Besides malls and high-street stores, there's a rush of discounts while you are flying or holidaying in fancy hotels.
Policy constraints may prevent many of the global retail giants from reaching their full potential.There are too many restrictions right now in the sector and policy makers lack clarity.
Most business groups in India, including Godrejs, Tatas and Mahindras, have seen patience tested in JVs, with some of them winding up quickly
With a new campaign for Gatorade and renewed thrust on sports drinks, PepsiCo looks to make the most of the growing passion for fitness in the country.
Among the options being weighed are discounts on existing rentals, short-term deferrals, and 50 per cent waivers.
Reliance Retail follows Future Group in online foray
Kataria, 49, an IIT-XLRI alumnus, was quick to implement a number of initiatives during the Covid-19 crisis including launching D2C initiatives such as mobile stores, WhatsApp messaging, video calling and home deliveries. Kataria was also swift to recognise that stay-at-home consumers were keen to buy informal rather than formal footwear, launching new collections quickly to take advantage of this trend, says Viveat Susan Pinto.
A deal, where a founder has brought back stake from early investors before an initial public offering, is unheard of in India or pretty much anywhere else, analysts pointed out.
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.
The brand which has been endorsed by the likes of Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and Padma Lakshmi will open the first outlet in New Delhi next April.
The investments include the supply chain, but exclude real estate component.
Do you think that the number of rich in India is rising? Or is it that this is true only of big cities? Do you still feel Indians are poor?
Move over Delhi and Mumbai - Surat, Jaipur and Ludhiana are emerging as big spenders on luxury goods.
There is obvious competition at the front-end, but cash-and-carry will benefit the kirana as well, apart from the impact on supply chain and agriculture.
India Inc was, perhaps, watching out for a repeat of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s.
E-commerce companies typically stick to the gross merchandise value run rate to calculate sales.
On Tuesday, while several consumers took to social media to share their grievances about the Snapdeal site crash, many others said they visited the website to either compare prices or for window shopping.
The sale of Nature's Basket, Godrej's chain of food stores in west India, is the second exit by a big group in a year in the category
By and large, most brand analysts approve of Bisleri's attempt to reinvent itself.
Consumers are set to gain from discounts.
Amazon's investors are counting on its international business and expansion to help drive growth and support its $165 billion market value, one of the highest among US firms.
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.
Experts say Biyani will now become a contract manufacturer of fashion and FMCG products, with the Reliance group being one of his customers.
This comes in the wake of allegations of financial irregularities by the erstwhile management led by Harish Moolchandani.
As part of this strategy, the e-commerce major has launched a programme to manage the entire business-to-business inventory supply and management for kirana stores in three cities in Karnataka.
The once-powerful Japanese major is left with little to show in the face of sustained competition from rivals.
Recently, there has been a mushrooming of international apparel retailers.
In its first acquisition in India, the American online retail giant is planning to buy out the fashion portal
Kia's Seltos SUV has already crossed the 40,000 mark while the slightly pricier MG Hector has sold nearly 13,000 units.
Shashwat Goenka of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka group plans a high-decibel campaign around its young apparel brand 2Bme.
Have committed themselves to investing Rs 1,85,000 crore since last year.
Ma and the other co-founders had finalised the name "Alibaba" after much research on its acceptability.
Private labels remain big business for e-commerce marketplaces. They comprise almost 15 per cent of the total business of such firms.
Online retail in the country is expected to grow to $200 billion by 2026, up from $15 billion in 2016.
While the government's recent moves may have been necessary in some cases, these would have an adverse impact on the investment cycles of some of these companies. The marquee global names are suddenly finding themselves out of favour as local flavour is gaining currency in the run up to 2019 elections.
The Indian part of the Swiss group employs more than 5,000.
At Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion), e-commerce has seen one of the fastest rates of growth in investment activity this year.
Spends by e-commerce players have now touched Rs 1,000 crore.
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