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India has risen five positions to rank 15th in the Global Retail Development Index (GRDI) released by AT Kearney today. India’s ranking has been boosted by solid growth in retail sales and strong prospects for future GDP growth. India’s GDP...

Flooring solutions company Flowcrete India has launched a whitepaper on common dairy industry flooring issues and solutions to support the message of the United Nations World Milk Day, which is observed on June 1 every year. According to a statement...

Grocery e-tailing -- once not an in-favour category with Indian e-tailers -- is gunning for growth with startups and existing players eyeing an online shot. For some though, it's an exploration of the genesis of what really matters in...

iTiffin, an online portal that provides advanced nutrition in the form of a balanced and nutritious tiffin box, recently launched i-Atta, a wheat flour product targetted at diabetics. According to the company, the innovative flour is meticulously prepared with natural...

Bakery products company  Tropilite Foods Pvt ltd  (TFPL)  is set to enter retail  through the launch of cake premixes. The company has  been a HoReCa supplier for the past 34 years with bakery ingredients such as egg-free cake mixes,...

Aditya Birla Retail's hypermarket format More has tied up with online grocery retailer Zop Now for the latter to manage home deliveries across 16 More hypermarkets in cities such as Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Kolkata. “We are starting experimenting in e-commerce...

Yours Food Pvt. Ltd., the Kolkata-based  FMCG company, has announced its foray into the Rs3,000 crore premix vending segment with the launch of Yours Elaichi Tea Premix, Yours Lemon Tea Premix and Yours Coffee Premix. The company is the...

The fifth edition of Kerala's Food Processing and Packaging Exposition - FoodTech Kerala - kicks off at CIAL Exhibition Centre, Nedumbassery, Kochi, from May 14 to 16. The venue will also host the first ever exhibition on rice and...

Wendy's, the world's third largest burger chain, has opened its first store in India today. The Columbus, Ohio-headquartered burger chain, is banking on quality rather than quantity to sell its burgers in India. Wendy's burgers will sell at Rs...

Hector Beverages, the makers of Indian ethnic drink, Paper Boat, are planning to retail their products on trains. The Gurgaon-based start-up, which started by former Coca-Cola employees Neeraj Kakkar and Neeraj Biyani in 2010, is now eligible to enter into...

A fresh-off-the-block debutant to enter the field of hyperlocal grocery trade in India is LazyLad, which has started operations in four Indian cities about a month ago. Founded and co-promoted by three young graduates from IIT Guwahati - Saurabh...