To enhance its leading position of its PC and mobile Internet terminals in the Chinese consumer market, the Chinese PC maker Lenovo has signed a full-service expansion strategic cooperation agreement with the IT and electronic products retailer Hisap.

South Korean retailer E-Mart will open its first shopping mall, Star Mall Caobao Shopping Mall, in Shanghai on May 25, 2010.

According to the website of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, 27 major supermarkets in Beijing will arrange special counters for low-sodium salt products in each of their outlets.

Hong Kong-listed jewelry company Chow Sang Sang Holdings International Limited has published its annual financial report for 2009, stating that its net profit increased by 22% year-on-year to HKD574 million.

The jeans brand Levi's has announced plans to launch a new global brand in China and other selected Asian markets in the autumn of 2010 and this is reportedly the first time that the brand is to be launched in markets outside America.

Taiwanese supermarket retailer Rt-Mart recently signed an agreement with the government of Yushui district, Xinyu, Jiangxi province to open a new supermarket.