INTAPAC provides insight into marketing, packaging innovation, retail trends, consumer behavior and analysis on new fast moving consumer product launches in the world’s fastest growing Asian markets. A new innovation tool from Five by Fifty, Asia’s leading trend forecasting and consumer research agency, INTAPAC tracks game-changing products released in Japan, Korea, China and other Asian [...]

Innovation

The App Store model gives Japan’s advertising behemoth Dentsu an idea of how to control mobile media.

Beauty & Wellness, Innovation

Japan is subsidizing “plant factories” that provide stable supplies of high-quality vegetables. The technology isn’t entirely “green”, but do consumers care?

FMCG

UCC releases its third collaboration in 10 years with one of Japan’s most popular manga series.

Consumer Shifts

Internet search data shows value-hunting Japanese will go to great lengths to find a smart service at the right price.

Beauty & Wellness, Consumer Shifts, FMCG

Japanese women have been flying to Seoul and bulk-buying cosmetics. But with a less favorable exchange rate, how can South Koreans keep selling?

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Lifestyle Spending, Newsletter

Tokyo Girls Collection’s mobile-commerce fashion events have been highly successful. But now there is competition coming down the runway.