‘Taobao Home’ and It's ‘New Retail’ Pop Up Store in Malaysia

Do you know where to go for great bargain and shopping deals? Yes you are right, it's Taobao! We all enjoy shopping online at Taobao in this digital era. It is easy, convenient and most importantly, affordable! It is even better now as Alibaba Group’s Tmall World (天猫海外), serving over 100 million overseas Chinese users and other buyers from around the world, launched the ‘Taobao Home’ pop up store, an offline interactive consumer showcase of offerings from its ‘Home and Living’ categories, at Lot 10 Shopping Centre in Kuala Lumpur today.

The three-day showcase is in conjunction with the Tmall World’s exclusive September ‘Home & Living promotions’ between 17 and 22 September 2018 launched on Taobao.com, which features an array of exclusive online promotions and offers from popular brands across a wide range of products.

Lilian Wu, Tmall World Southeast Asia, Head of Marketing (centre) officially launching Taobao Home Pop-Up at Lot 10 Shopping Centre, Kuala Lumpu

From today until 22 September 2018, Malaysian shoppers who visit the ‘Taobao Home’ pop up store at Lot 10 Shopping Centre will get a taste of Alibaba’s ‘new retail’ concept as visitors only need to scan the product QR code through their Taobao or Taobao Lite mobile app in order to immediately purchase their favorite items on display in the store.

Lilian Wu, Tmall World Southeast Asia, Head of Marketing giving her welcome address to members of the media and guests during the launch event

“Malaysia is a key market for our Group and we are committed to continually looking for avenues to enhance our Malaysian fans’ shopping experience through our offerings and services. We find that Home and Living products are among Malaysians’ favourite items on our platform,” said Lilian Wu, South East Asia Head of Marketing, Tmall World. “In the past year, Tmall World has rolled out compelling new localized solutions including sea freight shipping, door to door delivery and installation services to enhance the Malaysian shopping experience.”

Shop Till You Drop @ The Tmall 6.18 Mid-Year Mega Sale Malaysia

Malaysian is well known of loving shopping, so do I. I love shopping as the retail therapy made me happy and satisfy. With the technology, we could even shop at the comfort of our home at Online shopping. However, there are not many choices in Malaysia online shopping platforms.

I have always envy my China ex-colleagues and my China friends who can always shopping at Taobao and TMall, as we all know that there are plenty of choices with really cheap price there. Over the years, we had to depend on the intermediate party to deliver our haul from China where sometimes the good might be missing or lost.

But hey, I am so excited to tell you that we could now shop at “Tmall 6.18 Mid-Year Mega Sale” as it is making its way to Malaysia from 18 to 20 June 2017. Sounds too good to be true? This is absolutely an exciting and great news to the shoppers here in Malaysia!

Indeed, Tmall has level up its mid-year sale this year with an aim to drive more Malaysian audiences seeking shopping experiences in a virtual shopping avenue. Expect massive discounts of up to 10 billion Chinese yuan (>RM6.27 billion) from more than 180,000 global brands across different product categories such as apparel, home and living, consumer electronics, and mother and baby.

Along with the Tmall 6.18 Mid-Year Mega Sale attractive deals, other promotional offerings as below:

·        Shopping vouchers: Tmall.com will offer cash coupons of RMB20 (RM12.50) each between 13-20 June for shopping during the sale period; and discount coupons of RMB60 (RM38) or RMB100 (RM63) each for purchases up to RMB300 (RM188) and RMB1, 000 (RM628), respectively, during 18-20 June 2017.

·        In-store shopping vouchers: Individual merchants will give out in-store shopping vouchers through their storefronts from 13-20 June 2017 for purchases during the sale period.

·        Delivery discount: For orders placed during the sale period, new consumers opting for “Taobao Global Consolidated Shipping (淘宝集运)” can enjoy a delivery coupon of up to RMB24 (RM15)  for the first kilogram of their packages.

·        Payment discount: Malaysian shoppers will be able to win a cashback worth RM1, 00 when transactions are made from any of the participating banks from 18 June to 10 July, by Malaysia RevPay.

Taking advantage of the growing demand for large consignment purchases by Malaysian consumers, Tmall and Taobao Marketplace are rolling out a new sea freight option for the Malaysian market, applicable to the “Taobao Global Consolidated Shipping” option. This delivery alternative offers Malaysians a lower courier fee ranging from RMB9.5 (RM6) per kilogram excluding the 6% GST charges. This offer is applicable for individual consignments of up to 100 kilograms each or consolidated consignments of up to 200 kilograms each.

In conjunction with the grand launch of “Tmall 6.18 Mid-Year Mega Sale” in Malaysia, they have set up an event showcasing LINSHIMUYE furniture at Sunway Giza Mall. I was amazed with the great design and good quality of LINSHIMUYE furniture. In fact, LINSHIMUYE is contributed to make the ideal comfortable patterns of life come true. 

The Powerful Partnership between Jasa Kita and Metabo

A powerful tool made our life easier, don’t you agree? Growing up in a carpenter’s family, I know the essential of using powerful and durable tools in order to get the works done fast and precisely.

Recently, we were honoured to witness the powerful partnership between Jasa Kita and Metabo. To give you some background of Jasa Kita, it is a brand with more than 40 years of establishment, which has earned a reputation of reliability and trust among its customers and business associates.

Metabo, on the other hand is a manufacturer of high quality power tools for professional users with an extensive range of professional tools and accessories. This is indeed in line with Jasa Kita’s aim to provide its users with premium high quality tools.

We witnessed the grand launch of Metabo in Malaysia that held at Putrajaya Marriot Hotel last Saturday.

Grand Opening of MajuHome Concept Citta Mall

Congratulations to MajuHome Concept Citta Mall for the grand opening in style with glitz and glamour last Thursday, 2^nd June 2016! We were glad to be invited to this brand new and spacious furniture concept store after visited it for the first time during its soft launch last month.

It was much honored to be invited to MajuHome Concept Citta Mall’s exclusive media launch event as selected Celebrities, personalities, and the who’s who of the society along with key media and business partners were there to celebrate this great milestone.

The brand new MajuHome Concept store at Citta Mall is so huge and with variety of selections to choose from. It is stretching a double Storey massive selling and floor space of approximately 60,000 square feet. No wonder it has become the biggest anchor tenant in Citta Mall and also the biggest in home furnishing and lifestyle products.

At the lower level, we saw wide collections of high quality built-in kitchen cabinets, kitchen appliances and bathroom appliances. There’s an indoor staircase that connects both 2 storeys. 

And when we walked up the upper level, there were a huge stylish and contemporary collection of home living products ranging from sofas to dining furniture, diverse variety of branded bedding products, tasteful home decorative accessories, unique children specialty furniture, and in demand office furniture collection.

It is in fact an incredible furniture store that fulfills everything we need at home, and in the office.

Speaking to the media during the launching ceremony, MajuHome Concept group Managing Director, Ken Low expressed that the company has already been in business since 1986, and over the period of 30 years, the company has continue to surf to new frontier and evolve with times. Moving away from the traditional image of a local furniture mall concept favorited by many, MajuHome Concept is now evolving into a modern and contemporary furniture and lifestyle concept store, where the company strive and promise to continuously produce and deliver a wide variety of modern and trendy furniture with latest designs to the Malaysian consumers, brought together under the concept of a “one stop shopping experience”, a strong philosophy and passion that has driven the business all these years.

L to R: Interviewer, MajuHome Concept's brand ambassador Amb Alex Yoong, MajuHome Concept group Managing Director, Ken Low

MajuHome Snap & Win Photo Contest

When it comes to furniture and homeware shopping, I always love to go to the big shop because I can get everything I need there. MajuHome is our family choice because their Setapak concept store is near to us but I found out that their new Concept store in Citta Mall is even better!

Not only it is very spacious, it has everything we need for our home.

From the comfy bed, stylo sofas, cute kids furniture, cool beanbags, kitchen essentials, to homeware like ceramic flask and mugs imported from Europe. I have spent my whole afternoon to exploring this lovely new Concept store and I love every corner of it.

In case you don’t know yet, MajuHome Concept Citta Mall was pre-launched in last month. In conjunction with the grand opening, they are having the MajuHome Snap & Win Photo Contest where we could win amazing prizes worth of up to RM 10,000 by just snapping selfie!

All we have to do is to visit their brand new store(MajuHome Concept Citta Mall) and snap a “selfie” in the most creative manner you can. Upload your photo entries to your Instagram with the hashtag #majuhomesnapnwin and get your friends and families to vote for your photo entries to win!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE?

Step 1   :      SNAP a photo of yourself at the new MajuHome Concept flagship store @ Citta Mall

Step 2   :      UPLOAD your photo to your Instagram account with the hashtag #majuhomesnapnwin

Step 3   :      WIN fabulous prizes by sharing your photo entries on MajuHome Concept Facebook page’s contest plug in with your friends and families for them to vote!

I have already joined the contest, what are you waiting for? Good luck everyone!

Stanzo Collection Grand Opening at 1MK Shopping Mall

I dream of having a contemporary home that is furnished with designer furniture. When I know there’s a new furniture concept store launch in town, I decided to pay a visit.

Stanzo Collection that offers residential and office furnishing was launched on 19^th July 2014.

“Stanzo” or “Stanza” is an Italian term, which literally means “rooms”. Stanzo Collection concept store currently houses two tasteful brands, elegantly names “Songdream” and “Prostoria” that offer the best of East and West.

“We chose “Stanzo” because its translation as “rooms” in English very aptly befits the property showroom style we seek to adopt for our Stanzo Collection concept store. To highlight the showroom concept, furniture featured in our store will be displayed according to varying room concepts to allow customers to better visualize their individual designs. Each room’s setup will feature complementing furniture and fittings to replicate an actual residential or workplace setup,” said Ken Low, Group Managing Director of the Stanzo Collection. 

The “Songdream” collection will surely appeal to those seeking a contemplative environment, with its modern, contemporary furniture selection providing a distinct Zen-like charm. Indeed, its complete range of sofas, coffee tables, room dividers, chairs, bookcases, dining tables and wardrobes will enchant Zen-concept lovers.

DJ & artist Gan Mei Yan was one of the guest in Stanzo Collection Grand Opening