Retail

Get support through our programmes and schemes

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  • Innovation
  • Market Access
  • Productivity
  • Talent Attraction & Development

Brand Accelerator Programme

Be part of a one-year programme designed for retail brands to enter and grow in an overseas market.

Retail COI for beauty

Centre of Innovation for Beauty and Personal Care

Support for businesses in beauty and personal care, from ideation to product commercialisation.

Chief Technology Officer-as-a-Service

Chief Technology Officer-as-a-Service 

Simplify your company's digitalisation journey with quick access to expertise and resources through CTOaaS.

Heartlands Go Digital

Heartlands Go Digital

Discover affordable solutions to kickstart your digital journey and boost your business capabilities.

Job Redesign Deliverables

Job Redesign Deliverable

Work with pre-approved consultants to redesign job processes and enhance workforce performance.

Progressive Wage Model

Progressive Wage Model

Understand wage models, map career paths for employees, and improve productivity and standards.

Retail COI for beauty

Centre of Innovation for Beauty and Personal Care

Support for businesses in beauty and personal care, from ideation to product commercialisation.

Brand Accelerator Programme

Be part of a one-year programme designed for retail brands to enter and grow in an overseas market.

Chief Technology Officer-as-a-Service

Chief Technology Officer-as-a-Service 

Simplify your company's digitalisation journey with quick access to expertise and resources through CTOaaS.

Heartlands Go Digital

Heartlands Go Digital

Discover affordable solutions to kickstart your digital journey and boost your business capabilities.

Job Redesign Deliverables

Job Redesign Deliverable

Work with pre-approved consultants to redesign job processes and enhance workforce performance.

Progressive Wage Model

Progressive Wage Model

Understand wage models, map career paths for employees, and improve productivity and standards.

Key opportunities

  • Omnichannel retail

  • Digitalisation

Omnichannel Retail

Reach consumers through touchpoints like physical stores, websites, apps, social media platforms, or self-operating kiosks, fully integrated across different systems to ensure a smooth customer journey.

As businesses look to reposition how brick-and-mortar stores fit into the customer journey, experiential service innovation has become a key focus for brands. You can create a brand experience centre that’s integrated with your online channels to provide customers with a seamless and enjoyable retail experience.

Charles & Keith
  • Successfully used both online and offline platforms to enter global markets.
  • Now retailing in over 40 destinations worldwide.
Love, Bonito
  • Leveraged omnichannel retail to expand its presence to Hong Kong, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Retail_Digitalisation

Online sales as a proportion of total retail sales in Singapore doubled, going from 6 percent in 2019 to 12 percent in 2020. Beyond selling online stores, retail businesses are also using automation, artificial intelligence, big data and augmented reality to effectively manage both front-of-house and backend operations.

Commune
  • Used virtual reality simulations to help customers explore the interiors of their future homes.
Decks Pte Ltd
  • Introduced a radio-frequency identification (RFID) system to manage its inventory and allow self-checkout.
Inspiring Stories in Retail
Declan Ee, co-founder

Castlery

A lack of furniture retail experience did not stop them expanding beyond Singapore.

Mothercare Singapore managing director Pang Fu Wei (top) in the brand’s experience store at HarbourFront

Mothercare

Transforming business with retaining, redeployment and e-commerce.

Octobox’s managing director, Jeffrey Sun and executive director, Ng Kiat Seng

Octobox

No need for manpower at this high-tech 'mamak' shop.

Internationalisation is important even if it can involve risk and pain, said Secretlab's Ian Ang

Secretlab

A focus on R&D and partnerships is powering the company’s global expansion.

Get recognised for consistent quality through standards

Adopting standards is an effective way for your company to maintain consistent quality, build customer trust and gain acceptance in global markets.

Use recognised standards for your business and assure your customers that you have met local and international benchmarks for good quality.

Retail_Standards
Retail_ITM

Is your business staying competitive?

Launched in 2016, the Retail Industry Transformation Map (ITM) prepares the retail industry for global competition by encouraging retailers to adapt and innovate to remain relevant. In 2022, the refreshed Retail ITM was launched to strengthen Singapore as a global lifestyle and retail hub, anchored with new experiential concepts and innovative products. The Retail ITM will also focus on building a core of global Singapore brands, and uplifting the quality of jobs in the sector.

Explore the ITM to understand the core strategies at work, the initiatives and schemes to support the industry as a whole, and how other businesses like yours are taking part in this evolution.

Ways to expand your business in retail

  • Key Markets | Retail

    Find out more about the key markets for retail and how you can reach them through the right networks and resources. 

  • Guides & Insights | Retail

    Upgrade your business capabilities with our tools and stay up to date on the latest retail news. 

  • Industry Partners | Retail

    Work closely with industry associations and partners to grow your business in retail.