HIGH STREET PHOENIX

After nearly three decades, Mumbai will regain its freedom to remain awake and busy with commercial establishments allowed to function 24*7 from midnight of January 26-27, officials said. The long-pending proposal to keep all restaurants, malls, multiplexes, shopping plazas, etc....

With the introduction of mandatory spending on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) brought on by the Companies Act 2013, companies in India and across the world have shifted focus from anticipating change and understanding the impact of this change to...

There is nothing more disappointing than having a customer not return to your store or bombarding you with complains about your product quality. Of the many reasons that people may not return to a store, one of the main...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an expansive term used to describe a company or an organization’s efforts to improve society in some way. It doesn’t matter then whether the company is private or government, a shopping mall or a...

India has some 400-odd small and big shopping centers with approximately 75 million sq. ft. of retail space–primarily spread across in and around metropolitan cities, tier 1 and 2 markets. Pushed by developers, Indian retail companies with multiple formats...

The customer was, and always will, remain the king. And when a king walks in anywhere, he deserves a royal welcome, royal treatment. And of course, kings love to be entertained. With the majority of malls in India housing the same...

For Shopping Centres in India, probably the steepest learning curve was moving from the reliance on the ‘find great brands and the customers will come’ approach, to creating sophisticated social campaigns, building customer databases and laying the foundations for...

Fast fashion is emerging as an important and growing category in the Indian retail sector. Consumers, on an average, are buying apparel eight to ten times a year now compared to a few years ago, when it was lesser...

It’s been more than a decade since organised retail came up in India. In the early phase of development, it was just restricted to plaza culture. Post 2003, mall culture started multiplying in the metro cities, and India started...

TRANSFORMING INDIA'S RETAIL REAL ESTATE LANDSCAPE The growth of modern retail has been parallel to the development of shopping malls in India. The journey that began with just two malls in 1999 has been rapid and eventful. By 2005, India...