Viney Singh

International hypermarket chain Spar, which in India follows a licence agreement between Max Hypermarkets India and Spar International, has opened an outlet in Pune. Located at Inorbit Mall, the store is spread over 37,000 sq.ft on a single floor....

One of the fastest growing categories in the Indian household products industry is the multi-purpose household cleaning and laundry products. Though customers hardly gave it its due attention until a few years ago, a number of factors, including the...

Customers visiting a store are looking for either the width of merchandise – the variety of product lines offered – or the depth – the number of each item or particular style of a product on offer. For most...

As soon as one walks into the lower ground floor of the spanking new Mantri Square mall in Bangalore, one is hit by the sheer presence of a massive 90,000 square feet SPAR store, the retailer’s largest outlet yet...

Max Hypermarket India Pvt. Ltd., part of the Dubai-based Landmark Group, is set to open its flagship Spar store in Bangalore at Mantri Square mall on March 15.Talking exclusively to IndiaRetailing, Viney Singh, MD, Max Hypermarket India Pvt Ltd...

‘Coca Cola Golden Spoon Awards’– Images awards for excellence in food retailing - presented on 4th March at the Food Forum India evening of food titans was a grand corporate ceremony with award presentations by business leaders, and high-gloss...

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....

“Rather than trying to fit the world to our business model, we need to fit the business model to the real world that exists,” comments Devangshu Dutta, chief executive of Third Eyesight. At present, in the midst of a...

Real estate is the largest component of cost for a modern retailer in India. At an average of 15 per cent of sales being paid out as rentals – compared to 2-3 per cent of sales in developed markets...

It is being said that it might be easy to turn cash into inventory but the main challenge is to turn the inventory back into more cash. According to researchers and analysts, many retailers fail to make more money...