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  • Hamleys Singapore to debut this month

    Hamleys Singapore to debut this month

    The world’s oldest toy retailer – Hamleys – is to make its Singapore debut this month.

    Hamleys Singapore will open its first store in the Plaza Singapura extension on July 24 in a partnership with Global Retail Ventures, which also runs Hamleys’ outlets in Malaysia.

    The move is part of an aggressive global expansion strategy for the London-founded, French-owned brand which has this year opened a giant Moscow flagship, has its first store opening in Vietnam this month and in Asia is already also trading in the Philippines. The Plaza Singapura store is likely to be the first of several in Singapore. Hamleys, through a Vietnamese franchise partner, is opening in Singapore-based Mapletree’s joint venture SC VivoCity shopping centre in Ho Chi Minh City.

    The toy chain has 54 stores in 17 countries with stock range targeting children from toddlers to adults.

    The debut Singapore shop will feature 12,000 sqft of retail space across two stories and stock more than 10,000 items.

    Plaza Singapura management want to position the mall as a one-stop destination for families.

  • Sanpower named in Hamleys bid

    Sanpower named in Hamleys bid

    Chinese language investor Sanpower is reported to be getting ready a bid for worldwide toy retailer Hamleys.

    Sanpower is the corporate which purchased 79 per cent of UK division retailer chain Home of Fraser final yr with the intention of increasing the enterprise into China, paying £480 million ($790.three million).

    UK newspaper The Sunday Occasions studies Sanpower is in discussions with France’s Groupe Ludendo, Hamleys father or mother, in what can be the primary of a number of deliberate investments in European retailing.

    Sanpower is concentrating on retailers with robust manufacturers and lengthy historical past – and with robust cashflow and worldwide presence – to increase the manufacturers into China the place a rising center class clamours for overseas branded items.

    Home of Fraser will open three malls in China’s mainland – in Nanjing, Chongqing and Xuzhou – between subsequent yr and 2017.

    Hamleys, which just lately opened an enormous flagship in Moscow and has this month introduced plans for its Vietnam debut, was based in 1760, initially branded Noah’s Ark.

    It’s London flagship on Regent St opened in 1881. Groupe Ludendo purchased Hamleys from collapsed Icelandic financial institution Landsbanki three years in the past for £60 million.

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  • Hamleys toy store to open in Vietnam

    Hamleys toy store to open in Vietnam

    Hamleys, the world well-known British toy store, is to open its first retailer in Vietnam.

    An 800 sqm retailer will open over two ranges of the newly constructed SC VivoCity shopping center in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis’s District 7, a well-liked enclave for expatriates and well-heeled Vietnamese. Will probably be Vietnam’s largest toy retailer and Hamley’s 56th retailer globally, marking its 18th worldwide market.

    For 255 years Hamleys of London has been tagged ‘The Best Toy Store within the World’ bringing experiences and pleasure to youngsters of all ages. The corporate was based by William Hamley, who dreamed of making ‘the most effective toy store on the earth’ when opening the doorways to his retailer in Holborn, London in 1760.

    The Hamleys toy store Vietnam will embrace hundreds of high quality permitted toys and all Hamleys iconic options together with, alternatives for youngsters to play, partaking retailer design, skilled service and toy demonstrations.

    Hamleys’ franchise companion in Vietnam is Maison JSC, owned by Richard Trinh and Mai Son Pham. Maison distributes and sells worldwide manufacturers by way of 60 shops, from worldwide designer labels akin to Christian Louboutin, to extremely recognisable excessive road manufacturers like Topshop/Topman, Mango, Karen Millen, Coast, Bebe, Warehouse, Oasis, Charles & Keith, Pedro, 
Decorate, Monsoon Youngsters, Havaianas and NYS Sun shades. It additionally plans to convey CH by Carolina Herrera, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins, Max Mara, Max & Co and Santoni, amongst others, to Vietnam’s quick rising retail market.

    Maison chairman Richard Trinh stated he had been working a very long time to open Hamleys in Vietnam.

    “That is going to be probably the most spectacular toy store in Vietnam and on a regular basis will convey lasting reminiscences to youngsters and households by means of enjoyable and interesting experiences.”

    Hamleys Vietnam has already created a Fb web page to assist construct pleasure out there previous to the shop’s opening.