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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYPeople all over the world are getting very conscious about their health and environment . This shows that over the next few years there is a huge opportunity for any venture working on sustainable development and for...

There was a time when production and marketing mavens at every rung of the food and beverage industry wrote off the “shop and eat local” movements as passing fads, fuelled by next-wave hippies toting hemp shopping bags to the...

 FDI In Retail – As It Happened India’s decision to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail towards the end of 2012 and its FDI policy modified in April 2013 put the country back on the retailing map of...

While mid-sized retailers may never match big-box retailer purchasing power, there are numerous opportunities to reduce costs in the supply chain.1. Discover New and Innovative Sources of SupplyWegmans, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe’s are the toast of the grocery...

CRISIL Research estimates that online retailing, both direct and through marketplaces, will become a Rs 500 billion industry by 2016, growing at 50-55 percent annually over the next three years. That would be over 30 times the size at...

Flash sales offer fantastic deals for a very short period. They create exclusivity and demand by limiting time and what they sell. Though the model is a recent phenomenon, flash sales sites have become very popular. Are they going...

A well-formulated concept in developed countries such as UK and US, mall management as a practice in India is still in its nascent stage since it has started picking up only over the last decade or so. With the...

Developed with an approximate investment of Rs450 crore and spread across 15,80,000 sq.ft., Neptune Magnet Mall (NMM) became fully operational and opened with huge fanfare in the first quarter of 2012. However, it failed to meet the expectations of...