COVID-19

The ice cream business which amounts to about Rs 4,500 crore annually has been badly hit by the coronavirus spread as it is expected to slowdown by almost 40 percent. It is unlikely to recover in the current scenario...

Credit rating agency Crisil on Friday said that revenue of organised apparel retail sector is set to plummet by as much as 30-35 percent this fiscal due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Accordingly, temporary store closures, restricted mobility and low...

Social distancing, masks, and a lockdown. The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing people to stay at home, work from home and buy from home. Despite the lockdown being lifted in phases, the economy beginning to limp back to the ‘new...

IMAGES Business of Fashion talks to Sarfaraz Miller, IT Head, Celio* India to understand how brands are implementing digital applications to increase brand recall, generate revenue, and create innovative channels for interacting with their consumers... How important a role does...

Welspun India Limited, the global leader of home textiles, has announced the launch of an exclusive range of anti-viral home textile products for the Indian market. An extension of Welspun India’s recent foray into the health and hygiene category, the...

Beverage brand Pepsi on Thursday announced a fund-raising initiative in association with the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) and leading online food delivery aggregator Swiggy to provide 25 lakh meals to the workers of restaurant community who are...

The National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) on Thursday came up with a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for restaurants whereby among other social distancing norms, it has suggested a 2-metre gap between tables. Formulated in partnership with Releski, a Bengaluru...

Adopting digital technology and analytics to transform legacy businesses will be one of the key priorities for corporate India in the post COVID-19 period, as such technologies can generate enormous value, according to McKinsey & Company. In the wake of...

India’s retail sector is one of the largest employers in the country with almost 46 million people working in the industry. With the onset of the pandemic and as retail businesses continue to be deeply damaged by the ongoing...

SME’s have been the most affected by this COVID pandemic and as specific segment retail is the worst one. Profitability, liquidity, inefficiencies and visibility are the pain points of SMEs through its business journey and, the single answer to...