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Indian Terrain looks at sourcing from the Americas
Indian Terrain Fashions’ plans to launch a ‘Made in America’ jeans brand using denim from a US mill made into jeans in Guatemala, is a move that bucks trends for brands sold in India. The move is an...
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Where is the Love? In the Brand.
A few months ago, when asked to speak about value-addition at a food industry seminar, I decided, in a deviation from the usual discussion, to dissect the meaning of “value”. Most people in industry...
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The Year That Could Be
The transition between calendar years offers a pause. We can use it to evaluate what passed in the previous year, chalk out our journey for the next one. The first response of most people to the...
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International Shoes & Accessories Brands in India – The March Ahead in 2012
India’s economic growth may seem to have taken a dip last year with India’s GDP growth falling to 6.9% for 2011-12 from 8.4% the previous year. But that has not translated into a slower entry of...
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Free the Golden Bird
About six years ago, Kishore Biyani of the Future Group and I were discussing a presentation I had delivered at CII’s National Retail Summit, during which I had mentioned “Purushartha”. This...
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Wal-Mart brakes, Indian JV hits the wall
[This article appeared in Daily News & Analysis (DNA) on 10 October 2013, under the headline "Without Wal-Mart, can Bharti play it alone?"] A year ago, Wal-Mart had called Bharti its natural...
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The Franchise “Space Programme”
(Published in ETRetail.com on 6 December 2013) Franchising isn’t rocket science, but advanced space programmes offer at least one parallel which we can learn from – the staging of objectives and...
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Tesco in India: Will every little help?
[This article appeared in the February 2014 print issue of Retailer, under the headline "Implications of the Tata-Tesco JV"] India is a civilisation that has borne fruit from thousands of year of...
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Macro Consumer Trends: Implications for the Events Industry – (2014 March,...
B2B event companies don’t often think about consumer spending as something directly relevant to their business. However, consumer trends can allow industry event and exhibition organizers to get an...
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The Oneness of Retail
[Accompanying Image credit: Amazon Go; CC/Wikimedia Commons/Brianc333a)] To many, retail seems to be having an identity crisis. Closed storefronts on American and European streets and dead malls in...
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