Corporate Social Responsibility

Annual sales seasons offer windfall gains in many ways, and not just for consumers. Leading department store chains Pantaloons and Shoppers Stop are, for instance, utlising new resources to push off-price sales on the shop floor. In partnership with...

Organised retail is the largest employment generator in India outside agriculture. Bharti Wal-Mart Training Centre, India’s first special skills training centre aimed at bridging the shortage of skilled workers for cash-and-carry and organised...

As part of company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, Inorbit Malls (India) Pvt Ltd, part of K Raheja Group, has adopted a community building programme called ‘Aikya’ for its customers with an aim to establish an effective social interaction...

The sky is the limit for retailers that respond to sustainability issues and those bold enough to experiment with new formats and strike into emerging markets, according to the latest Global Retail Innovation: Ten to Watch 2007 research by...

It seems the 'Go Green' title attracting the retailers! As part of company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) and go green initiative, now Sahakari Bhandar, Mumbai-based co-operative neighborhood retail store, has launched cloth bags and partnered with an NGO called...

With an apparent aim to address its corporate social responsibility (CSR), the Guardian Lifecare-operated ‘Aushadhi’ brand of rural chemist shops, has planned to provide credit and training facilities to local and the rural entrepreneurs. Speaking to Indiaretailing about this move,...

Retailers and mall developers are also latching on to the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) bandwagon. This Independence Day, for instance, New Delhi’s Select Citywalk will commit to the planting of a hundred trees and will also take an oath...