Aditya Birla Retail

India Shopping Centre Forum '10, a two-day event organised by the IMAGES group and supported by the Shopping Centres Association of India (SCAI), began with a full house audience this morning. The inaugural session, SCAI Conclave, focused majorly on...

It is an every day challenge for a retailer to satisfy the diversified demands of discerning customers. The further challenges are to reel in more customers, assure their loyalty, drive in more footfalls and the ensure the conversion rate....

Dynamic Vertical Solutions (DVS), a market and technology player in end-to-end integrated and adaptable business management applications, has announced its selection to set up a 'Retail Centre of Excellence' in India by LS Retail. The Retail Centre of Excellence...

A number of media reports are abuzz with talks of Aditya Birla Retail Limited (ABRL) planning an IPO by 2012. But in an exclusive interview with IndiaRetailing, Thomas Varghese, CEO of ABRL, denies any such development.Varghese says, “We have...

There is a compelling argument for retail theatrics. At a time when the four Ps of marketing – Product, Price, Placement and Promotion – seem inadequate in influencing an increasing demanding customer, retailers need to constantly create differentiation to...

In his Union Budget presentation earlier this month, India’s Union Finance Minister (FM) Pranab Mukherjee underscored the urgency of reviving growth, by identifying that the country’s immediate economic challenge is to return to nine per cent GDP growth, failure...

US-based deep discount retailer MyDollarStore Inc., founded by an American of Indian origin, is the latest casualty of the economic slowdown in India that has forced organized retailers to apply the brakes on ambitious expansion plans.The chain, which entered...

There is little doubt that the shopping cart is one of the most enduring symbols of modern food retail. It is, after all, this tool that greatly enables self service, a necessary feature of the modern supermarket experience, while...

India Inc’s expectations ahead of the much awaited general budget to be presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee later today, are high. IndiaRetailing contacted some key industries related to retail and real estate to gauge expectations from the...