Corporate Bits | Mayday set to perform in Macau for three days

Taiwanese rock band Mayday will perform three concerts at The Venetian Macao’s Cotai Arena on January 26 to 28, 2018, as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations.

A year in the works, the Mayday “2018 Life Tour Macau” has the potential to mark a high point in the band’s successful career.

Kicking off in March 2017 – where they performed to 200,000 fans in Kaohsiung, Taiwan – Mayday continued the tour with ten sold-out dates in Hong Kong, followed by a 20-city tour of China which included Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. They then performed in Malaysia, Canada, the United States and Singapore before performing another 11 shows back in Taiwan. They are finally coming to Macau, and say they are looking forward to meeting their local fans.

With a production team led by LeRoy Bennett of Seven Design Works, the band will play around 30 songs, animated short films depicting its members as superheroes, and guest appearances from award-winning actors Tony Leung and Huang Bo.

Tickets go on sale today at all Cotai Ticketing box offices.

Nine-month profit for Zara owner jumps on strong sales

The owner of Zara fashion stores said yesterday that net profit surged by 6 percent in the first nine months of its fiscal year as it continued its international expansion with both online and physical stores.

Inditex clothes retailer said net profit from February through October was 2.34 billion euros (USD2.7 billion), compared with 2.2 billion euros for the same period last year. Sales rose 10 percent to 17.9 billion euros.

The group was founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega and has become the world’s largest clothes retailer with eight brands, including Massimo Dutti, Bershka and Pull & Bear.

It opened new stores in Belarus this summer and continued expanding in all markets, mostly in Asia. It owns 7,504 shops in 94 countries, more than half of them with online stores.

Inditex shares were up 2.6 percent at 31.5 euros in early trading in Madrid.