Archive for ‘Retail Verticals’

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Jul23

Big bazaars score over kiranas

by admin on July 23rd, 2010 at 6:59 am
Posted In: Convenience Store, Grocery Stores, Mini Markets, Retail Formats, Retail Verticals, Smaller Format Superstores

Modern Retailers More Responsive In Cutting Or Holding Prices Than Kiranas…

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Jul23

New Tune: Nokia rings in retail-distribution model

by admin on July 23rd, 2010 at 11:07 am
Posted In: Mobile Stores, News & Articles, Online Shopping, Retail Formats, Retail Verticals, Shop-in-Shop

This is the first time the world’s largest mobile phone company has initiated a retail distribution model for its services venture…

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Jul24

Twist in retail tale: Kiranas partner giants

by admin on July 24th, 2010 at 5:16 am
Posted In: Convenience Store, Discount Stores, Govt Policy & Taxation, News & Articles, Retail Formats, Retail Management, Retail Verticals, Smaller Format Superstores, Supermarket/Hypermarket

IT’S a nagging, almost decade-old doubt that has kept foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail at bay: will the entry of Big Retail hurt the six million kirana stores?

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Jun14

Meet Groupon’s Indian rival Snapdeal

by admin on June 14th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Posted In: Discount Stores, Food Court, Luxury Stores, Marketing, News & Articles, Online Shopping, Restaurant, Retail Formats, Retail Management, Retail Verticals

Snapdeal.com — now popularly called India’s answer to Groupon, the world’s biggest provider of daily online deals……With 400 staff on the payroll, company want to get a share of India’s $500 billion retail market, of which nearly 18% is services business offered by sites like Snapdeal.

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Jun15

Exxonmobil secures 7-Eleven fuels supply contract

by admin on June 15th, 2011 at 7:49 am
Posted In: Petrol-pumps, Retail Verticals

Mobil has secured the contract to supply all of 7-Eleven’s petrol and diesel fuel requirements from January 1, 2012. This augments Mobil’s existing agreement to supply fuel to the sites 7-Eleven acquired from Mobil in October last year Mobil’s success with this tender demonstrates that it continues to be a vigorous competitor in the Australian wholesale fuel market.

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Jun15

Coca-Cola uses solar cooler to push rural sales

by admin on June 15th, 2011 at 7:58 am
Posted In: Beverages, News & Articles, Retail Verticals

‘eKOCool’, a chest cooler, developed internally by the Indian arm of the Atlanta based multinational, operates exclusively through solar energy, with no other electricity source required to operate it. It has a capacity to store two crates, which contains 48 glass bottles of 300ml each. That’s not all. It can even charge your mobile phone and light up your home.

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Jun16

It’s No Longer Kirana Versus Modern Retail

by admin on June 16th, 2011 at 4:56 am
Posted In: Convenience Store, Kirana, Leisure & Lifestyle, Luxury Stores, Modern Retail, News & Articles, Retail Formats, Retail Verticals, Supermarket/Hypermarket

Organised retail accounts for less than 10% of India’s retail market estimated at close to $400 million. The Boston Consulting Group estimates the size of organised retail market at $28 billion and expects it to grow nine times to $260 billion in 10 years.

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Jun22

Beauty business set to boom.

by admin on June 22nd, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Posted In: Beauty Salon, Chain Stores, Leisure & Lifestyle, Retail Formats, Retail Verticals

HUL is speeding up to open a Lakme salon a week…. JHHB, which has grown from 37 salons in 2006 to around 225 at the end of November 2010, is eyeing a similar growth…. Foreign chains like the contemporary French beauty salon, Jean-Claude Biguine, with annual revenues of 150 million euros, are setting up salons to groom the Indian consumer.

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Jun22

Pharma Cos’ Rural Growth Doubles on Sales Push

by admin on June 22nd, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Posted In: Drug Stores, Marketing, Pharmacies, Retail Management, Retail Verticals

Though rural markets account for a modest 18% of the 58,000-crore domestic drug market, drug firms and analysts expect this segment to sustain the high growth rate and increase its share in the pie.

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Jun22

Let the speculation begin about Walmart Market

by admin on June 22nd, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Posted In: Chain Stores, Drug Stores, Food Court, News & Articles, Retail Formats, Retail Verticals, Smaller Format Superstores, Supermarket/Hypermarket

Walmart is moving forward with what could be characterized as a roll out of its Neighborhood Market format nearly 13 years after the first unit opened in the fall of 1998. Just don’t call it a Neighborhood Market.

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