MOU Signing with Amazon Global Selling On 11 Oct 2023, PCEO represented NYP-SIRS to sign a Memorandum-of-Understanding with Amazon Global Selling (AGS) at the Marina Bay Sands’ <eCommerce Expo Asia> where Amazon Global Selling Summit was held to a capacity crowd of more than 1600 in-person attendees. The partnership between NYP-SIRS and AGS encompassed three pillars: (1) AGS and NYP-SIRS to jointly coordinate and organize training workshops and courses to equip several hundred Singapore retailers, entrepreneurs and SMEs each year with knowledge and skillsets to jumpstart the building and growing of their CBEC (Cross Border E-commerce) businesses on Amazon.com, through a variety of learning channels and formats; (2) AGS and NYP-SIRS to collaborate in supplementary activities which include overseas product sourcing and study mission trips, workshops to train businesses on product development, and outreach and knowledge sessions to better enable aspiring CBEC sellers, including those on Amazon.com; and (3) AGS and NYP-SIRS commit to explore other joint innovations to spur retail such as the feasibility of setting up a hub for future retail to encourage and support more adoption of advanced cross-border e-commerce amongst our retailers and entrepreneurs. We envision an end-to-end one-stop solution with training, learning trips, mentorship, product innovation, creative content development and more. SIRS exhibited at the event to promote our Amazon Cross Border workshop and received good response and interest. |
SIRS X Bosses’ Network MOU Event MOU signing event between NYP and Bosses Network was held on 16 Aug 2023 at SIRS’ Retail Experiential Hub to a capacity crowd. The event was graced by GOH MOS Low Yen Ling, with a sharing session from SIRS on how we drive the mandate of helping SMEs navigate the challenging retail landscape through our programmes and solutions. This was followed by a Panel discussion/sharing on ‘Accelerating SME Transformation: Insights and Best Practices’ involving representatives from Polar Puffs & Cakes, Unidbox Hardware & Merlin Goldsmith. Since 2019, NYP-SIRS and Bosses Network have worked together to offer curated training to several companies and over 100 have benefited since then, including Merlin Goldsmith and Unidbox, achieving significant business transformation, expansion, and digitalisation milestones. With this MOU, NYP and Bosses Network are confident that many more SMEs will have the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in the digital age. The MOU will see both parties co-curating & designing a series of programmes to drive growth within the SME community for the next 5 years. |