When you arrive at Kuala Lumpur airport, you need to switch terminals in order to stamp your passport and get your luggages, so you need to take the internal aerotrain, once on board and it starts to move, you need to grab one of those holders hanging from the top so you do not fall. At the point where you are looking where to put your hand properly, the very eye-catching branding appears.

What a coincidence, my digital camera is from Fujifilm and the whole branding was based on different Fujifilm products.

Carrefour: 10 stores (4 new stores in 2007)
Tesco: 10 stores
Makro: 8 stores (part of German METRO Cash & Carry)
Jusco: 16 stores (from Japan)
Cold Storage: 10 stores, very nice, clean and organized outlets
Giant: 22 Hypermarkets, 40 Supermarkets

Cold Storage and Giant are under the Dairy Farm umbrella from Hong Kong.

Here we go again with another “Giant” branded hyper and super, another very common retail name similar to Metro.

Watsons your personal store is under the A.S Watson Group umbrella, which is a member of the world renowned Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Limited owned by the tycoon Li Ka-shing, which has major interests in ports & related services, telecommunications, property & hotels, retail and energy, infrastructure, investments and others with businesses in 54 countries and employs over 98,000 staff.

Each week, millions of customers in thirteen markets shop at Watsons Your Personal Store. Asia’s leading health & beauty chain dates back to 1828, when the Canton Dispensary was first founded as a clinic to provide free medical aid to the poor in Canton, China.

Building on its long-standing reputation for quality and innovation, Watsons Your Personal Store offers more than 25,000 products in over 1,400 outlets. Products range from medicines, cosmetics and toiletries to fashion items, confectionery, cards, and toys.

Currently, Watsons operates in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Macau, Korea, the Philippines, Turkey, Estonia and Slovenia.

A.S. Watson also operates the following health & beauty retail brand names worldwide: Nuance-Watson, Kruidvat, Trekpleister, Rossmann, Drogas, Superdrug, Savers, Spektr.

Whenever you are running out of mobile battery all you have to do is to drop by one of these stands, available in shopping malls in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, where you can recharge almost any mobile for free, cool service.

Boots the English chemist, opened its new stores outside UK, in the Arabian Gulf and specifically in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, also they will be having stores in Kuwait.

On 31 July 2006, Boots Group PLC and Alliance Unichem PLC merged to create Alliance Boots – Europe’s leading pharmacy-led health and beauty group.

Boots The Chemists is part of Alliance Boots plc. As the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) leading Health and Beauty retailer, we have approximately 1,500 stores in the UK and Irish Republic where they serve around 8 million customers every week. They develop and sell their own-brand health and beauty products, a number of which are leaders in their respective markets.