lockdown

The pandemic period has been a testing time for retailers and the mall developers not only from the business, revenue and footfalls perspective but from consumer behavior as well. Due to COVID-19, the industry is witnessing a series of...

The pandemic period has been a testing time for retailers and the mall developers not only from the business, revenue and footfalls perspective but from consumer behavior as well. Due to COVID-19, the industry is witnessing a series of...

Despite the Kerala government's nod for cinemas to reopen on Tuesday after being shut for months due to the COVID-19 induced lockdown, theatres remained closed as the film industry wanted the authorities to address its demands and concerns before resumption. There are over 1,200...

Lockdowns in Gujarat, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh can slow the economic recovery and the outlook on business resumption remains concerning, a Japanese brokerage said on Monday. Nomura, which has built a business resumption index to gauge...

The health crisis and the unprecedented disruption caused by COVID-19 have had profound impacts on economies, businesses and consumers worldwide, changing the way consumers live, work and shop. Uncertainty remains high, but what is clear is that economies will...

The COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping the global business environment and the crisis is estimated to hit the world economy beyond any analyst’s imagination. UN anticipates that the crisis will result in a $1 trillion hit to the global economy...

Co-Founder and CEO Kazem Samandari, a Ph.D. in Industrial Economy, MS in Electrical Engineering and a Business Degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland has four decades of varied experience and since 2008, he has...

As the Unlock#4 gathers pace, sales at leading department store Central and off-price retailer, Brand Factory are growing at a faster pace every month, month-on-month. Future Lifestyle Fashion Limited, that operates the Central, Brand Factory networks and markets some...

In what felt like an overnight shift, the way that small businesses traditionally interacted with their customers stopped, changed or morphed. Among those most vulnerable are the smaller retailers without an online presence that depend on their customers to...

As the coronavirus pandemic and the eventual lockdowns have brought the multiplex industry to a grinding halt, PVR has deferred a significant portion of its capital expenditure (capex) plans and it will reassess them once the shutdown is over...