Gajendra Singh Rathore

The worldwide lockdown for almost 70 days amid the COVID-19 pandemic left the Shopping Centre Industry in India and the world in the throes of a crisis. The need for hyper sanitization and social distancing had led to shuttering...

The seventh edition of #SCAIMondays was a special webcast of shopping centre heads and senior mall management executives who reported from the frontlines with real-time updates on customer experiences and retailers’ feedback on the first day of shopping mall...

When Henri Matisse was quoted saying ‘Creativity takes courage’, perhaps he was foreseeing the efforts that would go into designing giant size art installations that adorn atriums and foyers of malls in India. A sight to behold, these creative...

Retail in India is an incredible assortment of formats. Over the last decade, the concept of shopping has undergone a sea change in terms of format and consumer-buying behaviour. Along with the increase in disposable income, brand consciousness, development and modernisation of...

Imagine a brand achieving a sale amounting to Rs 5 crore in just 12 hours from its launch. No, we are most certainly not making this up. This happened at Phoenix Marketcity, Bengaluru. The brand in discussion here is...

Fashion plays an important role not only individually but also in society. It allows us to define our own style and personality, outline us as individuals and opens doors of acceptance in modern society. With the rising importance of fashion...

Such is the growing mall culture in India that 34 new shopping malls, covering 13.6 million sq. ft. area, are expected to come up in top eight cities by the year 2020… No mall today can afford to operate in...

The idea of adding major Family Entertainment Centres (FEC) has in malls been gaining popularity rapidly over the last few years. Several new malls have been constructed around the country, with substantial square footage allocated to FECs. They substantially...