Today, Hong Kong is very much a service based economy with the service sector accounting for over 90% of Hong Kong's GDP. Retail industry ranks as important service sector along with restaurants, hotels, wholesale, import/export trade and accounts for 26.9% of Hong Kong's GDP in 2007. Total retail sales for the year of 2008 mounted to HK$273.8 billion dollars and employs a retail workforce of around 241,000 persons with about 57,000 retail establishments.

As a most important service industry in Hong Kong, it creates wealth directly and indirectly for the people of Hong Kong, it serves the public in all conceivable forms and it creates job opportunities. Our industry is an inseparable part of the economy and will continue to contribute to the growth and prosperity of Hong Kong.

This section aims to provide readers with the relevant statistics and data on Hong Kong's retail industry and highlights some of the current key trends.