IndiaRetailBiz

On Friday, the 14th, we observed World Diabetes Day.
The main cause of diabetes, as every one knows, is obesity. Obesity, in fact, has now assumed epidemic proportions.
Casual Male– a fashion retail group– which specialises in retailing apparel and accessories for over-sized (read: big and tall) people, however, is delighted, because, Casual Male, and its […]

“With the opening of The Dubai Mall, we have the largest number of retailers together-ever for the first time in a mall opening. Malls, now, are not just destinations for shopping - they need to offer a complete experience, and with The Dubai Mall’s integrated offer of retail, leisure and entertainment, The […]

China– the world’s most populous and fastest growing economy– will continue to remain most attractive investment destination for packaged food products, notwithstanding the recent toxic food scare, particularly concerning dairy food products, that were found to have contained poisonous plastic chemical malamine.
According to a new report recently released by ”just-food,” China had the largest packaged food market (US$96.2bn in 2007) in value […]

Target stores, the fifth largest retailer by sales (US$63.367 billion) in the United States, behind Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, Kroger, and Costco, known for its fast, fun and friendly outlook, has agreed to pay $1.745 million (Rs 8.5 crore) in penalties and fees in settlement of a suit filed against the retailer by by several […]

“Will I have enough to put on the table so my family can eat?” — Shopper’s concern.

Economic pain has begun to show.
In the US, where the impact of financial meltdown is most visible, shoppers have started to display disturbing changes in their buying habits, says a U S Today report.
Economic pain is […]

Could global economic turmoil achieve, what the dream team of economic administrators could not achieve for retail sector in India?
Yes, we are talking about allowing FDI in multi-brand retail!
The country has so far not allowed any FDI in multi-brand retail due to strident political opposition, particularly of the Left, to the entry of multinational […]

SPAR, claiming to be the world’s largest independent food retail chain, has unveiled its 20,000 sqft supermarket format store on Friday, October 17th 2008 in Hyderabad. SPAR also has a hypermarket store operating in Bangalore.
The supermarket offers a wide range of Grocery, Fruits & Vegetables, Bakery, Dairy & Take Away Foods, Meat, Poultry […]

After closing down its operations in South Korea and Germany, and downsizing operations in Japan, Wal-Mart — the world’s largest retailer– is finding the going to be tough in mainland China as well. Not only, the giant retailer has failed to make profits in its 12 years long existence in the world’s […]

Has retail sector played spoilsport in the free fall of global equity markets?
Unfortunately, the short answer to the question is: Yes!
Despite the $700 billion bailout plan mooted by the US, and promise of injecting an additional dose of liquidity in the system by the major European nations, equity markets of the world are showing no signs […]

Retailers in the U.S. this September have recorded the biggest monthly sales drop in more than three years.A government report published on Wednesday has attributed this to consumers being unable to cope with falling home and stock prices. Some of the major takeaways of a Reuters report include:

Retail sales fell 1.2 percent last month to a […]