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Food
Ready-to-eat-breakfasts are the new rage
Aditya Bagri, Director, Bagrry’s India Limited, shares his thoughts about the growing consumer traction for healthy breakfast cereals and how his company is best placed to tap into this opportunity with its expanding portfolio of oats and muesli products….
With...
Food
Online grocery: Convenience trumps price
From pure-play and omni-channel to hybrids, the grocery e-tailing roll call in India is well and truly on.
Grocery – given the perishable nature of some products and logistics bottlenecks – is not an "in favour category" with Indian e-tailers...
Food
Amazon launches grocery delivery app in Bengaluru
Bangalore: E-Commerce giant Amazon launched a grocery delivery app, wriggling its way into the already crowded hyperlocal grocery delivery market. The space is currently occupied by domestic players like Grofers, LocalBanya and PepperTap.
The app, Amazon Now, will provide shoppers...
Progressive Grocer
Online grocer Town Essentials raises USD1m from HNIs
Bangalore-based online grocer, Town Essentials, has reportedly raised USD1 million (Rs. 6.7 crore) in a fresh round of angel funding from a group of HNIs.
Investors in the round included Infosys’ first non-founder employee Sharad Hegde as the lead investor,...
Retail
The Technology Imperative: Converting an Influencer into Enabler
Retailers in India have invested and have made technology an integral part of their operations, speakers at the Technology Session noted at the South India Retail Summit conference held in Bengaluru on December 10.
Moderated by Bino George, Head of...
Retail
To ‘E’ or not to ‘E’
E-grocery has been growing exponentially in India like other e-commerce businesses. Some companies projected their pan-India expansion plans where as some just want to remain local players. However, all these companies are continuously working to make their business profitable...
Progressive Grocer
BigBasket expects contribution from PLs to touch 50% by year end
As the food & grocery retail business in India moves towards greater maturity, online grocers are increasingly investing in private labels, in order to expand their portfolio for higher margins and enhance brand loyalty with customers.
E-grocers like BigBasket, LocalBanya,...
Retail
The e-grocery face-off: Hyperlocals v/s Marketplaces
The proliferation of online grocery retail formats – arguably the headline news in the modern Indian retail evolution story – is causing both excitement and concern in various quarters of the investor community. While an assortment of venture capital...
Progressive Grocer
Ola pilots grocery delivery app
Taxi-hailing service Ola has reportedly launched a pilot project called Ola Store to deliver groceries. The company, which initiated the Ola Café service into its smartphone app in April, has emailed select customers to try out the new grocery...
Retail
Trouble getting produce to stay fresh on the web? It’s all in real-time logistics
Online grocers, the newest ventures within the fledgling e-commerce business, are aggressively trying to crack, possibly, the toughest category for e-tailers: fresh produce.
The economics of grocery delivery are extremely difficult, given the complexities of fresh foods, the required infrastructure...
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The Luxottica report card for 2022
A look at how the world’s largest eyewear company fared in terms of revenue growth in key regions across...
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