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India is becoming a hot bed for international brands and over the past few years. The fact that India is now among the the fastest growing and highly competitive fashion markets in the world is fairly clear by the...

The global apparel retail industry is big not only in terms of its consumer base, but also in numbers, brand players and influencers. Statistically speaking, the industry’s value in 2015 was US $1,377.5 billion – a 3 per cent...

FreeCharge, one of India’s leading digital payments platform will now enable e-wallet payments across leading outlets with Arvind Lifestyle Brands, one of India's largest and leading lifestyle brands. The partnership will enable FreeCharge to increase focus on offline digital...

Going by short medium term trends, the Indian e-commerce wagon gathering speed seems to be the case and that too on an optimistic note. However, this may not remain the case in the long run if certain changes in...

Knight Frank India, in association with the Retailers Association of India (RAI), on Tuesday launched the third edition of its flagship report on the retail sector – 'Think India. Think Connected Retail'. The report tracks the evolution of India’s modern retail...

In India, currently, only the top six cities have a mall stock of approximately 67 million sq.ft. Roughly 36 malls have become operational between 2012-2016. However, the last three years saw a slowdown in new malls being operationalised with developers...

The Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF) is bullish on domestic textile sector and is looking to export textiles products worth around $500 million to India in the next five years. "India is a very dynamic market with lot of potential and...

Gap is to close all its Banana Republic stores in the UK as the ailing fashion retailer focuses on North America to revive its sales. The company said it expected to close the majority of the eight UK stores by...

Recently online marketplace Snapdeal unveiled its new logo and tagline, Unbox Zindagi (or Unbox Life), with an aim to position itself differently in the hyper-competitive e-commerce business. The new branding is well-supported by a campaign that will appear in the form...

The retail industry is changing like never before, with e-commerce and technology taking over all spheres of the sector. However, despite the growing popularity of shopping online, physical stores are still formidable at selling merchandise, owning about 90 per cent of...