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Subir Ghosh, CEO of Planet M Retail Ltd, lays emphasis on innovation and sees it as a business driver in a tough economic climate. Adopting fresh ideas and dimensions are of paramount importance in dealing with a changing business...

The Nagpur retail market consists of two intersecting streets – MG Road and Abhyankar Road. The market is popularly known as the Sitabuldi area and has approximately 200 retailers that form the bulk of the market. Estimates of footfals...

The ongoing financial crisis in the world has resulted in a slowdown in the retail market in India. Though India did not face a full blown recession, the modern retailers are clearly in...

The 1.5 billion Indian cutlery market is predominantly dominated by players like Kishco, Crystal and Venus. However, 2005 witnessed yet another innovative player introducing a contemporary consumer twist to the segment—Delhi-based Forks and ...

In a bid to expand its retail network, wrist watch brand ‘Sonata’, Titan Industries Ltd is setting up ‘exclusive sales counters’ at both traditional and non-traditional outlets. While the traditional outlets are the ones that retail in watches, the...

Food processing has an important role to play in linking Indian agriculture to consumers in the domestic and international markets. With low farmer price realisations and significant wastage in the food supply chain even with the current level of...

Timely decisions, defined strategy, and a futuristic approach, clubbed with an understanding of consumers' needs as also the ability to create one, are the qualities that mark out the best retail companies.From a nondescript 50 square feet shop to...

The main cause of the 1929 Great Depression was the expansion of liquidity in the 1920s that led to a credit-driven boom which was not sustainable. The American government's efforts to prop up the economy after the crash of...

Like so many other words that conjure up imageries of progressive, admirable, somewhat daring action, "benchmark" has the same instant effect on the mind. Rather, it commands our attention and arouses our curiosity even in the current age when...

India is the last frontier for modern retail development. Our consumer is emerging from decades of minimal choice, restrictive legislation and stifling cultural concerns. A consumer who has always held high aspirations is now freely able to exercise his...