coronavirus

In its 1Q 2020 business updates, CapitaLand Retail China Trust shared encouraging signs of recovery in its portfolio of China malls: - Shopper Traffic in Mar’20 up 105 pc month-on-month - Tenant sales in Mar’20 up 189 pc month-on-month - Malls that...

Pankaj Mahajan lives in Noida with his dietitian wife Rohini and two teenaged children Rahul and Rashmi. He has the habit of buying household groceries at the beginning of every month. Along with his two children and wife, he...

E-commerce major Amazon has decided to go big in the neighbourhood commerce space with the launch of ‘Local Shops on Amazon', a programme to enable local and small shops and retailers sell their products online. The announcement came a day...

As extended lockdowns, social distancing and working from the confines of home become the new reality, fashion brands and retailers across the world struggling to mitigate cope up with revenue reductions. While it is hard to predict the post pandemic...

Diversified business entity ITC Ltd on Thursday called for more clarity from the government on where manufacturing is allowed during the lockdown, while seeking that companies be allowed to sell to consumers whatever is being produced. According to a PTI...

Custom furniture startup WoodenStreet is planning to spend US$ 500K to change how its experience stores will feel and function post-coronavirus pandemic. The plan includes a touch-free store policy, virtual reality and 3D services and sanitized supply chain. The brand...

H&M Group has been named number one out of 250 fashion brands in the latest Fashion Transparency Index, which ranks companies according to how much information they disclose about their suppliers, supply chain policies and practices, and social and...

Following the announcement of Facebook’s US$ 5.7 bn investment for 9.99 percent stake in India-based Jio Platforms Limited (JPL) on April 22 2019; Aurojyoti Bose, Lead Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on the...

The Indian food processing sector was valued at US$ 328 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach US$ 535 billion in 2025-26. India processes only about 10 percent of its agri-output while most of the processing is classified...

The government plans to set up a chain of 20 lakh retail shops called 'Suraksha Stores' across India which will provide daily essentials to citizens while maintaining stringent safety norms. The Suraksha Stores’ initiative will convert neighbourhood kirana stores into...