in sourcing and editing music for their projects. Businesses can also integrate Amper’s API into their own creative tools, distribution platforms and other applications where music is created or consumed. “The decision to partner with QQ Music was a no-brainer,” said Amper Music Inc chief executive officer, Drew Silverstein, of its API launch partner. “They are at the very forefront of the music, media and entertainment markets, and their staggering reach will bring our AI composer technology to millions of new users,” he added. “As a leading online music entertainment platform in China, QQ Music is constantly looking for ways to utilise the most competitive technologies,” said Tencent Music Entertainment Group vice president, Dennis Hau. “In our collaboration, we are impressed by Amper’s leading technology, speed, quality and user control design,” he added. For more information, visit https://www.ampermusic.com. -- BERNAMA |
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