Spencer’s Retail

The India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), which runs hotels like the Ashok and Samrat, is in discussions with home-grown retail chains, as well as global retailers to form a 50:50 joint venture to run duty-free shops at international airports...

Bhubaneswar, known as the ‘Temple City of India’, has become an obvious retail destination quite recently. In fact, retailers including Future Group and Spencer’s Retail do not even hesitate to term the city as their next best market in...

Dynamic lifestyle, growing brand-consciousness and a strong desire to embrace the West while sticking to an indigenous culture; these are but a few elements capturing the essence of the Indian consumer. Hardly surprisingly, many ...

The sustainability of any business depends – to a large degree — on loyal customers who come back again and again for more shopping and organised retail is not an exception to that. This is a part of strategic...

The expectation is clear and so is the mandate. The new government has been vested with the power to form a stable government, especially so with no dependence on the Left party alliance. Thomas Varghese, CEO, Aditya Birla Retail...

The Indian retail landscape remains a territory of unexplored opportunities. A huge latent consumer demand lies fallow at the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ and product innovation and category building have become a yardstick for exposing the Indian consumer to...

Multi-format food retailer Spencer’s Retail, part of the Rs 135 billion RPG Group, has emerged victorious at the Coca-Cola Golden Spoon Award in the most admired food and grocery retailer for convenience and express formats category . The awards...

Food Bazaar, part of Kishore Biyani-led Future Group has won the ‘Most admired F&G retailer of the year: Large format’ award at the at Coca-Cola Golden Spoon Awards 2009. The other nominees in the categories were Spencer’s, Spar, Star Bazaar...

Curiosity is mother of all awareness. Even as urban Indians get curioser and curiouser, foreign food importers and retailers are falling over themselves to optimise shelf space to peddle high-margin imported ingredients for the DIY customer. Will emerging Indian...