Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in India, updated continuously by our newsroom.
The crash in the Chinese stock market is likely to benefit India in terms of higher capital inflows in coming days. On Friday, Chinese shares plunged more than seven per cent amidst concerns of overvaluation after registering a 13.3 per cent loss last week.…
US style model Coach is to enter India with unique retail shops. The corporate has reportedly chosen Genesis Luxurious as its companion, based mostly in Gurgaon. Nevertheless on the time of writing no official assertion had been made by both firm. Genesis is…
Japanese minimalist retailer Muji will open its first shops in India by the center of subsequent yr. Muji has sealed a cope with Reliance Industries to create an Indian operation, turning into Reliance’s 19th worldwide retail model. Muji’s information comes…
Journey, books, electronics, style, classifieds and now native providers – e-commerce has disrupted the established order in virtually each sector. With Amazon venturing into grocery (Kirana Now), Snapdeal getting into providers and Flipkart able to comply…
India has bounced again and is confidently rising within the luxurious markets as different BRIC nations wrestle to collect tempo, says Deloitte’s annual International Powers of Luxurious Items report. By the top of final fiscal, world’s 100 largest luxurious…
Shopper Worth Index-based inflation rose to a three-month excessive of 5.01 per cent in Might, even because the meals phase noticed a decline within the fee of worth rise, official knowledge confirmed on Friday. The inflation had stood at four.87 per cent in…
A fund set as much as compensate the victims of Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza manufacturing unit collapse has lastly reached its US$30-million (RM112 million) goal, the UN’s Worldwide Labour Group stated Monday, greater than two years after the catastrophe left…
Reliance Retail would launch a B2B digital market to allow small retailers to transact on-line, chairman Mukesh Ambani stated at Reliance Industries’ 41st annual common assembly at this time. “We’re rolling out the Reliance Digital Market platform to allow…
Amazon on Tuesday introduced the launch of its International Promoting Program in India, opening doorways for Indian companies to export to e-commerce markets of the world. Amazon is extending two of its pioneering merchandise – Promoting On Amazon (SOA) and…
The Union authorities won’t ease overseas direct funding (FDI) guidelines for digital commerce. Minister of State for Commerce and Business Nirmala Sitharaman final month met executives of Flipkart andSnapdeal and representatives from the Confederation of…
Swedish multinational retail clothes firm H&M, which is understood for providing style and high quality at the perfect worth in a sustainable approach, is all set to deliver its product vary to India by means of a flagship retailer within the capital. “This…
China is no longer the Happy Meal toy making economy it used to be. It has a much bigger vision. And part of that vision includes taking what it’s learned from Western entrepreneurs and beating them at their own game. Few companies represent this better than…
India’s retail market is expected to expand at USD 1.3 trillion by 2020 and the GDP is set to grow at 8 per cent over the next three years, making it the world’s fastest-growing major developing market, a consultancy firm has forecast. The current retail…
Grocery retail model Spar says it plans “vital progress” in India – with 25 hypermarkets operational by the top of 2017. Netherlands-based Spar Worldwide lately reported 2014 international retail gross sales of €31.9 billion from 12,300 shops in 40 nations.…
V Arundhati, 52, helps her son Srinivas in running a small kirana store in Himayatnagar in Hyderabad. Apart from selling soaps and sugar, she has begun placing orders on an e-commerce platform for her customers, who have never bought any product online. The…
Swedish multinational retail-clothing company Hennes & Mauritz is to expand its presence to India, with the launch of the first store in the nation’s capital Delhi. The move follows H&M’s announcement in 2013 to invest around INR7bn ($109.3m) to open 50…
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