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2018 RETAIL ASIA-PACIFIC TOP 500 OV E R V I E W METHODOLOGY Retail Asia-Pacific Top 500 research methodology The Retail Asia-Pacific Top 500 ranking of the leading retailers in the region draws from Euromonitor International’s research and analysis of the retail indus- try around the world. Research for the 2018 edition was conducted by analysts in 80 countries, including the 14 Asia-Pacific economies featured, in the third quarter of 2017. Where full-year 2017 figures were unavailable from companies and where publicly stated figures were not to the level of detail required in this study, estimates have been made based on a variety of sources to produce fully relevant, comparable data. Euromonitor International’s sources for its studies of retailing and of spe- cific consumer product markets are summarised below. The gathering of information and opinion, bottom-up, country by country is supplemented by top-down regional and global analyses and modelling. Visit www.euromonitor.com for more details on Euromonitor Interna- tional, including our research meth- odology. For the Retail Asia-Pacific Top 500, 56 Retail Asia June/July 2018 retailers were picked from the following economies: ■ Australia ■ China ■ Hong Kong ■ India ■ Indonesia ■ Japan ■ Malaysia ■ New Zealand ■ The Philippines ■ Singapore ■ South Korea ■ Taiwan ■ Thailand ■ Vietnam Retailers were selected and ranked based on the performance of their fascias in each economy — and not the regio