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For the second year in a row, retailers in country found facing highest incidence of shoplifting, employee theft.India’s fledgling retail industry has topped the ‘Global Retail Theft Barometer’ survey for 2009. The country topped the retail “shrinkage” rate —...

Estimated to grow at 13 per cent annually from USD 322 billion in 2006-07 to USD 590 billion in 2011-12, according ICRIER estimates, retail accounts for over 10 per cent of India’s GDP. Fuelled by increasing customer base, rising...

The mistrust between retailers and developers is a major deterrent to funding and investment for those who may be looking to invest in retail real estate in India - addressed in one of the sessions as a key aspect...

Growing air travel in India will drive airport retailing so much that by 2015, over 50 per cent of revenues of the Airport Authority of India (AAI) are expected to come from non-aeronautical activities, with airport retailing contributing a...

Yet another example of the buoyant retail sector in India: 315 hypermarkets will come up in most of tier I and II cities by 2011 and sell off all articles from automobiles to needles under one roof, forecasts a...

Orissa is all set to get its first property shops chain. Real Estate Bank India (REBI) will launch such shops, first being in capital city Bhubaneswar with 15 more to follow later in other parts of the state. The...

Retail sales in the United Kingdom fell by 1.5 per cent in April, compared to the same month last year, when sales were up by 2.4 per cent. From February to April, sales were down at 0.6 per cent...

Does cool weather impact retail sales ? So it appears in UK where retail sales growth accelerated in September, buoyed by cooler weather and price cuts, figures revealed. The retail sales grew 3% in September compared with 1.8% in August,...