Article: Banana Republic opens in Singapore as part of global expansion.(Gap Inc. Banana Republic)

Byline: Betsy Lowther

SINGAPORE - If you build it, they will come and, Gap Inc. hopes, they will shop.

Customers were waiting when the retailer unveiled its first Banana Republic store here on July 14, the region's third new boutique in as many months. The Singapore store joins a Banana Republic unit in Jakarta, Indonesia, that launched in May, and one in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which opened in June, all operated as franchises of local retailer and distributor FJ Benjamin Holdings Ltd., which brought the Gap to the region last year.

The openings come amid a major international expansion for Banana Republic, which debuted franchise stores in the ...

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