Reliance has announced that it will roll out its e-commerce platform to as many as 1.2 million retailers and store owners in Gujarat. This is part of a nationwide roll-out that will come later this yea, reports Viveat Susan Pinto.
He's betting big on small stores to help him reach 10 million households by FY21, report Abhineet Kumar and Raghavendra Kamath.
'If you were to say today that the government should appoint judges to the high courts and Supreme Court, then I think that even those few good judges that we are getting today we would not get them.'
'For how long can investors fund loss-making companies?'
While most others have not been able to replicate the WeChat model successfully, experts expect Jio to be able to score on its 300 million plus new mobile phone users.
Coca-Cola's acquisition of British coffee chain Costa, its biggest acquisition of a brand in history, faces three challenges in India.
Flipkart will need $2 bn annual profit to make Walmart investment viable, which will mean yearly revenue of $100 bn
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday claimed there is no report approved by the Supreme Court-appointed Oxygen Audit Committee about Delhi exaggerating its oxygen requirement by four times during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Walmart, the world's largest retailer, is hoping to get more than 30,000 consumers through its e-commerce pilot project that will be launched in the first week of July.
India Inc was, perhaps, watching out for a repeat of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s.
Perhaps, the group's leadership position and potential in the retail segment prompted Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry to identify retail as one of the group's four growth clusters in his recent Vision 2025 statement.
The GST bill's draft says tax would be levied on Maximum Retail Price
'Unlike Big Bazaar, where the promoter calls the shot, in ABRL, professionals take decisions. So, every new CEO leads to a change in strategy, which confuses vendors and the team.'
Yum reduced the number of restaurants in India by 14 in the September quarter from the preceding quarter to 811.
While Reliance has the clout to negotiate prices with suppliers for its e-commerce, not to forget the cost advantage of integrated warehouse and supply chains, Amazon and Walmart are no pushovers, they too have deep pockets.
ITC's noodle brand has been caught in the Maggi crossfire.
Most business groups in India, including Godrejs, Tatas and Mahindras, have seen patience tested in JVs, with some of them winding up quickly
As India's online population crosses 450 million, e-commerce ventures are trying to grab a pie of online sales estimated to hit $48 billion by 2020.
E-commerce companies typically stick to the gross merchandise value run rate to calculate sales.
VCs have been especially bullish about India.
Ira Singhal, the country's first differently-abled UPSC topper shares her secret to success and her big plans for India.
No one's quite sure on the retail FDI issue in this regard, after the new Rajasthan and Delhi governments cancelled the approvals given by their predecessors
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Government seeks stakeholders' comments by Jan 30 on discussion paper.
Feedback has led the brand to ramp up its shirts collection, despite the popularity of its polo t-shirts.
Reliance had been trying to bring the brand back to the forefront recently, after years of lull, through new ad campaigns highlighting a youthful range, called Unformal, in workwear.
At Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion), e-commerce has seen one of the fastest rates of growth in investment activity this year.
While investment activity jumped three to four times this year over last year for e-commerce, it has shown marginal growth (five per cent) in the case of consumer and retail
Ajit Mishra, vice president, research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Reliance Retail follows Future Group in online foray
Nestle is sure to go for a relaunch of the noodles soon enough with an advertising blitz,
The company is not holding plans for clarity on policy.
Raymond claims to be spending more than 10 per cent of its ad budget on its biggest campaign, called The Summer of Wool.
Three years after launching Big Bazaar Direct, Future group CEO Kishore Biyani's enthusiasm for online ventures has been tempered by growth concerns
Cash-and-carry stores try tricks, from playing Bollywood music to customising orders, to retain customers.
The threat may be a decade away, but it has brick-and-mortar sellers rethinking their strategies and banking on the govt to regulate online companies.
Age and experience not less relevant but firms are gradually moving towards younger leadership teams
Seven ministers also took the oath of office and secrecy along with her.
Recent easing of restrictions does not address the pain in the sector.
The once-powerful Japanese major is left with little to show in the face of sustained competition from rivals.
The privately-owned Hangzhou-based group, which has been in news for its impending IPO, is already sourcing human hair from the southern regions of India and has identified this category as a 'big opportunity', along with others like machinery, agro products, apparel and spices.
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