Alibaba investing in BigBasket, Huzaifa Khorakiwala of the Wockhardt fame setting up cafés, Amazon India receiving a nod to sell packaged and locally sourced food items. By Images Retail
Various international fast fashion retailers like H&M, Zara and Forever 21 now have their stores in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai. By Images Retail
When the entire country’s retail growth was concentrated in the North and West, Kavita Singhania envisaged and worked towards building Express
Avenue in Chennai. By Images Retail
Deliveroo is pushing an unorthodox solution to food delivery as it struggles to make money. By Bloomberg Businessweek MiddleEast
Personalization’ is the new retail buzzword, says Dan Tynan. By AdWeek
Debate rages over whether enough new jobs will be created, says Michael Pooler. By Financial Times
Brazil’s Natura Cosméticos wants to double earnings at The Body Shop, the UK-based retailer it acquired last year, as part of a wider global push to
expand its sustainable and ethically orientated brands globally. By Financial Times
China’s ecommerce giant JD.com plans to challenge Amazon in Europe as early as 2019, aiming to be ubiquitous across the continent within “a few years”, according to the company’s chief. By Financial Times
City grandee and Tesco chairman John Allan once claimed that women enjoy such a propitious time in the jobs market that the pendulum had swung significantly away from men. By Financial Times
China tech groups Alibaba and Tencent have been caught up in Beijing’s war on capital flight, with both being handed fines for breaches of cross-border foreign exchange payments at their financial services units. By Financial Times